Goldie Locks

In grappling there are four skills that participants need to learn early in their journey. The Second skill is the ability to move your opponents body, or the ability to control where you want them to be.

Experienced grapplers will try to help you with this by yelling frames.

This is how I like to teach and explain frames

Frames- we are controlling range, not just pushing your opponent away

• Range control - Push and Pull.

  • The point is to put their body under tension. while your forearm is pushing, your hand is pulling. while your butterfly hook is pulling, your shin is pushing.

• Limit mobility - Once they are at the right range, limit their escape options.

  • Ideally we limit their mobility by breaking their posture, threatening a reversal.

Avoid Damage - stop your opponent from isolating your joints or neck

• No floating joints - if it is not anchored it is weak.

  • There should seldom be a joint that is not connected to yourself, your opponent, or the ground.

• Shoulders high -

  • People say tuck your chin, but I hate getting my posture broken. So instead I focus on keeping my shoulders high and tight to defend them wrapping my neck.

I call this Goldie Locks, because just like dealing with the three bears, we don’t want our opponent too far, or too close. We want them just right where we can submit them.