Ep. 201: Position Series: Closed Guard, feat. Brianna Ste-Marie
BJJ Mental Models
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Is There a Session Advantage in the Clothes Guard?
When you're dealing with someone strong in your clothes guard, it's not enough to kind of keep them from posturing back up and being able to reestablish frames. Sometimes just grabbing a little bit higher in the head can give me a bit of an advantage. But then sometimes I'll break the frame, I'll pull my knees to my chest. They, you know, they tip forward. So I have to be ready to kind of do this dance quite a bit. When I fought B.F.S. Leo, she was doing all the right things from the clothes guard. She was keeping her shoulder free from my high guard, which I really like to attack.
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