How to deal with wrestlers?

[bobby rivers]

Post of the year?

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...

[Chris Herzog]

Post of the year?

The best post ever!

[Aaron C]

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.

[Cora Sek]

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.

[Tom Carbone]

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.

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?

[bennett]

[PrestonPresley149]

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

[Greg W]

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.

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!!!

[Aaron Gustaveson]

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

[Brandon Mccaghren]

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?

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