Match your strength against his weakness – the triangle: Jiu Jitsu is a grappling style focused almost entirely upon the use of your LEGS to control an opponent. The best scenarios are those that match the strongest part of your body – your legs and hips – against his upper body. This is how a smaller person can defeat a bigger person. The quintessential example of this is the triangle. It directly matches your legs and hips against an opponents head/neck and one arm. Learn to enter into the five major variations of the triangle from any position, too or bottom, and you will dramatically improve your ability to make your legs the centerpiece of your control game and at the same time, be able to submit an opponent in a number of different ways. Here, gordon ryan, master of the triangle, ties up an opponent and now has his choice of how and when to finish
