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Even The Greatest Wrestlers In BJJ Have To Develop A Good Bottom Game, Here’s Why
To have a well rounded jiu-jitsu game, we need to be dangerous from both top and bottom positions. Most smaller stude...
Do You Have Strong Frames? These Sweeps Are For You
Somewhere between butterfly guard and spider guard lives the frame guard. It’s not often addressed as an individual p...
Getting the Underhook in BJJ
Getting the underhook in the guard, especially in positions like the Butterfly guard and the Half guard, is incredibl...
Have You Heard Of The Umbrella Guard? Let Hudson Taylor Show You How It’s Done
Open guard, closed guard, butterfly guard, donkey guard… can you keep track of all the guards out there? If you’re hu...
Pressing Armbar from Guard
The pressing armbar, also known as the ‘cutting armbar’ or the ‘reverse armbar’, is one of the big attacks from guard...
An Easy and Effective Guard Retention Drill
There are many guard retention techniques you can use to stop someone from passing your guard, but just like any othe...
3 Common Noob Guard Mistakes
If we observe enough white belt rolls in the academy, we will spot certain patterns that tend to repeat themselves. A...
The Best Guard Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
Years ago one of my best training partners (meaning that he used to abuse me three times a week) caught my arm from g...
Six Bad BJJ Habits
After the first year or two of BJJ most guys tend to find and develop their own games. Naturally, we gravitate toward...
3 Easy Steps To Open The Closed Guard In BJJ
3 easy steps to open the closed guard in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as instructed...
João Miyao’s incessant shifting vs. Alexis Barragan at the Chicago Open
Cícero Costha representative João Miyao continues to wow audiences with his loose BJJ game, whether in gi or no-gi. O...
Exclusive: labyrinth guard, the new sweep invented by Nino Schembri
An experienced, creative BJJ teacher, Nino Schembri likes studying the minutiae of ground positions old and new. From...