I had an opponent so passive once after getting 2 points for the sweep that he already had got the 2 penalties and would've gotten the 2 points for me penalty but time ran out.

Being exhausted with a fat strong man that sorta knows what they are doing on top of you just trying to stall is the worst stalling can get lol

The most annoying stalling to me is when your having to face some big guy 25+ pounds bigger than you and all they do is sit in side control and don't really attack anything except horrible americana attempts that they are never going to get and just play to hold onto that position until time runs out

Babybridge / Hawkin / Running Man. The only thing i get caught with are when they transition to North South.

In nogi it's not to bad. In Gi when they can use the Gi as extra leverage it's a bit tougher. Especially if they know how to use bravo grips etc.

Bravo grips?

Say I'm on top side control, I can take their far side lapel, pull it around behind their arm up to their head and grab it with my near side hand and then pull it behind their head. All sorts of control options and submissions from this grip. I mostly just use this when they keep their elbows locked in trying to avoid me getting the underhook they open themselves up to me freeing the lapel and getting this grip, then they normally give me the underhook I wanted to start with or i am able to start attacking other submissions or applying massive pressure wherever I want until they turn towards me or try to ghost escape, whatever they do ill have an option for it from this grip setup.

Ok i know what you mean, just didn't recognise the name. My initial reaction is that if you want to hold me in side control then both your arms and legs should be occupied, pinning or blocking my hips and shoulders. If you're reaching for my Gi then you must have released a hip or shoulder that i can start my escape from.

At a NAGA, I had a match where the ref somehow get us mixed up, and scored all of my points for the other guy. I used my fist to finish a triangle choke, and the ref stopped my and told me that I could only put the gi on his neck, not my fist. Also at a NAGA. I'm sensing a pattern. The worst, though: getting wrstlocked!

Anyone ever had a guy tapping as time ran out while losing on points and still get the loss? I am use to 5 minute matches and these 2 matches were only 4 minutes so my internal clock was a bit off and I like to let my opponents waste all their energy and then finish them in the last 90 seconds or so if they are tough opponents that I can't finish in the first minute. I waited to long to go on the offense against this guy whos been purple for 5+ years and this happened twice actually. lol my fault for enjoying the psychological warfare to much and wasting to much time. I personally don't understand why you would even have jiu jitsu matches less then 5 minutes to begin with...4 minutes is way to short. I would much prefer 7 to 8 minutes as I understand unlimited matches would extend the competitions way to long into the evening. But anything under 5 minutes is way to short.

1. Get your black belt and you can fight for 10 minutes. 2. Get better at escaping side control and you be frustrated. 3. In competition, fight to the rule set. If I get enough points to beat you by taking you down and passing your guard to beat you then it shouldn’t be frustrating. 4. Work on take downs, guard retention and sweeps. That way you’ll be up on points when you nearly tap you opponents.

4 minutes is way to short

Meh was my mistake of thinking the matches was 5 minutes instead of 4. That might not seem like that big of a difference but I often will let spazzy guys wear themselves out then sweep them and finish them with a kimura or whatever. My 'guard and sweeps' are already better then 90% of blue belts not to worried about that. Nor do I care about takedowns at the particular moment. Just not part of my strategy...I know eventually I will work on them. Just not now. My escapes could always be more efficient though. But I am very happy as I do see I am still improving from tournament to tournament on surviving certain shitty positions easier and being able to hang out and recover easier in almost any position. When You have like 10 matches in a very short period of time you can't be wasting all of your energy on any single match unless absolutely necessary unless it's the last match. I started my sweep and got on top about the time I usually would in a 5 minute match I just had 1 minute less to finish then I thought and it ended up being the difference. That's a 25% match length difference. I normally will sweep by 3:30 into a 5 minute match if they are full of energy and give myself 90 seconds which is more then enough. This time though I only had 30 seconds and didn't give myself enough time to get the submission within that 4 minutes. It was a strategic failure on my part for not realizing the matches were only 4 minutes instead of 5 minutes or I would of got on top sooner. Not sure how much you have competed but I sorta have developed an internal clock for 5 minute matches as over 100 of my matches have been at that time length. And if you haven't had over 100 matches or competed against more then 8+ people within under 90 minutes in multiple tournaments you may have no understanding of what I am trying to even explain to you. I am not that frustrated It is annoying though as I would of got my 3rd one of those belts for winning lol it was more like damnit, now I get another dumb 5 dollar medal instead of the I don't know 20 dollar belt lol Being frustrated or being annoyed are 2 entirely different things. Frustration is more of an extended period of time emotion that is not that useful. Annoyance is more of a short-term well damnit oh well...that is very useful... but anyways at least I learned the issue of my mistake so hopefully I won't make that mistake again and make sure I know if the match is 4 or 5 minutes or whatever when the match is starting. if you never get annoyed about things then you most likely won't do what it takes to fix the mistakes your making. Getting frustrated and pouting is an entirely other reaction where people are showing way more emotion than needed. The difference in those scenarios does matter when your trying to correct me like that. That is all. And finally one of the cool things I've noticed is that I am getting better and better at winning my matches when both competitors are dog shit exhausted. I almost always win all my final matches of the tournaments where me and my opponent are both clearly exhausted and to me I am very happy with that stat as that is showing my technique when exhausted is working very well. When both of us are fresh I feel very good and still sometimes lose against someone with more experience, and if im exhausted and my opponent is fresh I still have a very good chance to wear them down and win. But when both people have had several matches and that fatigue has set in...I feel at the most confident as I know when I am dog shit tired vs someone else dog shit tired that I thrive in that scenario. Imma start keeping stats of how I perform. in Fresh vs Fresh, Fatigued vs fatigued and fresh vs fatigued etc. As I just think sometimes you may use different strategies as well for any of those scenarios and you need to understand those scenarios and know what to do.

While I’m absolutely sure your 'guard and sweeps are already better then 90% of blue belts” in the world it isn’t exactly the highest praise. My goal isn’t to be a good brown belt I want to be a good black belt. I want to be a great black belt instructor. Being better that 90% of the blue belts Is kind of like being the king of the dipshits (thank you sixteen candles) and not what I’d be aiming for in my game. by the way, you are long over due for your purple belt or better.

Assuming everything you’ve said is correct, you are an absolute star in the making. However, you are getting old. You won’t hit black belt until you are 40 and tends to not be one’s athletic peak. I would go the Nicky Rod route and enter the ADCC trials to qualify for the ADCC championships in 2021. Plenty of time to let your opponents spaz themselves out and they don’t care if you are a blue belt world killer. I totally slept on Nicky Rod and will not do the same to James Jones. Good luck!

lol nice troll

Fun fact, most people who invoke the Dunning-Kruger effect online have not read the actual studies and are in fact committing what they think the Dunning-Kruger effect is.