WHY I USE 'ILLEGAL' SUBMISSIONS
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True growth on the mats comes from embracing the uncomfortable. Instead of shying away from controversial techniques like neck cranks, this perspective shifts the focus to awareness and control. By putting oneself in difficult situations early on, a practitioner develops the grit and problem-solving
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I I'm unapologetic about neck cranks and and illegal jiu-jitsu submissions because you have the opportunity to tap and I'll never crank the neck crank. I will give you the opportunity to tap, but I will let you know that I can do it. Right? And and like and I had a I Well, I'll tell this later, but let's just say it's not the last time my neck cranks came into into a fact. But, that's my that's my white belt journey, I would say in general. Work on your defenses. Work on figuring out who you are on the mats. Right? I learned pretty quickly that you know, I'm not going to be the most technical. Uh you know, I'm not going to uh you know, I have I have a lot of techniques that I've honed over the years. But, I also e- even to this day for me to tell someone what they should do, I kind of have to put myself in the situation and then work through what I would do and how I would get out or how I would attack from there. And yeah, I I really put put yourself in difficult situations with difficult opponents at white belt. Or else it's going to be a disaster later on because you don't have the skill set necessary.
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