Beating the Big Guy

Ghost Frog · Dec 11, 2006

Another excellent article from Stephen Kesting:

BEATING THE BIG GUY

Of all the questions I am asked, the most common question has to be how
to beat someone bigger and stronger. I've tackled this issue in a
previous tip of the week (http://tinyurl.com/j8ady) but people keep on
asking me for more tips and techniques to topple the Godzillas that
walk among us.

The fastest way to beat a big, strong, INEXPERIENCED guy is to mount
him and wait for him to try to bench press you off. When he pushes
your chest you pivot around and take the armbar. This strategy works
great for the first few times, and then the the big strong guy figures
out not to bench press you when mounted. What now?

If we're talking about big, strong EXPERIENCED opponents it's harder to
recommend a specific submission strategy that will work all the time.
Instead of a technique per se I will suggest a positional strategy: get
behind him and take rear mount (e.g.
www.grapplearts.com/picofweek.php?picid=75). Rear mount is THE place
to be when you are fighting someone who is 50 or 100 pounds heavier
than you. If someone had just told me this on my first day of
jiu-jitsu it would have made my life a lot easier!

It might be a little strange to take advice about fighting a big guy
from someone who weighs in at about 210 pounds himself, but I do follow
my own advice occasionally. I have had the dubious pleasure of rolling
with a skilled big guys ranging from 240 to 300 lbs. The last time I
rolled with one of these man-monsters I got flung around for a few
minutes, and then I went into survival mode by using my half guard to
hold him off (albeit getting a bit crushed in the process). The tables
finally turned when I nailed a back climb from half guard, sank my
hooks in, and finished the match with a rear naked choke. The rear
mount did the trick, whereas I wasn't having much luck from other
positions.

P.S. If you haven't already seen my Youtube instructional on sinking
the Rear Naked Choke you can check it out at http://tinyurl.com/y33jvv
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