If your opponent is a foot taller and 80lbs heavier than you, just bring them to the ground with a collarbone pressure point.

We’re always looking for easier ways to deal with much bigger opponents. I’m not sure this is a valid way, though.

Let’s face reality. Size really does matter – but it’s not everything. You may not be bigger than your opponent, but you may be faster, smarter, or savvier than him.

Take advantage wherever you can. Brains are much more important than brute strength.

Unlike facing an adversary who is equal in size, fighting a giant has certain challenges.

Speed and technique are tools for opening up options, options that the opponent cannot predict and cannot adequately counter.

If he is a skilled giant and he knows exactly what you’re going for, then he can use superior muscle and weight to squash your predictable moves.

Speed is good, but when it comes to a taller opponent, they’ll simply compensate with distance. Against a taller opponent, too much distance is your enemy.

Your opponent has a stride that is most likely 1 ½ times yours. After you make 2 steps forward, your opponent is already 3 steps away, then WHAM… they’ll let you have it with a roundhouse kick.

Another view is:

Size differences matter less than you think. Be a honey badger and go aggressive as hell. “hit hard, hit fast, hit often” — Vice Adm. Halsey, capt of the USS Enterprise, WWII. Stick with infighting, be vicious, and take as much space as you can.

Even if you defend, advance toward them and go offensive asap. Be aggressive as hell and you’ll create a primal kind of fear in them. The honey badger is what 20lbs(?) of fury–but they regularly fight jaguars, have scared off 6 lions at a time, and have been rumored to bring down water buffalo and rhinos.

They don’t always win, but one jaguar attacked an elderly male honey badger–jaw to the throat and it took him a full hour to die because he just refused to give up.

Be a honey badger.