Vacaville Grappling Academy

Tuesday Night Practice

Working from hips to shoulders, to a submission threat, back to hips, repeat 🔁, until bottom player escapes.

Calvin and Cam working hard 🤘🏻

This week for the standing situation we’re working on continuous connections.

Start by hand fighting to head and elbow position. Once you get a closed hand connection around the leg, head, or hips, continuously switch between the three. 🤼

Here’s Miguel and Christian. Christian is in his 40s. He trained for 60 minutes. 12 of those minutes was in the stand up situation.

No one got hurt or died🤷🏻‍♂️

Don’t let age or fear hold you back! 🤘🏻

Working inside leg position w/Ryan at youth practice 🤼

We just started a youth group on Skool. This is for parents and youth members at Vacaville Grappling Academy.

This a great platform to stay informed with your teammates but more importantly, a place where beginners and experienced athletes can learn and understand our culture and continue to learn.

If you would like to know more, check out the Skool link in the bio 🫡

We focus heavily on problem solving at practice and it showed here.

Sam was down 5-0 and reverse mounted. Calmly and collectively she problem solved her way to a win with little guidance from me.

I told Sam to keep her opponent’s head and arm trapped between her legs. While she had the head/arm, I told her to look for her opponent’s wrist and elbow for a figure 4 grip. She did all of that and got the win!

Details. I searched in bjjfanatics “arm lock” and over 300 results appeared. Are there over 300 details on how to do arm locks?

Start in the position, keep something behind your opponent’s elbow, and stay connected to their shoulder. You’ll achieve arm locks without memorizing 300 “details” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Effect > aesthetic