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I am average height 5'9'. i find it very hard to put other people away with a triangle if they arent slim. any tips for dealing with broad shoulders/stocky/larger people?
i try rotating to either side, i can lock it up but i just dont get the pressure i need to finish without really exerting myself.
It's super hard for me to get triangles efficiently, because my legs are so short, but I still get them. I just have to cut a really severe angle, like I'm looking in their ear.
I also use a lot of those compression locks from there, like the bolt lock (is that right?) and the teepee. Just not my go-to technique, and I don't play a whole lot of closed guard.
It's a lot more difficult locking up the triangle against a bigger guy but once he's in it, I typically get the tap so much easier than against someone my size since there's so much less space.
imo if you're too short to finish triangles, use the triangle to transition into jiu-claw. i have a short stocky guy at my gym that fell in love with that transition when i showed it to him. i think jiu-claw suits people like them a bit better, because they generally have good squeeze and their weight is more concentrated, it allows them to ruin posture way more easily
There was a youtube video I watched made by some famous GI- BJJ instructor from Brazil. Sorry for being so vague but thats all I remember. Anyways, in the video the guy showed how to push your opponents shoulder backwards to remove any unecasary parts of his back and lat out of the way. He claimed that an average guy can lock a triangle and finish it on almost anyone using this technique.
The technique involves of you rubbing your legs against each other during the setup process prior to locking the triangle, the rubbing makes your triangle climb higher on your opponents posture. Since people get smaller and thinner as you move away from their chest and back you ed up locking the triangle. I wish i knew where that video was, it was very useful.
Hope that helps a little. :]
If I have to triangle a big Guy and my legs don't fit. I either go for teepee or I put the hypotenuse of my triangle on the open side of the neck instead of loading the open side in the angle. If that makes sense ...
The exact opposite of this video (if arm is in traditional style)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C80DwFws61g&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is the reason the tepee was invented.
I was going to post the Renzo Gracie clip but Blaine beat me to it. He has some nice details on how to retain the broken posture throughout the movement while increasing the angle. It definitely helped me out.