Closed Guard Sweeps: Scissor, Xande and Flower Sweep with Professor Matthias Meister

Scissor Sweep 0:40 / Xande Sweep 4:40 / Flower Sweep 7:40
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Professor Matthias holds a 1st degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a brown belt in Kodokan Judo. He is a NAGA champion, Pan-American BJJ Champion, and a BJJ World Champion at the black belt level. He has been training in BJJ for over 17 years.

[@davebond7380]

Big thanks from all us beginners

[@davebond7380]

@Algo+codehawk novice

[@johnnybombz8262]

Thank you for this tutorial. 0:38 Scissor Sweep 4:40 Xande Sweep 7:35 Flower Sweep

[@holdenmac7414]

in description lol

[@briancphillips12]

Matias is one of the best Jiu Jitsu instructors out there! Super underrated and technical. If he taught on either of the coasts everyone would know of him. If you are ever passing through New Orleans check him out. He runs a great gym with a solid group. I live in SoCal with all the tops gyms and he is right up there with the great instructors.

[@Rm7717]

Matthias is a great teacher and an awesome guy! Proud to have earned my purple belt from him. I look forward to trying the low pistol grip variation on the Xande sweep.

[@thomasthomsen4190]

Man, I can't believe he said "Pump myself up" with that accent. Awesome.

[@adrianaperezz3351]

I remember watching this as a beginner and thinking these sweeps were impossible 😂

[@derekaugust5027]

I’m a beginners and they are impossible.

[@dakotapreusser4138]

@@derekaugust5027 true

[@rollinOnCode]

they are impossible

[@sktng62]

As a purple belt who used to love scissor sweeps... they are now impossible again 😂😂😂

[@Chaoutzu]

There are some very significant details in this video that I've missed when I try the xande/flower sweep. Thank you for the great video!

[@oglow100]

I love this video. The xande sweep has been my go to sweep fromguard ever since i started bjj

[@kellz808]

Advanced skepticism kzbin.info/www/bejne/gInIZpmAg6l_a9E

[@asdfkhieee]

Half way through the video I noticed the Nola symbol on pants. I am starting at the metairie location as soon as I can figure out a babysitter situation. I've heard nothing but good things about all 3 locations. Great Vid.

[@FinleyFuns]

Awesome video great demonstration. Details that I've never really focused on. I think I'll hit these better. Thanks man!

[@boogerc1971]

This video has made my whitebelt game so much better. Thank you

[@bernardocisneros4402]

Great video. Very clear and to the point on each sweep.

[@markd2797]

DETAILED AND TO THE POINT EXPLANATION. GREAT EXAMPLES FROM EXPERIENCE. THANK YOU!!

[@leesin2992]

4 months training bjj and i love this sweep so much! works so well

[@davidverdugo6266]

Great video! Very clearly explained and demonstrated, big thanks!

[@BushRat253]

He explains so well!

[@tomfletcher1735]

Awesome! cant wait to try it. thanks so much!

[@AppliedShotokan]

Very thorough explanation. Thank you for posting.

[@zelipapa84]

I'm not a beginner by any stretch(7 years) but I never play closed guard and this was super useful. Thank you.

[@PurpleLotusSamsara]

Great video! Great detail! Basic but yet little things to focus on to hit them with more efficiency! OSS!! Nova Uniao Hilo,HI (Penn training and fitness)

[@WesTemby]

This is awesome. I have puzzled over the distinction between Xande and flower sweep, and it's the grip! Over with the pants, or under hooking the leg.

[@Paddy20121000]

The sweep at 4:05 is awesome, I've been caught out by it numerous times without realising.

[@adammichener987]

Dropped into this gym twice while on work trips in the past few years, he was a great instructor and very welcoming

[@MidwinterEclipse]

Professor *

[@frankie177493]

Great video, definitely going to practice these sweeps. Loved the sexy music at the end lol

[@Perfectly_Balanced930]

Love the details..

[@isrracho3918]

I knew all this tecniques already butcher The details is what i needed, thanks.

[@JoshGoldie]

great video! very clear

[@karimelkadi5707]

thank you very much for sharing!!

[@MidwinterEclipse]

Great video!

[@shaneroberts2492]

Love the flower sweep!!!!

[@noaidie]

Great instruction, danke.

[@cabalofdemons]

Loving it ous!

[@reachtrita]

Great explanation!

[@TheSwampStalker]

Love this video. It is one of the few that truly helped me right away in my training. I am having an issue with some of the higher belts using their shin to pin my leg that is on the ground during the scissor sweep then getting to half guard, but hopefully when I get better I can avoid that.

[@STeVeEBoI2k7]

are you still having this problem a year on? if not how did you overcome this ?? white belt here trying to gain some knowledge .

