“Give your body new problems to solve and it can freshen up and add life to a routine you currently find boring or repetitive.” It can also be used to descend from something high, transitioning from a balancing phase to one of descending/climbing. In MovNat training, this can be used to get up to your feet from the ground to vault over an obstacle, such as a park bench, fallen tree, or hood of a car and to get on top of an obstacle after a climb, such as a wall, tree branch, or fence. In grappling, mixed martial arts, and fighting, this movement is used to transition from the ground phase of movement to the standing phase, which can lead to continued fighting or to running away. Another nice thing about these movements is the ease with which you can insert them into different types of workouts and circuit training. These are all techniques you can practice at any time and anywhere you want to get up off of the ground. The differences between these are largely based on experience level, though some are situational. In this next video, I demonstrate six different variations of this get-up sequence, as taught in Brazilian jiu jitsu schools. This move is also extremely efficient in many situations and, lastly, it is something that is more readily available to a broad demographic of people, as opposed to movements that accomplish the same goals but might only be appropriate for those with a higher level of athleticism or specific body types. There are many places where you can plug this movement in to facilitate what would otherwise be clumsy, awkward, and slow. I chose this sequence because of its versatility. The specific technical transition I want to focus is this movement sequence: It’s a different feeling to run when someone is chasing you and even more complicated when this follows a fighting situation.
This is a good example of how context can change things.
The second part is concerned with escaping once you get back to your feet. Here, I first show technical details for getting back to your feet if someone tackles you to the ground or if you end up there during a scuffle. In personal practice, we can simply run for distance or intensity, but in real life, we may have to run, fight, vault something, and run away or give chase. As teachers concerned with helping people learn practical skills that may serve them in real life, we must be especially concerned with how different disciplines intersect. “Your activities take on a whole new shape when you link them together, and they become more true to the practical skills needed in urgent situations.”Īs generalists or multi-discipline athletes, not only are we concerned with the nuances of the individual arts we practice, but also with the way these arts intersect. Transition is the transformation from one distinct phase of action to another. In self-defense and law enforcement situations, there is often a fighting phase that transitions to running or giving chase, and perhaps even vaulting (a fence or wall) or carrying (an injured person). There is a transition from striking to grappling or from standing to the ground in mixed martial arts. If you look at sport, there is a transition point between the running phase and lift-off in pole vault. In terms of movement, they can be the places that link one phase to another. The spaces that link the beats of a drum together. The purpose of this article is to give MovNat practitioners, BJJ students, and anyone interested in movement arts in general a basic concept of how the tripod works, as well as a broader sense of how it can be applied as a transition between different skill sets and activities. Simply put, it is using your arm and opposite leg to make a frame that allows you to go from a lower position to a higher position.īJJ black belt Valerie Worthington demonstrates the tripod position The tripod position, otherwise known as “standing in base” or the “technical get up,” is a movement I first learned in Brazilian jiu jitsu, but later learned more about in MovNat training.