White Belt University 5.2 Passing from the Knees - Double Underhook, Over Under, and Esgrima Passes

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Saulo teaches three staple passes that can be used from your knees to pass your opponent's guard. The success of these passes rely on being able to apply pressure to immobilize your opponent's hips which is the fundamental concept on how to effectively pass the guard.

White Belt University 5.3 Standing Guard Passes - Standing Closed Guard Break, Torreando Pass, Same Side Knee Pass, and Knee Cross Pass

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Saulo teaches how to break your opponent's closed guard by standing up with the same side sleeve and provides three options to pass your opponent's guard from a standing position. In this lesson, we learn the torreando pass (or bullfighting pass), the same side knee pass, and the knee cross pass.

White Belt University 4.1 Closed Guard Sweeps - Hip Bump and Pendulum Sweeps

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Xande teaches two basic but highly effective sweeps that you can use to sweep your opponent from the closed guard. The closed guard is a great position for beginners. Your opponent will have to break your closed guard before being able to pass. This will provide you with extra time to think about what to do next. As a white belt, it helps to start with small goals and celebrate the victories of achieving these goals. For example, for one week you could choose to play closed guard with the goal of sweeping your opponent with the hip bump or pendulum sweep while not letting your opponent pass your closed guard. The next week your goal could be to try to submit your opponent from the closed guard by combining the hip bump sweep with the kimura or guillotine.

Inside the University 24.2 - 3 Closed Guard Breaks by Standing - Classic Hip Pressure and Knee up the Middle

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Saulo teaches three ways to break open the closed guard by standing. We learn two classic guard breaks by applying pressure on the hip and one closed guard break by using your knee as a wedge right up the center to force open your opponent's legs.

Inside the University 24 - Closed Guard Posture and Classic Opening on the Knees

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Saulo teaches the proper posture when you are in your opponent's guard and how to set up the classic opening on the knees to break open the closed guard. This guard break is one of the first ones that is taught and is simple yet highly effective at all levels. Change your angle and use your hands to maintain pressure on your opponent and move your body backwards to generate the pressure to force the guard open.

Inside the University 13 - Hip Bump Sweep from Closed Guard

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Xande teaches the basic hip bump sweep from the closed guard with extra details on how he likes to set up the sweep. This sweep is essential for beginners to jiu jitsu and is a great way to introduce how to use leverage against your opponent with a simple but highly effective sweep.

Inside the University 7.2 - Breaking Posture by Arm Drag from Closed Guard (Part 2/2)

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Xande delves into specific details on breaking your opponent's posture using a movement similar to an arm drag from the closed guard.

Inside the University 7.1 - Options to Break Posture from Closed Guard

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Xande reviews various ways to break your opponent's posture from the closed guard. In this series we notice that there are two basic variations, one variation where we break our opponent's posture forward by using our legs and gripping at the elbow or coming in from under your opponent's hand to break their base and another variation where we redirect our opponent's arm to the side in an arm drag style posture break.

JJU 17-01 Single Underleg Pass Defense

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Xande explains how to defend with the classic single under leg pass defense by using your arms and leg to create base against your opponent and shrimp away to create enough space to recover your guard.

JJU 17-07, 17-08 Same Side Knee Block Defense

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Xande teaches how to defend when your opponent attempts to pass your guard with the same side knee pass. This lesson can be found on page 133 of the JJU book.

JJU 17-05B Over Under Pass Defense Variation

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Xande explains a variation on how to defend and stop your opponent's attempts to pass your guard with the over under pass when your opponent is leaving some space between his head and your body.

JJU 17-05 Over Under Pass Defense

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Xande explains how to defend and stop your opponent's attempts to pass your guard with the over under pass.