Imposition

​Jiu Jitsu is simply who controls the pace. If you can force the other person to play at your speed, more likely than not you are winning. That’s not always about being the fastest. If you watch Iowa Wrestling, a notoriously very good program, very rarely are their athletes the fastest on the mat. In fact even in the smaller weights they often rely on their conditioning and ability to grind people down. As we have talked about the goal is to impose your grappling on others so that they can’t launch attacks against you. What you can control is your conditioning, and your output. If you can’t match the output of the other person, then you must be defensively minded. Do what you can to stay neutral or better until an opportunity presents itself. All of this is about exerting the necessary force to keep yourself safe and going at a reasonable pace until you can launch an attack.