Pretty good! You both understood something that I've experienced. Ryan the way you started out, I thought I was in for a philosophy lesson. But you hit the nail on the head. Like everything else we do, trapping needs to be modified to fit us and to fit our "situation". And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only grappler that has been to apply trapping while grappling! In bjj you here about superior positions. I use what I call "superior hand positions". A bjj guy wants to get his "handles set". Well if you have long sleeves the next best thing is a superior hand position which will set up your strike or grappling game. If you take away the long sleeves ("handles" for those that don't know), this is extremely effective and that’s why I like to spend a lot of time working in the clinch. My hands are naturally fast. A bjj guy is trying to set up a bjj type technique and what you have coming up is "different" from what they practice. Note the word "practice". That’s a way of practicing for the street at the same time because its a somewhere in the middle of standup and grappling. I don't need to worry to much about closing the gap, I'm not bad at it, but it seems to happen by itself, so a superior hand position works well for me. I use this throughout grappling, it doesn’t matter if I’m flat on my back. It isn't a final move or technique, just another (controlling) tool for me.
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