
Originally Posted by
VIVIANO
It makes me realize that a certain % of my game is tailored to an opponent who knows the proper responses.
For sure. You are totally on point with that entire post. Streetfighters and Noobs aren't looking to T-Rex or lockdown, they are spazmatic and fight in a frenzy for the most part. Like Matt Young said "We train ourselves to look several moves down the line, when against an untrained person, the first move will generally end the fight."
When I started up with Jitz I encouraged a friend of mine to get into it too. He joined and trained for a few months, but he quit after a while. We got together last weekend and he wanted to Roll a little at my house. He is strong for sure, but it was always just a matter of time before Postion led to Submission. When we were both new, I remember not being able to end a match with him.
Now that I have an extra year of training over where he left off, it is a non-issue. He didn't respond "properly" like our trainnig partners do, but he left a lot of openings and back attacks on a silver platter. Non-Jiu Jitsu people are in a different class completely.