Wael Abdelgawad

Fresno, CA, United States

These are fun. I'll practice them with the class tomorrow.

20 Feb 22:27

Superbly detailed breakdown, thank you.

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Michael Seamark Hanshi thanks so much for this comprehensive answer.

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Beautiful. I've done this lock and throw but with the added palm lock, I can see that it's much more effective this way.

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I love this technique. Question: Why hold it out in front of his body, where he could potentially reach over with his other hand and fight it, rather than tuck it into his rib cage?

12 Sep 16:15

Tons of great tips in this one, both techniques and concepts, and demonstrated very well.

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At 2:00,, when showing how to free the hand, he said, "There's a term that we use, fill the..." I couldn't quite catch it.

This is an ignorant question as I don't train BJJ, but in the knee on belly it seems like a lot of your weight is forward. Couldn't the bottom buy pitch you over?

Thanks very much. Great reminder about the importance of kuzushi in every technique.

09 Jul 17:22

NIce, than you. You don't often see standing chokes  though I've seen MMA fighters doing them against the wall of the cage.