The B Team Top Game: How to Work Against Seated Guards, Supine Guards, and Those Trying to Stand Up by Craig Jones

Redefine No-Gi Guard Passing With Australian Grappling Superstar Craig Jones As He Explains His System For Passing Against Tough Guards And Disengaging Dangerous Positions

What Will You Learn?

See your top game get better than ever with no-gi grappling star Craig Jones’s six-part series on guard passing concepts and techniques that you can use to better your skills. With coaching on how to break down the guard, including how he approaches seated guard, supine guard, and opponents determined to stand up, Craig shows a complete guard passing class for grapplers of all levels.

Use conceptual lessons like how to score your passes through fatigue, and how important the hip pocket is to every pass, as Craig shows you ways to make guard passing a lot simpler through easy adjustments. With drills and techniques built on a strong base of experience in competition against the best, Craig can show you what really works when you want to get to a dominant position and what mistakes people are commonly making.

Craig Jones is one of the most popular grapplers and instructors in the world, with an ADCC medal from 2019 and many elite victories against some of the best in the game. Use Craig’s coaching on leg drags, stacks, torreandos, body locks, and more as he shows you how to approach a dangerous guard and defuse the situation.

Don’t get caught up in those tricky leg entanglements again, Craig explains here on this six-volume series how to avoid those positions and even how to clear from dangerous positions like shin on shin and ashi garami. Combine your techniques into one system with Craig’s help as he shows you all the ways to shut down bottom fighters and be the power top on the mats.

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

• INTRODUCTION
• REDEFINING THE BOTTOM POSITION
• REMOVING GUARD: 3 TYPES OF BOTTOM
• FORCED ERRORS
• SCORE FATIGUE NOT POINTS
• THE HIP POCKET

PART 2

SUPINE

• APPROACHING THE SUPINE
• STRIP A GRIP
• DIRTY FEET DRILL
• SINGLE HAND DIRTY FOOT
• TOREANDO
• TOUCH & GO
• HAND ON HIP TOREANDO
• STACK
• LEG DRAG STACK
• THE FRANK ROSENTHAL
• HIP DRAG STACK

PART 3

• POCKET PASSING
• FRONT POMMEL
• APPLYING PRESSURE FROM STANDING NORTH SOUTH
• COMBINING POMMELING & TOREANDO
• THE WEAVE

PART 4

SEATED

• APPROACHING SEATED
• FORCING SUPINE
• KNEE CUT
• STANDARD BODY LOCK
• BODY LOCK TOREANDO
• BODY LOCK FOOT POST
• BODY LOCK TURKING

PART 5

• DON'T BE AFRAID TO OPEN YOUR HANDS: RUBBER GUARD
• EARLY STAGE SHIN ON SHIN
• LATE STAGE SHIN ON SHIN
• FORCING SIT UP GUARD
• CLEARING ASHI GARAMI

PART 6

• INTRODUCTION
• HEAD OVER HEAD
• ADDRESSING A FRAME
• CONTROL THE FEET
• HIT EM' WITH THE HIPS
• HOW TO USE KNEE RIDE
• KEEP THEM TURTLED
• GENERATING FRONT HEAD PRESSURE
• BREAKING DOWN THE 4 POINT
• PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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