Mini Ep. 97: Double Tap

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This is something that I had been doing for quite a while without knowing the name for,

but then I heard Drew Foster on the State of the Metapodcast, referred to this tactic as

the double tap and it's a great name. What is it? Simple. When you try a submission

and your opponent brings up their defenses, let go of the submission. They'll probably

let go of the defenses and then you can just do the submission again. This is a great

psych out that you can use on folks because it violates this weird, unwritten social contract

that we just don't really think about, but it happens all the time when rolling. And that

is, when I try a submission on you, if you defend, when I release the submission, now

you'll release the defenses because we're moving on to something else. The game is

progressed to the next stage, but you don't have to let it progress to the next stage.

You can double tap the person. When those defenses go down, attempt that submission a second

time. This flies in the face of expectations in Jiu-Jitsu, where people think once they

release the submission, well, the submission is done. It's over and now we can go on to

something else. It doesn't have to be that way. That's up to you as the attacker to choose.

This is helpful because when you are in a dominant position, if the other person feels overwhelmed,

they'll often resort to defensiveness. When you're mounted on someone and you're trying

to finish them with a choke, their hands come up and they defend, and that's not always

the smartest posture to just sit in. You don't want to sit on the bottom and just let

yourself get attacked over and over again. But when people feel outgunned, they will

rely on defense to buy themselves some time. And you've probably felt this frustration

when you're trying to finish that submission, and you just can't get it because the person

won't move their hands. Well, this is an opportunity to get them to move their hands without

having to do much. Make them think that the submission is done with, and you've moved

on to something else. And then when they move on to something else and they expose

whatever it was that you wanted to attack, you just go right back to it. I love doing

this from mount with Ezekiel Chokes. I find when I try to Ezekiel choke someone and

get that fist in front of their throat, they'll bring their hands to defend, and it

can be hard to overcome those hands. But if I just make them think I'm moving on to something

else and I release my hand, they'll probably bring their own hands out which clears the

pathway to get that choke. The double tap is an example of a pattern interrupt. A pattern

interrupt is when we do something that violates the unwritten social rules that we follow.

And in Jiu Jitsu, even though we never sat down and agreed upon this verbally, we all have

certain expectations of how a role will go. One of those expectations is that when a submission

is done, you move on to the next thing. I encourage people to look at pattern interrupt

opportunities all throughout the sport. You will probably find many places where things

are happening not because they're good or bad, but because we have social expectations

about how a role should go. And if you can find a way to deviate from those social expectations

without breaking the rules, you can create really interesting opportunities to psych out

and tricky opponents. So that's the double tap, a really awesome hack for just making

your submissions a little bit more effective. This kind of stuff is what we talk about

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