This video I discuss the importance of grip fighting off your back for setting up your guard and offense. Most people think of grip fighting as something you do when you are sitting up, but learning to effectively defend and control off your back is key to being able to establish an initial attack grip.

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How to go from not having a grip to having a strong, favorable grip that will allow you to dominate the rest of the match. Featuring Jon Thomas from https://www.grapplearts.com/openguard The Open Guard System, the newly released instructional with 5 comprehensive, step-by-step volumes that give you a systematic and super-effective method for sweeping, submitting and dominating your opponent from the open guard.

This video I breakdown my system for passing the double sleeve guard. This guard has two main styles one is the spider and the other is what I refer to as leg past body where your opponent has broken your grip on the non lasso side. First I deal with preventing your opponent from getting into double sleeve by hiding your free arm and using a knee cut pass pressure to kill the lasso I have show this system before here ( https://youtu.be/t2I5xWr_8bs ), then I show how to kill the spider using the loop out and throw method I have shown before here ( https://youtu.be/cJJLmy4UChI ) Finally the final method I kill the leg past body by trying to get a grip on the knee and trapping the leg or using a combo of the lasso loop out and shin slide. I hope you like the video. If you have any questions please comment and let me know.

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This video I discuss the concept of single sleeve control. This is commonly one of the first grips you get in jiu jitsu as your opponent needs to use his hand to commit to making a grip which always makes a sleeve available. This position is a starting point for transitioning into most open guards in BJJ such as Collar Sleeve, Spider/Double Sleeve, Cross Sleeve DLR, Cross Guard, Romulo Guard, Reverse DLR and more. I cover some basics of control as well as concepts for how you can transition to other positions with it. Let me know if you have any questions or requests.

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This is my foundational attack series for the double sleeve position. The triangle from this series is what Felipe Andrew submitted Keenan Cornelius with ya Europeans this year. It’s great for beginners to advanced and provide dangerous attacks and easy transitions for modern attacks like Berimbolo, Sit Up Guard, De La Riva, as well as setting up closed guard well. I hope you like the video and please comment if you have questions.

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The Double Sleeve Control is my favorite open guard to teach to beginners. The basic leg past body position I show in this video is relatively simple to control, difficult to get out of, and is great for learning to transition to any other open guard. Strong Open guard basics is what leads to good opening for advance techniques like Berimbolo, Matrix, Back Takes, and more modern guards. This video I focus on the basics of control and my next video will go more in depth on attacks.

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