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Video: Learn Basic De La Riva Sweeps from THE Ricardo De La Riva
In today’s jiu-jitsu, the De La Riva guard is everywhere. It is the starting point for popular techniques like the be...
Taking the Back from the Ball and Chain Sweep in de la Riva Guard
Over the past few months on this blog I’ve been sharing a lot of de la Riva guard material.
This series has been cent...
How to Set Up the Triangle Choke from Guard
Today we’ll cover the real ‘secret’ to using the triangle choke against higher belts from your guard – it’s all about...
How to Connect Your Sweeps and Guard Passes in Order to Dominate More Opponents on the Mat
The concept of connecting your guard sweeps to your guard passes is incredibly useful. Anytime you can use one techn...
Why You Need the de la Riva Guard
In this latest episode of The Strenuous Life Podcast I talk with BJJ black belt world champion Brandon ‘Wolverine’ Mu...
Nonstop Jiu-Jitsu, the Number One Martial Arts Book on Amazon
I’m super stoked because I just found out that Nonstop Jiu-Jitsu is now the number one book in the Martial Arts AND t...
The Ball and Chain Sweep
The Ball and Chain Sweep is one of the highest percentage attacks from the de la Riva guard.
This sweep has been used...
A Fast and Easy de la Riva Guard Sweep
The de la Riva guard is an essential position in today’s grappling repertoire. It’s a very deep position with a ton o...
Range and Distance in Guard
There’s just something about jiu-jitsu that leads to a proliferation of styles of guard. From Z Guard to X Guard and...
How To Do The Crab Ride in BJJ and No Gi Grappling
The Crab Ride is one of the hottest new positions in BJJ used by competitors like Rafa Mendes, Gianni Grippo, the Miy...
Don’t Concede the Guard!
I used to make a very specific mistake all up until about purple belt: I would just concede the guard.
Conceding the...
How to do the de la Riva Anklelock
The de la Riva ankle lock is the holy grail of open guard leglocking. It has been pursued by many, but mastered by f...