Your closed guard is only as effective as your ability to use it for sweeps, transitions and submissions is… However, it’s only as useful as your ability to preserve it when your opponents are trying to open it.
Are you on the lookout for sweep techniques from Closed Guard?
Then you’ll love the following Butterfly Sweep setup from Mason Fowler!
Fowler explains this Butterfly Sweep setup (and circumstances leading up to it) from Closed Guard below:
Learn from the most successful closed guard player ever with Roger Gracie’s closed guard system, totally explained in this 4-part series
- Lock on airtight submissions that work at elite levels, including cross chokes, lapel chokes, arm locks, and more.
- Roger Gracie is one of the most dominant grapplers in history, with 10 Black Belt World Championships and 2-Time ADCC Champion – and he did it with old school Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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