BC. said:
Excellent. Thank you. That's what I was thinking. BJJ is definitely more deliberate and methodical than my previous sport and I'm really enjoying the thoughtfulness of it.
BC.
What'd you do before? I started at a Judo/BJJ school, then did strictly Judo for a year after moving (didn't have the cash for the nearest BJJ schools), and now am at a BJJ/Vale Tudo place, and when I'm rolling, I get to see jsut how much the Judo helped (Guys are always saying "that's that Judo grip..."). I'll put a guy in an uncomfortable hold down, and just scan his limbs real quick... He's not going anywhere til I move, so it's kind of like chess, in which I can think about it for a second and say "Well, he's probably going to move this way the second my weight is off him, and I have to let go of his belt to go for this... So let me fake that,a nd take the arm when he moves" or that type of thing.
I'll also stack up the guard and hook a hand of "gift wrap" a guy, then pass while they're stuck in a shit position that they probably would have defended against better if I had passed first, but aren't use to having that kind of pressure on them from a blue belt.
If you're disproportionately strong for your weight class (ie- not to knock Judo, but most of the guys in the 220 class had extra weight on them, so I was quite a bit stronger), you can do some otherwise bizarre things, like stuff you'd do to your girlfriend, or your little brother while you were growing up.
One of the things I really got a guy laughing at was rolling with a purple belt at our club... He's just ridiculously good, and can really neutralize my size advantage, so this one time, while he was wearing sambo shorts and the gi top, he had me in his guard, and I grabbed the ends of both sleeves and both short legs, and just closed my grip. He started working some ninja shit, and all of a sudden he went "Huh? Are you holding my sleeves AND my shorts? Holy crap, ha ha ha ha!!"
You do something weird like that once or twice, just to throw off someone's game, and you can start working some magic of your own.