okay we're going through a general theory of God retention what we're trying to do is give you all of the major concepts that make god retention possible later on we'll be going on to the specific theory of God retention rich you look at that point using a particular form of God pass and how we negate and overcome that but we've got to start with this general theory and we're looking at the big picture which enables you to hold someone off one of the most important elements of the general theory of guard attention concerns our head
in two particular ways what I want to do to my opponents head as he goes to past my guard and our and also how I can stop him controlling my head when it's time to for him to pass my god let's look at it first from mateus perspective as the guard passer let's understand something if matias can control my head the task of passing my god becomes radically easier for him okay head control is a big big part of god passing now when I say hit control understand that we're wearing a jacket here so Mateus
has different ways in which you can control my head he can control my head directly with crossface grips but he can also control my head in directly with lapel grips why because the lapel is a rope around my head and if he controls the Rope he also controls the head inside that rope so he can go direct and grab scapulae grips over my back and now he has direct control of my head if he controls my legs now and throws his body around he has control of my head through his left arm and control of
my lower body snore his right arm and so he's got an excellent chance of passing my god conversely he could take him up hell grip take a pant grip on this side and go into a classic long step action and now he's controlling my head through the rope around my head it's not a very direct form of control but it's an effective control of my head when I try to move my head away from him Mike he is preventing me from doing so and now he can walk around my legs bring his knee into my
hip line and now he's got a nice gash marks for these points so from Mateus his perspective his ability to control my head is a huge part of his ability to control me most of his groups will involve either lapel grips like so or what we call scapular grips where he goes over my back and grits my gear and holds his scapula again whether he opts for a scapular grouse all of pearl grips is his choice but they both offer control of my head one is a very direct form of control that puts his shoulder
right on my head itself and the other is an indirect form of control through my lapel like this okay as long as my opponent controls my head he's got an excellent chance of passing my god so this is something I always wanted to deny to my opponent I never want to give him head control for free because it's a serious threat once he gets control of my head he's got a very very good chance of passing now understand that hit controlled for him has to be carefully worked out if Mateus was naive and he tried
to control my head while my legs were around him was say for example a scapular grip this would be a foolish thing on the metathesis part because he's given me the very people he stole a check from here he's overextended his arms and weight would lead directly into counter offense on my part okay so Mateus has to be smart about head control the general rule of thumb is this if Mateus can can overcome or pass one of my knees then he can go to control my head so we have Mateus here and he gets a
grip on my pants and stuffs my knee down onto me stairs he's beating my knees his knee comes forward and passes my knee and now become safe for him to reach for my head and now he controls my head he's got an excellent chance of passing my guard from here okay so from Mateus his perspective he can't be naive in the fashion of what she goes to control my head he's got to either beat my knee with his front leg or beat my hip with his rear leg and in these kinds of situations when he
goes to control my head now there's many ways for him say for example to a long step from here and from here we've got a strong guard pass okay this is true regardless of whether he opts to control my head directly or scapular groups for indirectly with lapel grips okay from here as he pops his right knee up in the middle holds off the lapel and from here he could go into wrong step passing through situations like this and do a fine job of passing my god okay so as much as possible I always want
to deny this kind of direct head controls my opponent the way we do this is through inside positioning so as soon as I see my opponent pass my knee in situations like this it becomes important for me to always position my hand close to my own here just as a boxer goes to defend his jaw by heaviness hands high a good jiu-jitsu player defends his jaw and head in the same fashion now my opponent goes to the scapula grip it's difficult for him to use it I hit the inside position with my hand now even
as he goes into a long step or something of this magnitude it's still easy for me to maintain the inside position and bring knees back inside yeah but I couldn't do that if I didn't have the inside position conversely if my partner holds a lapel my hand and the inside position means when he goes to a long step out of here he still have an ability to go inside of your training partners hand I'm sorry inside of his is his arm and the control of the head is minimal now and as a result as he
tries to come in and solidify the pass there'll be a lot easier for us now to work our way back inside and get back into counter offense so always it's up to us as the defensive athlete to never surrender control of our head without a fight whenever someone gets quick hit control that's always a serious serious issue so we always want out here in the inside position as he comes around the corner now even if he goes in to cross our legs we're going to get opportunities from here be able to get back inside and
get our garbage on God attention to work so that's the first form of hit control in engine guard attention denying he can he control to our opponent now let's look at the flip side of this my opponent has a head too and I want to control his head as much as possible as the defensive retaining player let's understand something for Mateus goes to pass my god he must create a situation where his head goes to one side of my body and his hips go to the other so that he forms a cross body position okay
look how Mateus has hit is on my left hand side and it's hips or on my right hand side and as a result unpinned and it's gonna be hard for me to get out from here let's look down a situation where Mateus passes my legs and from here I put a hand on the tasers here so that as he goes to pass my gun I keep his head and hips on one side of my body now when he comes across my side he can't get what he wants because he couldn't form the critical cross body
position from his perspective he's always looking to get the head on one side of my body on my left-hand side and his hips on the other so our whole thing is always to keep his head and his hips on the same side of my body we're always looking to create a situation with a head and a hips on the same side and as a result God retention becomes pretty easy if I cannot create situations where the head and the hits are on the same side then I at the very least must prevent his head from
coming down to my chest and shoulders because when the head comes down to the chest and shoulders that's when you get pinned ok so if I cannot keep the head and the hips on the same side at the very least I've got keeping his head it's cooking me down to me and maximize the distance of his head to my head in situations like this I can always go to put my opponent back in God okay so let's quickly summarize the key role that the head plays and God retention from metathesis perspective as the god passer
this whole thing is to control my head if he can get ahold of my head and control it either through my lapels or directly through the head itself that's money in the bank for him so I will never let someone just effortlessly control my head that if he controls my hair it's cuz he burned not because they gave it to him for free okay so whenever someone's down here and I see them go to control and hit you can believe I'll always have my hand in the inside position whenever I can if they do get
around us in situations like there's a serious issue we've got us not getting inside there now in this fashion we can stop cleaning everything back inside and putting people back in guard but we'll never just let them get a good grip on out here if they cook for a lapel even here I'm always looking to get the inside position on my opponent so as they go past my legs at least I'll be able to prevent them from graduating up to the head and as a result will be able to stuff here sit up and go
back to attain guard at Sarat Sarah okay but would never just surrender head control for free and my punks can have to earn that secondarily my opponent's head has to be part of my my concerns he wants us here coming closer and closer towards mine okay he wants his head on one side of his body and his hips on the other I will always fight to deny those two things to him so as mateus works his way past my god i'm always looking in these situations to prevent hit on my left side hips on my
right we're always looking to keep the head and the hips on the same side of my body and in this way it's a lot easier to put people back in God if that turns out to be untenable I just physically can't do it I couldn't move his head to the same side as the hips then at the very least I should be out of the Fantas hit coming to me as his head comes closer and closer to me against harder hold my phone at all so we're always looking to keep a hit away and there's
a results from here we can start putting that training partner back into a situation where we're lined up we're back in an offensive cycle and from here so many ways for us to go to work done so this general insight of the critical importance of heads in the guard retention game denial of my opponents attempts to control my head and my positive hands to control his head either keeping it away from me while keeping us hidden hips on the same side this is a big big part of our ability to retain a guard against a
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