The Stronghold Blog

It's much easier if you do it simple, you just have to do it right.
-Roger Gracie

Over the past month, I've been thinking and talking a lot about BJJ basics and keeping the game simple. A lot of times we see our favorite BJJ guy pull off a cool sweep or submission and we get caught up in the hype. We keep trying to replicate their moves when in reality we haven't practiced our basics enough. While those are great techniques we see, we forget that these guys have put in thousands of hours on the mat practicing their fundamentals and many of them are high level athletes. The amazing sweeps and submissions we see from these athletes are a result of amazing timing, sensitivity, awareness and application of fundamental principles. Before we can pull these moves off on opponents of equal skill, we must master our basics. Until we can perform them perfectly, there is much work to be done...

Here is a link to Roy Harris' article on Flash vs. Fundamental: Click for article

CrossFit WOD:
Seven rounds for time of:

95 pound Power snatch, 7 reps
95 pound Snatch balance, 7 reps
95 pound Overhead squat, 7 reps

Post time to comments.