Zero-sum theory for BJJ competition, described by Cal MacDonald, a BJJ black belt who has has dedicated himself to developing his teaching and coaching skills to the highest possible level. This is from BJJ Foundations, the brand new amazing training curriculum, now available at https://www.grapplearts.com/bjj-foundations

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Hip pinning is one of the two most foundational methods of controlling an opponent in side control. Since we often are fighting our opponents legs before we pass the guard, focusing on pinning the hips first makes the goal so much easier as their leg moblity and movment is significantly restricted, and as we pass our ooponents hips already being on the floor makes the finish and control in side so much easier.

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The principle of side tilt in jiu jitsu is one of the most important to understand. To ever pass the guard you need to be able to pin your opponents hips and by staying on your side intially, you make passing harder as well as increase your opportunity for offense. Additionally understanding this makes your goals in passing much more clear as well.

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Getting your guard passed sucks. The problem is that we tend to fight hard to prevent it from happening, only to be exhausted, mentally and physically, when and if it happens. But, by prioritizing your tactics for guard play, guard retention and pass prevention in early to late stages, you can take some of the stress and exhaustion out of the process. In this video, I try to offer some solutions for that process. Hope it helps.

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This new guard pass technique has been a lot of fun working. Often when you throw your opponents leg to one side they reloop their other leg, but controlling their leg under the other makes it impossible to throw the leg over to defend. This is a new technique in working so I will be adding to it more over the next months.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 Discovering Pass
1:47 The Pass
3:09 Set Ups
6:29 Sparring

The most common escape from mount is the elbow escape. Learning to properly pin your opponents shoulder blades is the key to stopping the escape and starting to attack.

Breaking Posture is the key to creating offense from the guard, distance is the most efficient method to accomplish this goal.

Going into a low tension state right before exploding to execute a technique makes it so much more difficult for your opponent to predict your moves and make you feel significantly stronger.

Instead of letting your opponent establish a dominant guard you should either establish your passing position or create movement and then pass guard retention movements. From https://www.grapplearts.com/oldpass

This video I go over the 5 biggest guard passing Mistakes. Passing the open guys is one of the hardest things in jiu jitsu because there is so many types of guard and body types. However there are some core principles that when you understand them make a huge difference in your ability to pass. Be sure to check out my passing play list for more specific systems for passing open guard positions.

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The mount is an extremely powerful control position but is only effective if you understand how to utilize it properly. In this clip from BJJ Building Blocks, 3rd-degree black belt Nicolas Gregoriades explains some basic principles and concepts that will help you to attack more effectively from the mount.

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