"How did Ricardo Arona get in my guard? Maybe he took me down, it doesn't matter, maybe I just woke up one morning and Ricardo Arona was in my guard. Here's what I'm gonna do."
Mario Sperry (Stolen from RadBoy's signature!)
Contents
- Posture
- Good posture for O
- Good posture for you
- Grips
- Unbalancing O
- Left/Right
- Forward
- Backward
- General advice
- Be active
- Relax
- Be ready to open your guard
- Avoiding submissions
- When your guard is passed
- Guard techniques
- Collar and lapel chokes
- Shoulderlocks
- Sweeps
- Ways to take the back
- Miscellaneous
- Books I recommend
Posture
Good posture for O
Good posture for O is to be upright, one or both hands controlling your hips in some way, his weight based out making him difficult to sweep. From here O will attempt to open your guard and either pass or attack with a leg lock.
Check the start of this clip with Gustavo Dantas to see an example of such posture.
Here is another example of O taking a strong posture to control the hips.
O will want to keep his arms free so he can post out to avoid having his posture broken/being swept. If you want to sweep him, you have to control the arm on the side you want to sweep.
Good posture for you
You want the opposite of what O wants.
- Keep your hands free
- Keep your hips free
- Keep him off balance
- Control his arm/hand on the side you want to sweep
To break O's posture you will need to get a dominant grip and stop O from gaining a good grip on you. In gi BJJ you can grab the sleeve at the wrist, behind the elbow or inside his collar. Check this clip for some gi grip ideas.
I usually grab across my body (my right hand to his right sleeve, elbow or collar and vice versa). I also like sticking my hand in the collar to threaten the choke and get some good pulling leverage.
In no-gi, you will be looking for underhooks, overhooks and to wrap the neck. Check out this clip for some no gi ideas.
Of course, these positions are possible in gi BJJ too although the feel is different.
Unbalancing O
Once you have your grip, ways to offset O include:
Left or right
Armdrag
Pull one of his arms across his body and hug him to you so that your body blocks the elbow from retracting.
See Frodo do it here.
Note the little bridge he does at the start to help break O's grip.
Forward
- Grab and fall
- Leg pull
- Climb your legs
Backward
- Push him backwards with your legs.
- Pull him forward and when he resists, push him backwards with your legs.
- Threaten O's neck with a collar choke. He will instinctively pull back.
General advice
- Be active in your guard
- Relax
- Be ready to open your guard
It is essential that you develop an open guard game as well as a closed guard game. Of the two, I would say a good open guard game is more important. The closed guard is easier to pick up for a beginner but open guard is such a huge part of bjj at the higher levels that the sooner you start to learn it the better.
Avoiding submissions
There are a few submissions O can do to you whilst in your guard. Know them and avoid them.
Can opener
Thrusting choke (tsukkomi jime for any Japanese speakers among you)
Once these are on, escaping or countering requires that you open your guard. Hence, many use these techniques to open a closed guard in order to begin passing. However, they are legitimate submissions so be aware.
In addition, there are numerous leglocks that can be applied once O has opened your guard. You must learn at least the basics of leglock attack and defence.
When your guard is passed
So O opened your guard and you couldn't stop him from passing. Once you've lost the guard battle you begin a fight for posture, usually under side control.
- Keep your knees and elbows tight to your body and between you and him.
- Do not let O establish a comfortable side control.
- Don't let him take the underhook or crossface.
- Don't let him flatten you out, try to turn onto your side facing O.
- Scramble to use your escapes (turtling, returning to guard, spinning out etc.).
I have already posted on armbars and triangles from the guard and these are both high percentage techniques. However, there are many more techniques and submissions available from the guard, of which the main ones are collar and lapel chokes, shoulderlocks, sweeps and ways to take the back. Attack with combinations of these to keep the pressure on O.
I will add more to these later!
Collar and lapel chokes
Shoulderlocks
Sweeps
Hip bump sweep
Pedro threatens a collar choke to make O lean backwards
Locked guard sweep
Attacker breaks O's posture forward with a leg pull.
Locked guard sweep 2
Overhook sweep
Check how he takes the overhook grip with his left hand.
Scissor sweep to collar choke/armbar
Some no-gi moves
They work because O has no posture
Ways to take the back
Miscellaneous
Krellik's Lockflow thread
Lockflow techniques resource
Books I recommend
I recommend Essential Guard by Kid Peligro and Rodrigo Medeiros. It contains a wealth of useful information on the guard including nuances of posture and drills to help make your submissions more effective.
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