
Ep. 201: Position Series: Closed Guard, feat. Brianna Ste-Marie
BJJ Mental Models
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Can Closed Guard Really Work?
Even against a bigger opponent where maybe you can't traditionally cross your ankles behind them because they're just too big, you can still kind of play the position. I do think though that with closed guard, there is a point of no return where if your opponent is really hell bent on standing up. And then you got to start figuring out what you want to do from there. It's pretty easy to let's say like just open up and drop into like a deli heba guard or something from there.
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