HOW TO OPEN CLOSED GUARD - JOHN DANAHER

[@nendo2333]

Coach showed me this last week, my favorite name for it is the log splitter

[@iamtheteapot7405]

😮

[@ohno837]

Best teacher ever

[@dan5626]

Most approachable for English speakers, and the most marketable online for sure....but nowhere close to the best

[@ohno837]

@@dan5626 who is better

[@az1m8290]

@@dan5626hes insanely skilled which helps

[@RBMXtreme]

​@@dan5626I'd love to know who the best teacher for jiu jitsu is if it's not the guy that trains or has trained most of the best athletes

[@Gottiline_Ace]

​​@ohno837 the Machado brothers (Carlos and Jean Jacque especially)

[@Michael-xp5mw]

The evolution of Gracie Brazilian jiu-jitsu is ongoing and can clearly be seen by people who are just more creative and understand kinesiology, the physics of movement! They are just smarter 100%.

[@rufioswitch2132]

This is a Marcelo Garcia move that John stole from MG in Action (where John got half of his material from!).

[@duckhuntergaming4713]

@@rufioswitch2132 the concept of "stealing" moves is wild to me, especially when talking about opening the fucking closed guard

[@rufioswitch2132]

@@duckhuntergaming4713 i was replying to the specific comment above which said that John has elevated GJJ, “smarter 100%”. I was trying to tell him that this is not John creating a special way to open the guard, that this is a classic Marcelo move. MG in Action.. the owners could see who watched it most online. The biggest watcher by time spent on the site .. by a long way .. was John. So yeah, he stole many of marcelo’s teaching and re-packaged them into his own teaching, just like this. Craig was interviewed for CJI recently and literally said “John stole a lot of marcelo’s process and then was good at marketing”. Have a great day!

[@yejunyeo2918]

That is flipping genius. WOW

[@happiestman978]

I'd be honored to open my guard for you daddy Danaher

[@idonthavecat]

ahahahhaha

[@bebop4874]

Craig? Is that you?

[@bigroaststyrone8135]

@@bebop4874 it’s Gordon’s burner

[@Tony-m3p1v]

Danaher! BJJ Coach Goat! 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🥷💪😄👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@andrewtregoning]

Jacare used that a lot, it works

[@Davidsmith-hq6gb]

One of my go to guard passes opens up everytime

[@greenwave2450]

I do a variation of this while staying the squat position. Feels like you could get double arm barred but just keep your elbows out wide enough. I call it the prostate squeeze guard break

[@TheBjjninja]

The largest risk for this move is not arm bar, it's actually the double ankle pick.

[@ryanmaragh8209]

Did this today 😊

[@johnnieperez9476]

They always grab my ankles and I get swept. I gave up on this one and sometimes will give them mount and just escape from there

[@amjedhatu542]

You’re posture isn’t right and you’re placing your feet to close to their hips. Work on those two things. Drill it until your partner can’t sweep you. Also when you stand up you need to glue your elbows to your sides so they can’t sweep you or get their x-guard.

[@youregay2947]

That’s why he’s holding his opponents arms

[@stevenstokes7382]

Kick your foot forward to get out

[@MrHands-wy4gz]

Your doing it wrong you want to hold the biceps, and get your knee up the bum and base the other leg out then you lift them up till you have the lower back on the knee that was before on the bum, you then push down on the hips with your hands this breaks the guard open and also you'll have one of their legs caught ontop of your based out leg which you can use to pass or do a rolling knee bar if you know how.

[@MrHands-wy4gz]

Another way you can set this up without a knee up bum is to double grab one of partners wrist and hold it on his belly before you lift up so it stops him double grabbing your ankles.

[@d.av.i.d.j.a.s.o.n]

I showed up hoping to find all of the people who know more than one of the greatest grappling coaches in the history of grappling. Didn’t realize you’d all show up at once. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Blake-rj7xt]

And then begins the de la riva game and I’m on my back again😂#whitebeltforlife

[@jeffgraham3113]

Good job, I’ll just make my arms a foot longer

[@sped4056]

You def have never grappled

[@badxradxandy]

You can frame into their hips after you stand up.

[@Shortwaveshark]

lol

[@copyninja8756]

Walk your hands up to the hip, take two grips on the drawstring.

[@bbob5050]

@@badxradxandy then they can triangle your arm and head

[@sebastianconstanza5582]

What if he grabs your left ankle?

[@brienmacgearailt7801]

how do you counter the ankle sweep?

[@YeNZeC]

Pin the arms holding the bicpes down to the mat

[@huwangtunghuwerr4490]

Every time when I tried to use it, my opponent pulled my leg and I'm down. 😅 Here it looks like this technique is working because the guy on the ground is passive.

[@fabiosantucci6628]

They taught me the response to that. The moment he gets up you grab the his ankle with your elbow, meanwhile you put the other hand on the floor and with that arm you push upwards (using also your lower back and glutes) to make him fall and get the full mount again

[@craigaucott3666]

So you’re saying that effectively there’s little/no risk to doing it, as worst case, you reset back to the starting position. Cool. Gonna try this tomorrow (we midway through a closed guard block).

[@fabiosantucci6628]

@@craigaucott3666 I hope you like it

[@Carsenwheelock]

What do you go for after this ? (I’m 5 hours in 😂)

[@alyssondasilva4484]

some guard passing variation, usually you will try to make a Knee Cut/slide pass, or make a grip with your left arm (in this case) on your opponent right leg, pin it to the floor, and staple it with your left shin, and windshield wipe to pass. But don't get too rigid with what you do from there, because people will react differently when they open the guard.

