Posture

Henry Akins' butterfly pass from the top: killing a hook and smashing through.

Gordon Ryan on escaping the front headlock and turtle together: posture, circling and getting back to a guard or a stand-up.

Roger Gracie explains to Bernardo Faria why the hand belongs on the middle of the chest inside closed guard - too high exposes the arm, too low weakens posture.

Faria on avoiding the kimura while you over-under pass: the most common submission you give up from this pass.

Andrew Wiltse on smashing the lasso: turn a deep lasso shallow with the knee and elbow, get a two-on-one on the sleeve so they cannot invert, then mash the leg down and circle.

Henry Akins argues the legs are 90 percent of open guard and that defence starts before the passer touches your legs. Conceptual, with a contrarian view on seated guard.

John Danaher, with Giancarlo Bodoni, on the biggest risk of shooting takedowns in BJJ: getting caught under the opponent's weight. Keep posture on singles and doubles and the risk disappears.

Chewy on the best way to pass butterfly, which starts with controlling the hooks and the head.

Why seated guard suits older or less flexible grapplers against a standing passer: match their lead leg, keep the arm in front and attack with simple sweeps rather than relying on retention.

Posture first, then opening the guard from the knees or standing: pin the wrist, turn the knee into the hip, keep the leg vertical and slide their leg down it.

Firas Zahabi on killing the butterfly hooks: the first job from the top before any pass.

Pablo Lavaselli (AOJ) on hip and knee position that stops the DLR player elevating you, the grips that make the hook useless, and two ways out: sliding behind the hamstring or the shin slice.

Lachlan Giles on passing RDLR: clear the foot on the hip, bring your hips in so it cannot return, block the leg with the hand and then hunt the cross face.

Gustavo Gasperin's four ways to break spider grips: always stand, knee or hip behind the heel, shin behind the knee, and extending both arms while walking backwards.

How to stop the over-under from the bottom, which is also a checklist of what the passer must prevent: frames, the kimura and inversion.

Five seated guard postures compared in under a minute. A quick reference for what your legs and base should look like.

No-gi standing guard break: control the grips, walk the weight back, technical get-up while managing the legs, and keep the feet far enough away to avoid ankle sweeps.

Short on the wrestling stance and how to move in it for BJJ and MMA: knees bent, hands active, weight ready to change levels.

Giancarlo Bodoni on destroying worm guard: early counters (tuck the lapel) and late escapes (unwind it).

Redirecting butterfly hooks as pressure-passing 101: you cannot pass until the hooks are dead.

Matt Thornton on base, posture, connection and pressure: the SBG conceptual stack.

How base, posture and connection actually work together on the mat.

Compares three wrestling stances and picks the one that fits jiu-jitsu rules, where guard pulls and grip fighting change the risks.

Jackson Sousa finds his base against the RDLR hook, controls the knee and breaks the ankle grip by driving it across, then finishes with a leg drag.

Seated and butterfly guard fundamentals against a defensive opponent: long, mid and close range with the feet, and pushing or kicking them in four directions to open their elbows for underhooks.

A Rafa Mendes guard study on defeating pressure passing: frames and hip movement the passer has to beat.

Fifteen solo footwork drills for stance and motion borrowed from wrestling. Useful warm-up material if your standing game feels stiff.

Thirty-second tip on freeing the trapped leg from the DLR hook by anchoring a hand and straightening the leg out of the hook.

Toreando-style passing against RDLR: high stepping to clear the hook, breaking loose ankle grips, wiping off a reaping leg with the elbow and backstepping against the scoop grip.