Williams Guard

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Sharing this straight from the mats at the Evolve grappling competition, so today we show you one of my favorite guard positions; the shoulder pin! Also known as the Williams guard (referring to Shawn Williams). Enjoy these 3 sneaky chokes from the shoulder pin guard!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Chapters 0:00 - Start 0:33 - Introduction to the shoulder pin 4:52 - Basic submissions 6:18 - Modified Ezekiel choke 8:41 - No-gi cross collar choke 10:05 - Ninja choke 13:13 - Summary

[@JohlorBJJ]

Me and my training partner have been using Williams Guard/shoulder pin since a few years back. That third choke I havent seen yet, eventhough we tried experimenting with stuff on the other side. Gonna try it tonight! :)

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Awesome! Love playing this guard. You mean the ninja choke? I have a whole video on it, hope this works: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKa6qJZ-mNCigck Let me know how it goes! Osú

[@JohlorBJJ]

@@EnergiaMartialArts Yes the Ninja choke, saw now that you put a time frame in the description! Thank you, gonna check out that video before practise :D

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

@@JohlorBJJ awesome! Love that choke. Good luck! 👌🏼

[@danzyyg3768]

I love that Neil knot! Such an easy an effective choke. I've never seen that entry into the rubber/Williams guard (same same). Thank you! Normally i enter from butterfly, but closed guard is my game

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you! Yeah it's a great submission with pretty low risk on losing the position. If you want to go more in depth I'd highly recommend our latest instructional 'the active guard' that goes all in on these systems 🙌🏼🙏🏼 osú

[@Nick-gy1yz]

Love this! This one and your rubber guard videos got me to check out your Active guard instructional on BJJ Fanatics and that's an absolute GEM!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you! I appreciate that 🙏🙌🏼

[@SonnyBrown]

Nice one mate!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you sir! 🙌🏼

[@1flatabs]

Excellent techniques and excellent instructor.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you very much 🙏🏼

[@gheorghems]

nice content with clear details...thanks!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you 🙏🏼🙌🏼

[@unicornmusic1523]

Amazing video

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you!!! 🙏

[@kevindressel721]

Great stuff as always!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thank you! 🙏🏼🙌🏼

[@mitchelllindersmith8758]

Thank you! This is amazing!

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Happy to hear that. Thank you so much! Where are you from may I ask?

[@adamwood87]

i get people in this so often, but i never knew any subs; i'd just do the quick math and hope for the best. good to know i wasn't too far off.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Hope this helps brother! If you ever want to go down the rabbit hole check out our instructional 'the active guard' on BJJ fanatics 🙌🏼🙏🏼

[@thalitav.1221]

🙌🏼

[@martinplaneando4581]

This is excellent content and very well explained. Thank you. You have a new suscriber indeed.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thanks brother! Appreciated and welcome to the team 🙌🏼

[@Mr_Iain]

Nice, this is a great run down. Williams is fun to play and I've found many guys I roll with at other gyms don't know it. Also the Ninja is underrated.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Osú brother! Yeah and even better is mixing it with other guard systems like rubber guard, rat guard and kguard. In the past couple years I've been blending that into a coherent system. If you're interested check out 'the active guard' on BJJ Fanatics. 🙏🏼🙌🏼👊🏼

[@raiklaub975]

Thanks for the cool vid. @6:03 what is "I a be myself underneath"? Don't know this expression, what does it mean? Thanks

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Thanks! So here I say “I ebi myself..” ebi is a basic move in jiujitsu and grappling also known as shrimping or hip escaping. You’ll find it when you look for it on KZbin like bjj ebi or shrimp. Hope it makes sense! Osú

[@raiklaub975]

@@EnergiaMartialArts thanks again and for your time to reply

[@NiekMagnel]

First whoop whoop

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

😁👌🏼

[@neilsweeney5352]

Wiilaims guard to Neil Knot

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Yes sir. As mentioned and credited in the video 😄

[@bygelstaking]

williams guard

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Yes. Did you read the description and/or top pinned comment? 😁 and as with more things in BJJ; Shoulder Pin Guard, Leg-Hook Guard, 'Russian' Guard, London Guard, Lister Grip Guard, Shawn Williams Guard; all the same position. But thanks for clearing it up! Osú

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

The ninja choke literally puts you flat and your guard open.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Yes.. with a locked in choke. What exactly is the problem? Also it takes zero effort to (should it fail) close the guard again and reset.

[@BN-uz4px]

Neil Melanson has the Neil Knot. It’s a much better instructional.

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

I 100% agree. He's a great guy and took the system a lot further. But to be honest it was Shawn William who invented this and he should get the most credits and has the best stuff on it. But thanks for pointing that out ;)

[@prideneverdies1001]

u r not rickson stop pls

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

And you are?