[@jrgensrensen3019]

Does this work as good no gi?

[@sdfasdfsaification]

Holy crap yes, I use the stand up with sleeve normally in gi but it’s hard to maintain a wrist in no gi, but this one I do the same, y grip in armpits stand up get that knee inside but I instead will almost kneel out of it usually can get to a half guard from there

[@RiverAnglin]

The only problem I find with this style is really good players drop for de la riva and x guard before you ever get to stick your knee in also I find sticking my knee give them an advantage in transitioning to those positions also

[@yanisapostat]

I mean you suppose to know how to pass delariva , it s not a submission or a sweep just a position but you were more close to pass his guard than in closed guard so fore sure it s an advancing

[@illusionxmuta]

This works like 40% of the time in blue belts and lower

[@flyingbanana9712]

wrong. this is just a better version of a basic guard escape if you can’t get this version to work that’s on you

[@richardjulien3345]

Someone doesn't know how to open a closed guard

[@PescadoDelDiablo]

Meanwhile Jean-Jacque: grabs pants, presses down on shins, and out.

[@jimryan6023]

Been doing this years

[@StealthTRD]

Cap

[@bengough6955]

Ah yes....now this is being practiced tomorrow night for surec

[@mattheworr3559]

You'd have to do this very fast wouldn't you, because I always grab buddies ankle or ankles if he's close like that and then sweep him.

[@BroodYouth]

no. all you have to do is turn your feet in towards his hips and that move will never work

[@Malouco]

Beautiful ❤️ BUT CAN U EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF LIFE 🧬

[@shamelessone1987]

Someone please tell me how to prevent him from breaking my guard this way.

[@BroodYouth]

it's incredibly hard but you can't let him get that bicep control in the first place and when he places the knee in the butt you have to lift your hips and move them to the side so that the knee is no longer in the middle it's not really happening if they have that double bicep grip.

[@waltir2187]

Sorry but what is gonna stop them from reaching to pull your ankle this is not a hate comment just a question

[@sageamd7192]

🥋

[@zoro8117]

Khabib did it a lot also

[@keithgreer462]

I wonder how Roger would deal with that 🤔

[@CognitiveKilter-nx3se]

Out posting the leg seems like a pattern for getting out of the guard. Saying this as a white belt

[@MrD4nii2]

Just go for the heel hook

[@reverend481]

im white belt and whenever i try to do this, my opponent goes straight to my ankles / calves and force a sweep :(

[@user-sw5wn8go3k]

Control their arms to keep them pinned, preserve a good posture and don't step too close, and keep your elbow close to your body when you stand up

[@tyrekjohnson6432]

Car full of dat sweep

[@moonpie0420]

Is that Theo von?

[@troymcghee3848]

lol it kinda does look like theo von

[@TheBongler]

🤣🤣

[@Rain-di2bq]

Lmao!!

[@peebs1019]

Stand up, get swept 🤣

[@RAJ-zo8cu]

Gordon hasn’t been swept once while standing up in closed guard. You need to do more balance training maybe.

[@d.av.i.d.j.a.s.o.n]

Came here to correct John Danaher, huh? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Jerry-uc1pn]

@carltoncarvalho gave this explanation on another Danaher video about the same thing. I’m only a blue belt but I’ve noticed that standing straight up will only get you swept against someone skilled. Instead controlling the biceps while pinning your head up under their chin while standing gives you way better/safer chances of escaping full guard. This stretches them out and puts pressure on their ankles. You can add to this by bringing your knee in to push a leg down if there is an opening or squatting to allow your elbow to push the leg down while still maintaining control of their arms with your hands and their upper body posture with your head. Like I said I’m just a blue belt but this has worked frequently against higher belt guys who are way bigger and stronger than me. And I think it’s because I’m using the weight of both of our bodies against their ankles and using most of my body weight to pin their arms. At some point the legs just start to loosen to the point where a well placed knee or elbow can completely break the guard or allow you to step out or Slice through.

[@mercertj]

I trained over 10 years and could never ever fit my knee in there.

[@hardinmichael1981]

Just put your thumbs where his eyeballs used to be

[@JudoboyAlex]

Both arms are way stretched out. Risk of arm bar way too high with this approach.

[@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA]

👎

[@DamariusJacktheratrix]

Straight arms are broken arms. 😂 don't do this if you don't wanna get armbar'd

[@hanns7542]

How is there an armbar from here? The arms are nowhere near the centerline?

[@DamariusJacktheratrix]

@@hanns7542 that's an easy armbar from a triangle set up.

[@hanns7542]

@@DamariusJacktheratrix how do you triangle from there? Both arms are inside?

[@DamariusJacktheratrix]

@Hanns very easily. You can go either side. Grab one arm and throw it across your body and take the other free arm and get it out of the way as you lock up the triangle. Then as the arm that you took across your body is in the triangle, you can transition to an easy arm bar with the triangle locked in.

[@hanns7542]

@@DamariusJacktheratrix you can’t. He’s grabbing your lapels.

[@davisjohn-d6h]

If you want to learn a real martial art, do Judo, not this BJJ crap

[@ChicanoPridex08]

They always grab my ankles and collar which pretty much stops this from being executed,

[@enosnaseoj1]

Danaher is a cripple my a s s

[@crakface]

If you're opening the guard of the incredible hulk is there any concern of hurting your knee putting your leg in there. Literally the hulk.