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The Deep Half Guard (video)

Nowadays you often see the Deep Half Guard at the highest levels of BJJ and submission grappling competition. But the...

Submission Grappling Choke

Here is a modern way of applying the Rear Naked Choke, which had it’s origins in Classical Japanese Ju-Jutsu. (This t...

The ‘Fundamental Five Guard Sweeps’ from the de la Riva Guard

Ricardo de la Riva is an incredibly nice and humble man, but don’t let that fool you – this man is a BJJ legend. (I m...

Can’t Get Underhooks in Butterfly Guard?

Underhooks in the butterfly guard postion are super important! I was on a popular BJJ forum this afternoon when a thr...

Countering the Half Guard Pass

Since I released my DVD on the Dynamic Half Guard I get a lot of questions on how to prevent certain guard passes. I ...

Refusing to Concede the Sweep

I trained with Denis Kang for the first five or six years of his MMA career. At some point during that time he became...

A Half Guard Secret

When fighting from my half guard I often recall something that Chris Brennan told me: “one of the secrets of the half...

An Alternative To Pulling Guard When Grappling On Your Knees

Many grapplers start their sparring sessions on their knees. From this starting position usually one of two things ha...

Short Legged Guard Work

A while ago I gave some suggestions about dealing with the open guard of long-legged and flexible opponents. In the i...

The ‘Kick Out’

Today I want to talk about a little move that has probably saved my butt at least a thousand times. I call it the Kic...

Butterfly Guard Crash Course

As I was heading home from a workout recently, someone mentioned that their butterfly guard just wasn’t working for t...

Submissions as Sweeps

Submissions end fights, and sweeps take you from the bottom to the top. At first glance they seem like very different...
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