cant keep rubber guard for some reason....

Use your non-rubber guard leg to sink a grapevine as he transitions to the stack. Too many people forget to grapevine from guard.

Also, rubber guard isn't the only way to play guard. If your rubber guard is getting smashed, do something else.

i too have mixed feelings about rubberguard.

when i was starting out a few years ago the book had just come out. as a newbie i thought wow, look at these funky positions, i wanna do that.

after messing with it a bit, eventually I came to the conclusion that the whole rubber guard itself was not for me but I do use the 1/2 guard series and a version of the omaplata series that I modified to fit my needs and style from Bravo's RG. i would skip mission control though....i liked full guard better. break them down immediately into my full guard and get the overhook on one side, or zombie for the overhook. Id then hip out to the side (hipping out uses same control on opp's arm but less flexibilty in the legs and hips) and bring my foot up to reach chilldog. from there jiuclaw/omaplata.

I recently saw an add for something in an mma mag. a picture of Bravo labeled " Eddie Bravo/Gracie Crippler.
I respect Eddie Bravo as a BJJ black belt and a human being, although I feel like he has ridden on his one accomplishment of defeating Royler way too long. I dont know that he has done anything since? I could be wrong. I wish he would step up atleast in the jitsu scene and compete again to show us how far its come and the effectiveness of the RG against traditional masters of BJJ and Nogi. He speaks of its effectiveness in bjj/nogi and mma, but has yet to prove it himself. imagine what mma would be today if the gracie's had only claimed to have the most effective art but not ever proved it. I know eddie doesnt claim its the most effective, but he does claim its "higher percentage". He should go and prove it.