The ability to stop your opponents guard passes defend and reset a position you can attack from is the foundation of a good guard. This video I go through 12 of the most important concepts for developing solid guard retention and defense. A lot of these details are shared in different places but having them all in one video I think will help make this video function as a strong foundation you can always reference. Quick reference for the video.

1. Maintaining Centered Hips
2. Protecting Elbow Knee Space
3. Using Outside Leg to Re-Center
4. Centering Using Your Arms
5. Elbow Frame to Center Hip
6. Forward Shrimp
7. Under Leg Reset
8. Active High Legs
9. Deflecting Grips with Your Hands
10. Sitting Up
11. Maintaining Distance When Sitting
12. Develop Basic Open Guards

List of Videos referenced
1. Forward Shrimp – https://youtu.be/Nv3qyfhEUcs
2. Collar Sleeve Overview – https://youtu.be/PKQEms4w9T4
3. Double Sleeve Overview – https://youtu.be/7u171XyjTwg
4. De La Riva Overview – https://youtu.be/-_Ye7G2N3S0

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This video I discuss Guard Retention and Proper Body Positioning. When you have no grips and defend off of your back I prefer to have a tight crunch position as it reduces the elbow knee space gap for your opponent to pass into, but one common problem people have is this leads to being exposed to stacks so it’s important to learn to defend both of these passes which for me usually turns into alternating how I position my body based off of what kind of pressure my opponent is putting on me.

Stack Defense Video Mentioned

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