Here's a nice demo of two Erik Paulson students of some note, doing there cacc thing in the park, its nice to see the different approach to standard BJJ, [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTTz8BAgu0[/ame]
I do like how the fall rule kills the tendencies to pull guard and stall in guard. Makes for much greater focus on dominant positioning which is great once you add in striking.
Ack, all the park videos are on their facebook page only. Here's a tournament from last year, the rules are slightly different in that they dont allow neck contact [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlV2nHjRvwg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlV2nHjRvwg[/ame]
I've only ever been to two pure bjj school (for a short while) but the tactics and approach (in fusens video) doesnt seem all that different to any BJJ places ive been that the coaches have had some significant wrestling experience.
In my opinion there was greater emphasis placed on escaping to turtle or belly down than guard (although both were evidenced). I'd imagine it's a tactic related to pinning but my wrestling exposure is limited. I noticed it frequently when defending side control?
Those chicks were awesome! The jumping arm bar at the endwas awesome. CACC is much more exciting to watch. I do think it's a different art compared to BJJ because the submissions can be anything you can think of. There isn't as much emphasis on clean techniqe so much as "Rip it off if you get the chance". Cross faces for example can submitwith enough force.
Pardon the pun but do you think this will "catch" on and spread? I know EP has been doing a lot to promote CSW, but it does seem an interesting alternative to BJJ.
They'll be a lot more fraudulent claims of catch I imagine. CSW is good as its BJJ plus catch, 'pure catch' is a very rare beast, its a bit like the rise of sambo fusion schools that conc on nogI submission wrestling incl chokes, and mma.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http...1AnQGT&usg=AFQjCNHCJ8HPjMwstAMXuZizR6--GAUdKw heres a doc on Erik paulson and his training.
I respect Eric Paulson, but after seeing the rolled up episode a few years back: I would never train with him.
That has been going on for years...ironically the recent exposure has caused a lot of the frauds to wither away since they cannot hide anymore As a long standing mouthpiece for Catch it is nice to see it taking off again, and I count myself very lucky to have the Coach that I do.
Its wierd, half of his views kinda makes sense, the other half are just crazy! Whats csw like? Ive briefly trained with one coach (first level I think?) Who was terrible.
I am treading carefully here because Erik is one of my personal heros..... CSW as Erik teaches and develops it is a truly multi layered grappling discipline that has a tremendous variety of submission and straddles the gap between the top game (wrestling) and the bottom game (BJJ) into its own animal CSW as a "brand" I am less keen on, as it is impossible to control anything that large without the quality control suffering a bit.....think "Royce Gracie Ju Jitsu Network". The average practitioner tends to know a LOT of subs and techniques, but the "applied" game is less impressive (if that makes sense). Conversely the good players in CSW are VERY good
That sounds like a balanced assessment. there's a really good baszler vs penny thomas nogi match that I thought showed the two slightly different approaches really well.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http...3IWQ8i&usg=AFQjCNGG2AePCdfvwzH6BY6CST3BAl4ckw I think this is the one, the result isnt as important as the tactics shown