These three guard retention movements are critical for stopping the guard pass; here’s how to train them on your own against a wall. Taught by Cal MacDonald from the BJJ Foundations instructional available at https://www.grapplearts.com/foundations

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Elbow-knee connection is one of the most important tools in the guard retention toolbox, and if you want your opponent to have a tough time passing your guard then you have to develop this skill. This concept and many others are covered in much greater detail in The Guard Retention Formula that I put together with BJJ black belt Rory Van Vliet – more info here: https://www.grapplearts.com/guardretention

In order to pass your guard your opponent needs to invade the space between your knee and your elbow, so use elbow-knee connection to deny him that space. From https://www.grapplearts.com/oldguard, the instructional for grapplers 40 and over, available in DVD, online streaming, and app-based formats featuring Rob Biernacki and Stephan Kesting

This video I overview three simple details people often miss with their guard retention.
1. Hip Angling to keep your feet in alignment with the direction your opponent is trying to pass.
2. Keeping Shoulder Blades Off The Mat
3. Proper use of feet on hips or upper body depending on opponents posture.

Continuing our seminar on guard retention, we show how this basic drill applies on the ground when someone is trying to pass the guard. There are a lot of counter attacks along the way. One of my favorites is the inverted triangle. It offers a bunch attacks and sweeps. We focus mostly on the close side arm.

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November 2021 I had the honor of returning to my friend’s academy to teach another seminar. This one I focused mostly on guard retention with some more advanced counter attacks. We start very basic in this video after an introduction and discussion about our beginnings and history of jiu-jitsu in Ohio.

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Today’s video is a series of stretches I like using after BJJ training to help improve recovery from hard rolling sessions and improve guard retention abilities.

I started doing these back in 2020 to loosen up my hips while I had some free time away from the gym. I’m a person who’s not the most flexible. And by doing these stretches on a regular basis I found my hips became more flexible, my guard retention improved and I believe they help with my recovery after training.

I’m sharing them with you because I find a lot of people who come in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu classes have super tight hips. Tight hips are a problem in BJJ for a lot of reasons. And being effective off of your back is one of them.

So in the video I’ll show you the stretches and explain why I use them during.

Hope the video and the stretches help you!
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This calf grip is so useful for transitioning from defense to offense in BJJ. One of the first defensive grips you will establish in jiu jitsu is a shin frame as people try to step towards you all the time, so turning this grip into your first grip allows you to immediately switch to attacking. Transitioning to De La Riva or Key Master immediately starts opening options for berimbolo, matrix, ankle locks and crab ride.

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From https://www.grapplearts.com/guardretention. The twist sweep is a fantastic defense against pressure passing in general, and the over-under pass in particular!

Whenever your opponent pushes your legs down to disengage your hooks or to pin them to the ground you’re in danger of having your guard passed. From https://www.grapplearts.com/armdrag with Rob Biernacki and Stephan Kesting here’s how to stop your opponent from controlling your legs and make him pay for even thinking about passing your guard!

Guard Recovery Fundamentals Online Course: https://guardrecoveryfundamentals.com/

If your guard sucks and keeps getting passed like a hot knife through butter, then Guard Recovery Fundamentals is for you!

The first ten lessons are about how to maintain and recover your guard in a self-defense scenario. This is the foundation for the whole course, and it was passed directly to me by my coach, Fabricio Werdum.

I’m very proud to be teaching these drills because there are not many people in the BJJ community who are aware of them.

Also, if you have wife and kids that don’t train Jiu Jitsu, then this is the perfect introduction to the art. Not to mention that these are real life-saving skills!

We will then move to the sport Jiu Jitsu and talk about the main differences between the two, especially regarding the distance management/control.

You will learn how to establish safe grips, safe guard, and when necessary recover against the most common passes, like the knee-slice, over-under, leg drag, long step, double-unders, and stack pass.

Last but not least we will go over the Cocoon position, which is the foundation for an impenetrable defense. When things go wrong and your guard gets passed, the Cocoon is the place to stay until it’s time to recover again.

Most of the escapes originating from the Cocoon are gonna go through the turtle position, so the final part of the series will cover in-depth that aspect of the game.

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How to prevent and defend the Torreando guard pass by BJJ black belt Thomas Lisboa. The Torreando is probably the most common guard pass in which your opponent controls your lower legs at the feet or knees with his hands and then steers your legs one way while passing to the other side. This pass was originally done with a tossing motion, but nowadays (and especially in the gi) most people typically retain control of the knees and use a steering wheel motion to push your legs out of the way while they either drop their shoulder onto your belly or come around to knee mount. In this video you’ll learn 3 counters to this pass that will work both with and without the gi.