Any glaring holes in your game?

ElKarlo

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As the title goes. I have been involved in BJJ/MMA since 2005 with a few breaks here and there. Anyhow, it seems as though most of my game is coming along quite nicely, my kuras, armlocks, and leglocks are pretty dang good. Now it seems as though all my chokes save for the RNC are crap. My arm triangle, gi chokes, Monson choke, and the such are about worthless. I am not sure exactly, though for the gi choke, I just can't seem to be able to get it. Just one of those weaknesses. But for the rest, well it's my next project.

How about you guys?
 
lol, my entire closed guard. Everyone time I end up in closed guard I'm opening it and doing my best to get to half guard or hoping they stand up. I just have nothing but an omoplata from there, and I hate it.

And when you say gi choke, are you referring to a single choke or just all chokes in the gi?
 
i would say my game is pretty solid except my full guard game. or my half guard. or my mount. or my transitions. my dlr needs work. i'm limited on subs. also defense needs work. escapes could use some work. other than that, good to go.
 
Ice 9 Cobra said:
lol, my entire closed guard. Everyone time I end up in closed guard I'm opening it and doing my best to get to half guard or hoping they stand up. I just have nothing but an omoplata from there, and I hate it.

And when you say gi choke, are you referring to a single choke or just all chokes in the gi?
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Basically any choke that involves me grabbing their gi. Well ones that are not like the baseball bat choke, where you are using not the collar.

A omoplata, that's it? Haha dang man. What have you been doing?:icon_chee
 
Id say submission defense. That comes from mostly training with noobs.
 
ElKarlo said:
Basically any choke that involves me grabbing their gi. Well ones that are not like the baseball bat choke, where you are using not the collar.

A omoplata, that's it? Haha dang man. What have you been doing?:icon_chee
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Oh word, so lapel chokes? The only lapel chokes I've ever gotten good at are the brabo sequences from side control, the rest seem too fancy to bother with.

I've been going to my half guard! lol, I don't think anybody plays closed guard at my gym. We had one BB who did, but he's gone and we've reverted all back to half guard and open/butterfly.
 
My inability to finish a submission and the crappy excuse of a position that is my mount.
 
Only a blue belt so if I really thought about it I could think of a thousand holes, but the most glareing would be:

•breaking the guard
•getting off the bottom when someone has side control on me.
•takedowns
 
Could improve takedowns. I need to diversify my guard passing and increase finishes from side control.
 
Also lapel chokes, flexibility, and transitions.

See I knew if I started thinking about It I could go on an on, now I really can't wait to train later.
 
tk99 said:
i would say my game is pretty solid except my full guard game. or my half guard. or my mount. or my transitions. my dlr needs work. i'm limited on subs. also defense needs work. escapes could use some work. other than that, good to go.
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Haha, I like the back tracking style. Very nice.
 
My full guard passing sucks. People rarely pull full guard on me, and I'm always working on half guard, spider guard, butterfly guard, and open guard passes. I need to work on it big time.
 
Ice 9 Cobra said:
Oh word, so lapel chokes? The only lapel chokes I've ever gotten good at are the brabo sequences from side control, the rest seem too fancy to bother with.

I've been going to my half guard! lol, I don't think anybody plays closed guard at my gym. We had one BB who did, but he's gone and we've reverted all back to half guard and open/butterfly.
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Lapels yeah, don't like em. When Is tarted doing BJJ the guys before, me all had done a cycle of lapel chokes from the guard, so they dd those more so than armbars. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

What do you do from half? Nothing wrong with open. But I guess for closed, it's really good at making you get good grips.
 
Glaring: General finishing ability (I can beat higher ranked guys on points, but struggle to finish even some guys below my own level). Armbars. Any kind of collar choke.

Somewhat weak: Hip movement during positional escapes. Triangle defense. Opening a good closed guard. Passing spider/DLR guard.
 
ElKarlo said:
I'm a blue too. A lot of us here are blues and down(like 70%) so no shame there.

First 2 are still kinda hard for me, and I am working on em.
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It's good to know I'm not the only who has trouble breaking guard. In fact, it makes me even feel a little ashamed sometimes. I have one "go to" full guard break that I always use and generally have a high success with in gi (control opponents wrist/sleeve, stand up, use free hand to break guard, pass), but when I try other techniques I tend to struggle. Escpecially when my opponent is much larger than me and skilled. I felt like a retard yesterday trying to drill the passes my instructor was teaching. I also have an even harder time breaking full guard in no gi. Actually, what I'm going to start doing is asking people to start straign away with me in their guard, so I can practice some different passes.
 
ElKarlo said:
I'm a blue too. A lot of us here are blues and down(like 70%) so no shame there.

First 2 are still kinda hard for me, and I am working on em.
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I have no shame, I'm proud. I was just saying I have long way to go and I'm to the point where I can actually pin point some of the holes in my game and try to work on them.
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@ knock out Ned. I know what you're saying but honestly I try to make sure I never end up there, that is why I believe I'm so bad at breaking the guard. I end up in half guard mostly. When I do end up in guard I get frustrated because I'm not there much.

Writing that really makes me want to work guard passing.
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My conditioning, inability to finish the actual triangle choke (without the Armbar) during a real roll
 
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