They'll never see this coming The De La Riva guard was introduced by Ricardo De La Riva and has become a staple in the open guard of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In the past decade, grapplers like the Rafael Mendes, the Miyao brothers, and...

Praying to learn some new guards? What’s your guard of choice? Every so often a new form of guard will hit the internet and make its rounds through all the social media channels. BJJ players all over the world continue to revolutionize the...

F2W's Ringmaster Shares Unique Kimura The kimura just keeps showing up lately in a lot of new instructional material and YouTube videos. Practitioners everywhere have been putting it through the ringer, and presenting us with some pretty interesting variations of the classic submission. Fight...

 Vinicius "Trator" Ferreira is one of the toughest brown belts under the Alliance flag today.  He has won the world championships at both the purple and the brown belt levels.  In the video below featuring Bernardo Faria, he shows one of his favorite...

The De La Riva guard has long been regarded as one of the earliest and most well-developed versions of open guard that have existed in the history of BJJ.  Popularized by its namesake Ricardo de la Riva who is credited with being the...

There is an old martial arts quote, attributed to the legendary Bruce Lee that says that we should not fear the person who has trained ten thousand types of kicks one time, but should fear the person that has trained one kick, ten thousand...

We all have those guys in our academies that love to play that pesky De La Riva guard, some of them even try and berimbolo us.  This can be a nuisance to many of us.  How can we beat the De La Riva...

De La Riva guard has exploded with popularity in the last decade.  Many of the best Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitors in the world have innovated the infamous De La Riva Guard.  Some of the competitors famous for using this guard are Caio Terra,...

Take a moment and think back to a simpler time, when you were just starting jiu jitsu and all you knew was the closed guard.  Ah life seemed to be so easy, all you had to do was keep your opponent wrapped up...

Distance management is an extremely important concept for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, especially when you are a smaller person.  Being small in bjj can be a blessing and a curse.  If you don’t learn the right moves and can’t create a distance based game,...

De La Riva or DLR guard has exploded with popularity in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu over recent years.  Why is so common now?  There several reasons that contribute to its popularity, obviously, it is extremely effective, versatile and efficient.  We are not going to...

The single leg take down is one of the most effective take downs in grappling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu specifically.  In our last blog post, we discussed the double leg take down and how important it is to develop a take down game...

While there are many great open guards in Jiu Jitsu, one of the most popular seems to be the De La Riva guard. The DLR guard offers some awesome guard sweeps. If you’re a person that loves to play the top game, but find yourself having trouble taking people down, the De La Riva guard […]

Do you constantly get beat by people using the De La Riva guard? Are you being swept over and over, while trying to pass? Well, you might be over-looking one of the best options to beat the DLR guard. That option is to submit. The majority of the time, people spend a lot of energy […]

The De La Riva guard can be such a fantastic guard if you know how to work it. The bread and butter techniques of De La Riva guard are the sweeps. It is a guard where if you know how to control your opponent with it, that you’ll be easily able to complete any of […]