Class #1173 BJJ Globetrotter Camp (Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar) Alex Neufang, Heidelberg, Germany, 30/07/2019
Escapes. Also, vs arm triangle, grab leg, kick to free shoulder, turn. As ever, lots of complex stuff, but a bit less mega complex than it has been in the past. ;)
I need to rewatch the vids, but there was plenty of interesting material in here. Generally it was an escape from a submission, ending up with you able to attack with your own submission.
Class #1029 BJJ Globetrotter Camp (Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar) Alexander Neufang, Heidelberg, Germany, 15/08/2018
Crazy triangles. First bit quite standard, hip bump and thread leg through the gap that opens when they post an arm. İf you have a really firm grasp on the arm, you can push off their hips, bring your same side leg through the hook their other arm, preventing them from blocking your second leg kicking into their neck.
As you are still holding the sleeve, that means you can then pull that forward and lock in your other leg. With a lasso you can swivel underneath, inverting and spinning on your shoulder blades, into yet another triangle.
If you get stacked in the process, you can kick up and get a sort of reverse triangle. From the back, even more triangle options, though I started getting confused at this point. Simplest option was against turtle.
Just getting in one hook foot, reaching past the shoulder with your opposite hand, pulling it through and rotating under into a triangle.
Class #1003 BJJ Globetrotter Camp (Sportoase Leuven), Alexander Neufang, Leuven, Belgium, 10/07/2018
Handily, the excellent BJJ Globetrotters in Action site records videos of most of the classes, which means a lot less videoing required from me. It also means I can embed it here: hooray! :D
Class #881 BJJ Globetrotter Camp (Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar) Alexander Neufang, Heidelberg, Germany, 22/08/2017
Unexpected armlocks was a well named class, as Neufang sprang into the armbars from all kinds of crazy armbars. I had trouble getting any of this, but it was entertaining to watch. That man's jiu jitsu defies the laws of physics. The main thing was getting a solid collar grip and sleeve. You can then leap past and rotate into armbars, pushing off your grips to rotate and spin into those attacks. Even more impressive, Neufang threw in a headstand into an armbar too, falling by legs for armbar. Fun, but I can't imagine this is something I'd be teaching or trying myself, Neufang's game is very unique. ;)
Class #855 BJJ Globetrotter Camp (Sportoase Leuven), Alexander Neufang, Leuven, Belgium, 26/07/2017
The title for this session was 'murdering people with the gi', which proved to be an apt description. It was packed with nasty gi chokes, wrapping them around the neck and punching the arm through. I had trouble getting any of them, I think due to my pressure perhaps being a little off, or not thrusting enough. Probably not the kind of techniques I'm likely to use, but certainly effective. These are all chokes that Neufang has been using successfully in competition.
Fortunately for me, the final technique was better suited to my style. I have seen something similar before, but not had it taught to me previously. I couldn't see how he set it up, but the idea is you have closed guard, then you get your foot across and hook it under their far arm. This ends up in what I've seen called the 'coathanger'. From here, you can get a sweep by pulling on that arm with your foot.
There is also an unusual choke, if you get a deep grip with your arm on the coathanger leg side, gripping the opposite collar (the one that will be on the coathangered arm side). Bring your free leg over their head and push. You can switch into a triangle too, bringing your leg over and switching. Then finally there's the option of pulling their arm across and taking their back.
