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This is something that I had been doing for quite a while without knowing the name for,
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but then I heard Drew Foster on the State of the Metapodcast, referred to this tactic as
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the double tap and it's a great name. What is it? Simple. When you try a submission
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and your opponent brings up their defenses, let go of the submission. They'll probably
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let go of the defenses and then you can just do the submission again. This is a great
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psych out that you can use on folks because it violates this weird, unwritten social contract
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that we just don't really think about, but it happens all the time when rolling. And that
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is, when I try a submission on you, if you defend, when I release the submission, now
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you'll release the defenses because we're moving on to something else. The game is
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progressed to the next stage, but you don't have to let it progress to the next stage.
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You can double tap the person. When those defenses go down, attempt that submission a second
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time. This flies in the face of expectations in Jiu-Jitsu, where people think once they
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release the submission, well, the submission is done. It's over and now we can go on to
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something else. It doesn't have to be that way. That's up to you as the attacker to choose.
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This is helpful because when you are in a dominant position, if the other person feels overwhelmed,
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they'll often resort to defensiveness. When you're mounted on someone and you're trying
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to finish them with a choke, their hands come up and they defend, and that's not always
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the smartest posture to just sit in. You don't want to sit on the bottom and just let
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yourself get attacked over and over again. But when people feel outgunned, they will
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rely on defense to buy themselves some time. And you've probably felt this frustration
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when you're trying to finish that submission, and you just can't get it because the person
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won't move their hands. Well, this is an opportunity to get them to move their hands without
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having to do much. Make them think that the submission is done with, and you've moved
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on to something else. And then when they move on to something else and they expose
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whatever it was that you wanted to attack, you just go right back to it. I love doing
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this from mount with Ezekiel Chokes. I find when I try to Ezekiel choke someone and
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get that fist in front of their throat, they'll bring their hands to defend, and it
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can be hard to overcome those hands. But if I just make them think I'm moving on to something
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else and I release my hand, they'll probably bring their own hands out which clears the
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pathway to get that choke. The double tap is an example of a pattern interrupt. A pattern
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interrupt is when we do something that violates the unwritten social rules that we follow.
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And in Jiu Jitsu, even though we never sat down and agreed upon this verbally, we all have
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certain expectations of how a role will go. One of those expectations is that when a submission
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is done, you move on to the next thing. I encourage people to look at pattern interrupt
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opportunities all throughout the sport. You will probably find many places where things
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are happening not because they're good or bad, but because we have social expectations
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about how a role should go. And if you can find a way to deviate from those social expectations
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without breaking the rules, you can create really interesting opportunities to psych out
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and tricky opponents. So that's the double tap, a really awesome hack for just making
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