Going after the weak muscle groups
Neat little demonstration (from a BJJ perspective) of staying away from trying to manipulate large muscle groups and stick to smaller ones (through angles, etc). This is from Keith Owen, who's under Pedro Sauer.
Nice presentation on what distinguishes Helio Gracie from his brother's style of Jiujitsu. Helio was a sickly and weaker child and used to watch all the classes that his older brother taught except that he looked for ways to make it work for him .Rorion relates this story about his dad that one day when his brother was sick Helio taught the class and Carlos' students were so impressed by his approach of exploiting the weakness of your opponent by using leverage and position that the students wanted to continue training under Helio instead.From there on Helio continued to teach and develop his approach and techniques which today is carried on with Pedro Sauer , Valente brothers, Royce , Rickson, and of course the Torrence school under Rorion and his sons Rener and Ryron Gracie.
Much like what has happened to judo in the US with competition becoming the focus of training ,the hard, muscle over technique styles of BJJ, have now unfortunately become the mainstream. The aspects of subtle, invisible jiujitsu from leverage and position which gives the weaker the advantage are only being taught and emphasized by only a few of the Gracie jiujitsu and BJJ instructors who trained under the influence of Helio Gracie.Likewise the self defense aspects of Gracie jiujitsu have given way to the sportive and there are many stories of BJJ champions getting traumatized when faced with street violence when they try to use sport jiujitsu in the street.
I have been following this series on submissions101 too. I like the teacher a lot. It actually has inspired my recent blog series on what is JU?