Gi Beginner
Roger Gracie teaching closed guard for FloGrappling: collar grip, posture break and the attacks he actually used at black belt.
Concepts
Concepts and Combinations
How to link attacks so each defence feeds the next, and how to choose between sweeps and submissions.
Closed Guard Bottom · Closed Guard
The other side: Closed Guard Top
Techniques in this topic
Resources
5 resources
YouTube videos
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Danaher's closed-guard fundamentals with Bernardo Faria: posture, grips and why the guard fails before any sweep is attempted.
Gi Beginner
Roger Gracie with Bernardo Faria on why his closed guard works: the collar, the hips and refusing to play a loose open guard.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Gordon Ryan on using the knee pull rather than the arms to break posture, then creating angle so triangles, back takes, pendulum sweeps and armbars all open from the same movement.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Uses the sit-up sweep as a starting point and shows the armbar, triangle and omoplata that appear when the opponent posts or pushes you back down. A tidy first attack chain.