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Try This First When You’re in X Guard
The X Guard is a hybrid open guard / half guard position, first popularized by Marcelo Garcia.
There are a million sw...
Joao Miyao teaching the Ninja Armlock from Berimbolo
Here’s some seriously advanced stuff for you: renowned black belt competitor Joao Miyao breaking down the Ninja Armlo...
The Best Time to Pass the Guard
Many matches are won or lost in the struggle to pass the guard.
In fact passing the guard of a skilled player may be ...
A Cool X Guard Drill and Sweep
In recent years the X Guard has become one of the bread and butter positions in the open guard repertoire. It’s an in...
The 3 Steps of Berimbolo
Sometimes the best way to really understand something is to teach it. When it comes to jiu-jitsu, breaking a techniqu...
A Reverse de la Riva Guard Tutorial
The de la Riva guard is an open guard position in which you entangle one of your opponent’s legs with your own leg. ...
The Easiest Way to Do the Berimbolo
At the bottom of this post is a Youtube video I just created to show the easiest way to do the Berimbolo.
Now if you’...
How to Maintain Good Posture in Butterfly Guard
Posture in the butterfly guard is incredibly important. With the butterfly guard (as with any guard position) good p...
3 Open Guard Options vs. Standing Opponents
If you don’t have a gameplan from the open guard then this position can quickly become a confusing and ineffective ta...
My Digital Reading List, May 23, 2013
I always say that this jiu-jitsu stuff is a marathon, not a sprint.
Partially this is because it takes time to remode...
My Favorite One-Two Sweeping Combo from X Guard
Today I’m going to share two of my favourite (and very powerful) X guard sweeps with you. Plus I’ll show you how put ...
The Easiest Butterfly Guard Sweep
Today I want to quickly share the easiest way to sweep someone from the butterfly guard.
Many butterfly guard attacks...