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I'm curious to know how many play a predominantly rubber guard game? IE, when you pull guard, is that what you initially go for and stick to? Is it a game you consistently go to no more what position you end up in? IE, you're in butterfly, go to full, to rubber, or half to full to rubber. Or do you use the rubber guard as a means to other games. I find my self pulling butterfly and half guard more often than other guards. I hope the question makes sense.
Sometimes they give up the over hook, sometimes they don't. Sometimes their posture breaks sometimes it doesn't. So I guess it would be 50/50, dependent upon what they are doing and where they are week. Usually though, getting people into my guard at all has been the most challenging part. People just don't want to deal with it. I wouldn't be arrogant enough to say that they "fear" it but they just don't want to be hassled with passing my guard when they can beat me a bunch of other ways.
I am horrible at breaking someone down in guard so I don't get to play rubber guard a whole lot except on newbies who don't understand the importance of posture in the guard. I've been working with open guard lately; not very good at it but I'll get there I hope. I really like half guard, but I have a long way to go with that as well.
95 percent of my guard is Rubber Guard. 65 percent of my Jiu Jitsu is Rubber guard.
If I have someone in my guard, 100% of the time I'm looking for something off of rubber guard. And I like to pull guard, even in MMA, it's where my best grappling offense is. I don't often aim to be in half guard, esp. in MMA, but from there I'm always using the lockdown and trying to do Old school or maybe the vaporizer, if that doesn't work I often try to get the back, if not right back to full guard and into RG. More than half of my game is RG.
RG is about half of my game. its split between butterfly and RG.
In guard, its about 65% of my game. It's on my mind 90% of the time.
If I'm in guard I try my rubber guard first then move onto a hip bump or flower sweep. If I'm in half guard or butterfly I work with what I'm in.
My instincts would be to go Rubber Guard right away, that's why I stretch every day. But although my instructor knows rg is a very good offensive guard, he knows it's also a tool in the jiu-jitsu tool box. It can't be the end all be all because there will be someone I come across that will stop it. So I know when I train I need to also work whatever technique I worked on that day.
I'm basically opposite of this. I'll go for hip bumps and flower sweeps first then go for rubber guard if they hunker down in my guard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Griffin Lambert