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Tips On How To Pass An Impassable Guard

Tips On How To Pass An Impassable Guard

We all have that training partner that is really flexible and whenever you roll with them, you spend a long time trying to solve the riddle of their guard…

Sometimes the best way to know how to pass an impassable guard, is to ask someone who is known for having one, exactly what are the things that put them in danger. Japanese BJJ player Masafumi Matsumoto wrote this excellent piece detailing all those things:

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World class BJJ competitor Luiz Panza shows an excellent way of passing very flexible guards. In this sequence he goes from Open Guard, to Stack Pass, to Leg Drag, to end up in  Side Control.

Murilo Santana is another one of BJJ’s best kept secrets. He has a rep as a pressure passer but what exactly do people mean? Not all pressure passers are the same and Murilo’s take on pressure passing is unique amongst peers. Here is how he smashes most modern guards using pressure.

BJJ Scout shows us how he does it: