Theory Of Framing Flashcards
When is it okay to use hand frames?
Guard retention
When there is a greater distance between us and our opponent, for example, when an opponent is passing our guard, we would use hand frames, with extended arms to frame against our opponent to retain/regain guard.
We switch to elbow frames when an opponent is closer, so our extended arms don’t become a liability to us, leading to us getting arm locked/ triangled etc
When do we use forearm/elbow frames?
Pin escapes
We use forearm/elbows to create space between us and our opponent once they have passed our guard and are employing or trying to employ pins, so we use our forearm/elbows to frame against them to create space allowing us to either get our legs inside, to gain more inside position and regain guard (elbow escape to closed guard), or to escape into attacks etc (knee escape into takedown)
What is the general pattern we are looking for with regards to framing?
We don’t want direct chest-to-chest contact with our opponent, as this means he can set up very effective pins.
Our goal is to use body movement to get his chest off of our body and get frames in. We want his chest and hips held on our frames, so underneath our frames our body can move freely.
What is the strongest frame we can use with the human body?
The V-frame
The v frame is formed using elbow-knee contact forming a ‘v’shape. When escaping pins (e. Elbow escape) we usually look to form the elbow-knee relationship which is very effective at holding and keeping our opponents chest and body weight away from our chest, allowing us to move freely to escape
What are the two elements of the iron rule of framing?
Whenever the circumstances of a match changes, your frames must change to suit the new circumstances.
If you have frames set up to deal with a top head&arm side pin, and the Opp Changes to
North south or a modified side pin, and you keep the same frames as the original pin, you are now.. fucked
1 -YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO LET GO OF FRAMES/GRIPS. Do not hang on to grips after the value of the grips has passed- USE GRIPS AS LONG AS THEYRE USEFUL, when they cease to be useful
They become liabilities, don’t hold on to liabilities
2- YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO LET GO AND WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEW FRAMES - for example- if the Opp has you in a side pin, you frame with inside position at the hip with an elbow and a reverse crossface across the chest.
If the opp starts to transition into north-south, you can keep inside position with your reverse-crossface inside his bicep as he transitions.. then when he comes around into north south you have anticipated it and have frames already set up to frame, push, and escape the transition by bringing your knee and elbow together, then into him and regain guard
Why is the concept of the V-frame so important to playing the bottom game in jiu jitsu?
The V-frame is a strong barrier that prevents chest exposure.
Our opponents goal is to break our elbow-knee connections to get us to expose our chest, creating space for him to gain chest-to-chest connection to put us in pins.
Our whole game from bottom position is to maintain the integrity of our elbow-knee Vframe connection
What is the most important frame from bottom of side control, and why?
Reverse cross face with the ‘outside’ hand (hand furthest away from Opp)
Accompanied with a forearm on hip frame using the inside hand (hand nearest to opp)
The reverse cross face frame makes it easy for us to love our opponents head, which does the one thing our frames are designed to do, which is create space and take away the chest-to-chest contact.
The basis of side pins for the opponent is their hips on one side of us and their head on the other
Our goal to help us create space to escape, is to put their head on the same side as their hips, giving us the chance to regain inside position with our legs and arms, regaining guard.
What is the 2nd most important frame from bottom of side control and why?
Underhook with outside arm and near side arm framing on the hip.
We can still move our opponents head by using our underhook at the opp’s armpit to frame/push/reach while we perform our bridging motion to create space, so we can slip our head through the crossface and under our opponents sternum, taking away the chest-to-chest contact and now we can either knee escape to take down, or bring our legs back in to regain guard
What is the third but least favourited frame frame bottom side control and why?
Bicep crossface with forearm on hip
This is the least favoured frame as it doesn’t rely on inside position like the reverse crossface and underhook frames.
To use it we bridge and fram/reach using our bicep to move the opponent’s head to the same side of our body as our hips, creating space to bring our legs back inside
Once we have created space by using one of our frames (reverse crossface, underhook, bicep crossface), and moving the opponent’s head to take away chest-to-chest contact, how exactly do we bring our legs back in to gain inside position and regain guard in bottom side control?
Once we have created space by moving our opponent’s head to the same side of our body as our hips..
We shrimp our hips away from our opponent to give us some more room, we invert our knee by making sure our FOOT IS HIGHER THAN OUR KNEE and ANGLE IT DOWN and bring it INSIDE THE OPPONENTS HIP
WE MUST HAVE DOWNWARD KNEE-ENTRY AT OUR OPPONENTS HIP TO GET INSIDE POSITION
What is the most common ‘unforced error’ in the bottom game of BJJ?
Holding onto opponents in the bottom of pins is the most common unforced error. If we are holding onto opponents in the bottom of pins, we can’t create space to escape.
The bottom game of BJJ relies on creating space to escape from pins, pushing away from the opponent, being defensive.
Pulling an opponent into us while in the bottom of a pin is only helping the opponent keep the pin, so don’t fucking do it.
