Sorry for the thread hijack. Aesopian, that's exactly what I try to do as well. In fact, when I started I was the typical top-position wrestler guy. This hampered my development so I decided to try always pulling guard in practice. This really helped me get my guard up to spec despite my short legs and arms. That's one reason why I feel people avoid practicing from their back, because they are "uncomfortable," are idiots for purposely limiting themselves.
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Originally Posted by Aesopian
- Traditional and deep half guard with the underhook.
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I used both traditional and half butterfly half guard against a big guy (who had over 50 pounds on me) tonight. Usually I use traditional half guard since I'm good at it and it works well against people around my size and skill. Against bigger guys or when I'm very tired, I found that it works less effectively. So I used the half butterfly half guard and it seemed to work very effectively against him.
Does the half butterfly half guard work better against bigger guys who like to throw their weight around, while the traditional half works when he is nominal sized enough that you can get leverage? That is, the half butterfly works when they drive into you while the traditional half works when they try to pull away?