4 Beginner Guard Passing Mistakes
When you are starting jiu-jitsu passing the guard can be a frustrating experience. Getting trapped inside your opponent’s closed guard and fending off a constant stream of sweeps and submissions is …
A Tip To Improve Your Guard – Make Your Opponent Uncomfortable
Observing a roll between two students of similar experience, I could see that one student had a far more dangerous and difficult to pass than the second. The second student knew …
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4 Advanced Guard Sweeps
There are many different grappling arts – Sambo, Wrestling, Judo – but what makes Brazilian jiu-jitsu unique is the development of the guard game. Sweeps enable the person on the bottom …
6 Guard Technique Videos from Gracie Barra
Do you have a dangerous guard that is difficult for your opponent to pass? This week Gracie Barra brings you some new ideas for some creative attacks from your guard. …
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5 Techniques From The Butterfly Guard
If there is a single style of guard that trasnfers from g1 to no-gi the best, it might be the butterfly guard. In addition to being great defensively to keep an …
The Guard – 6 Building Blocks for Your Guard
Often when discussions of different grappling styles come up – sambo, judo, catch wrestling etc – we are reminded that many key techniques in bjj are also contained in these …
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How To Submit: 3 Different Strategies
Submissions are everyone’s favourite part of jiu-jitsu. There are few highlight videos of posture in the guard or guard retention. Submission is King! Have you ever thought about the different submission strategies …
Bjj Tournaments: Do You Have a Gameplan to Prepare?
At last nights class where I was guest instructor in the academy (with no black belt head instructor) several of the students were asking about preparing for an upcoming competition. …
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What Does a Black Belt Work On In Training?
Whenever I get the chance to speak to a black belt in bjj, I always ask the question “What are you working on in your jiu-jitsu?” Many lesser experienced students have …
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The 6 worst white belt rolling mistakes
Renzo Gracie, one of the most successful and respected black belts famously said “Sometimes you are the hammer, and sometimes you are the nail!” No where is that more true …