Wrist Locks are one of the best ways to make your training partners not like you and Roger Gracie is one of the best Jiujiteiro ever. A deadly combination. Here, Roger Gracie shows how to attack the wrist from your Closed Guard!...

I remember it like it was yesterday. Learning the scissor sweep for the very first time, I was completely enamored. I was so incredibly impressed by the fact that we could position our bodies in a manner that allowed us to perform this...

  We could all use more efficiency when it comes to our guard. Of course, retention comes to mind here, as keeping a guard is first and foremost a priority. But efficiency transcends all the layers of guard. How hard are you working...

One of the most important parts of your game that you should always be looking to develop and grow in is your ability to sweep.  Listen, I get it, no one likes to be in the bottom position where they have to sweep,...

  When you watch highlights of competitions, it seems like the open guards, the lapel guards, and leglocks are taking over the sport. Its easy to overlook the older guards, like the half guard, the closed guard.  These old guards are still important...

  The Closed Guard is BACK, but also it never left. A lot of time is being reinvested into studying the guard at the highest levels just ask some of these guys! To many it is evident as to why they would spend...

Securing an armbar from the bottom guard can be a difficult task. We run in to several problems when trying to acquire the submission, including posture, adequate control of the limb, and so forth. While the arm bar can be performed very technically,...

What is the BEST guard? This question can stir quite the debate among the Jiu-Jitsu community, and rightfully so. For one the question has a lot of variables. BUT in this blog we are going to talk about why Closed Guard is KING...

Back at it again fellow Jiu jitsu nerds, today we are talking closed guard. Every white belt on their first week of Jiu jitsu learns certain things, you’re going to learn how to break fall, self-defense techniques, a technical stand up, a judo throw, and...

The flower sweep is a closed guard sweep that students usually learn as white belts. It follows in suit in simplicity with the sit-over sweep and the scissor sweeps. These are three sweeps from closed guard that every white belt should know before...

The arm bar is one of the oldest submissions used in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This submission is one of the earliest ones new students learn because of how often it can be attacked. Even people who don’t train Jiu Jitsu know what an...

Closed guard is one of the most basic and fundamental jiu jitsu guards that every martial artist knows, and every fighter must have an answer for. Still, for so many BJJ players, it ends up evolving into a position to hold and recover...

If you’ve been training Jiu Jitsu for more than a few months by the time you got to this article, you probably think the closed guard is a boring position that doesn’t work against anyone that has a blue belt or higher rank....

Many experienced grapplers consider the closed guard to a simple, boring, and ineffective position. If you have been training for a while, you might consider a lot of the fundamental techniques and positions you learned early in your white belt days to be...

Wrist Lock From Bottom Closed Guard by Rodrigo Artilheiro Wrist locks do not get enough attention in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Some BJJ players forget that wrist locks can be hit from virtually any position. The wrist lock, if properly applied, is one of...