MeatiestMeatus posted...
.. Uh, it's a tournament? All fighting arts competitions have rules. You aren't allowed to go wrestle your opponent into an armbar and submit them in a karate match. BJJ has a different scoring system than karate. Different rules
Does seem a bit odd if they can't take you to the ground themselves they can just lay there and you must engage them. If they want the fight to be on the ground maybe it should start on the ground.
Maybe they should adopt a wrestling match style. When I wrestled anyways round 1 started with both opponents standing. Round 2 one opponent started on hands and knees while the other was behind the with hands already on them round 3 same thing but opponents swapped position.
We didnt do any drop down mid match and expect the opponent to come down to where we wanted them. Nah from a standing position if we wanted em on the ground we had to put em on the ground.
Now to be fair I know little about bjj but I had a coworker suggest I get into because as he said bjj is basically wrestling with extra shit added.