The São Paulo Passing System by Leonardo Nogueira

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What Will You Learn?

Learn the pressure secrets behind World Champion Leo Nogueira’s passing system. Leo has one of the best Sao Paulo passes of all time, and he shows how to take this simple pass and supercharge it so that it works against anyone. Get the details behind the crushing top game that he has been able to use against all the guards at the black belt level. Across 4-volumes, anyone can use the hidden details behind being a guard passing machine like Leo Nogueira.

The Sao Paulo pass is an old school pressure pass, pinning and crushing your way with leverage through the guard to great positions. Even against bigger, stronger people, this system works because it’s about technique and positioning and NOT brute strength. With variations for every situation and counters for some of the trickiest guards you will see on the mat, this is a full system around breaking down, pinning, and passing someone’s guard every time.

Leo Nogueira is a two-time world champion and one of the best Alliance black belts ever. As a black belt he has done it all, winning Worlds, Pan Ams, Euros, even Brasilieros in the absolute division!

Through his whole career, he has relied on steady pressure and guard passing to win at the highest levels. Leo has wins over Buchecha, Xande Ribeiro, Keenan Cornelius, Luiz Panza, and more in his long career and now YOU can learn the passes that he was using. Across 4 volumes, with pressure passes, knee slides, and folding smash passes, you can have a dominant pass in every situation.

In addition to Leo’s signature Sao Paulo pass, watch as Leo breaks down his best smash passes and folding passes. He has variations that he hits from a ton of different positions, and finishes that work against anyone.

Learn some of the best folding passes on the market with this step-by-step instruction on all the positions you can hit it from, and how to use it to finish against any counters (even turning it into mounts and back takes).

The Sao Paulo pass can be an antidote for the closed guard, but Leo goes a step further and shows how you can impose your top game on some of the trickiest guards, including spider, lasso, and De La Riva.

Leo takes some of the toughest guards to pass and devotes entire sections to how you to control and pressure your way through. Every volume is packed with techniques that will work for you!

Start with the foundations of Leo’s passing game, his dreaded Sao Paulo pass. This isn’t a brute force move, it’s a very precise way to use your body to pin someone down and pop open their guard, and learning all the ways to attack from here will give you a brand new weapon in your game to use. Build on this pass with smashing pressure passes like the folding pass and the weave pass, including multiple ways to finish each on depending on the situation.

Start to learn to win against the most troublesome and common guards in BJJ with Leo’s series around dealing with the butterfly guard and knee shield. Leo explains how to stay safe and use technique and patience to get to better position, including some of the most important details that Leo sees most people overlooking.

Leo also shows all of his passing series around the spider and lasso, two of the hardest guards to pass in BJJ. By combining different passes that he can cycle through, he gives himself a toolkit to use that opens even the most stubborn guards. Leo is able to tie these guards back to his earlier pressure passes, while also showing new tactics you can use including torreandos, leg drags, and stack passes.

Leo’s focus on passing the most common guards include his series’ around dealing with the De La Riva and Inverted De La Riva hooks. Using battle tested detail, he shows how anyone can break open these guards and work for a bunch of different attacks, including knee slides, stacks, folding passes, and more. Don’t get caught up with your legs hooked and controlled again with Leo’s passing secrets.

So, What's On The Series?

Part 1
Basic São Paulo Pass
São Paulo Pass with Lapel Passed
São Paulo Pass with Arm Passed
High Posture São Paulo Pass
Knee Shield to Knee Slice with Neck Crank
Pressure Weave
Pressure Weave to Mount
2 Option Folding Pass
3 Option Attack to Beat the Knee Shield

Part 2
2 Hook Butterfly Pass
Single Hook Butterfly Pass
Folding Pass with 3 Options
Side Step Spider Guard Pass with Bridge
Spider Guard Pass to the Wrong Side
Spider Guard Pass to Leg Drag

Part 3
Double Spider to Side Butterfly Pass
Double Spider Stack Pass
Short Lasso/Spider Pass
Lasso Guard to Torreando Pass
Lasso Guard to Neck Crank Pass
Flip Pass from Lasso Guard
Knee Slice from Lasso Guard
Deep Lasso to Over Under Pass
Deep Lasso to Folding Pass
De La Riva to Terere Pass

Part 4
De La Riva to Staple Pass
De La Riva to Knee Slice
Leg Drag + Inverted Leg Drag from De La Riva
De La Riva to Stack Pass
Inverted De La Riva to Folding Pass with 3 Finishing Options
Stepover Pass from Inverted De La Riva
Inverted De La Riva to Knee Cut Pass from Behind