Ep. 201: Position Series: Closed Guard, feat. Brianna Ste-Marie
BJJ Mental Models
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Closed Guard
The majority of guard passes were done either from one or both knees. There wasn't really a lot of standing passing going on. And I think that at some point, there was this realization that you're not obliged to just sit in someone's closed guard on your knees and try to pass from there. So then it becomes a game of, okay, how can I force the person to stay here versus, well, so I might as well attack from here. Nogi: "I could see a reversal where in the next few years, there's a big push towards closed guard"
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