Gi Advanced
Keenan Cornelius's Worm Guard 101: sit to guard safely with the lapel, go to DLR, pass the lapel outside your ankle and behind their knee, and hand it to the other hand. The canonical entry.
Control
Lapel Control
Freeing, feeding and gripping the lapel as a rope, both to build lapel guards and to defend against them.
Also called using the lapel, lapel grips, freeing the lapel, lapel wrap.
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YouTube videos
Gi Advanced
Keenan's introduction to lapel guard, including the pendulum spin-under sweep that shoots the leg through to the far hip and deliberately avoids ending in 50/50.
Gi Advanced
Securing the sleeve grip alongside the lapel in the '90s worm', and using it to off-balance a knee-cutting opponent before building the full position.
Effective Worm Guard (Lapel Guard) Transitions by BJJ legend Andre Galvao
Atos Jiu-Jitsu HQ | World's Best BJJ Academy - Home Page YouTube
Andre Galvao feeds the lapel from lasso and DLR, inverts to pass it over the thigh, sweeps to mount and shows the armbar, triangle and wrist lock follow-ups.
DESTROY The Worm Guard - Early Counters & Late Escapes To One Of The Trickiest Guards In BJJ
Giancarlo Bodoni YouTube
Giancarlo Bodoni on destroying worm guard: early counters (tuck the lapel) and late escapes (unwind it).
Gi Intermediate
Jon Thomas on passing worm guard so you never get stuck: free the lapel, then pass.
Gi Intermediate
Three variations for escaping lapel guard once the lapel is already around your leg.