Late Defense against Single Under Pass by Stiff Arming the Elbow

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Renato Vieira teaches how to recover your guard when you are late in defending against the single under the leg pass. It may not always be possible to initiate this defense if your opponent is applying heavy pressure during the single under leg pass. Additionally, it is important to keep your arm straight when you stiff arm your opponent's elbow as your opponent will be able to muscle their way through your arm if it is bent.

JJU 17-01 Classic Defense against Single Under the Leg Pass

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Renato Vieira teaches the classic defense to the single under the leg pass by shrimping your hips and positioning your legs to stop your opponent's advance. This is lesson 17-1 on page 124 from the JJU book.

Escaping the Half Guard Esgrima Underhook and Overhook by Framing

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Xande explains how to defend against and escape when your opponent gets the esgrima underhook or tries to pin you with an overhook from the half guard. The major concept of the escape is to set up your defensive frame with your arm and shrimp your hips to the side before your opponent can settle into a good offensive position.

Classic Spider Guard Sweep

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Xande explains how to do the classic spider guard sweep. This sweep utilizes your opponent's guard pass attempt to set up the proper grips and position to successfully perform the sweep.

Spider Guard Scissor Sweep

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Xande explains how to sweep your opponent with the spider guard scissor sweep. This sweep is hard to execute from a static position so it's good to keep your hips in motion to set up the right opportunity to pull off this sweep.

Spider Guard Setup from Closed Guard

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Xande explains how to set up the standard spider guard with two feet on the bicep from the closed guard position. After setting up the guard, he demonstrates how to pivot your hips to stretch out each arm. It's important to note that the spider guard relies on always maintaining tension on at least one bicep with your legs to prevent your opponent from passing your spider guard.

JJU 17-11 Collar Dragging Standing Opponent

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Xande explains how to set up the collar drag when your opponent is looking to pass your guard with the torreada or other standing passes. This lesson can be found on page 137 under the title "17-11 Collar Drag off Torreando Defense"

JJU 17-11 Collar Dragging Opponent on Knees

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Xande teaches how to collar drag your opponent off of a failed scissor sweep attempt when your opponent is on their knees.

JJU 15-12 Flower Sweep

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Xande explains how to sweep your opponent from the closed guard using the Flower Sweep (similar to the pendulum sweep). The flower sweep utilizes the concept of driving your opponent's weight to one side to lighten the other, a concept that is utilized to achieve many other sweeps. This lesson can be found on page 115 of the JJU book.

JJU 16-03 Bailarina Sweep

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The Bailarina Sweep can be initiated when your opponent is standing in your closed guard. It is a good backup plan to transition into when your opponent defends against the Classic Underhook Sweep. The Bailarina Sweep is lesson 16-3 in page 121 of the JJU book with the title "Rollout Against Underhook Defense."

2 on 1 Guard Lesson 7/7 - Review of 2 on 1 Options

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Saulo covers some extra details and all of the options covered in the 2 on 1 Guard series. In this series we learn to set up the 2 on 1 guard and transition between multiple attacks to overwhelm your opponent. Many of the sweeps and submissions can be chained by using the scissor sweep as an initial attack to transition into the arm drag, triangle, armbar, or the omoplata.

2 on 1 Guard Lesson 6/7 - Omoplata

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Saulo teaches how to set up the Omoplata from the 2 on 1 guard.