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Competition Analysis
What rulesets reward, and how that shapes technique selection.
Competition Analysis
The IBJJF no-gi uniform rules, read carefully
What the rule book actually requires of a no-gi competitor, which parts the product pages get wrong, and the requirement it never makes at all.
19 August 2026 · Guard Theory editorial · 4 sources
Competition Analysis
How no-gi rulesets reshaped technique selection
Read the IBJJF and ADCC rule books side by side and they stop looking like safety regulations and start looking like two different price lists for the same actions.
4 August 2026 · Guard Theory editorial · 6 sources
Competition Analysis
Submission-only, and the overtime problem
Removing points was meant to remove stalling. We read the rules that submission-only promotions actually publish, and found the best-known overtime written down by a wrestling federation and two regional promotions, but not, that we could find, by the event it is named after.
Draft · 11 sources
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