The BEST Guard In BJJ... X Guard

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

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[@abbyonapplejuice9205]

14 year old 3 stripe white belt here. thank you SO much for posting these types of vids! i tapped out an older 4 stripe blue belt with some of the techniques i learned from you! tysm ❤

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Happy to hear that! Great work! I wish I started that young haha :)

[@rolotomase1440]

I was a brand new blue belt - no stripes and just drowning in technique. I was messing with some open guards and barely knew anything. I didn't know anything about X guard except the "trip lift sweep" and I barely knew that. One night we had this visiting professor - He was pretty hard core, and real hard to please. He was watching me roll and he kinda starts narrating what's going on. My opponent stands and I go to De La Riva. And so this guy is like.... OK, OK we got some open guard going over here, we got some De La Riva. Then the other guy starts passing it and he's like - OK, we got a pass, here we go... Then I go to X guard and all of a sudden he starts getting really excited...X guard, X guard, and then I sweep the guy. He starts hyping me up like it's Oprah saying - This guy needs a stripe, this guy needs a stripe, he's not a slick brand new blue belt with that, he needs a stripe right now - and he ran over to the desk and was like - where's the tape I got to give this guy a stripe right now... and he gave me a stripe on the spot.

[@krummdiddlyumptious1784]

Haha that’s sick

[@bugrahandurukan4665]

looool

[@dom0]

Brb, learning x guard.

[@AnthonyOrtiz247]

Haha cool story!

[@Sindra2025]

thats My DREAM 😭😭😭

[@PillarPumpgun]

These concept videos are the best.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks! More coming 🙂

[@philip1329]

I think it would be great to see a tier list of guards in bjj.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Good idea!

[@noahhubscher2926]

Yes please! (Gi / No-Gi). Pass tier list existing?

[@JustinClaphan]

Absolutely love X-guard! It's such a powerful position. Thanks for these videos Jordan!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Glad you like them! X guard is the best!

[@simmme]

Awesome video! I have recently discovered the power of the X-guard and it is very useful against larger opponents!

[@mturnbull42]

Great tips as always! I used to get put in X-guard a lot by this one purple belt, and I learned a lot from this video about what he was looking for. Also a very chill vibe before bed with those beats!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks man! Chill vibes only 🙌

[@coryharris05]

Good to see some instructional content! Thanks!!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

More coming soon!

[@WolframtheBlessed3499]

Coach Jordan you have become my favorite KZbin BJJ instructor. You are also the ONLY modern practitioner that correctly called that position a SADDLE, which was it's original name before Eddie bravo or John Danaher. Thank you.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks man! I appreciate that a lot. I must be old school haha

[@WolframtheBlessed3499]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu old school, yes, that's probably why I took to your teaching 👍👍! 😁

[@16sumo41]

cool! I've been working on De La Riva for a minute now and just realised that I always end up in some variation of the X guard when my opponent grip fights my feet! Will be working on the basics that you're showing here. Good stuff man!

[@NollaGirl504]

I ❤ X-Gaurd, Dela Riva, and Single leg X! When new guys come in, I use these gaurds and they have no clue whats happening!

[@MisterPeanutButter1]

Thanks so much for making this overview! I was thinking of paying for a private lesson to go over X-Guard, but this answers all my questions. 🙏🙏🙏

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Now you can just send me money instead! lol jk :) Glad you found it helpful!

[@MisterPeanutButter1]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu 😂 I buy all your courses, so I think we're square.

[@ericlecours4208]

I like your style! Always giving “textbook” and alternatives because we all know textbook doesn’t often happen. A lot of content in short videos too, for those of us without time to sit through 4 hours of an instructional 😅

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks man! I make them the way I'd like them made. I don't have the attention span for hours long instructionals lol

[@heggtime]

Let’s get a reverse dlr video!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

One of my best positions! Will do soon!

[@epiphi]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu Seconding this. Would love RDLR. My bread and butter in a gym of knee cutters.

[@Justjenny429]

Yes, please!

[@cooperevans8033]

Considering how much you use it I’d love a shin on shin guard vid Jordan 🙌 great vid as always

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Will do soon! Thanks!

