Stance 2

We said there are two stances for takedown offense in Jiu Jitsu. I feel like a lot of this has to do with weight, but I haven’t done a deep dive to actually back this up with evidence. Generally, if someone is going to use the more compact wrestler type stance, they exist below 181lbs. High calorie grapplers tend to play more in the judo/greco realm. So Dorian Olivarez, Dante Leon, Deondre Corbe, and the like take shots, get under people, and wrestle in the conventional sense. Michael Pixley, Gordon Ryan, and the majority of middleweight plus grapplers stand more upright and don’t often drop their head below chest level on their opposition. Nicky Rod and PJ Barch are examples of outliers to this, but that will happen. Perhaps this will assist in your choice of grappling stance or maybe this is a Billy Madison moment, either way thanks for reading.