Grappling rules

Level of registration
No sandbagging allowed (If you participate in a lower experience bracket then you are supposed to, you and your team will be disqualified)

- Novice: BJJ white belt with up to 1 year of experience (No JUDO/Wrestling background). CORONA - Started after 1 januari 2020 with grappling
- Beginner: BJJ White belt (No JUDO/Wrestling ADULT COMPETITIONS)
CORONA - Started after 1 januari 2019 with grappling
- Intermediate: BJJ Blue belt / max 4 years grappling
- Advanced: Purple / 6 years
- Elite: BJJ brownbelt and higher / 7+  

Clothing
MMA/grappling pants or gi pants. Shirts and rashguards are allowed.

Protection
Mouth guard, ear guard and/or knee protection are allowed. No cups/groin guards.

Allowed techniques
All chokes, cranks, armlocks and leglocks are allowed. All throws are allowed, except slamming.

Novice: No leglocks, no cranks/spine attacks, no scissor takedown allowed.
Beginner: No heelhooks, no cranks/spine attacks, no scissor takedown allowed.  Intermediate: No heelhooks, no scissor takedown allowed.
Advanced and Elite: Go for it!  

Illegal techniques
No unsportsmanlike conduct is allowed (warning or DQ, depending of severity). No headbutting, striking or kicking (DQ). No eye gauging, fish-hooking, scratching, biting or hair pulling (DQ). No small joint manipulation (less then three fingers)(DQ). No fingers in the eye area. Cross facing and pushing away is allowed. All throws except slams are allowed, but do not throw your opponent on his head on purpose (DQ).
WARNING: use sun lotion with care, wipe away with towel before fighting.

Time
Novice and beginners – 4 minutes
Intermediate and Advanced – 5 minutes
Elite – 6 minutes

Winning
By submission by points, by DQ of opponent, by referee decision. In case of draw, most offensive fighting player wins.

Points
Take Down with top control 3 secs – 2P*
Guard pull – 1P for opponent (ANY form of ending up on your back - other guy gets a point)
Sidemount / Knee on Belly / Mount / Backmount (both hooks) – 1P (hold for 3 seconds) **
All Sweeps and reversals – 1P (control top for 3 seconds)
Catch – 2P (a catch is a submission attempt that has to be seriously defended) ***
Stalling – 1P to your opponent ****

 * If you SERIOUSLY shoot in, get sprawled on, and then go to (half)guard, 0 points for either
** A positional point is only awarded progressively, from side to mount for example. So in case of a transition from mount to side, no points. When the bottom opponent reclaims (half) guard, all points can be scored again.
*** Example, an armbar attempt is made. The arm is caught and the opponent has to stack or explode out. This is a catch. Offensive players will be able to accumulate points. So go out and (try) to submit!
**** First you get a “Warning for stalling”, then you have 10 seconds to start attacking. e.g. you have a guy in closed guard, and are passive. Or you are on top in guard, and hanging forward, just defending, not posturing, not trying to actively open the guard.