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paleochallenge:

With 2,500 torreando reps down, I’ve noticed a lot of nuances and variations of the pass. Many of them seem small: grips, foot position, pressure. But they’re the small details that make a big difference. It reminds me of something my instructor John Danaher once said in class:

You’ll find in any specialized field that experts make more granular distinctions

So where I started with the general goal of doing 10,000 torreando passes, the more reps I do, the more types of bull fighter passes I see. I’m focusing on:

• The Galvao hands-to-floor torreando pass drill
• The Galvao torreando to knee-on-belly
• Torreando with hip control (I’ll start these in the 2nd 5000 reps)
• X-pass

I can see the wisdom of mastering the pass to one side: for my first 500 or so, I was doing left and right equally, but I’ve since switched to focusing on repping passes to one particular side.

Edit 2012-05-30

davetrains: Double-under would count as a smash pass, yes? Have you found any anomalies that don’t fit in these 3?

Good question. I don’t know where double under and over/under fit. Double under (aka scoop pass) definitely isn’t a smash pass because it doesn’t involve pinning the knees together. In terms of classifications for drilling, Galvao’s book has

1. Around the legs passes
2. Under the legs passes
3. Acrobatic passes.

I don’t see double under passes anywhere in Saulo Ribiero’s “Jiu Jitsu University”. (I just happen to be studying the Galvao and Ribiero books lately.)

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