Gordon Ryan Explains His Guard Passing System Gordon Ryan is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt from the United States who specializes in submission only grappling. Gordon is an ADCC World Champion and a four time EBI (Eddie Bravo Invitational) Champion. Ryan began...

For the most part, closed guard is the first guard you learn in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the last one you will master.  Everybody remembers their first bjj class, most of them include an introduction to what guard is by demonstrating closed guard,...

Bernardo Faria is a champion of many talents in Jiu Jitsu. His deep half and z guard games are well known in the Jiu Jitsu community as his dominating style of pressure passing. But what people forget about the multiple time BJJ champion is that he also has a world class closed guard as well. […]

The flower sweep is one that you will keep coming back to in your Jiu Jitsu journey. It is simple, yet highly effective. The fact that it can be done both gi or no gi just adds to that power that is the flower sweep. When it comes to the closed guard, this is one […]

The full guard is one of my favorite positions. It is one of the safer positions to play, so it is low risk for you, yet dangerous for your opponents to be there. The guard allows for a ton of control with posture breaking, gi control and limb control. But, probably my favorite reason to […]

When you first start to learn Jiu Jitsu, the most important spot you can practice is the guard, the full guard. The guard allows for many offensive and defensive opportunities. It also a relatively easy to get to the position. Besides all of that, unless you wrestled while in school, you will probably find yourself […]

One of the often overlooked set up points for multiple attacks is the overhook from full guard. Maintaining a powerful overhook on an opponent while he/she is in your guard, allows you more controllable stability for different attacks.  It also works on slowing down an opponent’s pace and allows you to begin to impose your […]