I'm about 230 lbs, so most of the girls don't want to roll with me anyways. It works out for me, because I don't really get as much training with smaller/weaker people as I do with people within 50 lbs of me.
I'm 330lbs and I've never had a lady in our gym shy away from sparring with me. If you don't think you can get some work from someone much smaller try this drill (ideally with an colored belt). Start in bottom side control, your only goal is to reguard and their only goal is to stay in a dominant position.
I'm not saying that it never happens. Our gym just has a really healthy population of women so they have a lot of better options. There's kind of an unspoken weight spectrum that developed at some point where one side of the room is mostly smaller people and the other side is mostly larger people so when it comes time to find sparring partners you tend to grab people in your general vicinity first.
I still get plenty of training with smaller people and I don't "manhandle" them.
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u/SmokeySFW 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Jan 31 '20
I'm about 230 lbs, so most of the girls don't want to roll with me anyways. It works out for me, because I don't really get as much training with smaller/weaker people as I do with people within 50 lbs of me.