Many will look, but few will see: In all things, but especially in jiu jitsu, small details, often unseen or ignored, make the difference between success and failure. Cultivating a habitual reaching for perfection in performance, however difficult and frustrating that might be, is thus crucial to your advancement. This is so often a game of inches and millimeters and the consequences of even the smallest mechanical or tactical mistakes can be very costly indeed. I tell you in all honesty that it will be excellence in the performance of the unexciting, mundane aspects of jiu jitsu – not the pursuit of the exotic and showy elements, that will enable you to prevail when you need them most. Here I go over the minutiae of rear strangles with young nicky ryan and the ever observant and thus constantly improving, Eddie Cummings.