[@kuriouskoopatroopa3129]

Love the X-guard, specifically for entering the crab ride and backtake. Great content as always, Jordan, love from Aus 🇦🇺

[@MichaelSouth1]

Excellent instruction! We call the “go behind” position referenced here the “Backside X”. It is my absolute favorite way to sweep directly to Leg Drag 🤙🤙

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Definitely a better name. I should have thought about it more before lol. I love that leg drag sweep too!

[@weiqi213]

Dela Riva guard would be a good one to cover IMO considering the similarities that I see as a lower belt.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

I'll so that soon 👊

[@DeeCee1411]

I never saw the point of either. Now I love both. I'm a lower belt and want to get good at X, SLX, and DLR. Good luck to you.

[@KevinLeeVlog]

I agree! X guard is definitely my favorite!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

So powerful!

[@adaptandflowoptimization9214]

awesome video! Really great details and instruction, clearly have a good well versed deep understanding of Xguard. i love using it as well and am excited to get to work sharpening it thanks to your video! osss thank you and have a great time on the mats!

[@whereisross8820]

Watched this video 5 times before class and hit the entries and sweeps all night thanks to the details and demonstrations. Thank you!

[@VaptorIV]

Awesome vid… also love x guard. Got promoted to blue yesterday

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Awesome congrats!

[@alexamtebiswko5122]

I've have been using the Xguard effectively since 2007 but this variations that you are showing in this video is going to improve my Xguard drastically. Good video!

[@davidnguyen9114]

I've been using xguard more in my game recently and I think I like it a lot more than de la riva or any other guard. This video is great because sometimes I forget which sweeps are available. Thank you!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Guards with your legs on the inside are general much better for short legged folks. I only use dlr when I have to. Don't have the legs for it lol

[@rapp3090]

Yet another great short instructional for x-guard. I would love to see more rolling footage. Thanks Jordan.

[@nenzonenzo]

It’s the best guard cause - it’s not a guard. It’s a pre- sweep setup.

[@isoxhorse4978]

It’s the best guard because no one calls it anything but x guard and you use two wedges to keep the opponent guarded from you.

[@pninnan]

Someone watched a danaher video

[@user-sw5wn8go3k]

I was waiting for this one! Incredible as usual! Are you planning on making a video about triggers in BJJ? (the open elbow for the kimura etc.)?

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

I plan to! Probably will be a late July video 👊

[@user-sw5wn8go3k]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu this is exactly why you are the best BJJ instructor on KZbin

[@reoov3798]

Please cover octopus guard, from half guard, and to stand up and etc!. love your content

[@lachthavvirak]

Do you recommend this guard to whitebelts as their first? Also love the video

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Probably not as the first just because it's more of a guard you transition to from another guard first. But still is useful to work on!

[@msdunkel]

7:30 when did Jrod stop by for training? ;)

[@100proofhero666]

Love the video. X/single leg X I’ve been in love with since I was a higher white belt, and through my blue stages. Don’t think I’ll ever abandon this one. Video showed some great nuance though!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Awesome man! Yepp it's such a versatile guard. Definitely don't abandon it, just keep improving it.

[@diegomartini6600]

Very nice video Jordan! Thank you

[@oramac7237]

Love X Guard! I've been experimenting with it quite a lot recently. Thank you for this!

[@BH-ix7nq]

Awesome video Jordan! Definitely taking a mental note if this

[@whereisross8820]

Can you do one of these for butterfly?

[@casualmicc2007]

Ive rewatched this video last night and today while in half butterfly getting smashed by someone who outranks and is bigger than me i suddenly hear in my head @JordanTeachesJiujitsu’s voice x guard is the best guard and i hit this technique twice. Once kinda just landed in my close guard and the second completing the sweep. The coolest part was while i was doing it images of this vid was the laying in my head. Thanks coach, from Edmonton, AB.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Awesome job man! Well done 🙂

[@mustaphamsr9617]

Many thanks for this overview, well appreciated 😊

[@fuzz3339]

Hey 👋🏾 Jordan can you do a video on the offensive and defensive positions in grappling the most common ones maybe how you link those together for a rolling strategy. I get lost with 3/4 mount, dope , head quarters and stuff like that. Great videos btw keep up the good work.

