Mixing Your Arts

So you’re pretty good at BJJ but you suck at wrestling? Well, the good news is if you go up against a wrestler and you’re using BJJ rules, assuming they don’t know anything about BJJ and aren’t too many notches above you, you’ll probably win, then again, you might just get completely shut down, laying on your back for a whole round wondering what you did to deserve such suffering.
So what to do? Probably learn some basic wrestling. It’s not BJJ… or is it? Because you are supposed to know how to get an opponent to the ground, right? It’s like two points or whatever, and coach always says if you do it right, you can take them down and go straight to mount or the back and not even have to mess with passing their guard.
All that said, you’ve only got so much time to train, so how much wrestling should you add to your BJJ? It’s up to you, ultimately, but I’d recommend at least having a decent sprawl so when wrestlers (or just people who know how to tackle) come at you, you’ve got a vague clue of what’s happening.
Come on in to the standup focus BJJ on Mondays at 10am and/or Wednesdays at noon. Learn a sprawl. Learn some takedowns. Learn to be less bad on your feet.