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.
