give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world: chris weidman and gordon ryan experiment with lever and fulcrum together. We work in a sport that is largely mechanical in nature. Learning to impose mechanical advantage on to a resisting opponent is our obsession. Ultimately you do not defeat your opponent – the laws of physics do it through your body. Look at jiu jitsu through the prism of physics and mechanics and a whole new world will emerge before your eyes and you will never the see the game in the same fashion again.
