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I have mentioned before that I am a big fan of specializing

As the saying goes, "A Jack of all trades is a master of none."

I have been working on this particular technique for over 6 years now, and I am still making breakthroughs!

If you know me, then you it's name - the Kimura.

At a first glance, the Kimura is a very basic, white belt technique.

This is an oldie but a goodie

In wrestling, they have so many different names for this technique, but they all have the same end result - pinning your opponent to the mat.

The Pancake, the name I know it by, is a powerful finish from a front head lock. You can catch people's shots with this, or immediately after sprawling your opponent.

This takedown finish has scored me many victories throughout my career, and any fighter would be missing out on a simple but powerful weapon in their arsenal without it.

Back in the day, we had one of the great sambo masters come to my academy, the Freestyle Fighting Academy.

It was more by accident that we managed to get him to teach an amazing leg lock seminar. Lot of weird and funny behind the scenes stories as well, LOL!

This sambo master was a UFC veteran of the old school - Oleg Taktarov!

He showed this leg lock from the bottom half guard which is super sneaky and easily done after going for a sweep, check it out

I have a student of mine that has been with me for over a decade now that is somewhat of a legend at FFA. He is not your ordinary student - he is different.

He moves awkwardly, he goes for weird submissions that no one else does, and reacts in completely unexpected ways. 

He is called Mantequilla, which means butter in Spanish. He gave himself this nickname when he left a drunken voicemail to my academy.

I told you he was different