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How do pull guard from standing straight into a sweeping position or sub in no gi?

I started watching Danaher's arm drag instructional today and he explicitly called out a lead leg stance switch in order to set up an arm drag situation. (Use your mirrored lead arm to push their collar tie up and over your head, then down, palm facing out). This reminded me that I never understood how in wrestling, switching your lead foot just ain't no thang. But in boxing, judo, etc., it is basically heresy to do so.

Grapplers (probably prior wrestlers, but anyone who actively switches can answer too) with a lot of experience with this, can you articulate the big when's and why's of doing this? Is it often because of a grip that you will concede stance for a more advantageous counter, like clearing a collar tie with a 2on1 Russian, or an arm drag setup like I saw Danaher talking about? How did you get your reps, both offensive and defensive, in on your "off" side in practice? What situations would automatically trigger muscle memory and make you switch, or want to switch, when they happen?

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La domanda principale è cosa faccio per prendere la schiena dalla posizione di bottom sprawl, lo stamperò, tipo ci sono quasi ma non del tutto, come vedo la schiena penso di dover solo ruotare di più le gambe verso l'altra persona, perché scivolavano sempre via penso di non essermi girato abbastanza, sì sono lo stesso ragazzo dell'altro post se l'hai visto, sono solo 5 mesi e non ho avuto la possibilità di esercitarmi, quindi ho deciso di farlo con qualcuno di leggero, hai qualche consiglio su come prendere la schiena da una gamba sola e come farlo dal bottom sprawl (o qualsiasi posizione migliore dal bottom sprawl)? Non ho avuto la possibilità di esercitarmi, quindi ho dovuto farlo a memoria da YT lol, sii gentile, NON sono fiero dell'altro post 😂 se hai qualche consiglio dimmelo
I always try to be technical, like dude anything goes if it helps its appreciated
Idk if it matters but I’m lanky and tall (181 cm with a 185-187 cm reach) with good cardio

guardwise for nogi I have mainly done halfguard (knee shield, half butterfly, kimura trap, octopus guard, and lockdown. Im a big half guard fan. Then closed guard, butterfly, slx, and X guard. Gi wise, the only Gi specific guard ive ever trained is collar sleeve. Should I be trying for example DLR, spider, and lasso? or is this more optional and the basic guards will serve me well enough. To clarify im a big standup and passing enjoyer, so I usually just sweep or wrestle up.

For those who compete or have competed:

1. how often do you compete (and how many comps have you done)?
2. For the coaches and more experienced among us: what would you consider the optimal number of competitions per year for someone whose sole ambition is simply to improve and test themselves? is there a point of diminishing returns?

30% of the time it works, 20% of the time I get kimura’d, 50% of the time I just move them around in circles like a clown. Oddly enough I like it tho and its my only semi-reliable pass after a knee cut (which has roughly the same success rate). I’m tall and heavy so I feel like its in my wheelhouse. One coach recommended it for me (is he calling me fat?) and another said its a low success rate and that he doesn’t like it and advises me against it when he watches me roll. Does anyone here use it? Any tips for making it more effective? Or is it time to give it up?

It's a race to stupid sexy Flanders-levels of tight. Italian suit type shit.

Gosh dang either be okay with being gripped if you're gonna yes-gi otherwise just no-gi.

It occurred to me the other day after catching a bit of a nasty cold from dog knows where that I spend at least four to six hours a week deliberately and aggressively rubbing/breathing/trading excretions with as many people as possible.

Logic would suggest that I should get sick noticeably more than the other un-grapply people around me.

But I have to say it does not seem to be the case, and even among my training partners I can not remember 1 instance of someone saying "ah fuck there is another cold spreading around the gym" (the odd skin infection notwithstanding)

Curious what other people's experiences have been, it seems odd to me but of course I might be biased, ignorant or some combo in my own observations

it gets hot and humid as crap out here in Maryland and when I wear a rashguard I feel like I’m being smothered. I asked my training partners and they all said they didn’t care, but then a higher belt who came for one class said it was gross and disrespectful to other people. Just curious what you all think

edit: im Referring to warm weather months only of course

Hi All:

Purple belt here. 46 years old. Just wanted to survey how many days a week does everyone train? I did 2x a week past 1.5 years and now stepping into 3-4 days. I think its a nice sweet spot. Our bjj class is coupled with judo so its 2-2.5 hours of training each class.

this is more of a PSA than something to do with BJJ. It just happened to be something that happened at BJJ that hit me pretty hard.

I was working with a new guy. As I often do, I said something like "I hope to see you around again." In response, he just said "probably not," which I took to mean that he felt like BJJ wasn't his thing.

I found out yesterday that he killed himself. Even though I barely met him, I still feel a huge sense of "if only I had ....."

Be kind, people. You don't know what someone is going through.

so often we hear of the dirtbags within the sport, who are some of the good ones? folks who represent jiu jitsu in a positive light or you had a nice, notable experience with?

Edit: this isn't even when rolling. I'm just showing them either a position, a technique, or a concept at a time and having them drill the movements

Also, to everyone's credit, they all seem like they're there to learn and are good students. They're not being aggressive, but they're just not good at relaxing their muscles and going through the strange movements that we know and love as BJJ

Question in the title really. I started working with a couple of newer people and some guys are extremely tense during everything. It doesn't help that they're all jacked to the tits and were former wrestlers 20 years ago.

I'm trying to teach them some basics, but they're so rigid and tense that they can't go through the motions.

Any anologies or cues that I can give them to help them relax?

The sweep rules seem unclear to me, it if I collar drag from bottom guard and end up in top turtle w/ no hooks do I get points? What about the same situation ending in front headlock?