BJJ delivery platform
If positional dominance is attained and maintained, then any technique within the individuals toolbox that is suitable for the job at hand is valid.
What then are the deciding factors as to who wins and looses on the ground? It's my opinion that the winner is the one who delivers the right tool at the the right time for the right reason.
My thought is that the one who has positional dominance with his hips in relationship to the opponent, will win given they have the same set of tools to work with, and know WHEN to use them.
Thus if I am in a cross sides top position, and you gouge me in the eye from bottom position, using that as an opportunity to escape to guard and fight your way to top, you've used the eye gouge successfully! In this example you timed the eye poke, to give you a chance to create space to execute a change in position. The eye poke did not win the fight for you, you just found a useful context for it.
Now if a player is cross sides top, and you poke them in the eye, but do nothing to improve your position... now the top guy is pissed, and he's cross sides top, and he's dropping elbows and knees into your head, he's got both hands around your head driving his knee thru your chest with the meanest knee mount you've ever felt crushing your floating ribs, he's busting your teeth out when you turn over because of HIS eye gouging.... you get the picture? His delivery platform is is better then yours. How are you going to do anything effective off your back that he can't do better from top?
So it's my opinion that any grappling art gives the individual a valuable platform to deliver any number of techniques. The strategy of positional dominance in BJJ is valuable to me in this way. It allows a person to have not only a number of techniques to end or change the direction of a fight from any ground position, but it also gives a clear overall strategy to winning thru positional dominance, instead of via a 'bunch of moves'.
Just my .02 - hope it's helpful.
Dave in Oregon
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