I will impart the wisdom that My teachers have given me I bring you the most important things you will ever learn in grappling! First of all heres the biggest mistake any grappler can ever make 1. Relax Relation is the key to almost every aspect of life. When your grappling and your tense you miss oppertunities you dont feel weight shifts your slow you breath heavy and get tired all the more quickly. Grappling is akin to a game of chess and haveing a nap at the same time with many the time being just makeing small movenments then with a big finish out of nowhere. ALLWAYS RELAX 2. Keep Your center of gravity low I cannot count the amount of times I have seen begginers come to me and ask me to watch their match when they do not have a concept of staying low... do not be embaressed when grappling to accidently brush against one another it happens. You must stay low and stay close the closer the better. (Usually) 3. Keep your chin down Whenever I face a opponet from another school they allways comment on how they can never get any chokes on me, well this is because i allways keep my chin in if you are no exposing you neck you wont get choked out (you still can its just harder) 4. Deception Allways bait your opponet and be ready to be faked out from him. Once you get to a certain level people will never be honest with you in their body language and shift their weight and try to get your attention onto other things so they can work their magic allways be alert. 5. NEVER GIVE YOUR BACK! The most basic and self explanatory rules here NEVER EVVVVER GIVE YOUR BACK! Please add things at your lesiure.