What to Expect On Your First Day

[1point2]

Where guard falls on the positional hierarchy depends on a lot of things. A good guard can be dominant, but generally speaking, a guard is not always dominant.

The pertinent question is, do you have control of the opponent? If the person in your guard has broken your grips and made base...no. Contrast this with knee mount, where even if the person on bottom is doing everything right, they're still being dominated until they're not under knee mount.

To wildly overgeneralize, BJJ and SAMBO tend to disagree on this issue.

[ignatzami]

Holy thread necro batman!

[Rolling Stoned]

Holy thread necro batman!

I didn't think it was possible to necro a sticky.

[noonyez]

Where guard falls on the positional hierarchy depends on a lot of things. A good guard can be dominant, but generally speaking, a guard is not always dominant.

The pertinent question is, do you have control of the opponent? If the person in your guard has broken your grips and made base...no. Contrast this with knee mount, where even if the person on bottom is doing everything right, they're still being dominated until they're not under knee mount.

To wildly overgeneralize, BJJ and SAMBO tend to disagree on this issue.

good point.

[1point2]

And the only place I've seen positional hierarchy formally presented was at an SBGi affiliate in Berkeley CA.
They had it posted on a wall.

Holy thread necro again batman!

What specifically did they have posted? A list? An Aesopian-like brainstorming diagram?

[Razma]

wow, thats IMMENSELY helpful, thanks for all the info. I feel pretty damn prepared for my first lesson.