Should be standard teaching in every martial art.
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Gracie went to the well one too many times. Props to Mitchell for adapting and pulling that off. That was a brutal KO. Akron was aggressively pulling guard though, so I’m not sure how often that would be successful.
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Did white cut kron at the post fight presser?
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That guard pull was weak as fuck. Maybe once a fight but he was asking to be spiked after doing it twice.
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Those guard jumps were trash.
Absolute embarrassment to bjj as a combat discipline.
Even most of his guard work was self defense stalling type of shit. He offensively jumped guard to stall the fight.
I’m curious to know how many sign ups Muay Thai gyms do the week after Kron fights
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u can do that with your head too, when u land its like an “accidental headbutt”
thats how tito beat tanner
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And how Rampage beat Arona
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Leg grab ouchi-gari in a gi is a great way to go for the slam with the forearm across the jaw/neck.
If youre gonna pull guard… why not learn to Imanari roll?
You can’t really get slammed and if they spin out u just wrestle up and try it again. Not only can less go wrong but as Ryan Hall proved sometimes u actually get the sub or at least as they get away u can scramble to take the back.
I’m nowhere remotely as good as Kron but even as a local hack fighter I learned that guys could stay in your guard and play defense following the hips, so instead it was better to just grab the guy standing and spin into some kinda sacrifice throw or dive to single leg x in the hopes of creating a scramble.
Jumping closed guard is the best way to pull a guy down WITHOUT getting a scramble.
I have to think someone of Krons ability could often beat almost anyone by initiating a scramble to the ground.
If I could just get one over or underhook I’d try a desperate uchimata which always failed but it would often lead to a somersault leg attack or sweep I learned by watching Oleg taktarov do to Dave Beneteau & Dan Severn in the mid 90’s.
Yes I’m old!
My experimentation in training as well as anecdotal evidence I’ve seen leads me to believe that it’s actually easier to hit guys using Gracie type guard than it is to hit someone with a more aggressive modern style like Ryan hall.
Guys like Ryan force you to look out for so many things when you’re on top that you can rarely even think about hitting them.
Just baffling that the old school bjjers can’t see that.
I mean sure it’s good to teach how to tie up on bottom and not get hit if you’re stuck but imo if u are a bjjer in mma you gotta know that you are losing on bottom so you gotta open up and make something happen,
Chase Hooper on bottom is enormously more dangerous than Kron by using more modern bjj
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I train at a Gracie CTC for the technical instruction of bjj as well as a comp. school for the physical part of bjj.
In no way is that how Gracie JJ teaches students to pull guard. No fucking idea what Kron was doing.
He knows damn well that giving yourself up like that to your opponent in an actual fight/mma match, is NOT Gracie approved.
He competed in sport bjj a little too long apparently.
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part of krons mma guard pulling is dependent on a diaz bro throwing a water bottle at his opponent for distraction
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I make all my competitors drill that.
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I like pulling half guard off a single leg for MMA. Its more offensive because you are trying to finishe off the single and the half guard pull is insurance. Half guard historically is more successful against wrestlers too
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Call me crazy, but Kron’s last two fights were so technically horrible and so far away from his style of grappling and early fights that it almost seems like he is purposely self destructing. Like the kid who wants nothing to do with the family businesses. Purposely making Gracie jiu jitsu look bad.
Watch his ADCC matches and fights in Japan. Not the same guy.
Something is up with Kron. It’s very obvious he doesn’t want to be in there.
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I doubt Kron got slammed and his face smashed with elbows on purpose.
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Thousands upon thousands of reps and rounds of doing that exact thing.
As soon as he started getting hit he resorted to this nonsense
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Did the slam KO him or was it the elbows
Looked like the slam was the start of it but the elbows were definitely the end of it
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It was both.
With Gary Tonan & Ryan Hall showing bjj more applicable to MMA than Kron…
Can we out to bed the idea that old school GJJ is better for fighting than modern BJJ?
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