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Defend Yourself

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Rickson Gracie’s full time uke teaching self defense principles and jiu-jitsu lifestyle. Techniques, workouts, philosophy, q&a, and community.

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79 contributions to Defend Yourself
Q and A question
How do you like to pass the open guard when someone has the collar sleeve grip and has foot in the hip and other foot in biceps. With lots of tension ?
3 likes • 10h
I will address these in tonight’s live 🤙
Flow ropes
Review of my new flow ropes I ordered from Winding Rope in Australia. Love this practice. Have you ever tried this? I started with a cheap piece of rope from the hardware store.
Flow ropes
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@Andy DeJesus
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@Chris Odell of course you did 🙌
Monthly leaderboard prize (November)
Congrats @Alexis de Bretagne and thank you for being a contributor to this community and helping others. Here is a closed guard sweep dilemma for you. Thanks @Chris Burns for showing me the ways of the internet 👊
Monthly leaderboard prize (November)
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@Alexis de Bretagne that’s a next level variation that I’ll be lucky if I can ever pull off. The goat be goating
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@Nick Milla for no gi they won’t have the collars to grab so very likely we will finish the first sweep. More likely they would grab the neck in which case I would armlock them. But you can control wrists or elbows and try the overhead sweep too.
8th Live 11/1/25 Morning Session
With my friend Anthony as uke. 🙏
8th Live 11/1/25 Morning Session
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@Jordan Hamm A gift from Michael. Say hi to everyone for me. Especially if you ever get over to Clackamas where I taught for a little bit.
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@Peg Schunk ❤️
Focus for the week (teach)
This week, if you have a move in which you are confident and adept, teach it to a friend. Help them learn the move against the most common reaction you have gotten. You will find that teaching will deepen your understanding. It will highlight the pieces you are less familiar with. When I was a newer teacher at Rickson’s school in LA, the what if questions made me nervous because they could sometimes stump me. I would go find Rickson or another professor there and dive deep. Embrace the what ifs. These days I get bored of there aren’t any what ifs. 😜
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@Nick Milla 💯
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@Peg Schunk coaches should be like doctors and try to, first, do no harm. Many coaches mean well but don’t know what they don’t know.
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James Driskill
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I am honored to assist Rickson Gracie in teaching jiu jitsu concepts of self defense that reach beyond the mats and improve all aspects of life.

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