Basics To Advanced: Open Guard Engagement by Aaron Benzrihem

Learn The Ins And Outs To Engaging From Open Guard Against ANYONE With Bernardo Faria Black Belt Aaron Benzrihem 

Open Guard Engagement Can MAKE OR BREAK A Match, Start Dictating The Pace - Learn A Simplified Approach With Focus On Universal Basic Concepts

Open Guard Engagement With Aaron Benzrihem

What Will You Learn?

This is a unique instructional that is devoted to simple and effective systems and concepts. It is created with the sole intent of helping people start a roll while playing open guard pr butterfly. Often times people are scared to start in open guard because explosive or heavy passer will blast past or smash pass. Aaron is here to show you how to prevent this. 

Starting from the open guard can be scary and it can make or break a match. What that means is that if you don't hand fight and engage properly you could spend the rest of the roll making up for it and over exerting. For example, if your opponent immediately gets to an over under smash pass, now you are forced to defend this exhausting pass and they could end up passing and submitting. 

Maybe you don't engage properly and they immediately go after your legs, now y YOU ARE PLAYING CATCH UP. Aaron is here to help you stop playing catch up and dictate the pace. 

Aaron is going to break things down conceptually and systematically by explaining three simple types of engagement, side engagement attacks, over head engagement attacks, and simple attacks. The combination of these three engagement approaches will help get you to a stronger position and see how you can get to different guards like spider guard, closed guard, single leg x guard, and MANY MORE.  

Aaron is going to walk you through engaging against different types of opponents and stances with technical concepts. Learn to approach a standing opponent, kneeling opponent, and someone in combat base.

Importance Of A Path:

Who Is Aaron Benzrihem?

Aaron Benzrihem is a Marcelo Garcia Brown Belt and now Bernardo Faria's first black belt, he is and Instructor/avid competitor at The Bernardo Faria Academy in Bedford, MA.  With multiple IBJJF medals and Fight To Win victories as well as dozens of local tournament medals and open class medals where he frequently competes and wins as a Light Feather (137.0 lbs). 

He is also an up and comping YouTube instructor with thousands of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views.  Aaron is growing because of his incredible way of breaking down a technique.  Many people consider him an incredible instructor. Here is what some people are saying about his teaching. 

So What Exactly Do You Get?

Volume 1: Engagement Gi

• Introduction to series 
• Concepts vs technique 
• The importance of hand fighting
• The importance of a path 
• Focusing on one side of the body approach 
• Side engagements breakdown 
• Overhead engagements breakdown 
• Simple attacks breakdown

Volume 2: Engaging with opponent on knees / combat base

• Using the collar and sleeve (kick the knee - back, single x, closed, half, knee shield, etc) 0
• Using the 2 on 1 (same as above)
• Using the traditional drag (same as above)
• Double lapels
• Double unders 
• Simple attacks - Ankle picks, shove, cross collar to get up 

Engaging with standing opponent (side engagement)

• Using collar and sleeve (dlr, spider, lasso, classic open, rdlr, collar sleeve)
• Using the 2 on 1 (same as above - add slx, X and leg entries) 
• Sitting up for takedowns and re-pulling guard (replicates overhead engagement)
• Simple attacks - dummy sweep, ankle picks
• Overview of application/outro(no gi)

So What Does It All Cost? 

$47