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Video: Jiu-Jitsu, sacrifice throw and X-guard sweep for you to practice
Learn to pull guard and sweep with Jiu-Jitsu professor Alexandre “Dande” Ferreira of the academy Gracie Barra South A...
Three X Guard Mistakes (and my Best Drill for Getting a Killer X Guard)
The X Guard is one of my very favorite ‘go to’ positions. If I can get there in a match then I’m suddenly a very happ...
Demian teaches Jiu-Jitsu-specific workout
On the 7th of next July, Demian Maia will be taking on Dong Hyun Kim at UFC 148. The fight against his Korean opponen...
A Confusion of Open Guards
The open guard can be quite confusing. Basically any time your legs are not closed around the back of your opponent y...
The X guard position
The ‘X guard is a position that I’ve been using a lot recently. It is either a form of the open guard or the half gua...
Half Guard Sweep Counter to the Crossface, by Andreh Anderson
Countering the crossface when you’re on the bottom of half guard is really important – if you don’t know how to get o...
The Evolution of the ‘Logsplitter’ From Fluke to Trusted BJJ Technique…
Today I want to tell you a story about how I stumbled across a technique by fluke at a tournament, and how it became ...
The X Guard Position
The ‘X guard’ is a position that I’ve been using a lot recently. Depending on your point of view, it’s either a form ...
Butterfly Guard / X Guard Q & A
The questions in this article arose, in part, from a discussion of my Butterfly Guard and X Guard video, which is par...
Efficient sweep taught by 2012 Jiu-Jitsu Pan-American frontrunner
GRACIEMAG.com paid a visit to the Soul Fighters branch at Academia Delfim, in the Tijuca part of Rio de Janeiro. Ther...
A Glossary of Guards Part 3: The Half Guard
By Stephan Kesting and Elliott Bayev
Principal Photography by Keith Haist
Originally Published in Ultimate Grappling ...
As Jeff Glover teaches, the scissor sweep is handy in the modern Jiu-Jitsu half-guard game
Few aspects of Jiu-Jitsu have gone through such great evolution as the sweep, a maneuver where the practitioner start...