Gone to my 1st bjj no-gi class today

[Rdude92]

Wow of all the days, today happen to be the day that the class did open mat sparring. No choice, i joined with my 0 experience of ground grappling although I use to do judo 10 years ago for 4 years.
It was only 6 people and we did 4 min rounds with 1 min rest in between. Oh boy, I didn't get to submit a single one but I did manage to not get submitted by 2 of them although the other 3 submitted me 2 times each in the 4 min rounds.

It was fun. My problem is, I don't know where do you place your hands to control the opponent when your under side control? I noticed I got arm triangled pretty easily

 

[Cappy Goodtime]

It was fun. My problem is, I don't know where do you place your hands to control the opponent when your under side control? I noticed I got arm triangled pretty easily

Keep your elbows tucked to your ribs. Your hands can go wherever you want them within that t-rex radius.

 

[Rdude92]

Keep your elbows tucked to your ribs. Your hands can go wherever you want them within that t-rex radius.

Thanks, II'll keep that in mind. I think next week, in the next class I'm just gonna go straight pulling guard to work on my full guard. I was grip fighting too much today, which wasted alot of the training time trying to get the advantageous position.

 

[Slatersan]

Just keep going. Youll figure out where the hands go.

 

[georgegreece]

Why is Rdude a hot chick?

Keep your elbows closed to your chest, ryan hall has a dvd "open elbows" check it out.