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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
Rubber guard 40%, lockdown 1/2 20%, 1/4 guard 20%, butterfly 20% :)
Eddie, isn't your 1/4 guard just a quick transition to lockdown or maybe deep half? :)
It depends on if Im being punched or not.
Its 60% of my bottom game
most of my guard is half guard lock down or the butterfly guard, but when i m rolling with a wrestler i like the rubber guard because they like to keep tight and push on you.
For me, RG is another path to try from full guard. If someone's posture seems breakable, and my position feels right, I'll pull it, and then I try really hard not to let them out. But if someone is posturing hard or trying a standing pass, I'll go to shield, deep half, de la riva, etc. So I'd say it's like 15% of my closed guard game in a gi, 30% no-gi.
I spend a lot of time on my head.
I play the meathook more often then RB, but would say that 60% of my bottomgame is hg/lockdown. usually tend to go to jiu claw from RB and I just throw that from full now days
I like the 1/4 for getting to the dogfight instead of laying back downQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis Ho
I mostly go for butterfly guard but always end up in half/quarter guard. Before I was doing deep half all the time, but I've decided that it is gay since I got kimura'd in my last tournament from there. Now I force everything to lockdown or dogfight. It seems like if I can even get a lockdown on someone, that I will run through them, but lockdown is harder and harder to get. If I am in quarter and I can't get lockdown but I already have double unders, I switch to dogfight mid-way into the footwork. If they are postured in my halfguard and hiding their leg from the lockdown I go to z-guard and from there I have a few sweeps that have been working very well. If I get tired, I go to full guard which is RG. I suck at RG.
Cool! So I can still be considered a nibiru warrior/10th planateer/etc. without having RG being the majority of my 10thPJJ Game? Sweet. It's not that I can play from the different RG positions, I feel that other guards such as 1/2, 1/4, butterfly are stronger for me. Thanks for the reply. =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo