Tag: guard pass

Guard Pass Touchups

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GuardContinuing my work on guard passes.  Some brief nuggets:

  • When using the standard closed guard pass, after I open the legs and my knee is up inside, before I go for the double pass option, I need to sit on my butt down on my heel.  This kills the space people always use to De La Riva me.  Then I can proceed with my pass.
  • If I’m in his closed guard, and my arm is being threatened by an omoplata, I need to move my knee in close to his hip so that he can’t open his hip out to attack me.  
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Closed Guard Pass

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Continuing on with the guard passing that I’ve been working on…

Closed Guard Pass

  1. Maintain my posture by keeping head up, flexing my butt and hips to resist him breaking me down with his hips and legs.
  2. Right hand rolls up partner’s lapels and grabs it (makes it harder for him to open up his gi to break my grip).   Maintain tension on the lapels so that he feels me pulling him down, controlling his body with my grip (kill all slack).
  3. Left hand grab his gi pants along the outside of his right hip, with my elbow outside of this right knee, this will help protect from triangles.
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Butterfly Pass

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ButterlyHeading to NYC again in a couple days and of course I’m going to make it a point to stop in and see my man-crush, Marcelo Garcia (you can read about my prior experiences here and here), to get some training in.

I remembered getting the floor wiped with me by people using a lot of open guard and butterfly guard.  I decided to review some passes of the butterfly guard (with the help of Gracie Humaita Cleveland) so that hopefully I won’t get my ass kicked as badly this time.… Read More

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