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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 ...

What To Do When Your Guard Attacks Fail

It’s my very favorite quote from the movie ‘The Avengers’ which I saw last night: Captain America: We need a plan of ...

An Easy Way to Make Your Closed Guard Hard to Pass

I was recently watching an out-of-print instructional DVD by a friend of mine and had one of those really great ‘aha’...

5 monsters of Jiu-Jitsu, 5 unfailing attacks and finishes

Friday’s normally the day that the site editor tries to be snazzy, come up with some smooth post that will perk Jiu-J...

How do you armbar from closed guard in Jiu-Jitsu?

A Jiu-Jitsu scholar and our GMA in Las Vegas, Ricardo Cavalcanti always serves up new positions for you to sharpen up...

Some Sample Lessons for the BJJ Beginner

As you probably know, I write a free newsletter called the Beginning BJJ eCourse. Just to give you a taste, here are ...

Technique 2: Reverse Shoulder Lock

Marcus and Denis demonstrate the reverse shoulder lock. (1) Marcus starts out with Denis in his guard using a basic ...

Marcus Soares – Kimura from Mount

Here’s how the Kimura can help you transition from the Closed Guard, to the Mount, and then to your opponent tapping ...

Marcus Soares Kimura from Closed Guard

Marcus Soares demonstrates a basic attack from the guard: Closed Guard to Kimura Photo 1 – In Brazil this sequence i...

Technique 4: Omo Plata to footlock

A four step instructional article on transitioning from guard to the omoplata and then into an unexpected footlock wh...

Technique 3: Scissor sweep to Omoplata

The scissor sweep is one of the very first sweeps most BJJ students learn. And it’s a legit technique, but even if yo...

Technique 2: Omoplata to wristlock

It’s never good when your opponent manages to stand up in your guard.  Fortunately you can use the omoplata to bring ...
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