[@alexthomas9255]

Awesome tutorial as always! That shin on shin entry is awesome. I only know the transition to deep half right now. More Shin on shin tutorial please.

[@dylanwinslow8585]

Easily digestible and applicable information as always - what would we do without this dude

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks man 🙏👊

[@rogersmiirt7410]

Hey Jordan, nice Video. I am a blue belt and decided to study z-guard. Of course there is a lot of content out there but maybe you can make a vid of your own, because you can put so much good info in a video about a topic :)

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thanks man! And yepp great idea. I'll see when I can film it, will do so for sure 🙏

[@WhoDarez]

What are some ways to drill this technique? I really want to learn this. 🙏

[@golddee2040]

I will definitely be looking for it more. I get single leg x all day but never really go for x because I always get a sweep. But I'll definitely look for it when i under hook a leg.

[@Umtam3d762]

Hey Jordan when is that New rolling commentary coming out with Zuka BJJ love the videos very informative. Keep up the great work 👍.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

It's been out a few weeks already 🙂

[@Umtam3d762]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu my bad must have missed it thanks Jordan

[@Soraakids]

Yes I agree, X guard is very strong because it is very versatile in the meta, nice entries and nice options, and it works against mostly every people even if they are strong or big

[@KevinBullington]

Excellent! Great B-roll examples. Maybe spider and lasso variations soon?

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Great idea!

[@djfueler]

So condensed it’s very hard to understand. Do you have a tutorial on it? I understood the one with the bottom leg instep hook behind their knee, top leg hooked over their thigh. Is that x guard or single leg x ? Forgive me I’m new to this Jordan 🙏

[@dionschool104]

Awesome instruction, can you do a k-guard next? Maybe a simple version on how to enter backside 50-50

[@PeartSkirtAndSpunky]

Perfect timing- my coach recently said X guard is useless in No Gi but great in Gi. Curious to watch this and get your take. Saving this for after work.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Definitely not useless in nogi haha. Great guard for both!

[@rossgray1466]

The go behind I have heard coaches refer to as sneaking out the back door. More common when escaping from underneath a high mount but still the same technique

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

That's probably a better term for it. I should realized that while making this haha

[@dcDOC19]

Could you please do one on breaking the single leg X then diving for the hips in order to take the back?? Thx for these videos professor Jordan!!

[@Sindra2025]

hey jordan can you make a vid about how to do take downs and tips? im really bad and always pull guard for that and i need to be able to do that

[@josephbreza-grappling9459]

Definitely my favorite guard. I still need some work when they clear the foot and backstep. Maybe you can teach me how to deal with that. In the Gi, they give me the sleeve and I do that sweep you showed, but if I can’t get their sleeve, I try to drop down to their ankle and back trip before they sit too far back on my chest

[@KodiakCombat]

As you continue to explore CLA, it would be awesome if you could go into some invariants of the positions you're presenting. More focus on attention and intention would be cool too. Then a small game? At the end you seemed to hit on a good possible win condition, take the back or get their hips to the mat. What would be a win condition for top? What must they do to extricate themselves? Would likely be remove/defeat the invariants?

[@thepercyvlogs]

Hey Jordan, just did my first comp as a white belt and was wondering if you have any footage of your matches as a white belt and would want to review them.

[@martinmyggestik292]

I love x-guard. It's always there, right in the middle of everything and you can set up so much from it.

[@galactoruniversalmaster]

X guard rules ! Wonderful video as always !

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tonilenk]

Thank you for this Video 🙌

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Thank you for watching 👊

[@jakerowsell8752]

My favourite guard, especially love going for a back take from X guard

[@teodycue]

Thanks for the video. What do you think about the modified x?

[@pablogomeztorres892]

Youre the man, JORDAN!!

[@skipsmoto]

Great video 👏👏👏

[@emr7831]

Some day id love to come and roll with you Jordan! If I could even afford to spend a couple of weeks there, id take every class I could!

