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Phases of Guard
- Guard has three distinct phases: engagement, maintenance, and retention.
- Most practitioners overlook these phases, treating guard as a single entity.
Train the Engagement Phase
- Avoid immediately grabbing the typical judo grip when training.
- This skips the crucial engagement phase and its valuable training opportunities.
Instructor's Lesson
- Steve's instructor would immediately pass his guard after slapping hands.
- This emphasized the importance of the engagement phase, which Steve was trying to skip.