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Thanks for your responses, guys. I do hope I can find a place that starts people off in very controlled, well defined circumstances. It occurred to me that I could have been more clear with my original question: In general, if you're sparring with a partner who uses a move that you know has a specific counter, but you just don't know or remember the counter, should you just immediately quit, or should you try to worm your way out of it however you can and wait until they really have you totally trapped before you submit? It seems like there are pros and cons to both ways. If your a beginner like me though, you would probably have to spend more time stopping than rolling around. Also, you wouldn't really be giving your partner much practice against resisting opponents (even if the resistance isn't too skilled). I know I probably sound a little obsessive here, but I just want to get a general idea of what to expect. Thanks again for your comments.

Hello. I'm interested in starting bjj, and I'm concerned about what approach one is supposed to take when sparring. Because I'm beginning, I don't know many techniques, and those that I do know will be exectuted rather slowly and ineffectively for a while. Basically, my question is, does one just try to "hack it" and hang in as long as possible, and try to use actual bjj techniques when possible? That is, is it normal for a beginner to mostly just use unskilled resistance to try to win (within the rules, of course)? Otherwise, it seems like a beginner wouldn't really be able to spar at all, because everything would be like, "hold on a second while I remember that move". So should I just "go at it" within the sparring rules, and try to just use real techniques when I can?