GUARD BASICS
Alright, now we are going to work on a couple of ways to sweep your opponent from guard, to keep your opponent from passing your guard and to submit him from guard.
First thing we are going to do is talk about the actual guard, the semantic so that the base and the things, chin and nose keep him from passing, alright.
So we've got ourself in guard. This is a closed guard, called a Closed Guard because my feet are crossed. There is more of a defensive position or starling position. If you step him back to punch I can use my legs to pull his body weight toward me so I can block the punches.
This is an open guard or any variation there are because my feet are not crossed, alright. A lot of people like to play the open guard from here, some people like to sit up playing open guard from here. A lot of people call this a Butterfly Guard. I mean, there are all kinds of variations. There are spider guards, some people call the Monkey Guard, there are all kinds of variations.
Right now we are going to stick with the basics. I am going to start from the closed guard and we are going to work on some ways to get your opponent over to your mount.
Your opponent is either going to sit with his posture up or he is going to be down, like a Mayflower. If his posture is up, he is probably going to be trying to pass your guard, alright. We want to keep control of his arms by holding him behind the elbow. We don't want to necessarily just hold here, as a good temporary position, but if we just hold here he is going to break our grip. If we hold behind the elbow now when he tries to break our guard we can use our hands to move his elbows so we can manipulate his arms, alright.
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