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Questions you might ask:

Why are you giving this away?
Because Jesse told me to

What’s in it?
37min of Leg Turks

What makes this unique?
Production value

What’s the catch?
There is no catch

Do I need to give you my credit card?
No

How does giving away your instructionals for free make business sense?
It doesn’t

Then why are you doing it?
Because Jesse told me to

Why not just put it on YouTube?
Because I hate algorithmic social with the burning heat of a thousand suns

What if I don’t like it?
I’ll refund your $0

How do I know this isn’t a scam to steal my personal data and spam me endlessly?
Because I am bound by rigorous Canadian anti-spam laws 🇨🇦

How do I get it?
Here: https://www.bjjmentalmodels.com/offers/SKv7wTh9/checkout?coupon_code=RBJJTURK

I'm going through Will's book now. Here are some notes from the first few chapters.

If you're familiar with systems and concepts thinking in jiu-jitsu, you'll find familiar perspectives here. But there are also some interesting new framings and ideas that I hadn't heard explained this way before.

Will argues that the effectiveness of jiu-jitsu comes from willful opposition: mustering enough strength to overcome your opponent's. How we define “strength” is where things get interesting.

Jiu-jitsu allows us to increase our relative strength: maximizing our effective power while reducing our opponent's. We perform beyond base attributes like size and strength. A unique aspect of jiu-jitsu is how we use unfair advantages to stack the odds in our favor and defeat larger, stronger grapplers.

We find those unfair advantages in modifiers: strategies and tactics that increase our relative strength and let us punch above our weight. This is where the bulk of good jiu-jitsu ideas live: leverage, alignment, frames, and positional advantage are all examples of modifiers.

Like in a video game, we're looking to use modifiers to increase our base stats, apply performance-increasing buffs, and weaken our opponent with debuffs.

Dominant positions like mount, knee on belly, and back control are powerful modifiers; they give us one-sided advantages from an asymmetric position.

Leverage is a powerful modifier for increasing relative strength. It is, by definition, a force multiplier that amplifies your body's natural output and lets you move much heavier objects than you could with strength alone.

Will's framework helps us better understand jiu-jitsu by giving us a simple way to tell what works: Is this modifier increasing my relative strength? If it's not, why are you doing it?

The more modifiers you stack in your favor, the more your relative strength grows.

Will gets into much more detail in the book, but hopefully this gives you enough of a sampler to tell if it's something you'd be interested in. You can find Scientific Jiu-Jitsu: A Unified Theory of Grappling on Amazon.