Best of Butterfly Guard by Cesar Casamajo

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What Will You Learn?

Butterfly guard is one of the first guards that most beginners learn; it’s one of the most basic and effective positions in all of grappling. You can use it to really manage an opponent’s weight, constantly destabilizing them until you sweep, making it a great guard against a huge variety of opponents.

Even still, so many people make huge mistakes in their butterfly guard attacks, and their guards suffer as a result. The opposite is also true, time after time you can get slowed down and stopped when trying to pass a good butterfly guard. Now, Cesar Casamajo is here to share all of his knowledge in unlocking the butterfly guard’s full potential, and in passing consistently from the top.

Cesar Casamajo is a black belt under Aldo Caveirinha, an instructor at Caveirinha Jiu-Jitsu in Hawaii, and an experienced competitor, with multiple IBJJF medals (including a Brazilian Nationals championship). Cesar brings an innovative perspective to his grappling, especially when fighting from his butterfly guard. While so many people are working with the same few standard grips and sweeps, Cesar has opened up the game with new entries and finishes to classic positions that he can use to surprise even the best.

When it’s done right, butterfly guard has some of the most potential of any guard in sport BJJ, MMA, or self-defense. It’s a great example of the philosophy of using leverage and momentum to control and defeat larger opponents, and it remains a favorite at any level of competition. For those who know how to really manage an opponent’s weight, and leverage into their own attacks, it becomes effortless to play guard.

This instructional set from Cesar is a full-service encyclopedia for the butterfly guard, bringing you from the most basic positional awareness, to how to sweep and attack in any situation, and then getting into how to pass and control from the top against butterfly! This is a crash course in mastering one of the most common positional battles in BJJ, and Cesar is here to unlock those secrets for you. With his clear, technical instructions, you have sweep after sweep at your disposal, one for any reaction or defense from the passer.

This isn’t your average instructional set because Cesar approaches his butterfly guard differently than most modern fighters. The traditional butterfly has you sit up and then sweep your opponent left and right, but Cesar changes that by adjusting his grips and pulling people over him, letting him control their weight fully and find his sweeps easier. With this new twist, you too can be attacking and defending in all new ways while your opponent is always a step behind.

The key to any good butterfly guard is in one word; destabilize. You have to take someone’s base and move and trap them so that they aren’t able to post and stay on top. After Cesar shows his bulletproof sweeps from the traditional butterfly, with detail after detail on how to stay in control and one step ahead of your opponent, you’ll have a full system on what to do, no matter what reaction they give or how they try to slow you down. These combinations are sure to supercharge your butterfly guard and leave you sweeping everyone!

Once you have a full understanding of those positions and techniques, it’s time to enter into Cesar’s trademark Casamajo guard, a butterfly variation that Cesar has used effectively and reliably against some of the best in the world. With his grips and adjustments, he’s so much more explosive, and so much better able to drop under an opponent so that he can better control someone’s weight and base. Now, these guard secrets and innovations can be yours! Learn this new position and see for yourself why Cesar has created one of the best butterfly guards in the game today.

After you are done learning sweep after sweep, it’s time for Cesar to show you some of his best and most reliable passes against butterfly guard. Always win the butterfly guard, from top or bottom, with this full-service volume that emphasizes what really matters and gives you the tools to improve yourself. Once you’ve learned the basic positioning to stay safe and mobile from top, Cesar will show you a few simple but crafty adjustments he makes to kill the bottom man’s hips (and with them, the guard). Once you have passed the guard, make sure to check out Cesar’s patented Casamajo choke, a sneaky submission he locks in from side control!

Plus much, much more...

Cesar Casamajo is a talented young black belt, and he is here to show you how to win the butterfly guard like he does, no matter who your opponent is. With technique after technique, this 2-volume set is a can’t-miss for anyone looking to improve their guard. Learn and improve with this modern approach to a classic and traditional position, as Cesar Casamajo gives you the best of butterfly guard.

So, What's On The Series?

Part 1
intro
intro to butterfly
classic butterfly sweep
pushover situp sweep
slide under sweep
first 4 techniques in conjunction
back take from butterfly guard
trapping the shoulder butterfly sweep
casamajo flip from butterfly
casamajo flip backwards
opposite hand breaking the posture sweep
far side arm control sweep
balloon sweep from butterfly

Part 2
basic positioning for butterfly pass
knee cut split
hip control pass
mounting using the worm
triangle from side control
hip control leg trap mount
casamajo choke