#positional hierarchy

BJJ Scout: Ben Askren - Folkstyle in MMA Study Part 1 (Meta Switch)

It’s a shame people feel it necessary to say “meta” when they mean “strategy”, but this analysis of Ben Askren is excellent. It could be applied almost identically to AKA folks like Cormier and Velasquez. It raises some important questions about the choices BJJ makes in the context of striking, and what a revolution in the positional hierarchy could mean.

Listen: I’m a conceptual learner, and one thing I realized early is that technique is formed from fusing concept and movement.

That seems like such a simple idea. In fact, you’re probably saying, “ahh, that’s obvious”. For me though, it was revolutionary. It changed how I thought about technique. And it had a significant effect on how I learned the art.

Now the process of taking that idea and…