Jean Jacques Machado – Jean Jacques Machado in NYC

Jean Jacques Machado in NYC
This program documents the extraordinary visit by coral-belt master Jean Jacques Machado to Renzo Gracie’s Manhattan gym. On this unforgettable night, Jean parades his technique, solving classic BJJ problems in brilliant fashion. If you’re a beginner, you will learn positions that don’t require skill to add to your game. And if you are advanced, you will increase your effectiveness by adding invisible details that have finally been revealed.

Instructor

Jean Jacques Machado
Nineteen ninety-nine ADCC champion Jean Jacques Machado is regarded as one of the world’s most technical BJJ teachers. Trained by Carlos Gracie Jr. and raised on the mats alongside Renzo, Jean has lived in California since the early 90s, and leads a successful gym in Tarzana.

LESSON PLAN

Introduction
Jean Jacques says that, being in New York, a visit to Renzo’s gym is mandatory. The people that come out of there, he says, hav…

Maintaining the mount
In this lesson, Jean Jacques shows a simple positioning detail that makes one of the most effective mount escapes harder to pul…

Choke from the mount
Usually, the upa removes you from the mount upon the second hand entering the collar to execute the choke. Here, Jean Jacques t…

Creating discomfort from the mount
If you are mounted and your opponent is chilling out under you, something’s wrong. Jean Jacques teaches you to be conscious of …

Staple-style americana
Here, Jean Jacques demonstrates creativity with an alternative to the americana from the mount — a well-known but seldom-used …

Cross-choke
Could the legendary Jean Jacques Machado have something to add to your cross-choke? You’d better check it out, for a seconds-lo…

Maintaining the back-take
This lesson will require special attention, because you must (more than in others) see, test, feel, see again. These are positi…

From the back to the mount
If your opponent rids themselves of one hook and you need to switch to the mount, you’d better know how to do that without lett…

Staying safe in the closed guard
Before thinking about how to open the guard and pass, Jean Jacques explains, you must keep yourself safe. And this you achieve …

Opening the closed guard
Jean Jacques again stresses the importance of posture and explains that, most of the time, a fighter will have no posture due t…

Cross-choke, part 2
Ready for another cross-choke adjustment? Jean Jacques now shows how far your hand must go to ensure the move’s effectiveness. …

Butterfly guard: keeping the connection

Answering the question by a student having trouble preventing his butterfly guard from being passed, Jean Jacques emphasizes th…

Armlock from the north–south
Here Jean teaches how to move one’s body to execute one of his favorite positions, the armlock from the north–south. He teaches…

Securing the armbar
You have reached the armbar position, your opponent on their back, but they’re preventing you from stretching their arm. Jean n…

Slowing your opponent down
In this conceptual lesson, Jean teaches that often his objective is to slow his opponent down, and the weight he uses is propor…

Securing the kimura
Using the hook from the previous concept, Jean shows how to reach the kimura on the north–south. However, as you will now learn…

Breaking the posture from the closed guard
When you are on the bottom playing closed guard, your goal is to break the posture, right? Again, the hands may help, but the m…

From half-guard to open guard (and vice versa)
A student asks how to keep his opponent on the half-guard. Jean proceeds to show some concepts of angle, leg movement and contr…

Armlock from the guard
To solve the problem of a student having trouble applying an armlock from the guard, Jean teaches a full lesson in positioning …

Action and reaction
Jean teaches the importance of keeping track of the reactions of your training partners and opponents throughout the years, so …

Butterfly guard setup
The guard with hooks on the inside is effective and aggressive, but it’s often blunted by the way you start the preparation to …

Side control escape
Understand how to feel the attacker’s positioning, and you will have a lot less work and nervousness when someone passes your g…

Double under + classic pass
When the guard player is strong, you must know the best angles and directions to do the classic guard passes, Jean teaches, inc…

Conclusion
To wrap up this extraordinary visit that we had the privilege to record for Renzo Gracie Online Academy students, Master Jean J…