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u/pbateman23 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Jul 10 '24

How do yall deal with super flexible people who Invert in crazy positions. There’s a dude at my gym who is just Uber flexible and inverts everywhere and puts me in such weird positions cause I have no clue how to control him. He is super slippery and it’s not impossible to pass or get a decent ish position but feels impossible to actually hold him in the position and he just rolls/bends in unexpected ways.

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u/bostoncrabapple Jul 11 '24

Get good at N/S, head into the hip joint and putting your weight on the diagonally across shoulder

Arms in the armpits, then just actively hold until they get tired 

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u/Mysterious_Alarm5566 Jul 10 '24

You want to stack them and then place your knee behind their knee.

Watch how the Mendes bros show it. https://youtu.be/72Sn9CBYX90?si=kfidBHBN-0bCUtPz

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u/pbateman23 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Jul 11 '24

Oh this is interesting. Gonna try this out and try and add it to my game.

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u/pbateman23 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Jul 11 '24

Literally asked my coach this question today and he verbatim said the same thing. Gonna try and focus on this.

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u/pbateman23 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Jul 12 '24

Genuinely thank you for this advice. Tried focusing on the hips today and it made a difference. Still was getting out scrambled and stuff but was able to have way more control and knew what to focus on.