Location, Location, Location

Where you are matters.  Where your partner is matters.  Position, in other words, matters.  One of my biggest lessons in the importance of position has been in grappling.  There is nothing quite so convincing as someone sitting on you in the mount to make you a believer in the power of position.

The video above covers what I would consider to be the 3 fundamental positions of grappling – the mount, side control and the guard.  There are lots more, of course, but these three are a good place to start.