Hey folks,
I've held myself back from asking this question for weeks for reasons that hopefully will be clear if you can read through my TLDR style of writing.
I'm catching a fairly punishing position on skilled opponents now that I only used to get on noobs. I'm trying to figure out whether this is a set up that I can develop, even attempt to understand systematically.
Yet, I am conscious that there are lots of weird positions that are quirks of an individual's style or just random catches that aren't really predictable and aren't worth understanding better.
I am hoping to get some advice as to which this is.
In case it helps, I have stubby little troll legs. I'm not catching this because I have dancer's legs. And if you do, I curse you.
The Posish
I'm finding that I can often triangle my legs around my opponents legs while I am playing guard. At first, I got it from putting pressure down on the hips with my guard to keep the hips beat. Noobs would sometimes have this horrible idea: "Maybe I can squeeze through there like toothpaste from a tube." Nope. You're getting swept to mount or your back taken.
But now I'm finding that I'm catching it as people begin a guard pass. I'm kind of catching it all over the place and I'm trying to pay attention to where I am getting the position so that I can get the set up consciously.
If I can catch the thighs, it's an additional problem for you to worry about. Some people can find a moment and power their legs open. If they don't, I can make the problem worse. If I can catch the knees, it's bad. Good chance of a sweep or back take. If I can snag a lockdown one on one or both legs, it's real bad. This will probably end well for me.
I *think* I catch it the most when people try that most classic of guard passes: put a knee on the spine, pressure down on the hips, other leg off at an angle, elbow into the knee....etc. If I can catch them with their knees close together at step 1...
Any thoughts as to whether this is something that other people have had some success with? Or is it just something that comes up when opponents make technical mistakes, mistakes that are very unlikely to happen at higher levels?
~JJ
I've held myself back from asking this question for weeks for reasons that hopefully will be clear if you can read through my TLDR style of writing.
I'm catching a fairly punishing position on skilled opponents now that I only used to get on noobs. I'm trying to figure out whether this is a set up that I can develop, even attempt to understand systematically.
Yet, I am conscious that there are lots of weird positions that are quirks of an individual's style or just random catches that aren't really predictable and aren't worth understanding better.
I am hoping to get some advice as to which this is.
In case it helps, I have stubby little troll legs. I'm not catching this because I have dancer's legs. And if you do, I curse you.
The Posish
I'm finding that I can often triangle my legs around my opponents legs while I am playing guard. At first, I got it from putting pressure down on the hips with my guard to keep the hips beat. Noobs would sometimes have this horrible idea: "Maybe I can squeeze through there like toothpaste from a tube." Nope. You're getting swept to mount or your back taken.
But now I'm finding that I'm catching it as people begin a guard pass. I'm kind of catching it all over the place and I'm trying to pay attention to where I am getting the position so that I can get the set up consciously.
If I can catch the thighs, it's an additional problem for you to worry about. Some people can find a moment and power their legs open. If they don't, I can make the problem worse. If I can catch the knees, it's bad. Good chance of a sweep or back take. If I can snag a lockdown one on one or both legs, it's real bad. This will probably end well for me.
I *think* I catch it the most when people try that most classic of guard passes: put a knee on the spine, pressure down on the hips, other leg off at an angle, elbow into the knee....etc. If I can catch them with their knees close together at step 1...
Any thoughts as to whether this is something that other people have had some success with? Or is it just something that comes up when opponents make technical mistakes, mistakes that are very unlikely to happen at higher levels?
~JJ
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