Questions tagged [closed-guard]
Position in grappling when one person is on top of the other, such that the bottom person has their legs wrapped around the torso of the top person.
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What are some fundamental yet highly effective ways to break your opponent's posture?
A little backstory: I'm a relatively lightweight guy (126 lbs) and have been training BJJ for almost a year now. I tend to struggle in a few departments, and the second most terrible one is when I ...
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Maintaining Guard- Breaking Posture and switching from closed to butterly/open guard effectively?
I am wondering what are the main techniques/principles to use in order to keep someone from passing your guard.
I.e. How to effectively control posture in closed guard to allow sweeps and subs?
But ...
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BJJ: Best guard/strategy for stocky guys?
I am 5 foot 10 and 190lbs. I am roughly 17% bf and consider myself quite strong. However my problem is that I am pretty short legs which makes closed guard quite difficult for myself to maintain.
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How to get to closed guard when your opponent is in the combat base position?
A little background on the situation:
You can be in either sitting / butterfly or on your back in open guard
Opponent is on one knee, other one up
DLR, 1 Leg X-guard, full x-guard, hooking sweeps are ...
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How to maintain closed guard with short legs?
I find it quite tricky to maintain a closed guard as I shortish legs, I find that its not that hard for someone to break it open.
Is there any good advice on how to keep a good closed guard if you ...