larryhawkk

I trained at Buoy with two fighters this island season. Nothing really seemed odd to me, but the only coaches I used were Circuit training and striking defense and I admit that I wasn't really paying attention to the other coaches' class sizes. As far as primaries go, I had a black belt but he had nothing else going for him and I couldn't fix it in time at the Temp Spar Gym. I also had this fighter who I stopped investing in because apparently there isn't an end of season KT tournament. His primaries look high, but I started him with 110 Muay Thai and the rest in wrestling and then spent the entire season sparring Boxing before learning that I was wasting my time with him. Low IQ, no chin, and no takedown defense, so there was no reason to keep him for the MMA tournament.

I was looking at the record of my opponent in the island season tournament and I noticed something a little weird. I kept looking around and I found a bunch of accounts that only had island fighters and who all have basically the exact same build. They've only fought in SPARTA and all their wins are either by submission or decision. While the first few were created around the same time, a few were created much later as if to further fill out cards. kaitomma (126967) 24 sub wins, 2 decisions - created 2018-12-12 rd1080 (126982) 33 sub wins, 3 decisions - created 2018-12-13 mhenrique (127026) 32 sub wins, 2 decision wins - created 2018-12-16 ilmo (127401) 29 sub wins - created 2019-01-18 shinji (127663) 11 sub wins, 2 decisions - created 2019-02-06 Sereb (127569) 15 sub wins, 3 decisions - created 2019-02-01 kamealoha (127691) 12 sub wins - created 2019-02-08 zach825 (127748) 26 sub wins, 1 decision - created 2019-02-12 There are probably more that I just haven't seen yet, but these builds are all way too similar and the managers have all fought in SPARTA during the island season. This seems pretty suspicious to me. I would be tempted to wager that these fighters have very little striking defense and were possibly intentionally used as fodder? SPARTA was first opened by Kvn... (126545) who then traded it to natcham (127079) for an island gym. natcham would go on to give SPARTA to zach825. I'm not necessarily saying that Lucius Black is behind the multi-accounts, but I am saying that something here is clearly wrong. It is also worth noting that natcham had fighters that were spar bots for the gym. Kvn... was created on 2018-11-10 natcham was created on 2018-12-20 So some of those multis were created before the natcham account had taken over SPARTA.

Does control just limit the number of actions you have without really giving any benefit then? Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely change that slider.

How can I deal with submission spam when both fighters are relatively equal on the ground? Should I aggressively look to advance position or look to counter more? Or something else entirely? It sucks to be stuck in guard defending like 15 submissions before one finally works.