Haha, I did the same thing. I think some of the 10th planet techniques are appealing early into your training career because they work easily at lower levels. I'm not saying they can't work at higher levels too - just that it's easy to make rubber guard work on other 4 month white belts.
Those types of techniques also become much easier simply by doing regular stretching, which is extra appealing to a new jiu jitsu student. Improving other attributes like balance, coordination, and timing takes much, much longer than improving flexibility. When you can quickly improve your flexibility and immediately begin using rubber guard techniques with success against other low-level students, it seems very attractive. Unfortunately for me, it greatly hindered my progress because the solution to every problem I encountered seemed to be either "improve my flexibility more" or "improve my squeeze more," neither of which are particularly helpful in other areas of jiu jitsu, and neither of which helped me deal with more advanced practitioners.
