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Demian Maia Shows a Brilliant Trick To Stop The Guard Pull in BJJ

Demian Maia Shows a Brilliant Trick To Stop The Guard Pull in BJJ

Pulling guard in the BJJ world is often ridiculed by Judoka and Wrestlers who see it as a cowardly way to face someone. Nowadays with the rules of sport BJJ, you can win matches with very little knowledge in the takedown. How can you neutralize someone with 20+ years of wrestling or Judo? Just pull guard… Think about it…

Nowadays the recent trend is to intercept the guard pull by flying cartwheeling jumping over the guard puller and ending up in side control.

This is a spectacular move. Lucas ‘Hulk’ Barbosa, Yan Pica Pau, & Patrick Gaudio are some of the major users of this method.

Check out this awesome guard pull interception highlight put together by Riccardo Ammendolia.

A more simple way to stop the guard pull or jump to closed guard is to do what Demian Maia shows in this video. He grabs his opponent’s belt, closing his elbow and prevents him from connecting his hips to his, making the guard pull impossible.

This is a great option to have, especially if you know that your opponent will pull guard:

Learn how to wrestle in the gi from one of BJJ’s most successful champions ever, Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida.
Buchecha explains his concepts around how to read his opponents and choosing which takedown is best, how he breaks stubborn grips, and how even much smaller fighters can still find success by focusing on these fundamentals.