There are numerous ways to open your training partner’s or opponent’s Closed Guard. However, you can’t just pick all of them; that is to say, you need to pick a handful of techniques and become really good at them. Excellent, even… Because that’s what is going to get you out of that defensive position into a more offensive one.
Essentially, there are two ways you can open Closed Guard. You can do it through standing up or from the “seated” position instead.
If you’re in someone’s Closed Guard and they have a strong grip on your collar… It can get really frustrating, really fast.
However, there are ways to break this grip with relative ease.
Greg Melita demonstrates one such way on the video below:
Acquire All Of The Techniques You Need To Work Out Of Some Of The Most Difficult Positions And Place Yourself In A More Advantageous Spot To Be Successful With Black Belt Greg Melita.
- Even when you’re in a terrible position, keep the mentality that you aren’t out yet and use the wide range of techniques shown in this series to improve your position and keep fighting.
- Check out a series of reversals from bottom side control and watch how the head alignment theory will completely change how you deal with this position.
