Drills To Improve Your Spider Guard by Rehan Muttalib
Today, I am here with Rehan Muttalib. Rehan is going to show us some drills to improve your spider guard. He has a brown belt from Cobrinha and he moved to New York 6 months ago. Rehan has a really good spider guard. He was one of the main grapplers at Cobrinha’s academy and he has a […]
The Keys To Developing A Complete Passing Game
Today, I want to talk about the keys to developing a complete passing game. In my opinion, the most important thing to develop a complete passing game, is to train with different styles of guards every day. It is common to see someone training at a school and he’s always training with the same people. They play the same guards, maybe […]
Bernardo Faria’s Over/Under Pass Study
This Blog post below was not written by me, it was written by Graham Barlow (www.bjjnotebook.com), who seems to be a big fan of my BJJ Style. So I asked him for permission to post it on my blog. I hope you guys enjoy it. OSSS Graham Barlow: “I’ve been playing about with this guard […]
How To Defend The Back Going To The Half Guard & Over-Under Pass by Philippe Balmant
Since I moved to NYC in 2013, I become a very good friend of this guy. Philippe Balmant. Phill is the one who helps to take care of Marcelo’s school, doing everything there. He works at the front desk, he cleans the school, he teaches privates classes, he helps with group classes and he is […]
How To Defend The Back Going To The Half Guard & Over-Under Pass by Philippe Balmant
Since I moved to NYC in 2013, I become a very good friend of this guy. Philippe Balmant. Phill is the one who helps to take care of Marcelo’s school, doing everything there. He works at the front desk, he cleans the school, he teaches privates classes, he helps with group classes and he is […]
The “Last Chance Sweep” From Half-Guard
There is one sweep that I use from Half-Guard that I call “The Last Chance Sweep”. I call it this, because it is really the last chance, because you will get it, or your opponent will pass. It happens, when your opponent is trying to do the knee cut, and you didn’t get to control […]