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Jul
28
Red Rover! Red Rover!
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My son and daughter are participating in a soccer-summer camp this year. The camp is being coached by high school girls and to burn up some time, they play games that have nothing to do with soccer—one of the games is Red Rover—one of my favorites as a kid. I had both momentum and mass on my side, I was a natural.
Watching the kids play Red Rover, I noticed the similarities to what we do in jiu-jitsu. Finding the weakest link and using our whole body against it. That is what we do. The arm lock for example is nothing more than a principle of Red Rover. A kid is called; he surmises the situation; he runs full speed across an expanse of grass and he hurls his entire being at two kids holding hands—usually the scrawniest kids. That’s how joint locks work—we attack the weakest link using our entire body.
Red Rover! Red Rover! Send arm lock right over!
Who knew we were learning about jiu-jitsu at such an early age?
