How to deal with wrestlers?

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

Post of the year?

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Indeed!

The Gerbil, Jeremy Arel gave me the most intimate lesson when I planched on his darce and verbally antagonized him. A lesson I will never forget...

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

Post of the year?

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The best post ever!

There's a lot of great advice in here already, stick with your A game against tough competition but add wrestling as a long term project - Turn your weaknesses into strengths!

One thing I would add that you can do in the short term is work on wrestling tie ups and setting up the guard pull from collar ties and arm drags etc.

Thanks guys. With so little time and so much to learn it just worry me that's all. I know I can't cover all the bases. As you can see, she is improving with every tournament. Yes we definitely will be focus on wrestling defense for sure in the future.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

Listen, you don't have to become an expert wrestler. The vast majority of it doesn't apply. But if you don't spend some time learning to sprawl, shoot and finish a single and double, and maybe get pretty good with a John Smith style low single you're cheating yourself.

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You posted a good wrestling video a while back that Ive been trying to find. Something with Ben Askren showing wrist control to taking the back?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9vFGKogs

look in the month she has until the tournament she obviously can only work on what she already knows. However, if she wants to stay relevant as she gets older and guys are getting stronger because of puberty she's going to need to learn how to wrestle at least on a basic level. Otherwise she'll just get horsed around when she gets older. As more and more wrestlers start going into jiu-jitsu it's not going to be that easy to just guillotine or rip out a kimura against them. or just pull guard
So in a nutshell, while it won't really matter either way for this tournament. She needs to learn how to wrestle for the long term

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Originally Posted by Cora Sek

She is getting a lot stronger with her rubber guard. We polishing it up daily. Having only 30 minutes every day before she have to go to the gym, that is basically all the time we have to do anything. We also been polishing up her entry and all her attacks, trying to get her to focus on creating angles. We alternate between rubber guard and her defense (C cup/Heisman, grandby). Basically everything you told us to focus on, which are the guard retention and guard recovery. I think her attacks are good enough for this tournament, just need to get her defense up a little more.

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SOOO, you guys think she should give up some of her limited 30 minutes a day of rubber guard work, to work wrestling specific stuff this close to a major comp? Hmmmmm!!!

I dont. Would be nice to practice her own game against wrestlers though.

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Originally Posted by Tom Carbone

You posted a good wrestling video a while back that Ive been trying to find. Something with Ben Askren showing wrist control to taking the back?

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Was this it? If not, this is still awesome.

http://youtu.be/_BK4l5vrMOk

Oil check, funny I've got tears in my eyes! !

Bruce can I get you asking that on film, you'll be an overnight sensation in the grappling community. Let me make you famous.

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Originally Posted by Matt Hester

Learn the oil check. Its the only way to get a wrestler to respect you.

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Truth

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

Was this it? If not, this is still awesome.

http://youtu.be/_BK4l5vrMOk

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Yeah, thanks. Simple, but really good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0hQAk_xnA

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA. Looks Like this. The rigormortis defense and the oil check. Attachment 2451

I am kind of surprised I haven't heard anyone mention this maybe I should read all the replies to make sure, but I find on most wrestlers it is easier to take or attack their backs than your average Jiu Jitsu player. Of course there are exceptions to this but most wrestlers I role with I initiate various sweep setups and they show me their back and all I have to do is make the appropriate transition. I know this isn't too specific but there are a lot of examples of this I have come across rolling both gi and no gi. You should also keep in mind it can be tough to keep a good wrestler's back with both hooks because most of them are very explosive and are pretty good at shucking you back into guard so I usually take one hook and use the swim move or take half back and attack the choke and then insert my second hook while he is defending.