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

0:00 How to learn the half granby movement
0:58 How to learn the high leg movement
2:08 How to learn the full inversion on the wall

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!

Do this if people keep on passing your half guard! This is from the Guard Retention Formula, a step-by-step BJJ instructional I produced. Go to https://www.grapplearts.com/guardretention for more information

The Hand-Hand-Heels-Hip formula can be used to stop a TON of different guard passes but in this short segment I show how it can used against the folding pass. If you haven’t already done so, go grab my best BJJ beginner tips here completely for free: http://www.grapplearts.com/book