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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...
A Secret That Makes Passing the Guard MUCH Easier!
Passing the guard is one of the most difficult things to do in all of grappling. Against anyone who is even close to ...
The Cheapest Grappling Mat
I’ve trained on a lot of different types of mat in my day: wrestling mats, foam core mats, puzzle mats, and rock hard...
The Folding Guard Pass for No Gi and MMA
The folding pass is a bread and butter guard pass that everyone should know.
That’s because the folding pass can be u...
9 BJJ Solo Drills You Can Do With a Heavy Bag
There are some essential BJJ gross motor movements that need to be trained over and over until they’re smooth and ins...
Last Ditch Matador Guard Pass Defense
The use of frames is key when you’re defending against the Matador Pass, commonly known as Toreando or Bullfighter p...
How to Do the Leg Drag Guard Pass
The leg drag is a modern addition to the world of guard passing in BJJ. It was popularized by world class competitors...
The Synergism of Guard Passing and Leglocks
Many people think that you have to make a choice between getting good at leglocks or getting good at guard passing.
B...
How to Leglock Someone in Butterfly Guard
Obviously it’s relatively easy to enter into a leglock position if someone is lying flat on their back with their leg...
How To Do the Over-Under Pass
The over-under guard pass is one of the classic pressure passes in BJJ.
In it you absolutely kill your opponent’s h...
A Closed Guard Passing Strategy
In a world full of butterfly guards, lapel guards, and upside-down-reverse-de-la-Riva guards it’s sometimes easy to f...
How to Do the Leg Weave Guard Pass… And How to Counter It Too!
The ‘Leg Weave’ pass (also known as the ‘Hip Smash’) is a pressure guard passing technique that relies on correctly p...