The Strenuous Life Podcast With Stephan Kesting / Grapplearts Radio

There’s an old saying that goes… “Don’t do what’s best for you.  Instead do what’s worst for your opponent.” There’s a lot of truth there.  In a competition your odds of victory go way up if you can prevent your opponent doing the things that he is best at. Optimal Sparring Strategy Rolling in training is different from rolling in competition. In training, during sparring, you actually WANT to spend at least some time in your sparring partner’s strongest areas. This way you can get the highest quality training possible. This is especially true if you’re bigger or better than the other guy.  You WANT to let him into the game so that you can get a good training session in and learn something. So figure out what any given sparring partner is really good at and occasionally let them do it to you! Here’s a concrete example… A few days ago I sparred with someone who was 50 lbs lighter than me.  Had I just passed his guard and played crush the bug for the rest of the session this  would have been good for my ego but