rubber guard question

[JesseSweed]

When fighting bigger, stronger guys and you get the rubber guard, how can you keep him from posting up on his feet, applying pressure and stacking you. This has happened to me a few times now. When he did that, I couldn't get my arm in for a Zombie. I changed to Crackhead Control, but he just stacked me more and I couldn't get the armbar. This happens when I fight bigger guys and try a traditional armbar too. Any suggestions?

I hope my explanation painted a clear enough picture. Thanks guys.

[Gary Burton]

stacking nullifies most forms of guard. when he stacks sweep or roll!

[Kevin Green]

There are techniques in RG to deal with the stack. I think they are in Eddies book, but for sure any 10th P instructor can show you....

[AJ Camacho]

I always try to manage the distance of their hips away from my hips before they get a chance to stack me. Obviously there's the foot on hip tactic (I have to pinch my knee in hard, flaring it out gives up the pass). But when times get desperate I sometimes have to go hand on hip or try to desperately shoulder crawl backwards. As long as I keep my weight above and out in front of him (their head is usually at my sternum) his stacking usually slides me backwards instead of folding me in half.

Hipping out (shrimping out) and attacking with my rubber guard at an angle is also helpful as it keeps me off angle from their stack. Forward momentum on their part (if I can retain the angle) will usually send them towards an omoplata. I used to just get their elbow to center and secure a deep hook while I was trash compacted upside down (then you get some kind of crazy ad hoc armbar or they roll out and you ride them to mount) but that's been killing my back, so I find it better to just stay out of the angle and/or range of the stack now.

[Pete Daly]

I just say to hell with RG and go to butterfly guard. It also depends on how deep into RG I am. If I'm just at mission control or crackhead control, I'll put my butterfly hooks in. If I'm at chill dog, I want him to stack me. Real easy to get to jiu claw from there, because your leg is wide open. Just my 2 cents, but I haven't been doing RG for very long so maybe I'm wrong.

[AJ Camacho]

Everybody says to use butterfly on the monsters but I seriously can never get it to work. They just put their mongo claw on my knee and smash through. I can't reap their grip away in time or anything. How do you keep your legs clear of their grips?

[Jay Chow]

Half Guard for me is what works best against the big guys, when it comes to people using strength against me, I always find that sweeping the using Half and Half is good. The problem is, you gotta have a pretty good side control to keep them there! I'm finding it easier and easier now as time goes on though

[Dwight Roux]

Try Duda, or drop kick his @ss.

[Matt "Gumby" Glach]

Half Guard for me is what works best against the big guys, when it comes to people using strength against me, I always find that sweeping the using Half and Half is good. The problem is, you gotta have a pretty good side control to keep them there! I'm finding it easier and easier now as time goes on though

Agreed, i have success working my half guard game with the bigger guys because its easy to pull them into half guard and then i work the lockdown and the basic sweeps like oldschool... big guys fall hard when they cant base out

[JesseSweed]

thanks guys!