So Much Guard

Watch the (admittedly) small sample of our free rolling from Sunday and you will see just how often guard position crops up. (I’ll give you a hint: lots.)

To be a competent BJJ player you need to know what to do from both top and bottom guard position. However, it is often best to bite off only one of these tasks at a time: figure out what to do on the bottom or figure out what to do on the top. Once you’ve got some basic competency, you’ll need to make sure you keep improving BOTH those aspects of your game… Otherwise you will inevitably end up in the position you aren’t as good at and get smashed.

So it goes. Happy guarding.