I'm a pretty big guy but I'm light for my weight. I shoot a lot of low levels to compensate for that, but I have trouble getting to the legs off the tie. I wrestle in the 215 weight class and when I watch the successful people in my weight, they are getting to a lot of high singles/snatch singles right off of the tie. I've been working my Russian using the Mocco Russian series, but I haven't had much success with it when we go live in practice (then again, I really started looking at it in depth just a week ago).

So any advice for getting to the legs off a tie for a big guy (and subsequently avoiding your opponent's sprawl)?

Work your underhook series...hoist that underhook or as I say, Shot put the arm...then drop down on a High Single...or, go to the far leg/knee off of the same set up.

Also, use the underhook to push/pull into a sweep.

I have lots more but no time.

Good luck.