21. Momentum Principle
Capitalizing on mass in motion to maximize efficiency against your opponent.
Either make the most of momentum that is already there, or create momentum in order to facilitate your own attacks/escapes.
22. Pivot Principle
Increase the effectiveness of a technique by changing the angle of its application.
He who dominates the angle will dominate the fight.
Pivoting helps you change angles in order to get the best one for executing a technique of your choice.
23. Tagalong Principle
Seizing the “free rides” in the fight to save your energy while depleting the opponents.
Goes hand in hand with the Depletion principle.
Basically, it is all about surfing on your opponent from top or allowing them to pull you from the bottom in order to achieve a better position, and conserve energy.
24. Overload Principle
Disproportionate application of your resources to target a specific part of your opponent’s body.
This one is something you already know – submissions like the armbar, for example. Your entire body against the elbow joint of the opponent’s arm.
This principle is available in other situations and not just when finishing joint locks.
25. Anchor Principle
Pinning any part of your opponent’s body to a surface to inhibit mobility. This a principle that will require some work on your part to fully understand. It works in terms of pinning an opponent to a surface, yourself to a surface, you to yourself, the opponent to you, you to your opponent, and the opponent to themselves.
26. Ratchet Principle
Creating persistent incremental advancements in one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction.
Ratcheting can be done in a “micro-ratchet” or “macro-ratchet” fashion.
The former refers to moving parts of your body, while the latter involves moving the entire body.
The key moment is that once you move, you set up in a way that prevents the opponent from moving you back.
27. Buoyancy Principle
Capitalizing on offensive and defensive surfacing opportunities throughout the fight.
What is buoyancy? it is the upward force that prevents an object from sinking into a fluid.
In grappling terms, this means successfully getting a top position when you’re on the bottom, or retaining a top position when you have it.
28. Head Control Principle
Controlling your opponent’s head to limit or direct their movement.
Where the head looks, the body will follow.
Exploring the different ways in which twisting, turning, tilting, framing, hugging, pulling, pushing, or pinning the head can help you control an opponent.
This principle has both offensive and defensive applications.
29. Redirection Principle
Reducing your opponent’s effectiveness by controlling the direction of their energy.
Instead of fighting force with force, redirect your opponent by changing the angle or intercepting their energy.
30. Mobility Principle
Moving yourself when your opponent cannot be moved.
Can you move a wall away from you by pushing it? How about moving yourself away from the wall, like doing a push up?
Recognizing when to move your opponent, and when to move yourself.
31. Centerline Principle
Limiting your opponent’s potential by taking control of their centreline.
By either “splitting” or “breaking” the opponent’s appendages, you can make them weak and susceptible to your attacks.
Particularly useful when hunting submissions.
32. Grandmaster Principle
Using the 32 principles to continuously improve your Jiu Jitsu - just like the Grandmaster.
