Day 5 - Details For A Perfect Closed Guard
The White Belt Survival Guide by Andre Galvao
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Congratulations, you’ve made it to the last day of Prof. Galvao’s White Belt Survival Guide!
We’re sad to be here, but really – you’re just at the start of your own BJJ journey.
Now you can survive, you can learn to do so much more, and eventually turn your defense into offense.
In this video, Prof. Andre covers:
–The advantages of Closed Guard (the “upside-down-mount-position”)
–How to break your opponent’s posture
–The importance of creating angles from the bottom position
–How to avoid and break your opponent’s grips
–”Just stand up?”: A simple method to stop your opponent from standing up inside your guard
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