Breakdown of how Nicholas Meregali transitioned from Knee Shield Half Guard to a hybrid Spider Single Leg X-Guard Sweep, at the 2022 IBJJF Brazilian Nationals (Brasileiro de Jiu Jitsu).

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The Collar Sleeve Omoplata threat is one of the most foundational attacks in all of jiu jitsu. It’s very easy to establish collar sleeve control on your opponent and once you have those grip the omoplata threat will make your opponent expose so many other openings, DLR, Matrix, Triangle, and more. This video I show a simple system to apply this technique and include plenty of narrated sparring in the end to show it in action.

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Technique Breakdown
2:46 Sparring Narration

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.

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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This is a really effective combination from Lazer Guard to Vice guard. The Lazer guard or cross sleeve guard is so powerful for setting up triangle chokes, but when you combine it with this vice guard set up its so hard to predict and defend. I go in depth into this combination with my brother in this video.

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Here’s an awesome Open Guard Drill to improve your transitions and control. The Open Guard is one of the most difficult guards to master in BJJ since there are so many options, and you can easily get overwhelmed.
In this open guard drill you will go through many guards, including reverse De La Riva, regular De La Riva, Lasso, Spider, Single Leg X, and X-Guard.
Try this drill with your partner and let me know how it goes!

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Here’s BJJ black belt Jon Thomas explaining the pros and cons of the shallow lasso hook vs the deep lasso hook from spider guard. This is an excerpt from https://www.grapplearts.com/the-open-guard-system/ which will give you a complete gameplan for the open guard!

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How to go from not having a grip to having a strong, favorable grip that will allow you to dominate the rest of the match. Featuring Jon Thomas from https://www.grapplearts.com/openguard The Open Guard System, the newly released instructional with 5 comprehensive, step-by-step volumes that give you a systematic and super-effective method for sweeping, submitting and dominating your opponent from the open guard.

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How to use open guards like the de la Riva Guard and X Guard and not stomp your partner in the junk. And how to rename offensive sweeps that refer to stomping your partner in the junk. From a Q&A Rob Biernacki and I did for The No Gi de la Riva Formula, which you can find out more about at https://www.grapplearts.com/dlr

Escape the mount using the “basic” Elbow Escape, 2015 PANAM breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NspbY…

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Professor Gustavo Gasperin breaks down how to counter the back step pass when playing De La Riva.