This week, we're joined again by Jake Luigi! Jake is a jiu-jitsu analyst who made his name studying professional match footage, and he runs OutlierDB, an analytics database for grappling. In this episode, Jake lays out a three-part framework for managing risk: name the worst-case scenario, watch for the key indicators that it's coming, and only attack hard once those indicators are in your favor. Topics include: risk-reward analysis, points of control, grip fighting, terminal positions, and Goodhart's Law.

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Mental models discussed in this episode:

• Return on Investment
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/return-on-investment
  
  
• Building Your Triggers
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/building-your-triggers
  
  
• Double Trouble
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/double-trouble
  
  
• Cognitive Load
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/cognitive-load
  
  
• Constraints-Led Approach
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/constraints-led-approach
  
  
• Availability Heuristic
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/availability-heuristic
  
  
• Points of Control
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/points-of-control
  
  
• Terminal Positions
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/terminal-positions
  
  
• Invariants
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/invariants
  
  
• Grips Dictate Position
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/grips-dictate-position
  
  
• Kuzushi
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/kuzushi
  
  
• Rotational Control
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/rotational-control
  
  
• Goodhart's Law
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/goodharts-law
  
  

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In this mini-episode, we discuss coiling, or retracting your limbs and neck. It denies access to our body's vulnerable levers and positions us to explosively generate force.

Staying coiled is a smart "default" position if you're not sure what to do. But there are times when you need to uncoil, and that is when:

#1: there's a productive reason to do so, and
#2: you can do so safely and without giving up a lever.

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This week, we're joined by Will Weisser! Will is a jiu-jitsu black belt, co-founder of the competition-tracking site JiuJitsu.net, and author of the new book Scientific Jiu-Jitsu: A Unified Theory of Grappling. In this episode, Will lays out that unified theory: the idea that every jiu-jitsu technique exists to raise your own strength or reduce your opponent's. Topics include: relative strength, frames and misdirection, body alignment, and why being strong works.

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Mental models discussed in this episode:

• Theory of Alignment
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/theory-of-alignment
  
  
• Dominant Angles
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/dominant-angles
  
  
• Anatomic Hierarchy
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/anatomic-hierarchy
  
  
• Kuzushi
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/kuzushi
  
  
• Controlling the Distance
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/controlling-the-distance
  
  
• Dilemmas
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/dilemma
  
  
• Kinetic Chains
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/kinetic-chains
  
  
• Overwhelming Force
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/overwhelming-force
  
  
  

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