Most BJJ practitioners know about bridging and shrimping.
But I bet not one in twenty knows about bridging and then turning into an inverted tripod position.
That’s too bad because this movement is the basis of my most successful mount escape, hands down. That inversion allows you to build extra height, break your opponent’s contact with the ground, and then scoop under him to regain your guard.
The solo version of the bridge and inversion is covered at the 37 second mark in the video below…
Play with these movements and apply them to your pin escapes and guard retention!
Stephan
Range and Distance in Guard
There’s just something about jiu-jitsu that leads to a proliferation of styles of guard.
From Z Guard to X Guard and from Spider Guard to Half Butterfly there are many, many different forms of closed, open and half guard, and new variations pop up all the time.
Click here to learn the right time and place for each style of guard!
Cal and I filmed an instructional called BJJ Foundations, and it’s the best BJJ curriculum I’ve ever seen.
It has techniques, but more importantly, it has an amazing set of drills and training methods to make learning as fast as possible.
Click here to check out BJJ Foundations by Cal MacDonald and myself.
Getting flattened out, crossfaced, and smashed when you’re in the half guard sucks, and in this article we’re going to learn how to prevent that from happening.
The key is to use your upper body frames to stop your opponent from getting chest to chest and flattening you out. Doing this also allows you to get back to offense from the bottom again.
Click here for a breakdown of how not to get smashed by the crossface…
