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Foundations of Guard: Attacking by Mikey Musumeci
Fight Off Your Back And Build The Guard Of Your Dreams With BJJ World Champion Mikey Musumeci’s Masterclass On How He Uses Open Guard To Win At The Elite Levels Of Grappling - Even Over Much Bigger & Stronger Opponents!
- In this 6-part series, learn how to play guard with techniques for high percentage sweeps and submissions that work together systematically to create a strong, unified game that you can attack with
- Mikey Musumeci is one of the greatest grapplers of his generation, with wins in the black belt world finals using these same techniques!
- Break down the goals and limitations of guard conceptually, so that you can understand the position better with Mikey’s advice on the guard boxes, gripping, alignment, and more
- Use the Tomoe Nage, double ankle sweep, tripod sweep, and much more - each one taught with incredible insight from one of the most thorough instructors on the planet
- Finish fights with some of BJJ’s best submission holds, including MIkey’s setups and variations of the triangle, omoplata, armbar, and more
Course Content
Volume 1
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Introduction Foundations of Guard - Attacks | 0 |
| Overview of where Guard is | 1:03 |
| Overview of Control and when we attack | 2:01 |
| What we are doing when we play guard | 4:51 |
| Concept about the collar grip | 7:12 |
| How to hold sleeve | 10:00 |
| The Two Bases on Top | 12:25 |
| The 3 Boxes of Attacks | 14:34 |
| The Alignment Concept | 18:34 |
| The concept of shoulders | 20:57 |
| The Double Ankle Sweep mechanics | 23:09 |
| The Double Ankle Sweep Position | 28:06 |
| The Tripod Sweep Concept | 31:45 |
| Tripod Sweep #1 | 34:12 |
| Tripod Sweep #2 | 39:14 |
| Tripod Sweep Variation cross sleeve | 44:30 |
Volume 2
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Tomo Nagi | 0 |
| Chaining Tomo Nagi and Double Ankle Sweep | 6:08 |
| Chaining double ankle sweep to tripod | 9:19 |
| Chaining to tripod sweep 2 | 12:45 |
| Entering Box 2 Submissions (Triangle) | 15:21 |
| Omoplata | 20:46 |
| Armbar | 26:41 |
| Chaining submsissions (Triangle to omoplata) | 30:20 |
| Chaining submissions (omoplata to triangle) | 32:52 |
| Chaining (triangle to armbar) | 35:57 |
| How I want you to drill this | 38:01 |
| Me drilling the submission chains | 40:29 |
Volume 3
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Spider Guard Introduction (Basic Tomo Nagi) | 0 |
| Spider Guard to triangle | 5:26 |
| Spider Guard Concept (Placement of foot on torso) | 9:35 |
| Spider using foot on bicep (Tomo Nagi and Triangle) | 11:18 |
| Spider Guard to Omoplata | 13:19 |
| Spider to double ankle sweep | 16:49 |
| Spider Guard Tomo Nagi Variation | 20:12 |
| Spider Guard de la riva side sweep | 24:05 |
| Spider Guard De la Riva Side Sweep variation | 29:24 |
| Spider Guard reverse de la riva Sweep | 33:07 |
Volume 4
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Spider Stomp inside hook to tomo nagi | 0 |
| Spider Stomp inside hook to double ankle sweep | 5:24 |
| Person Drops to Knees introduction | 8:19 |
| Spider Triangle from knees | 9:33 |
| Spider Seated Variation and BIG Guy alternative | 11:51 |
| Spider Triangle Kicking Knee Variation | 17:34 |
| Spider Side Sweep | 20:42 |
| Spider Side Sweep to Omoplata | 25:14 |
| Spider with Same side Collar Introduction + Triangle | 29:48 |
| Spider with Same Side Collar to Tomo Nagi | 32:55 |
| Spider Same Side Collar tomo nagi to triangle | 36:58 |
| Spider Same Side Collar stomp to inside hook Tomo Nagi | 39:31 |
Volume 5
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Introduction Box 3 taking back | 0 |
| Spider Same side collar stomp to Back Take | 2:20 |
| Collar Sleeve Introduction | 7:47 |
| Basic Collar Sleeve Triangle | 10:24 |
| IMPORTANT DETAIL + Collar Sleeve Omoplata | 12:21 |
| Collar Sleeve Tomo Nagi to Triangle | 18:15 |
| Must Watch!!! Most Important thing to know in Collar Sleeve | 20:56 |
| Collar Sleeve to Omoplata when they try to remove back leg | 24:19 |
| Collar Sleeve Side Sweep | 26:33 |
| Collar Sleeve Side Sweep to Omoplata | 29:58 |
| Flexible Variation if person keeps elbow tucked | 32:18 |
| Collar Sleeve De la Riva introduction + Omoplata | 36:41 |
| Collar Sleeve De la Riva Side Sweep | 39:59 |
| Going back to Omoplata when person defends side sweep | 43:10 |
Volume 6
CHAPTER TITLE
START TIME
| Same Side Collar and elbow control De la Riva | 0 |
| Tomo Nagi Same Side Collar and elbow control De la Riva | 1:27 |
| Side Sweep Same Side Collar Elbow De la Riva | 4:09 |
| De la Riva Collar and Ankle Introduction | 6:36 |
| Must Watch!!! Most important concept from De la Riva | 11:58 |
| De la Riva Side Sweep | 14:37 |
| Important!!! Collar Grip Concept plus side sweep | 18:56 |
| Changing from square to side to Side Sweep | 23:13 |
| Using The shoulder Concept 2 Side Sweep variations | 25:33 |
| Person Deadlifts to belt Grip Introduction | 28:21 |
| Belt Grip De la Riva tomo nagi | 31:04 |
| Side Sweep with belt | 34:27 |
| De la Riva Back Take (babybolo) | 37:05 |
| When person defends Box 3 back to Sweep | 41:48 |