The Importance of Knowing the Rules

I got flattened on my back in the half guard and I actually didn't know that that was an advantage once, once the action disengages. So how can I blame the rule set when it's me who didn't have the perfect fight? Even though I lost, I want to take a positive out of this,. Rather than blaming something and saying, Oh, I hate the point system. Because you lost. What if you won? You'd love the point system or what if the point system worked in your favor? You would have loved it. And there's also the more insidious type of games where your opponent is actively playing some sort of mind game with you right now. It's