Most grapplers blame static positions for ear damage — but the scramble phase is where real trauma concentrates. Here’s what your ears experience during no-gi transitions.
Your training partners shape your cauliflower ear risk as much as any position on the mat. Understanding how beginners, wrestlers, and advanced grapplers create different ear injury patterns—and what that means for your ear guard strategy in no-gi.
Most grapplers who give up on ear guards do it because of fit, not function. Here’s how to size no-gi ear guards correctly and keep them on through every hard round.
Most no-gi grapplers only reach for ear guards when sparring starts. Here’s why the drilling block creates enough cumulative ear pressure to begin cauliflower ear damage long before live rounds begin.