Staying safe in the closed guard is hard. There’s all kinds of threats like cross chokes, scissor sweeps, and kimuras just to name a few. These simple rules for white belts can help though.

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This a small adjustment in the grip that I noticed while watching the Magid Hage vs Clark Gracie match. It has made an instant improvement in my baseball bat choke in half guard. I’ve been hitting it left and right ever since.

The key with baseball bat chokes though is that they are cross chokes. The grips are just reversed initially to conceal the threat, and then a correction is made by rotating the body.

And that’s not all.

One crucial rule of thumb is that you will significantly increase the leverage if you can get your head under theirs. In a half guard, shooting the head under their chin as you close your elbow just makes the finish vicious.

And small adjustments like that make a difference.

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The lockdown has one purpose, and it does it really really well. It is a kneecut killer. The absolute worst way to get past the lockdown is with the kneecut.

But it also has a flaw.

And you can exploit the hell out of it over and over and over again.

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These are some of the tricks you can use to escape the bow and arrow choke at the later stages of the threat (if you can’t avoid getting there in the first place).

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I taught myself how to granby as a white belt, and these are the progressions I used to accomplish that feat. It’s important to understand though, that I weighed around 280 at that time, and it was still possible.

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* Pendulum Sweep
* Hip Bump Sweep
* Scissor Sweep
* Xande Sweep

These four closed guard sweeps are essential for all Jiu-jitsu practitioners to know. Even if you choose not to master them, someone is going to try them on you. So you must know how to recognize them.

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This is a highly effective system for dealing with smash half guard. Just because you lost the underhook, it doesn’t mean that it’s the end of the world. Show em that you’re still dangerous.

I learned most of it from Vince Quitigua’s Lost Secrets of the Half Guard instructional waaay back, and I still use it in my game even now.

But that’s not all.

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These are three attacks from kneeshield that I’ve had a lot of success with. They will give you a strong series in the position.

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It can be easy to neglect the basic movements, but they are the building blocks for large sections of the game. And if you appreciate them and work on them, it will pay immense dividends for your game.

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