Can you put an opponent who weighs a lot more than you in the truck? When I try, I feel like I crush myself!
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sanenurse, post: 61930, member: 31196
Can you put an opponent who weighs a lot more than you in the truck? When I try, I feel like I crush myself!
I don't really see why not...only a fraction of their body is on you. Now it can of course depend on their body type and your body type.
sanenurse, post: 61930, member: 31196
Can you put an opponent who weighs a lot more than you in the truck? When I try, I feel like I crush myself!
I'm a pretty small person relative to my training partners and I've recently been doing a lot of berimbolos (including the truck). Personally I don't have any issues with loading their hips on top of mine. But I haven't really spent much time teaching this family of positions yet, so I'm not sure if there is a common "mistake" that people run into.
I'm not sure if this will make sense without video, but one thing I am wary about against bigger people is using my single twister hook. I feel if a huge guy tries to explosively turn into me while straightening their leg (it's a pretty good way to free your leg from the twister hook), it can blow out my knee if my twister hook gets stuck. Maybe I'm just paranoid or maybe it's specific to the way I'm doing my twister hook, but it is the same pressure as an inverted heel hook. So while I do sometimes use the twister hook against big guys, I usually only do so momentarily. I also often use my other leg to pull their shin and force a bend in their knee (this prevents them from straightening their leg), or I'm using a hand to check their hip and push it away from me (this prevents them from turning into me).
I come at this from a slightly different angle. This is totally anecdotal, so take it for what it is worth but, I am a very big guy (300lbs +) and I have found it nearly impossible for people to Berimbolo me or move me to Truck. If I am being honest though, I really can not be sure if this is a function of my size, my body type, or how I react to those movements.
You can definitely put someone larger than you in the truck, but of course there are limits. Once people get too much bigger almost all positions become harder.
I think that it's more to do with limb length, which can be somewhat be mitigated by different entries/angle adjustments, than weight.
For instance; I find it significantly harder to get the truck on someone with shorter legs or someone with really wide tree trunk legs whereas people that weigh significantly more, but who I can easily get my legs around theirs/not slip off the end because they have short limbs, I can be pretty confident in achieving the truck. Most of their weight is on the mat once you have the truck, you're just essentially shelving their hips but the difficulty might come in rolling into the position with enough momentum/force to be successful. I'd look into different entries to see if I had any success.