So often we hear the phrase in Grappling “He/She is on another level” as an explanation for why one grappler defeated another.  As someone who loves studying nogi grappling, such a phrase provides me little information on how to improve. Such an explanation can impair critical thinking and subsequent progression of a grappler. What does being on another level actually mean? […]

Read more "Levels in Submission Grappling"

After publishing the EBI stats yesterday I began to think of a few more things that would be interesting to look at. Also, in the interest of being transparent so that any mistakes/improvements can be discovered I also wanted to present the raw data from the spreadsheets I used. Further, I wanted to give everyone reading an indication […]

Read more "The Statistics of EBI: P4 Further Analysis & Spreadsheets"

So what works in the submission only environment? Here is the breakdown along with my thoughts: Submissions Overall 74 matches of 105 finished by submission. As you can see leg locks featured strongly with approximately 47% of all matches ending in a leglock. I can only think this is because of the recent trend and evolution […]

Read more "The Statistics of EBI: P3 Numbers"

So continuing on from where I left I decided to categories EBI players into styles. I must acknowledge that this list is heavily based on a post on the innerbjj@gmail.com post on Types of BJJ Players (http://www.innerbjj.com/2012/02/types-of-bjj-players.html) so all credit to Sam Y. I have just adapted it to be nogi grappling friendly with my own thoughts on […]

Read more "The Statistics of EBI: P2 Nogi Styles"

With the recent movement of submission only events becoming more and more popular I began to wonder what works in the submission only context. I know that in the past people (i.e. Jiu Jitsu nerds) have broken down individual events and/or set number of matches to analyse what, in terms of percentages, are the most successful […]

Read more "The Statistics of EBI: P1 Rationale and Scope"