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The Blue Belt Guard

I have noticed a pattern that many blue belts fall in love with when developing their guard positions. It is not unco...

Getting to Guard Against a Standing Opponent

It’s a bad situation when you’re on the bottom, your opponent is standing up in front of you, and you don’t have any ...

Here’s Why Bernardo Faria Thinks You Need To Work More On Guard Than On Passing

What should students spend more of their time practicing: passing or guard? Ideally we would want to spend as much ti...

Learn how to sweep from the “boloniana” guard, with Sérgio Bolão

A sixth-degree black-belt under Carlson Gracie, Sérgio Bolão was one of the strongest competitors of his generation, ...

Rilion Gracie shows how to use the lever to sweep any opponent in BJJ

Rilion Gracie was in Rio de Janeiro doing a few seminars in his branches recently. In a visit to Marcello Ognibeni’s ...

3 advantages to learning first the defensive aspects of the guard

One of the chief mistakes made by beginner guard players in BJJ gyms is, due to anxiety, to reverse the order of tech...

Stephan Kesting Demonstrates An Easy Wrist Lock From The Guard

One of the beautiful things about wrist locks is they are unexpected. While most jiu-jitsu practitioners will immedia...

Thursday class: pass the DLR guard using the leg drag and the berimbolo

Everybody is playing the De La Riva guard this days. It’s the base for so many of the modern styles popping up everyw...

What is the hardest guard to pass in BJJ?

As much of a guard player as a BJJ fighter might be, there’s no way around it: Sometime or another, they will have to...

Rollin’ With Rodrigo Teixeira

[This excerpt was taken from Issue 52] In Issue 50 we introduced you to Rodrigo Teixeira and his globe trotting ways....

BJJ Concepts: Otavio Sousa Helps You to Build a Strong Closed Guard Game

In a new series, we bring you some of the best black belts in the business to explain basic concepts of some of the m...

Blue Belts: What Is Your Guard?

When I have a conversation with blue belts on what they should be working on, I ask, “What is your guard?”. Some answ...
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