3 Kesa Gatame Escapes

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[KenpoArtsGT]

Why do you keep your head up?!?!?! Tuck in it next to their shoulder so they can't push your head back and if they break the arm hold and push your face you can roll back and secure a choke, Other than that great video guys :)

[budoatemaildotcom]

@KenpoArtsGT Very good point! The head should always be low for the man on top. Thanks!

[railroadtrash09]

Thats not even kesa gatame...

[budoatemaildotcom]

@railroadtrash09 Judo guys, us BJJ guys apologize for mutilating your language. This *is* kesa gatame -- to most BJJ guys, even though is shows how little us BJJ guys know about Judo. It sure as heck works for us. Sorry - kusure kesa gatame. :) We are a different crowd in BJJ. We make up our own names and discard tradition, much to the disdain of many traditional martial artists. Them's the breaks.

[messagefrombilly]

What is the name of escape #1? What is it commonly called?

[budoatemaildotcom]

@messagefrombilly The funny thing about BJJ is that there aren't common names for about 75% of the moves, which is what leads to the kind of argument you get on this page about kesa from the terminology purists. BJJ guys don't care much about terms, but I guess I'd call it a "leg over the face escape."

[mrkvamaster]

This is kuzure-kesa-gatame

[adityasandhu]

As i chase him i'm loading him up!

[NeverAReflection]

@budoatemaildotcom Can you make a video of this happening? I am a Judoka and play from standard Kesa-Gatame quite often and have never had my back taken from it, but I also have not worked with many BJJ players so I would be interested to see that. As for this technique, this is certainly a Kazure version I have learned before, but it isn't one I often go to because I feel that it is too easy for the person I am pinning to escape in the manners you have shown in this video--to each his own

[turi420]

dude. thank you so lot, teach!

you just dont know how much!

OSU!

[95ellington]

First one is my favorite, Im quite tall and have the long legs to hook the head.

[Agtren]

@budoatemaildotcom There is a significant risk of getting armbarred from under sidemount with "under sidemount to armbar". Are you familiar with that move?

Even the basic top positions aren't absolutely safe.

However, someone who knows how to play kesa gatame properly, such as an international judo newaza specialist, can cause a lot of problems even for a BJJ black belt. There are ten-fifteen elbow locks, shouder locks, neck cranks and chokes from it. Not to mention you may switch position.

[Magurczek]

Its not traditionalism its standardization. I can go to a Judo gym anywhere in the world and say Uchi-Mata and they will know exactly what I am referring to. BJJ followed this same standard at one time seeing as BJJ is simply Newaza as taught by Esai Maeda to Carlos Gracie. Though, somehow between Carlos and today's practitioners they have lost this standard and now what is left is confusion. I also disagree that Judo and BJJ/JJ are different sports. They are the same sport just different rules.

[admbjj]

@budoatemaildotcom i practice bjj and to me this is kesa. good job your vids are awesome

[railroadtrash09]

@budoatemaildotcom I am a judo guy and a bjj guy. I love em both... Thanks for the escape.