Wrestling & takedowns
Hand fighting, body grips and disrupting balance create an entry. We connect initiating a takedown to the position where you want to land.
Submission Grappling / No-Gi
No-Gi. Control without the gi.
Without clothing grips, you need other ways to establish connection. In No-Gi grappling, we work with body grips, balance and placement: from standing wrestling positions to control, escapes and submissions on the ground.
Explore the differencesFollow movement, maintain connection
A grip needs to follow movement too.
An opponent can turn, pull back or change direction. Your grip needs enough connection to respond while preserving your own room to move. We explore how head position, arms, hips and points of support build control together.
That makes the transition between wrestling and ground work important. A takedown begins a new position. Learn to think ahead: where will you land, what can the other person do immediately and how do you maintain a useful connection?
A continuous game
Start standing. Keep thinking on the ground.
Control & submissions
Explore how to limit movement and create access to a submission. The agreement is clear: tapping in time and releasing immediately belong to partner practice.
Pace & transitions
When a connection breaks, you need to establish another. Learn to switch between following, stabilising and moving on, rather than trying to solve every situation through speed.
Related to BJJ
Different grips. Shared principles.
Gi BJJ uses clothing grips; No-Gi uses connections with the body. That affects distance, friction and how you hold a position. Both offer useful information about the same moving problem, through different conditions.
No-Gi can also be relevant to MMA, where gi grips are absent. But the possibility of strikes changes the conditions again. This page focuses on grappling without a gi. Ground & Pound explores the specialist effects of strikes, while MMA covers the complete interaction.
Focused training
Work on the connection you are missing.
A No-Gi session might begin with a standing grip, an escape or a transition between positions. Your question and experience determine which task gives enough information to improve something.
A first introduction
Start with recognisable positions and simple goals. Understand contact and balance before the task becomes more complex.
A specific problem
Explore why a grip disappears, a scramble keeps recurring or a takedown fails to produce useful control. We focus the question first, then add variation.
Your No-Gi focus
Where do you lose the connection?
Share a position or transition you want to explore. We can discuss how No-Gi coaching might help you work on it.