Posture Control and Grips

Roger Gracie teaching closed guard for FloGrappling: collar grip, posture break and the attacks he actually used at black belt.

Danaher's closed-guard fundamentals with Bernardo Faria: posture, grips and why the guard fails before any sweep is attempted.

Roger Gracie with Bernardo Faria on why his closed guard works: the collar, the hips and refusing to play a loose open guard.

Jon Thomas short: pummel under the arms to the collar and pin your elbow to their chest so they cannot re-pummel and rebuild posture. Small detail that makes collar chokes and armbars easier.

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.

Gustavo Gasperin breaks posture with the legs, deflects an arm, wraps it and hip escapes to slide the shin across for a basic triangle setup.

Match-footage breakdown of Roger Gracie's closed guard: two-on-one arm drag to the back take, the flower sweep when they resist, and the cross collar grip when they hide the arm. Analysis rather than a drill-along.

Heather Morgan's class on the closed-guard arm drag: drills and the back take that follows.