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5 videos for making your guard a lethal weapon
In the early days of the UFC, Royce Gracie took the world by storm with his Jiu-Jitsu and guard, leaving a string of ...
The Seated Guard and the ‘Idiot Sweep’
Here’s a video in which Emily Kwok uses me as a dummy to teach the fundamentals of the Seated Guard and also one of m...
A Confusion of Open Guards
The open guard can be quite confusing. Basically any time your legs are not closed around the back of your opponent y...
Pass guard like the NY Open absolute Jiu-Jitsu champion
Otávio Sousa was the big name at the New York Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship last Saturday. The relentless teacher at te...
An Innovative Butterfly Guard Jump
by Vitor “Shaolin” Riberio
Some (but not all) BJJ competitors jump to guard in order to get the fight to the ground q...
Wallid Ismael-style guard passing by Andreh Anderson
Andreh Anderson is a brown belt under Rey Diego at (www.reydiogo.com). Here he kindly shares the details of one of hi...
Single Leg Sweep, by Andreh Anderson
Andreh Anderson is a black belt under Rey Diego at (www.reydiogo.com) and loves sweeping his opponents. Andreh has th...
The Evolution of the ‘Logsplitter’ From Fluke to Trusted BJJ Technique…
Today I want to tell you a story about how I stumbled across a technique by fluke at a tournament, and how it became ...
The ‘Basic’ Butterfly Guard Sweep
The ‘basic’ butterfly guard sweep is anything but basic. It is an extremely powerful and sophisticated attack that is...
Butterfly Guard / X Guard Q & A
The questions in this article arose, in part, from a discussion of my Butterfly Guard and X Guard video, which is par...
A Glossary of Guards Part 2: The Open Guard
By Stephan Kesting and Elliott Bayev Principal Photography by Keith Haist Originally Published in Ultimate Grappling ...
Get Up, Stand Up!
Why getting off the ground is a critical skills in grappling!
(originally published in Black Belt Magazine)
When mixe...