Standing Front Headlock: Hands to the Mat vs Head Back Up
Mat mode
3:00
Tell the roomKeep their posture broken and break it further. Get your head back up to the sky and recover your posture.
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FRONT HEADLOCK PLAYER
POSITION
Standing, with your partner in your front headlock: you control their chin and their arm and have chest-to-back connection, with their head held down and their posture broken.
OBJECTIVE
Keep their posture broken and break it further.
CONSTRAINTS
Start on the whistle. Hold the position and keep their head down. There are a lot of ways to get their hands down; any of them is fine. When you win, let them up and switch positions.
WIN CONDITION
You touch your partner's hands to the ground.
DEFENDER (HEAD DOWN)
POSITION
Standing, bent over in your partner's front headlock, chin and arm controlled.
OBJECTIVE
Get your head back up to the sky and recover your posture.
CONSTRAINTS
Remove their hands and the connections controlling you, then start getting your posture back. When you win, switch positions.
WIN CONDITION
You get your posture back, head up.
Coach Douglas, Legion Jiu Jitsu (East Nashville, Tennessee), BJJ Ecological Approach - Front Headlock Game 1 - Nashville Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (free video on the Legion Jiu Jitsu YouTube channel).
Problem
Standing, with your partner in your front headlock: you control their chin and their arm and have chest-to-back connection, with their head held down and their…
Setup
Standing, with your partner in your front headlock: you control their chin and their arm and have chest-to-back connection, with their head held down and their posture broken. Standing, bent over in your partner's front headlock, chin and arm controlled.
Score
You touch your partner's hands to the ground. You get your posture back, head up.
Rules
- Start on the whistle.
- Hold the position and keep their head down.
- There are a lot of ways to get their hands down; any of them is fine.
- When you win, let them up and switch positions.
- Remove their hands and the connections controlling you, then start getting your posture back.
- When you win, switch positions.
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Standing Front Headlock: Hands to the Mat vs Head Back Up
Foundations
FRONT HEADLOCK PLAYER
Position
Standing, with your partner in your front headlock: you control their chin and their arm and have chest-to-back connection, with their head held down and their posture broken.
Win condition
You touch your partner's hands to the ground.
Constraints
Start on the whistle. Hold the position and keep their head down. There are a lot of ways to get their hands down; any of them is fine. When you win, let them up and switch positions.
DEFENDER (HEAD DOWN)
Position
Standing, bent over in your partner's front headlock, chin and arm controlled.
Win condition
You get your posture back, head up.
Constraints
Remove their hands and the connections controlling you, then start getting your posture back. When you win, switch positions.