Improve Your Guard Passing Game With 90 mins of Leo Vieira’s Seminar
Mar 15, 2023BJJEE
Leo Vieira, a BJJ legend and 5th degree black belt under Romero Cavalcanti, is the leader and founder of the BJJ powerhouse Checkmat. He is known for his very dynamic BJJ game with great stand up,...
The “Step In & Step Out” Drill Is Going To Help Your Guard Passing A Lot
Jan 24, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The over under pressure is one of the hardest guard passes to deal with. If your opponent knows what they are doing, it is a real nightmare… Anybody who watches the IBJFF black belt divisions knows...
Superb Guard Passing Concept: Turn Their Head Away
Jan 17, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Be honest with us. How many times have you thought to yourself: “Man, it would be really great if there were some tricks that would make me better on the mats immediately.” Probably dozens,...
How to Develop Devastating Guard Passing
Jan 02, 2023BJJEE
When you start training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, you quickly learn about the positional hierarchy, which is the core concept of this martial art. If you can get to positions such as the back, mount, or...
This ‘Buzzsaw’ Guard Passing System Gives Guard Players Nightmares
Nov 29, 2022BJJEE
If you’ve been watching high level BJJ competition matches for a while, you’ve probably seen that a lot of the top ranking jiujiteiros frequently change directions when they guard pass, going...
How To Use The “Upside-Down C Grip” In Guard Passing – Owen Livesey Demonstrates
Oct 11, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
While many different strategies and tactics make up the guard passing dichotomy, two prominent styles are employed in modern BJJ: pressure passing and agility passing. Pressure passing has typically...
Gordon Ryan Explains His No-Gi Guard Passing System
Sep 28, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
If you have been doing BJJ for any length of time you have asked yourself this question! Rickson Gracie once said, “the guard is the heart and soul of jiu jitsu”. If you haven’t already...
Forcing Half Guard Is The Solution For Your Guard Passing Problems
Sep 13, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
If you have been doing BJJ for any length of time you have asked yourself this question! Rickson Gracie once said, “the guard is the heart and soul of jiu jitsu”. If you haven’t already...
Tired Of Boring Warm Up Drills? These Guard Passing Drills Are Better
Sep 10, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Warming up before training is a must. However, it can get quite tiresome and – with time – extremely boring. Plus, most of the drills that most of the BJJ students do aren’t really...
You Won’t Need Techniques After You Apply This Guard Passing Principle
Aug 31, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
There are a number of ways to pass an Open Guard. However, when the absolute basics of guard passing are considered, it’s all very simple; it’s just a matter of understanding the...
Kit Dale Shares His Secret Guard Passing Concepts & Insights
May 26, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Guard passing can be incredibly difficult, especially when you’re rolling against a talented opponent whose guard retention skills are off the charts. That’s why it’s vital to learn...
Guard Passing: Improve It With This Simple Tip from John Danaher
May 06, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Guard passing will never be easy, no matter how good you get at it… And no matter how skilled you become, there’s no saying that you will often be under threat by the guard player; in...
Simple Ways to Improve BJJ Guard Passing
Apr 11, 2022BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
The Gorilla Row: An Upper Body Exercise For Better Guard Passing
Mar 11, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The matter of the fact is: if you want to get better in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, then you have to work out as well! Doing techniques is most important… But adding in those gym sessions will give...
BJJ White Belts: Focus on These Open Guard Passing Concepts
Jan 24, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
When you’re a BJJ white belt, it’s easy to get confused by the sheer number of techniques and possibilities in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And Open Guard passing is no different; how...
Bernardo Faria: “This’s The Coolest Guard Passing Concept I Learned From Gui Mendes”
Jan 23, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Guard passing can be notoriously difficult, especially if you’re going against someone who’s invested a LOT of their time into becoming a guard retention “master”. So, when...
The Most Effective Guard Passing Strategy by John Danaher.
Jan 09, 2022BJJEE
Passing the guard No Gi is a different ball game than with the Gi. The lack of grips, the slipperiness, the speed and different attacks available means that if you have to adapt your Gi passing game...
Chain Passing is The Missing Link in Your Guard Passing Progress
Dec 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Does it feel as if your guard passing is somewhat stagnating? As in, you do know a number of guard passes and you perform most of them with reasonable quality… But no matter how much you try,...
Gui Mendes Explains Crucial Guard Passing Principle for BJJ White Belts
Sep 13, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a truly a never-ending journey. There will always be something new to learn… But you’ve got to start somewhere. You have to start from the white belt level –...
Build Yourself a Complete Guard Passing System in 6 Min
Feb 22, 2021BJJEE
If there is one area of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that’s almost as exciting as its submissions are, it’s the Guard Passes! Guard passing has so many different forms and variations to it – such as...
3 Keys To Keep Improving Your Guard Passing Skills In Jiu Jitsu
Jan 19, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
If there is one area of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that’s almost as exciting as its submissions are, it’s the Guard Passes! Guard passing has so many different forms and variations to it –...
Marcelo Garcia Has the Perfect Rubber Guard Passing Formula
Dec 17, 2020BJJEE
The Rubber guard sometimes referred to as Mission Control is a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu technique, which involves the practitioner ‘breaking down’ the opponent into the rubber guard, while maintaining...
Use This Weird Lapel Grip For Effective Guard Passing
Aug 31, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
What does the future of BJJ look like? More specifically, how will its techniques look like 2 years, 5 years, 10 or more years down the line? While there’s no one that can give a concrete...
Roots of Modern BJJ Guard passing Are Found in Kosen Judo
Aug 05, 2020BJJEE
Many BJJ players wrongly believe that many Gi grappling techniques are specific to BJJ, for example: X guard, berimbolo, spider guard, etc.. The truth is that many of these techniques have been...
