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- Use the Reverse De La Riva guard to retain guard and start launching attacks off your back, with options to invert and not invert under for a more potent arsenal.
- Enter into the legs with traditional single leg X and X guard options that help you leg lock and transition to stronger positions.
- Lachlan Giles is an ADCC Absolute bronze medalist, with one of the most legendary runs to the podium ever using the techniques he uses on this series.
- Learn the 70/30 heel hook position that Lachlan specializes in, including how to heel hook systematically.
Course Content
Volume 1
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
Reverse De La Riva - Overview, retention, entries - Intro to RDLR | 0 |
Offensive options | 1:35 |
The RDLR hook | 4:32 |
Control both their shoulders | 8:51 |
Top leg and battle for control | 11:10 |
Narration: Entries and getting to offense | 16:11 |
RDLR offense principles - Elevate their hips | 23:55 |
Elevating the leg | 25:28 |
Freeing the bottom leg | 26:40 |
Choosing attack based on far leg position | 28:53 |
Non-inversion offense - Non invert offense | 30:38 |
Primary attack: RDLR to DLR | 31:12 |
To far leg K guard | 38:34 |
To Modified X guard | 43:09 |
Narration | 47:59 |
Volume 2
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
Inversion options - Primary attack: invert | 0 |
Timing the invert | 4:31 |
Grip type: Implications for the invert | 7:01 |
Don't swing your leg wide | 12:53 |
Heel grip invert (when shin horizontal) | 16:35 |
Invert vs drop to knee 70/30 entry | 21:08 |
Invert Vs standing tall 50/50 entry | 26:07 |
Invert Vs stand tall &back near leg K guard entry | 31:51 |
Summary and strategy | 35:50 |
Narration invert offense | 37:11 |
Volume 3
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
RDLR Summary and troubleshooting - Summary | 0 |
Estima lock | 2:33 |
Toe hold and kneebar | 4:16 |
Standing crab ride - Breaking them down | 6:28 |
VS staying upright | 13:37 |
Adjuncts - Drills | 17:16 |
RDLR live examples | 19:38 |
Volume 4
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
50/50 AND 70/30 - Intro and overview - 50/50 &70/30: pros, cons | 0 |
Entries - From open guard | 4:44 |
Entry from knee ride attempt | 6:48 |
Narration entries | 9:10 |
50/50 - Tilt to heel hook | 13:20 |
Spin to heel hook | 14:13 |
VS counter heel hook | 22:08 |
To 70/30 | 24:56 |
Summary | 29:21 |
Narration | 30:33 |
Volume 5
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
70/30 - Positioning | 0 |
Facing in or away and ability to get up | 3:42 |
70/30 facing in - Overview of options | 4:43 |
Primary Attack VS stand up invert to heel hook | 6:15 |
Drop to hip: Elbow hop heel hook | 13:00 |
They turn away: Back take | 19:01 |
Troubleshooting leg pummelling | 25:33 |
They face you: fishnet | 28:29 |
Narration | 35:33 |
Volume 6
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
70/30 facing away - Options | 0 |
Primary attack: Get up sweep | 0:51 |
To backside 50/50 | 6:06 |
To berimbolo | 13:13 |
When you Lose the leg: Bolo | 17:53 |
Narration 70/30 facing away | 19:24 |
Chapter summaries - Entries to 50/50 &70/30 | 25:21 |
50/50 | 27:10 |
70/30 | 28:44 |
Drills | 29:59 |
Live clips | 32:42 |
Volume 7
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
Single Leg X and X Guard - Overview - Intro to SLX and X | 0 |
Positional hierarchy | 2:30 |
Positions I don't use - Outside ashi | 6:02 |
The reap | 7:46 |
Reverse X | 9:39 |
Entries - Entries to SLX and X | 11:37 |
Single Leg X - Options from SLX | 14:10 |
Opponents options | 15:30 |
Foot on hip vs hook | 17:31 |
Right leg position | 22:07 |
Arm positioning | 23:52 |
Hands to the mat | 25:39 |
Retention | 27:09 |
Primary attack SLX lumberjack sweep | 31:59 |
Get up vs drop to knee | 35:41 |
To 70/30 | 38:27 |
To X guard | 42:00 |
Summary SLX | 45:41 |
X guard - Options from X guard | 47:29 |
Top player options | 48:09 |
Positioning | 48:38 |
Primary attack: Technical stand up | 53:09 |
To 70/30 and back | 59:03 |
To backside 50/50 | 1:03:54 |
Lumberjack sweep | 1:05:51 |
Summary - Summary Single X and X Guard | 1:08:29 |
Drills | 1:10:39 |
Narrated rolling | 1:12:25 |
Live clips | 1:24:11 |
Volume 8
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
Intro | 0 |
Open Guard Summary | 0:52 |
Continuous narrated rolling | 7:06 |
ADCC Absolute Medalist Lachlan Giles Shares His System For The No-Gi Open Guard With Reverse De La Riva &Leg Entanglements On This 8-Volume Mega Series
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What Will You Learn?
Learn the systematic no-gi open guard with this 8-volume series on using the reverse de la riva guard and the X guard to set up leg entanglements, sweeps, and more with Lachlan Giles’s help. Lachlan is one of the most requested instructors on BJJ Fanatics, and now you can learn some of the same tricks that helped him excel in his career.
Lachlan Giles used his tricky and methodical open guard to medal in the absolute division in the 2019 ADCC World Championships, heel hooking three much larger black belts on his way to bronze. Now you can learn some of those same techniques in this masterclass on using the reverse De La Riva and the x guard family to attack.
With options to invert and options that don’t need inverting, learn how grapplers of all levels can use this series to level up. Use the reverse De La Riva hook to manage pressure, off balance, and find your way to high percentage offense using Lachlan’s guidance and structured teaching.
Modify the X guard and learn how to take this well known leg locking position and start using it for innovative and proven entries into 50/50 attacks and inside heel hooks from unusual angles, with Lachlan showing you every detail you’ll need for success.