Use lessons on controlling and managing distance from guard to choose the most effective strategies and positions to attack with, including De La Riva, Reverse De La Riva, X Guard, and more

• Gui Mendes is one of BJJ’s most respected black belts, with 4 world championships at black belt and tons of elite students at his academy Art Of Jiu-Jitsu.
• Get real, useable lessons from Gui breaking down his own rolling, so he can narrate how he is implementing these movements and ideas.
• Work from near distance, middle distance, and far distance, with specific and detailed lessons around what makes each unique and what you need to know.
• Play from classic positions like the collar & sleeve open guard where you can begin launching attacks and defending your guard with more knowledge than ever.
• This series can help grapplers of all levels and styles connect positions and techniques with more focus, strategy, and efficiency than ever.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Learn The Innovative, Effective Guard Play Concepts That Will Transform Your Bottom Game, Taught By One Of The Most Technical and Detailed Grapplers & Instructors Ever - Multiple-Time Black Belt World Champion & AOJ Founder Gui Mendes

 

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What Will You Learn?

Start supercharging your bottom game with one of the best instructors in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, as Gui Mendes shows you how to control and manage distance from bottom to create the best guard game possible. With strategies, concepts, and techniques broken down in extreme detail, you’ll be able to start attacking off your back with more confidence and more effectiveness than ever.

Gui Mendes is one of the most influential BJJ athletes and instructors ever, with a fluid and technical style that helped lead a new style of innovative and effective gi grappling. With four world championships at black belt, he now leads his next generation of gold medalist students at the Art of Jiu-Jitsu. The Mendes Brothers changed game. 

Learn the hidden conceptual grappling behind the distance you must manage from guard, with Gui’s helpful advice on how to play from the near, middle, and far positions. Combine strong guard retention and framing tools with proven guards like De La Riva, Reverse De La Riva, collar & sleeve, and more.

These lessons aren’t just a collection of moves, this is deep knowledge that connects your jiu-jitsu and lets you flow from space to space. Use Guilherme Mendes sparring analysis to see these important details in action as he shows you what it should look like in action as he takes on his own students and breaks down the footage.

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

INTRODUCTION

FRAMING THE GUARD

DISTANCE CONTROL

NEAR DISTANCE

BREAKING THE POSTURE

MAKING THE OPPONENT POST

USING THE KNEES TO BEAT THE ARMS

CROSSING THE CENTERLINE

UNDERHOOKING THE SHOULDERS

CHAINING ATTACKS FROM TRIANGLE

CHAINING TECHNIQUES FROM THE CHOKE

DUCKING UNDER THE ARM

GRABBING THE BELT

FRAMING WITH HEAD, SHOULDERS & HIPS

PART 2

MIDDLE DISTANCE

DE LA RIVA GUARD RETENTION

DE LA RIVA TO SINGLE X STAND UP

COUNTERING OPPONENT OPENING KNEE

TOEHOLD & KNEE BAR FROM DE LA RIVA

FRAMING THE REVERSE DE LA RIVA

X-GUARD FROM REVERSE DE LA RIVA

COUNTERING THE OVER/UNDER PASS

REVERSE DE LA RIVA ATTACKING ARMS

REFRAMING THE GUARD

PART 3

FAR DISTANCE

COLLAR & SLEEVE RETENTION

COLLAR & SLEEVE TRIANGLE

COLLAR & SLEEVE OMOPLATA

COLLAR & SLEEVE HEAD CATCHING

COLLAR GRIP RETENTION

COLLAR DRAG

COLLAR GRIP TO ANKLE PICK

COLLAR GRIP HEAD CATCHING

COLLAR GRIP TO X-GUARD

COLLAR GRIP TO ARMBAR

PART 4

SPARRING ANALYSIS

SEQUENCE 01

SEQUENCE 02

SEQUENCE 03

SEQUENCE 04

SEQUENCE 05

SEQUENCE 06

SEQUENCE 07

SEQUENCE 08

SEQUENCE 09

SEQUENCE 10

SEQUENCE 11

SEQUENCE 12

DRILLING SESSION

STUDENT CORRECTIONS

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