A beginners class and some work on
off-balancing and closed guard positions.
The basic rule of defending your position
on top in closed guard is maintaining good posture, with your weight balanced
and one hand on the opponent’s gi and the other on his hip, with elbows tucked
inside his legs, ready to break guard when the opportunity arises.
The man on the bottom who has guard has to
collapse the man on the top’s posture to move or sweep him. This
involves collapsing his arms at the elbows, confirming grips on his gi and
using your legs to pull him forward.
One of the sweeps from this position
involves grabbing one sleeve at the wrist and grabbing his opposite side
trouser leg. The same side as the grabbed trouser leg sees your nearest leg
chop into his side and your opposite leg plant on the floor to generate the
leverage, then you use the wrist grip to collapse his other side and ensure he
can’t post. The grip on the gi trousers helps move him over as you follow his
trajectory and end up on top.
Another option is to open you guard and get
your feet on his hips and, with sleeve control, off-balance the opponent and set
up a sweep from there.
Things to remember: Off-balancing and attacking posture of opponent from guard; maintaining balance and posture from in guard.
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