how do you roll?

[Slick Rick]

If you treat jiu jitsu as a boxer treats boxing you'll be okay.

[nathan orchard]

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[David Rosado]

I play lazy jiu jitsu. I don't like to work hard. I like to stay calm and relaxed and just flow. Tie people up, make them breathe harder then me, then look for a finish, or catch them being sloppy. Against big people my game is get to the back. I've had people power out of arm bars/locks, but chokes are much harder to muscle out of (and in fact in many cases muscling just brings the tap that much quicker).

I play lazy too. I have a bad habit of letting my guard get passed too easily cuz I got too used to defending side control. But in the end, it's a fun style that I enjoy cuz I take guys of guard. Lotta guys expect me to smash and pass and instead I opt for softer tech. My favorite compliments to get are either, "how do you feel so light?" Or "I didn't expect you to be that flexible."

If you treat jiu jitsu as a boxer treats boxing you'll be okay.

Can you elaborate? This theory sounds pretty dope.

[Jeremy Gates]

I play off my back most of the time. I'll keep breaking people down to tire them out. I have two types of breaking down : 1 where I break them down to tire them out and once they are broken I'll try to position their arms where I want , if they are where I want I'll attack and if they aren't giving me anything I'll let them posture. 2 I'll wait until they try to guard break then I'll break them down again. This usually makes them fall forward and put their hands and arms where I want. Then I'll attack. I play a decent amount of rubber guard and I hunt the shit out of triangles from every where.

I like thinking ahead and baiting them into doing something so another attack will open up. With bigger guys I just try to conserve energy and wait for the one second they give something up and capitaliZe on it.

[Kyle Spalla]

I have a pretty aggressive game, comes from Judo. I have definitely slowed down but if I had to pick a grappling intensity level that I could relate too, I like the pace Justin Rader sets. I learned I way more offensive if I play top and if I feel I am to careful playing bottom. I like to test the others defense, it gets me tapped a LOT but it teaches me subtle things about my game that help me improve. Overwhelm, pressure, pass, pressure, submit.

[Slick Rick]

I play lazy too. I have a bad habit of letting my guard get passed too easily cuz I got too used to defending side control. But in the end, it's a fun style that I enjoy cuz I take guys of guard. Lotta guys expect me to smash and pass and instead I opt for softer tech. My favorite compliments to get are either, "how do you feel so light?" Or "I didn't expect you to be that flexible."




Can you elaborate? This theory sounds pretty dope.

Feel em out, get jabbed a bit or maybe even take one of their KO punches, keep your distance, cut angles, capitalize on mistakes, clinch and use your head, push forward, retreat backward, attack and counterattack, feint to see what they bite at, go for a KO punch of your own.
Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Chess.. It's all the same.

[Isaac Atley]

Feel em out, get jabbed a bit or maybe even take one of their KO punches, keep your distance, cut angles, capitalize on mistakes, clinch and use your head, push forward, retreat backward, attack and counterattack, feint to see what they bite at, go for a KO punch of your own.
Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Chess.. It's all the same.

dropping the knowledge bombs. nice analogy.

i might say striking instead of boxing. ive always felt that boxing, while being varied for what it is, is too confined in the fact you can only punch. but yeah man, i like it.

[Andrew "Chewie" James]

I'm A big guy so i roll a little differently depending on who i roll with: with smaller people i play primarily a guard game coz i feel bad about crushing smaller just from sheer weight but if its a guy my size or bigger everything fair game

[Sergio Lozoya]

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Dude I feel slow, It took me two reads around to understand this.

[jonathan reyna]

Iam only 125 pounds and every body in my gym 260 and up I roll with them all the time . And get crushed cuz there heavy . But one day I was watching gater wrestling and how he taped the mouth before he stuck his hand in his mouth and I tried it in class and I taped his née his head real fast and made my move but when you do you better get it right Iam perfecting this tech... And it works 75% of the time the more tapping the more your chance you got and it only with the tip of your finger really almost not touching him hope y'all like this