1 Part Lesson -- Marcelo gives tournament-tested advice on how the best defense is good offense: Don't give your opponent a moment to conceptualize an attack and capitalize on passivity. Constantly pester your opponent's position with safe surges of attack; don't over exert or stretch your attempt at the risk of reversal. If you can force your opponent to play safe and defensive, because you are persistently invoking a reaction he or she must address, you put yourself further away from losing by submission and closer to winning the match. Stalling when up on points to waste out the clock is not an option.