How Do You Deal With An Opponent Who Keeps Disengaging From Seated Butterfly Guard?

How Do You Deal With An Opponent Who Keeps Disengaging From Seated Butterfly Guard?

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When dealing with an opponent who keeps disengaging from a seated butterfly guard, there are several strategies to consider:

  1. Consistently change your levels. This can create off balance and prevent your opponent from settling. This involves heisting, going back, and changing directions.
  2. Be active and aggressive in your hand fighting and level changes. Manipulate your opponent's base using foot tracking and foot posting. Be sure of the grips you're taking.
  3. When taking grips, aim to pull your opponent over you, not just into you. This can create off balance and give you the opportunity to send them over you. A two-on-one grip or a baseball bat grip can be effective for this.
  4. When pulling your opponent over you, aim to shoot your two hooks in. This can slow them down and force them to address your hooks before they can get past you.
  5. Stay seated up as long as possible. This can make you appear more active and aggressive, which can be beneficial in a match.
  6. Consider wrestling up to create enough connection that you can pull your opponent back in when they try to pull away. This can create off balance and keep you active.
  7. Avoid falling to your back and becoming reactive, as this can make you lose matches. Instead, stay active and continuously move forward.

These strategies can help you maintain control and create opportunities for attacks when your opponent keeps disengaging from a seated butterfly guard.