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Upgrade your Shoulder Crunch Sweep #bjj #jiujitsu #grappling

Gary Berger — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:59 +0000

Shoulder crunch sweep missing details.
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No gi

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3 Counters to the BJJ Arm Drag to Turn the Tables On Your Opponent

Gary Berger — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:01:48 +0000

The armdrag from guard is a technique used to win high level competitions all the time – here’s how to counter it!
00:00 Armdrag Demo
00:10 Counter 1: The Judo Chop
00:35 Counter 2: Redrag to Back
01:08 Counter 3: Post, Pike, Pass, Followup

If you want to see the rolling backtake at the end of counter from another angle check out https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v25UGrOFqYs

Here’s a detailed breakdown of the different styles of armdrag from the Armdrag and 2-on-1 Control Formula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxE9Mwu6_IM

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Darce Choke from Butterfly Guard

Gary Berger — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:39:04 +0000

This Darce from butterfly (often called the Marce choke) is an effective and deceptive submission. In this clip from a recent class, I show some helpful details for setting up and securing this choke.

#marcechoke #darcechoke #bjj #submissiongrappling #jiujitsu #armdrag #butterflyguard #knightjiujitsu #rollbliss

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Hip TURN to Side Smash!

Gary Berger — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:30:24 +0000

This video I teach how to turn your hip to enter in the side smash guard pass system. Check out the details and you are sure to find something useful! Enjoy! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please comment below. More videos to come! Please like, share, and subscribe!!

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How to Use Butterfly Guard vs a Bigger Opponent

Gary Berger — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:01:11 +0000

Fighting bigger opponents is always challenging, but if you control the grips and distance then you can avoid them crushing you and come out on top. The tips in this video apply to gi and no gi. Also, here here are some additional resources to check out if you’re always getting crushed on the bottom by bigger, stronger, younger punks…

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Arm Saddle to Choi Bar Details

Gary Berger — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:09:20 +0000

This arm saddle entry from butterfly is one of many setups from my recent video on butterfly guard on my youtube channel. This is a powerful position with great submission options, such as the Choi bar seen here. Check the whole thing out now.

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#choibar #udegatame #armlock #armsaddle #butterflyguard #submissiongrappling #jiujitsu #bjj

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Submit, Sweep & Take the Back from Butterfly Guard | Jiu-Jitsu Attack Options

Gary Berger — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:30:01 +0000

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Butterfly guard has the potential to be the best position to initiate sweeps, and it also a potentially target rich environment for setting up submissions and transitioning to other threatening positions. That’s the theme of this video. In this one, I show some options of what we can do from butterfly in order to attack the arms, transition into arm saddle, and attack the legs or take the back from X-Guard, all initiated from butterfly. I hope this helps your game!

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:05 – Entering Reverse X / Saddle
1:42 – Saddle Submission Options
3:11 – X-Guard Entry to Back Take Option
4:52 – Hiza Gatame from Opp Reaction
6:16 – Arm Saddle Entry & Attack Options
8:18 – Back Take from Arm Saddle
9:03 – Mindset Moment & Outtro

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How to Smash the Butterfly Guard and Take the Back

Gary Berger — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:48:28 +0000

The butterfly guard is a very powerful position, but if you know what to do, then you can defend the sweep, smash the guard, and take the back. This technique from the Rolling Backtakes for Everyone instructional (https://www.grapplearts.com/rollingbacktakes) is one of my very favorite ways to do just that, and if I can do it as a 54-year-old man with a hip replacement, then you can do it too!

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Cartwheel Counter to Butterfly Hook Sweep – Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida vs Oumar “Reug Reug” Kane

Gary Berger — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:04:36 +0000

How to counter the Butterfly Hook Sweep with a cartwheel pass, performed by Oumar “Reug Reug” Kane against Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida at the ONE FC.
Pay special attention on how to position your head when performing the butterfly hook sweep in order to maximize its effectiveness.

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Do you have a System and are you Working to Improve it?

Gary Berger — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:00:52 +0000

A friend of mine once said, “the only techniques you know are the ones that you can execute live.”

I’ve known so many people that try to learn every technique under the sun but most of those are irrelevant if you can’t make them work.

The better plan is to build a system and constantly work to refine it only adding techniques that fit into that system.

Then, the battle plan is to funnel them into your system. The way I explain it to my students is “You don’t have to be great at Jiu-Jitsu, you have to be great at YOUR Jiu-Jitsu. And, then make your opponent fight in the arena of your Jiu-Jitsu.’

But, again, rather than learning a lot of random techniques to convince myself that I am very knowledgeable I’m more focused on expanding or refining my system.

The first clip is a technique I use a lot because it’s vital if you play guillotines to stop an educated opponent who understands he needs to pass to the safe side.

And, I still use it all the time. But, because I use it all the time I was able to work out one of the weaknesses of it.

And, that is if I’m really working to drive his head down from the Butterfly guard for a more effective choke then my hooking leg becomes weak and it’s harder to keep connected to his leg.

Therefore, it’s harder to keep the hook and sweep him if he then jumps to the safe side.

So, I’ve developed some techniques to deal with this.

In the second clip, you can see one that I use.

I use my back leg to block and catch his leg so that I can reinsert my hook and complete the sweep.

This is why it’s important to develop your own system and then work to constantly explore it and increase its effectiveness.

Then your combative goal is to learn how to funnel your opponent into your system.

This is a far better use of your time than learning all the “best” techniques from a bunch of random systems which don’t actually fit together.

One final note to understand my system here. Often after, I sweep, I will post my foot on their hip and elevate my hips. This allows me space to readjust my grip and to use gravity into the choke.

But, Frank here is incredibly strong and was doing a good job hand fighting. So, I concede the reversal because I knew that he’d have a harder time fighting my hands on bottom and because he’d have his hips elevated which would mean I could easily sweep him and get back on top if I wanted.

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