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One of Dominyka’s favorite positions is the closed guard, and here she focuses on breaking her opponent’s posture so she can set up her attacks. Her first method is to cup the back of her opponent’s elbows and pull in with her arms and legs. Another option is to make a two on one grip on one hand, and drag it across while escaping her hips to open up back attacks. Finally, she can grab both hands to break the grips on her belt, raise them up and push them out as she pulls her opponent in with her legs to break her posture.
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Saulo discusses one of his fights at the Pan Ams, and shows how he setup a triangle on his opponent, but focuses on how his opponent should have reacted to defend. Saulo drops his level and leans back to create space, allowing him to open his opponent's legs and escape the triangle.Add to Favorites 1243 Remove From Favorites 3455 days ago
Bruno discusses the differences between using a defensive closed guard and an offensive closed guard. He also emphasizes the importance of using your legs and entire body to keep your opponent off balance an in defense mode while inside your guard.Add to Favorites 1600 Remove From Favorites 3463 days ago
Breno continues discussing some closed guard concepts, but now shows how to break your opponent's posture, properly escape your hips and take his back. He emphasizes the importance of practicing this position every day and notes it is especially practical for a self defense situation.Add to Favorites 1443 Remove From Favorites 3464 days ago
Old School BJJ Professor, Breno Sivak, discusses in detail the purpose of the guard, and the importance of controlling the grips and keeping your posture while on top, as well as the importance of hip movement on the bottom.Add to Favorites 2057 Remove From Favorites 3480 days ago
In this series, Rafael Lovato Jr. gives a seminar at the University of Jiu-Jitsu, and discusses his views on drilling and shows some of his favorite positions he's been using lately. He begins the seminar by showing how he likes to drill, focusing on setups rather than techniques. Here he talks about starting from the closed guard, getting his preferred grips and then setting up his preferred open guard. He leaves it up to each student to fit this drilling to his own individual game.Add to Favorites 1268 Remove From Favorites 3511 days ago
Vini and Xande show a drilling exercise to help you apply the principles Vini taught in video number 3 of this series, "Single Arm Post Posture and Controlling from the Top in Closed Guard". This exercise will help you improve your posture and pressure while on top in the guard.Add to Favorites 1441 Remove From Favorites 3973 days ago
Xande covers some concepts on how to posture yourself when you're in your opponent's closed guard to neutralize their attacks and begin to position yourself for the pass. We learn to keep straight posture and our weight settled back. We also learn how to escape common grips that your opponents may use to break your posture.Add to Favorites 1405 Remove From Favorites 4017 days ago
Xande teaches how to defend against the double unders or single unders pass and position yourself to sweep them off their pass attempt. In this defense we straighten our leg and turn our hips to change the weight distribution and angle of our body to make it harder to complete the double unders or single unders pass.Add to Favorites 1426 Remove From Favorites 4019 days ago
Xande teaches the side to side guard recovery drill movement. This drill is great for learning the proper way to shift your hips and replace your legs to defend against the single under leg pass.Add to Favorites 1045 Remove From Favorites 4051 days ago
Saulo gives a speech on the mindset that white belts should have in order to progress in jiu jitsu. We also learn the classic hip pressure closed guard break folloed up with another speech on the nature of jiu jitsu.Add to Favorites 3382 Remove From Favorites 4093 days ago
Saulo teaches how to hold proper posture in your opponent's closed guard, how to open the closed guard with the classic opening on the knees, and how to pass your opponent's guard with the single underhook guard pass.