[@thisisstraightcancerboi7063]

STeVeEBoI2k7 The way to solve is as soon as you open your guard you need to be ready to GO. Do not sit there in the scissor position, you have to explode fast or anybody good will smash and pass. Good luck

[@TheBjjninja]

Foot on knee to gauge and sweep. Or keep your knee off the ground and block their bottom leg with your ankle

[@guam58]

@@STeVeEBoI2k7 drill it and like the professor stated everyone has their own little style. Play around with grip positions. I personally like punching their arms deep between legs. It makes for your partner to be more off balance and hard for them to try and post if you happen to lose the grip during the sweep.

[@BarryFromEastenders]

His left leg doing the push/scissoring on the scissors sweep is far too low. When it's that low it's far to easy for the opponent to smash the legs. Moving the knee side closer to sternum allows you to raise them up and back , stops them coming forward and gives you a tall and narrow structure to collapse with the scissors .

[@notasimplemind]

good looking gym NolaBjj.. brick is on point/ thank god for the wall mats! :-P

[@mohammedwarsame6974]

very helpful video, many good aweeps

[@alejandrarua8285]

Hago judo pero la parte de suelo me apasiona mucho, este video está super

[@carlosfilipegoncalvesjoao7297]

Grande vídeo!!!!!!

[@yeyosperu]

thank you

[@davebond7380]

Thanks coach

[@mattjanzer4002]

Smooth techniques professor!

[@matthiasmeister9144]

Thanks Matt, Joe did a fine job making it look good.

[@OldManPaxusYT]

aawesome! cheers!

[@bjjsalzberry13]

The flower sweep is actually the second one with the captured sleeve side foot posted near the shin to prevent posting.

[@sergioscornaienchi3066]

I like the popping up on the elbow to load him up for the scissor sweep. However is it hard to get up on the elbow if your opponent is pulling back on the arm you have gripped?

[@colepellegrin5491]

Matthias is an amazing instructor and great guy.

[@Lu-fw8jm]

Awesome! I can only fight heavy classmates in my guard because they can easily project me. I need to get better at my sweeps. It's hard fighting guys 3x your size but that makes it realistic and fun 😂

[@leglocksdontwork4243]

I also kick with the right leg in the air during the sweep to kreate more Spinn during the sweep

[@mattmgarza]

Index for those in a hurry: 3:23 Scissor Sweep 6:36 Xande Sweep 8:04 Flower Sweep

[@Hazama91350]

Hey I didn't know that t-bag was doing bjj! Anyway greats sweeps!

[@Randomboiiii]

Thankyou

[@godsmacked1000]

What's the move where you're on the guard then you grab his right arm, your right foot goes to his right shoulder while your left leg hooks his right arm, then your right arm goes under his left leg and you flip him over?

[@alexanderafanasov4986]

important small details. thx

[@mace8775]

Joe, I have been practicing the flower sweep for quite a bit, it seems that when I hook the leg underneath, the person flattens out or I just can’t get the sweep. Do you think it’s the pendulum leg not coming all the way through? Thank you.

[@art-tb3um]

scissor sweep gets you heel hooked. At least in my academy where i attempted this probably 7-10 times.

[@dannyangel694]

What a beast

[@kellyhaws9741]

A year late...but what do you do when you are attempting a sweep, and they sprawl? New student here.

[@user-xz9fw6lk3p]

I usually use the sweep from kimura grip.

[@AntoineFabri]

Matthias says he likes the scissor really low but pretty much every other video says it's very wrong to keep the shin that low. I'm just a wb trying to make sense of this, is this defensible to have it so low? Does he do something to prevent his leg being crushed by his opponent that others don't?

[@brucebanner4165]

Question to anyone who knows the answer. Why is the knee shield across the hip for the scissor rather than across the midsection/chest area. I've seen this sweep done both ways but I seem to get stacked less with the knee shield higher up.

[@ashlicasey1944]

Ive been trained to put my knee shield higher up to get more power. Ive noticed i really struggle with my sweep if my knee is lower

[@rumjanaklima8854]

I want to know how to do sitting pull guard...

[@erikOHsix06]

can someone please tell me what a carpet sweep is, I keep searching for it I get videos of the sweeps in this video. does it have a different name?

[@BJJJoe]

Never heard of it?!?

[@MicNantel]

Rolling with a fast purple belt , he passes guard on my top leg during the scissor. The only way I can stuff him to keep give him zero space. Do you find that happens a lot BJJ Joe?

[@BJJJoe]

With higher belts it's better to hit the scissor while they are transitioning to pass and you can't telegraph it. It has to be a quick transition on your part. Hope that makes sense.

[@MegaLoveEverLasting]

About when you hook the leg the only thing i would say is make sure it's a deep hook if not your at risk of a wrist like my brother does it all the time to people

[@hashimashram]

What do I do if the person stands up in a scissor sweep in no gi

[@SpaceDaddy69]

Hashim Ashram De La Riva guard

[@iLuvHardStyle]

pendulum variation?

