Stance

​In stand up grappling your stance determines not only what you can do, but also what other people can do to you. Guard pullers tend to play hips back head down, wrestlers play hips down head up, and judoka/ Greco people stand relatively upright. The modern no gi stance is a sort of middle between a true wrestling stance and a more upright stance. If we want to hit takedowns, we need our hips under us and we need control of their hips as well. Defensively and in implementing a guard pulling strategy hips back is fine, but it limits your takedown options. If you are seeking takedowns that leaves you with two options. Picking between these options will be a matter of preference and predilection, and since this is already long winded, I’ll elaborate on that later.