This is what I found out going to a ground and pound and stand up gym after doing jits for a bit, wrestlers are really good at punching you in the face in your guard while not being swept or allowing you to do submissions. I like to clinch it up intially (get my bearings and to keep them from establishing their base), hence master eddies techniques for overs/unders. Traditional clinch tires you out too much and doesn't provide much protection after your both sweaty. I like to work my traditional guard up high with a squeeze while pushing downwards towards their legs, to the point they want to try and make a pass attempt or posture up, then I hip out/shrimp or roll with whatever presents itself. Not much of an explanation. sometimes I feign an armbar or triangle, just to see if they move enough to get somewhere else. The guys that are really good at ground and pound work on that shit alot. I find myself almost exhausted when they get me in a bad position trying to escape. I don't have a specific technique for you, but my suggestion would be to work three times harder than usual. Once sweaty it is hard to control a writhing, jiggling, bridging, bumping person. It always seems to me that the guys whose faces become bloodied normally layed around on the bottom not working very hard, way too long. Hope you spar with headgear or have a "gentlemans" agreement when doing ground and pound work. We switch it up, guy on top guy on bottom, work the ground game. Like with everything else, sometimes you hear some very heavy thumping coming from a pair of guys who felt that one or the other broke the gentlemans agreement. We don't try to kill one another, but you can't train at 20% either.
I don't know how you train, and I'm no expert, but lay on the floor with a heavy bag between your legs in guard and practice squeezing the crap out of it, while grabbing around it and squeezing with your arms. Then throw some elbows on the end of the bag like it would be a head. Elbows to the head normally make guys hands come up and their heads go down (home alone position), which then allows you to work other angles.
Good luck, and if you find an awsome technique please post it here.
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