Guard Retention Proper Body Positioning

This video I discuss Guard Retention and Proper Body Positioning. When you have no grips and defend off of your back I prefer to have a tight crunch position as it reduces the elbow knee space gap for your opponent to pass into, but one common problem people have is this leads to being exposed to stacks so it’s important to learn to defend both of these passes which for me usually turns into alternating how I position my body based off of what kind of pressure my opponent is putting on me.
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[@bprk1237]

You're a great instructor! thanks for the free tips.

[@Markenheimer]

Dude you are the best teacher of guard online, and it's FREE. I have benefited from your instruction so much.

[@KingsSVR]

Awesome stuff giving me more confidence in my game, was a bit doubtful about when to ball up and when to keep hip heavy on mat, thanks!

[@adolfoforonda3363]

Fantastic details, balling up, foot movement and quickly transitioning to flat back and shoulder walking constantly gets missed. Thanks so much!

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Adolfo Foronda Thanks a lot! Happy you posted a short recap of the details and appreciate the support.

[@okinawajapan1]

Gold. Always pure gold from you JT. Thank you.

[@richoz27]

One of my favourite BJJ channels, thanks for the video

[@T3N]

I'll give this a shot next time.

[@jptothetree]

Great stuff as always. Thank you!

[@jebstewart7295]

Great content! I was wondering how you address the leg drag and does the response vary from different positions? For example, defending the leg drag from DLR, SLX, etc., or after the fact? Thanks!

[@grigelkotten]

You said you started playing only closed guard . We saw alot of closed guard during worlds this year; why is that? Do you think many schools overlook closed guard? Is there a level of proficiency in closed guard you demand that your white belts reach before you promote them? maybe some concepts, details of how to break down opponents posture, setting up attacks from closed guard?

[@JonThomasBJJ]

grigelkotten I will definitely do a video soon on how I go about breaking down the closed guard position and how to build your attack sequences.

[@NurSLICMA]

Thank you. I like the way you teach. Are you in the US?

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Nur SLICMA Thanks buddy I actually live in Sweden though

[@lk4343]

thank you. How to enter reverse DLR and attacks from there?

[@karltallowin3073]

Nice

[@Pocotouro]

excellent1

[@MikeVieira]

I got a question for ya! Kimura attack....he grabs his shorts to defend. What can you do?

[@paintspot4988]

I'm watching Lucas lepris sit up DVD and saw your quick breakdown of your whole sit up guard game. You think it's generally a strong guard to get into? I like DLR a lot so i figured it makes sense to learn sit up well also

[@JonThomasBJJ]

paint spot In my opinion the sit up guard series is the strongest sweep position in jiu Jitsu, so yeah I think it’s incredibly powerful to learn. Even Leandro switched his dlr game up a lot to start using it.

[@paintspot4988]

@@JonThomasBJJ cool, I'll continue working on it :)

[@cv0669]

passing 50/50 and passing 50/50 when opponent has foot lock with lapel grip

[@tonysand69]

I've seen many people go to the berimbolo from there, anyway that's a very tricky position, would be great if there's a video about it

[@JonThomasBJJ]

cv0669 hey buddy I can show that one I actually feel really good dealing with that situation.

[@cv0669]

@@JonThomasBJJ my hero

[@EagleTrue]

Do you have a spider guard system ?

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Eagle I have posted content on grapplers Guide I have discount code I’ll add in description

[@mikkip2302]

This reminds me of the grilled chicken

[@michaeljonhson5999]

Thanks. I wonder what is your assistance's name? Is she your student?