To get better at hand fighting and takedown set ups, you have to understand how to control your opponent's wrist. In this video I share with you a mistake that every grappler should avoid, but most do it anyway.

To control and dominate your opponents palms, you have to effectively attack the wrist. The rule number one is about the correct position of your palms: The inside part of your palm is always visible to your opponent.

One of the best mental tools I have adopted is to view life and approach situations through a lens of dials, not switches. Today's world is very polarised and makes us believe that things either are or are not. It's not that you either have "it" or not. It's not that you are not bad at BJJ. Some aspects of your game are turned down; some are higher. Dials give you better context and a more accurate picture of reality.

I had my grapplers practice those 3 entries, and you should give them a go. They are reliable and easy to perform with just a bit of practice. From there, think about your first stage of off balancing your opponent and your one attack to work on. My sequence is donkey kick, which is a version of uchi mata entry, into a head lock.

Here is a takedown I highly, highly recommend working on. The set up is an answer to a collar tie, and finish is perfect for all types of grapplers, so you don't need to be a D1 wrestler to do it.