[@dc.mec4778]

oss

[@spiritsplice]

Those were pendulum sweeps not flower sweeps. The swinging leg is the pendulum. A flower sweep bridges off of the floor.

[@SK-wh5zq]

Thx. I'm gonna sweep'em all.

[@sixAdam22]

Takes for ever to explain

[@jesserai]

pretends he paid for quick explanation

[@abelcardenas2091]

very imformative

[@iWubmusic]

i learned the flower sweep by pablo popovich and it shows yours as the xande sweep. so i guess I been doing the xande sweep the whole time and not the flower

[@matthiasmeister9144]

funny enough I call it the flower sweep, but a couple of the professors at our gym told me it wasn't, so Joe researched and apparently it's called Xande sweep as well cause of Xande Ribeiro. you never stop learning in this sport.

[@comiturhan]

So the Xande sweep is when you hold the Gi pants while the flower sweep is when you hook the leg, Professor? Thank you :D

[@matthiasmeister9144]

that's my understanding, yes sir.

[@epvcrew]

Matthias Meister lol then what's the pendullum sweep then?

[@matthiasmeister9144]

Hey Gabriel, I call the one where i grab pant legs, flower sweep the other pendulum sweep, my understanding is different people call these different names. So you can call it what you like....

[@bleunoir-ed9vr]

ㅆㅂ 지도자가 설명하는데 껌 쫙쫙 씹고 있네.... 와.... 아무리 문화차이라지만.... 대단하다!!!

[@jimmahanes]

Nice. Can't wait to try these. But is that guy (second partner) really chewing gum on the mats?

[@noaidie]

We actually have a Black belt instructor who chews gum while teaching. Oh well.

[@VestigialHead]

+noaidie This is what it feels like to chew 5 gum.

[@oldmate9561]

man I can't chew gum myself while rolling (I'm just to exhausted) but a lot of the higher level guys at my gym casually chew gum while kicking my ass 😂

[@ChrisJones-fz5gt]

I chew gum alot, feel like it helps as a mouth guard for casual rolling. Dehydrates you though.

[@SolSystemDiplomat]

Some people chew gum because it enforces breathing to fix the bad habit of holding your breath while rolling.

[@DJBiermann]

Isn't the 2nd one a flower sweep and the last one a pendulum? The Xande is just a flower sweep...

[@MegaLoveEverLasting]

Donald Biermann everyone has a different name for them

[@alexacosta62]

legit

[@MrKilltastic]

OSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[@user-fr2mf5hm4q]

3:23 奥を手繰る　　斜め上に投げる　　がコツ

[@niCk2794]

last thing i expected after these sweeps was the sexy ass music at the end hahaha

[@jamesmaclachlan6595]

I could never hit the scissor sweep. I watched this video a few times and then hit the scissor twice in one class.

[@wikiwikiwee1]

Hotforwords music for intro

[@itsthemuscledad38]

isn't that called pendulum sweep?

[@josephc6016]

I would say a hybrid between flower and pendulum

[@kellz808]

Grapple box --->

[@Hereweare75]

I love how the guy in the guard is chewing gum. Maybe he will choke himself out while training.

[@brotendo]

FYI to all the noobs if you scissor sweep with your shin as low as he shows in the demo, your leg will just get smashed by a halfway decent opponent. You want your shin and knee to be higher--across the top of his stomach and closer to his chest so he can't just smash you with his weight.

[@bobnice3044]

You very rarely see sweeps in Competition or MMA because theory and practice don't last the first seconds of reality.

[@BJJJoe]

Clearly you don’t train or compete. Sweeps occur all over competitions and in MMA.

[@bobnice3044]

@@BJJJoe yes i'v trained for ten years, in the real world while your trying to sweep someones he's headbutting you into oblivion, it works in a BJJ competition enviroment because its governed by rules. its interesting that you can watch hours of video on almost every technique but there are very few vids on sweeps in MMA or street confrontations., How many sweeps have you ever seen in a beach fight or a 3am Punch up? ..the whole concept of GJJ was that sweeps become irrelevant once someones in your guard ...i v watched a lot Rio Heros and Gracie challenge matches and sweeps are rare, you do see the occasional one but these are generally fucking ugly and more luck than judgement ...But we are now entering an argument of the sports JJ and the real world.

[@tomasmraz4813]

6:40 training partner with chewing gum?😂

[@marcazurin1988]

Is that guy chewing gum?!

[@sloppynig1]

homie is chewing gum.. he should at least try to hide it lolol

[@khaleesidove1218]

Ugh! That white gi dude chewing his cud is ANNOYING!!!! 🤣👀

[@danielfernandez6168]

The helper in sweep #2 ... chewing gum on the mat like a cow? And worst during a recorded demo?

[@jaymiddleton1782]

30 seconds of time wasted at the beginning.