The closed guard is one of the best, but most difficult positions one can use while on their back.  However, more and more students are opting out of using the closed guard to utilize fancier guards like de la riva guard, spider guard,...

Multiple Time Judo Olympian Gets You Unstuck Fast Being stuck in a strong, stubborn player's closed guard can be one of the most frustrating places to be in all of the possible positions you can be in because for every move you make,...

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...

Of all the differences seen between gi Jiu Jitsu and no-gi Jiu Jitsu, it think you’ll notice they are most different from the closed guard. Defending against the closed guard in the gi is easier because you can use grips to your advantage...

There are many ways of passing the guard. The two main styles of passing the guard are quick passing and pressure passing. Each style of guard passes also has its own subsets. These subsets include going under the legs or over the legs....

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...

The head and arm choke, also known as the kata gatami is a strangle submission used in grappling with great success. This is one of the more popular submissions MMA fighters look for when they establish top positions like mount, side control, and...

The closed guard is one of the most difficult positions to defend from in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. While the attacker has a variety of potential options to use against you including sweeps and submissions, the only real option the defender has is escaping....

No matter how long you have been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or other grappling martial arts. The fundamentals such as sweeps, chokes, guard passing, turtle, side control, mount, hip escapes, half guard, open guard, under and over hooks, and even something as basic...

Save Your Energy Against The Younger, More Aggressive Guys On That Mats Using This Efficient Style Of Guard Play From World Champion Rodrigo Artilheiro! Learn how to use the minimum amount of effort for maximum efficiency while playing bottom closed guard in Brazilian...

The 'Muriplata' From Closed Guard by Junior Mesquita Junior “Muri” Mesquita is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, and a big enthusiast of all kind of sports. He has about 20 years of experience in professional martial arts, where 16 of them are...

Back To The Basics! Opening Closed Guard Closed guard is something all BJJ players spend years and years learning to master. Not only do you have to learn how to attack and utilize closed guard to your advantage, you also how to learn...

Let’s face it, after you get a few years of experience in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or any other grappling martial art, the closed guard becomes something easy to overlook. It is a position we are all taught from day one. The closed guard...

 A major aspect of Jiu Jitu I struggled with a lot during white belt and blue belt years was guard retention. I did have a good guard in the sense that if I had you where I wanted you, like closed guard or...