Got destroyed today!

[Stephen Rae]

Hello, everyone

I haven't been to a class in around six months. Usually I just roll with some friends of mine in the wrestling room at school. My friends are a good 50 pounds heavier than me, but I always manage to tap them out just because have a little experience over them. We always work on rubber guard with videos from youtube and stuff and I like to think I have gotten pretty good with it. However, I am in Colorado visiting a sister of mine so I decided to try out a local Gracie Combatiives dojo they had here. I got annihilated! They blew through my rubber guard, won all the scrambles, and proceeded to tell me that 10p sucks dick. I wasn't offended because I'm not exactly good anyway, but how did they shut me down so easily? Do you think it's just because I haven't rolled against actual experienced partners lately? Can anyone give me some tips for rubber guard?

[Chris Garry]

They've probably had a tonne more mat time than you. Prepare to get destroyed many more times regardless what guard type you choose.

[Sam Sales]

Yep, happened to me when i first went back to training, and at a new and much bigger gym 6 weeks ago after a couple months off. I got fucking destroyed, absolutely minced. However ever since i have been there every day there has been bjj on, and doing strength on days when not doing bjj, and not everyone else has, and slowly but surely i am catching up with the rest of the guys now. It's just about putting the time in on the mats and accepting your ego will be crushed every single session. Its good for us. Good luck. :-)

[Chris Garry]

Sam your attitude is awesome it's gonna be very cool accommodating you when you come up!

[AJ Camacho]

Good bjj guys won't just hand you their posture on a silver platter especially since more people have been doing rubber guard. At my new gym I can rarely play rubber guard because everybody is so good at retaining posture, killing hip movement, and shrugging out of my New York setup before I can establish good control. It happens though, you'll find a guy with a busted Tozi pass, or somebody who just doesn't know that you can exploit their underhook... then it's rubber guard city.

A lot of the 10p guys are really good at baiting people into giving up posture or putting a hand on the mat. Usually a shitty flower sweep or hip bump attempt can be enough to force someone to post a hand on the ground giving up the overhook. It sounds like you have a good pool of talent to work with, so just hone your game and develop it. Don't worry about what they say, I'm a leg lock snatching, rubber guard playing kook and people tend to be cool to me as long as I don't walk into their gym espousing all of my white belt wisdom.

[Sean Marshall]

They've probably had a tonne more mat time than you. Prepare to get destroyed many more times regardless what guard type you choose.

This and expect to be told any system besides the in house system sucks. Some bjj schools will kick you out just for training at another gym

[Greg W]

way,way,way more to 10th planet system than just rubber guard! You say they blew thru your rubber guard. Did they also blow thru you regular closed guard? That is a Gracie basic! Does that mean Gracie's suck if they can blow thru your closed guard too? Usually if someone crushes my rubber guard I still have closed guard or Meat hook! How is your Meat hook game? Sometimes, if I feel them stuff my leg and start to pass and I can't get to meat hook fast enough I'm right in position to start my lockdown game! Which is were I really want to be anyway. How is your lockdown half game? One position is not exclusive to all the rest of the system.

[Sam Sales]

Sam your attitude is awesome it's gonna be very cool accommodating you when you come up!

Thanks bro, looking forward to it. :-)
Was thinking about it couple days ago and would make sense for me to head up towards the mid/end of the kids school summer holidays maybe. My mother in law is one of the heads of department at the local college, so i know she will be off work then and able to help look after my kids for a couple hours each day while i am away and my wife is working at her part time job. They don't know it yet, but that is my plan LOL. Obviously if you got stuff going on then we can rearrange for another time. :-)

[Jeremy Gould]

Reps reps reps!!! When your not in the mat focus your strength training so it correlates with 10thpjj. Write down exactly what happens when ur gaurd is passed. Consistency!!

I had a guy stand up thinking he could bypass rubber gaurd on me. I went spiral and took his back from between his legs.

[Mike Matthews]

Its always hard to come back to the gym after a long break. I had the same situation just a little over a year ago. I was out of the gym for 6 month & when I went back even guys I used to tap destroyed me. I lost alot of my endurance & flexibility in my layoff. For you, yes training with people who have never really trained jiu-jitsu is different.