The Rubber Guard is a closed guard system, developed by 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu founder, Eddie Bravo. The Rubber Guard focuses on clinching your opponent and keeping them guessing what you are trying to attack them with. Although the Rubber Guard was developed with Mixed Martial Arts(MMA) in mind, it can be used by practitioners of Gi Jiu-Jitsu, No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA.
The submission names or technique steps of the Rubber Guard system can be quite entertaining – New York, Home Alone, Death from Below, Zombie, Chill Dog, Gogoplata, Loco Plata, and Crackhead Control. Heck, even the name of the system, Rubber Guard, often gets chuckles from people. In the end, the naming was selected to help the practitioner visualize the techniques and so that they can be committed them to memory. As with any system, the Rubber Guard is constantly being refined and developed further by practitioners throughout the world.
3x ADCC champion Gordon Ryan shows how he easily defends and escapes the rubber guard by spinning.
Ryan stated:
“Rubber guard counter. Forcing a dilemma between back exposure if they stay turtled and a body lock pass if they fall to their back 🤔. IF you can force your way into half guard you can always play this dilemma assuming your opponent has rubber guard locked. I learned this from @garrytonon years ago and you can catch him hitting a back take in ebi that leads him to an eventual finish.”
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Very similar technique to Garry Tonon’s from a few years ago:
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