GUARD BASICS
The next position that we are going to work on is the guard, and the guard. You can think of it -- it's kind of like the mount, but upside down, okay. So, in our guard position, and we are going to show this from couple of angles, in our guard position, notice that I have my feet crossed right now. This is called your closed guard and the closed guard is only used for stalling over defense, trying to keep him from passing. If my legs are not crossed, it's an open guard. Some people will even sit up and will play a butterfly guard, there is a lot of different variation to this, there is De la Riva guard, there is X-guard, there is a monkey guard. There is all kinds of different guards, but the one we are going to focus on is, not the closed guard, but once we've got in the closed guards to the open guard.
One thing that I do want to point out, that will cut out a lot of stuff for you. In the guard position, I am not going to have my legs way back here, if you will notice the angle of my hips, from here up, this is a very, very, very open angle, I don't want that, I want to bring my opponent to me and leaving my hips at a very sharp angle. This is much more effective for control, but also much more effective for attacking for submissions.
Okay, so again I roll my legs way back here because now there's way too much space. I am going to bring my opponent to me and leave my hips at a good angle. That's going to cut out lot of problems you run into, in the guard. This is again called your closed guard, this is being an open guard or any variation there are.
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