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i train at a gi school now as well but trained 10th planet for a year. so i mix a lot of rubber guard with the gi stuff too now. when i first started i thought rubber guard was useless in a gi cuz of all the friction. but once i got used to it and realized i just needed to loosen up a little bit, things started clicking. for example, in new york, instead of grabbing my left ankle with my right hand ill just grab on the the back of his collar with my left hand. that way i got a free right arm and a free left leg and a ton of space needed to keep the friction away.
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Like most things, it makes some parts better, and some worse. Things like the zombie and the pump are a little harder because of friction, and the lapel can get in the way of transitions. Then again, holding a position once you have it is easier because of that same friction, and the added lapel moves are awesome. I'm playing around with a move where you wrap the gi around the guy's upper body while he is in RG to get a choke or sweep, for example. The point, though, is that RG definitely works in the gi. Plus, opponents in gi are generally less used to dealing with it.
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yea as he ^^ mentions you can take the bottom part of the gi and wrap it around (so i'de take the bottom right of his gi and if im a left legged RG play and wrap it around into my hand at mission control. This opens up lots of moves)
