does size matter?

[Ryan Drexler]

When you first start out size doesnt matter. If you stay with it and its a year later and you learn a good base its game over.

[Joe Durham]

If you are going to roll with a guy that size, then maybe you should talk with him before hand and ask him if he minds using less muscle and strength. Whenever I roll with the big guys I always say hey lets go light and slow it down and do more of a "flow" roll using less muscle and strength, and focus on technique.

[stlnl]

One thing I have always noted, I never see big guys complain about small guys and their flexibilty/cardio/speed or anything. I do see alot of small guys want and excuse for getting beat on in practice by bigger guys.

It most certainly makes a difference, but in my experience it usually isnt the only reason for a one sided ass beating if guys are grappling. At worst its a great chance to improve in bad positions and really understand you CAN NOT let a person set a dominant position on you (meaning even if guard is about to get passed you just cant stop moving, ever). At best you get to deal with finding new means of attack (in my experience smaller guys biggest problems is they have games in some cases simply not adapted to that big ol guy mashing them, meaning they try way to hard to submit big guys rather than sweeping/attacking angles to take the back/swapping between those two, with an occasional submission tossed in, that you give up on if stacked at all) instead of one shot wonders (often its the triangle guys who have a tough time with the guys with the ox neck and stack from hell) of intant submission from their backs.

As for the theoretical 265# with a good guard, I train with a guy who is tall (6'3") and big (255#) and has a very good guard and great hand control. Its a nightmare. Big guys can develop very good guards that play to thier strengths, but, they have to be willing to do it in training, and most big guys cant divorce the ego enough to really buy into this.

[Jon Watkins]

I'm 6'3, 205 and down from 230. And the size of yourself and your opponent matters only in the styles of Jiu Jitsu available to put in your arsenal. My instructor is 6'3 and about 150 and I have to shut down at least 6 or 7 of his attacks before I can even think about launching one of my own. It's a thing of beauty how he can look like he's not ever trying and tap everyone.

[Juli]

It is way way too hard not to post something on this . . . . . .u guys are being serious . . . . . . .ummmm . . .. ummmm . . .. .

[bobby rivers]

She said it was a good size cause its how you use it right? She couldnt of faked all of them... Could she?

[teihan]

wow....come on man I dont know how good you or your training partner are but for god sake Eddie would most likely fuck him up so fast and easy...(based on what you said, your training partner seems like a inexperienced grappler) A lot of guys like to complain and make excuses. They say they got their ass kicked becuase of size difference but seriously in most of the cases, it was because of technique difference... well, if you are not so better technically then that big guy of course you would get crushed . Does size matter? yes. But keep in mind, size is just a one of many factors. Unless you and your partner are pretty good grapplers, with good skills and gameplan you will be able to overcome that massive size difference.

[chronic_jiujitsu]

wow....come on man I dont know how good you or your training partner are but for god sake Eddie would most likely fuck him up so fast and easy...(based on what you said, your training partner seems like a inexperienced grappler) A lot of guys like to complain and make excuses. They say they got their ass kicked becuase of size difference but seriously in most of the cases, it was because of technique difference... well, if you are not so better technically then that big guy of course you would get crushed . Does size matter? yes. But keep in mind, size is just a one of many factors. Unless you and your partner are pretty good grapplers, with good skills and gameplan you will be able to overcome that massive size difference.

Sorry i should have specified.. He's a REALLY good wrestler. a lot of grecko roman style. As for jiujitsu, I'd say if he goes in to test, he'd have a hard time making blue belt. But ive taken him into the gym i train at and we had a guy who got 3rd in the arnolds no-gi and weighed about 240, but even he couldnt do anything. He just kept getting caught in that stupid americana or choke. And i dont want it to sound like this guy sucks at jiujitsu and just wins on superhuman strength.. he has a LOT of common sense when it comes to grappling.. But i just get this feeling of complete hopelessness when i try to do anything. Its so bad that he'll let me lock up moves just so he can practice escaping.. and i still cant keep them locked in. Anyway.. i can tell its going to be hard to explain everything on here, so instead i'll just record the next grappling session we have and post it on youtube or something and link it here so you can watch and see if you can pick out what im doing wrong or what i need to work on. I think that would probably be easiest :P

[bobby rivers]

Yup.

[Kevin Green]

I was just wondering if there is a time when the size/strength of your opponent will null out any of your jiujitsu skills. I am 135 and i like toi roll with a guy who is 265 (most of which is muscle), and though his jiujitsu isnt great hes a great wrestler and has the basic americana/kimora and arm chokes down. But it just seems like no matter how much better i get, i cant ever beat him. so i was just wondering, in all practicality, is there any chance i will ever be able to beat this guy at my size? And i know this may be a bad comparison for this website, but like if someone on eddie's level were to roll with a guy that size/strength.. would he have a chance? im not saying this dissing eddie, I'm just using that comparison because i know hes probably the best practitioner around my size that i can think of.

I usually sweep n choke big guys. I have a ton at my school, and some subs are tougher on bigger stronger guys....but no matter how big n strong u r, your neck is easy to squeeze approach w a different strategy on guys who are that much bigger then u....don't settle in on the bottom, keep moving and don't let him flatten u out.