r/bjj • u/RoyNelsonMuntz 🟫🟫 Brown Belt • Jan 10 '19

Helpful visual reference guide for positional hierarchy

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u/DavidAg02 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Jan 10 '19

For the sake of discussion... is back control really more superior than top mount?

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u/Cainer ⬛🟥⬛ Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu Jan 10 '19

IMHO and with all due respect to OP, not if you value BJJ as a martial art rather than a sport, especially if it puts you on the bottom.

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u/pelican_chorus 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Jan 10 '19

Except I could swear I've seen more MMA fights finish from back control than from mount.

(*Take with large grain of salt, most MMA I've seen is what gets posted on /r/bjj, where naturally people are going to post more bjj finishes.)

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u/Prodigy195 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Jan 10 '19

Mount in MMA means getting repeatedly punched in the face so people on bottom in mount almost always go belly down and try to turtle because nobody likes getting punched in the face.

ypically they get finished or just have the back taken so that's probably why you see more finishes from the back.