tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post8874246289470075314..comments2024-03-22T01:17:01.667-05:00Comments on Georgette's Jiu Jitsu World: Tuesday roll...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-44029948013708754612008-09-25T08:21:00.000-05:002008-09-25T08:21:00.000-05:00I wasn't clear enough. Yes, I've read of and been...I wasn't clear enough. Yes, I've read of and been told about that ankle lock, and no, my rolling partner did not cross his own ankles. What I was preening about "inventing" was that I manually crossed his own ankles, by maneuvering them with my legs, while he was trying to tighten up the choke. Thanks for the link though!Georgettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08705282002904234217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-52867980702503208062008-09-24T23:47:00.000-05:002008-09-24T23:47:00.000-05:00regarding your "invention"...http://tinyurl.com/3l...regarding your "invention"...<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/3lg3ff<BR/><BR/>note the cached/highlighted area regarding "crossed-ankle lock"<BR/><BR/>I'd say in my BJJ training it took a few weeks to pick up on the idea that any sort of crossing your ankles when you had someone's back or a rear mount was generally a bad idea...these posts from the bullshido.net forum seem to reiterate that...<BR/><BR/>"To answer you directly: Crossing the ankles works GREAT on total dopes - ...<BR/><BR/>But against anybody with half a brain, they can put any number of horrible things into play...it can turn into a pretty gnarly ankle lock about half a second later..."<BR/><BR/>"Your average one-month BJJ white belt prays to hit the crossed-ankle lock whenever they get backmounted. So much so, in fact, that I've had a few new guys try to slap in on me while my hooks were completely parallel and I have to tap them with body triangles as punishment.<BR/><BR/>Crossing your ankles even against total beginners is a bad idea. Hell, back in the day I manually crossed someone's feet just to land that lock."<BR/><BR/>and we did indeed as newbie white belts hope for the even newer newbies to not know yet so we could catch them with this invention...the catch is no one makes this mistake twice...so as you progress in your training this invention becomes pretty irrelevant - unless you keep training with people who haven't learned the don't cross your ankles lesson<BR/><BR/>the good news is...if someone is indeed trying to control your back and is foolish enough to cross their ankles you can indeed distract them from their submission attempts or back control by mashing their ankles together...and you are right it has been done a million times before<BR/><BR/>BUT most importantly I'm sad to hear that where you're training and looking you have not "never seen or read it"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com