[@terryparkes132]

Jordan, love the videos, man. Been folllowing you for a long time. I was wondering, im in the UK and ive trained BJJ for around 4 years. Im considering a vacation to america in the summer and wondered if you let people swing by and train anytime? 👍

[@greenflare3125]

Awesome video, I'll be practicing this! You should cover collar sleeve next!

[@anotheraveragegamerchannel6161]

I love x guard and single leg x. However, my knees that were bullet proof for the last 33 years have both had big injuries as a result of these guards. Lcl and acl. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

[@The_Bladdenbolo]

could you do a video on dela riva next?

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Will do soon!

[@Silentwatcher23]

Thanks Jordan!!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 👊

[@forwardgrappling]

quality as always 🍾

[@Leopar525]

Hahaha nooo why freeze there at @8:00 bro?

[@3YangBros]

Great work love it 👍

[@brettpatrickcote]

Nice! Thanks!

[@jamesr141]

Totally agree. X guard is the business!

[@geocarvalhont]

Thanks Jordan, let's go for deep half guard?

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

For sure!

[@thurmangreen676]

Just what I needed , I work X Guard out deep half,

[@ajsal1902]

Amazing thank you!

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Glad you liked it!

[@lmk2869]

This video is amazing 🤩

[@zapodlearns7674]

Awesome video! Let’s roll berimbolo!!

[@intersportasia9521]

i have a training partner who's 1.95m tall and his legs are long as fuck. X-guard doesn't work on him with my shorter legs (we're both purples).

[@montysandhu7789]

I’m starting in a few weeks how do people balance this with lifting weights

[@gundropmusic]

they go well together but jiu jitsu gets more addictive then lifting weights

[@montysandhu7789]

@@gundropmusic how many days a week do you have to go to get good. 4 days a week due to work and lifting is all I can really give.

[@gundropmusic]

@@montysandhu7789 that's enough, i do like 2 a week

[@drakeslocum2564]

@@montysandhu77894 days a week is plenty

[@UltimateAlric]

​@montysandhu7789 4 days a week of jiujitsu? That's plenty to see improvement. I typically lift prior to going to jiujitsu. 1) as a 40 yr old, I find the pre-BJJ workout helps warm me and loosen things up 2) I don't mind having a little fatigue in my system going to BJJ because, as a 95kg/210 practitioner it helps me focus on being technical.

[@seabrus]

Marcelo Garcia's North South choke would be awesome

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

That's a sub in not very good at haha. I'll work on it though and see i find success I'll make a tutorial 🙂

[@lambo5277]

Thanks man!!

[@LRFtheLion]

Would you mind making a video about how new white belts can protect themselves from being injured while sparring with other new white belts who don't know what the F$&K they are doing and conflate force with technique? Thank you SO MUCH! Love the videos!

[@connerarmstrong258]

Just started playing the X guard game recently, this vid is sick and super helpful 🫡

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Glad it helps!

[@copa593]

RDLR Rubber guard basics Lockdown / Deep Half

[@akschu1]

Nice review of X-guard.

[@daveong1990]

Super Thanks

[@davedave8608]

agreed.. just tough to get to.. oss

[@Sturmbannführer88]

Thanks

[@firmadonarocha]

Excelente!

[@turdfurgison97]

super thanks

[@njlopezfa6514]

Much thanks ❤

[@George.Thomas]

You should do an X guard instructional

[@makeitcountenglish]

very nice video

[@adamturowski3765]

Please now cover escaping from X guard so we can see both sides on the coin.

[@fyrdraca77]

This video basically described my A game ^_^

[@777repentnow]

Thank God for S-guard

[@Queensdecline]

You didn't cover this X-guard sweep. It's my favorite from X-guard. When you're in X-guard and your opponent has his hands on the mate. Grab his nearside hand and kick upwards (to the ceiling) with your legs. Because you took out his base you should be able to role on top of him. If done correctly you should end up in side-control with one leg trapped. gl

[@youjitsuhoneybadgers8322]

I consider x-guard to be a sweeping position rather than a guard. The name is misleading imo.

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

You're not wrong! But still technically a guard like any other 🙂

[@LassoPapi]

Lasso guard