The Anti-Buck Breaking Meta: A Survival Guide for Pull Up Summer

 

 

Shout out to the Boys from Brazil.

You may have noticed the slightly new layout.

June.
Suns out. Guns out (sometimes literally).

Tariq Nasheed made a stream some months back questioning if this summer is going to be a Pull Up Summer.

There was a recent stabbing in broad daylight in Hyde Park. And if you follow drill blogs, you know innocent people are sometimes shot or stabbed for looking at someone the wrong way or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. One story in particular hit close to home.

If you listened to Chet Hank's initial White Boy Summer prophecy, the tone in his voice indicated that
it would be some kind of cataclysmic event. 

"I got this feeling man"

 The reluctant, "prophet of doom" tone in his voice is starting to ring true. Recently these white supremacists were able to run a full scale riot in Swansea with no police intervention. Tariq, Chet. Two sides of the same coin. After England's win this past weekend, there have been more cases of "wylin out".  Lots of cases of hooliganism and all that other stuff. Does this have to do with lockdown ending ? Maybe not

So some dudes try to pull up on you. What do you do? What do you need?

When people ask me for help in self defence. My answer is simple. Throw the biggest punch you can then run away as fast you can. My go to drill at the gym is landing overhand rights on the heavy bag then hopping on the treadmill for 400 metres.

Below you will find last ditch, Anti-Buck Breaking techniques that may as well save your life during Pull Up Summer

The Turtle Position

A common defensive position in grappling. You don't want to be here. Especially not during pull up summer. However, over the years, a number of techniques have been developed to get out of this disadvantageos position. What you don't want is them sinking their hooks into you, just like that sculpture (a painting of this position was in the Buck Breaking movie). There are series that look at the turtle position in depth, but that is beyond our scope today.

The Turtle (man in blue).

A way out thats has been used on some of the world's greatest grapplers, is throught double wrist lock or kimura. An old catch wrestling (something you'd have seen in a 1920s English carnival, worth a read on its own) move. You attack one arm and turn into it. Here's catch wrestler, Neil Melanson explaining.

 

 

Extra Style Points

Another common disadvantageous position you can find yourself in is the one pictured below

I am familiar with this position as we drilled it in my BJJ classes. The 3 drills involved, "hitting the switch", rolling and trying to regain your guard and lastly rolling under the trapped outside arm

This is what hitting the switch looks like,

 

These are all high success rate moves that will most likely work but these offer no direct finish, only a better, more advantageous position. 

If you want to dab on people this summer, you need style points. We need high risk, high reward. 

Enter the kneebar. Most schools avoid training leg locks due to the high injury rates in practice, which is all the proof you need to know about its effectiveness. Only leg lock I learnt was the toe hold. I did try attacking an achilles lock when a more advanced belt was playing open guard, I instead wound up in a leg entanglement and got submitted myself. An example of someone who's actually good pulling this off is Charles Oliveira against Eric Wisely but he goes for a heel hook.

In the position on Plate 58 above. With one of your legs between your opponent's legs. Grab the outside arm (right arm on Plate 58) and roll over the same side shoulder. Grab a leg, pull, easy money.

Here's Kazushi Sakuraba explaining it