okay guys i'm here today roger gracie huge honor for me at roger grace academy in london if you're ever in london make sure to visit this place and uh uh guys today roger is gonna show us here all about his close guard and the which is like how to do the best jiu-jitsu closure in the history of yujitsu and uh i'm super excited to learn from you awesome so so usually like my main concern in closed garden of course is to keep it close but the main reason that people open the guard is when they
stand up because i find much easier to block the person's attempt to open your guard when they moving down there's one one open guard that's is more threatening is the sao paulo guard that you know they go exactly to to open so they don't sacrifice themselves so that's is something else to do but you know mainly if you stand up is a big threat like any any other situation that you try to push my leg down or go in it's very easy to defend right this you know ideally because the leg is always stronger than
the arm so the person always has the advantage and and you can only use one arm to fight against my legs and regardless of the angle that you try to to put yourself in as long as you're kneeling down i can always reach your arm so it's much easier to develop so my my first concern is against your posture so that's like number one rule so in the the way for you to to to gain uh partial arms in my chest right this is yo i'm pulling that's how you keep so let's say from from
zero we have nothing the first fight is don't get a good grip in my chest um my hands are blocking so you use your hands my shoe because there's one place that you you your arms gives you more portion in the middle of my chest if it's higher than that then when you're coming closer you expose your arms even my legs can climb like there's a bigger thread for your arms and if you go too low that means it's harder for you to keep your posture because it's easier for me to pull you up because
the arm will be weaker so this is middle of my chest that's when when you have that arm okay if i pull you have a solid posture it's harder to break your yeah so that's exactly where my hand stays first so for you to break that grip you gotta pass on my hands and there's no way it's hard and at the same time i'm pulling you all right that will force you to put your arm somewhere else yeah and anywhere else you put is weaker i guess so i can yeah i would probably place here
for example yeah when you come over there you grab something else so now we can keep your arms straight you have a portion of it now yes you can easily break um it's it's easier and most important let's say even let's see if i'm not breaking your porsche but if you try to stand up with this yeah because and then it's boom yeah like when you're done you will always fail the one place they would not it's over here you have a big chance of no when as you stand up if i try to pull
you down this this in my most likely will keep you to all the way up anywhere else you'll fail if you if you put your hand in my stomach and you try to stand up i will break your posture because yeah because that will not be strong enough i'm gonna pull you so i don't i don't worry about you try to stand up with the grip that is not in my chest no but that's very cool because i think everybody is thinking about how to sweep how to control but nobody is really thinking about how
to not let me get the best posture i can yeah oh that's incredible and the moment that i feel let's say have a good grip and you grab i go over okay i can break that okay because i'm over ahead of the advantage okay so in case you do you know the fight i go over and now your elbow breaks my now if you try to stand up you know by by combining pulling with my legs and man that's incredible because i'm over so usually i go over like i wouldn't try to stand up with
my arm and i would try to go over you know let us know now he's another fight against you and then man that's you know i get you closer and that's when maybe you only shake my attacks so i want you closer to me than i attack he takes a few times still attacks for you to get to set with something but it's a constant fight because as long as you cannot stand up you're getting you get an attack yeah no and every time i try to stand up i'm spending a ton of energy during
this time at some point i'm might not giving up you know yeah and there is one time there's a there's a there's a perfect moment when to pull because you're not just pulling the person it's it's the moment that you take your second leg off the floor that's the only time that i would pull you over anywhere else you saw it let's say if you bring one leg up and then i try to pull you still solid because you have your you know your knees your legs and your arms but the moment they take the
other leg off the floor i got a second like that's that's when i pull the person so you have that perfect timing on your mind where maybe nowadays you don't even think anymore but but you have that anytime i'm lifting the second leg that's some time and i'm gonna pull my hand i'm waiting for that moment that i will not react until the second leg that's incredible no no that's my time and when you know if i can keep you long enough in my clothes god okay now i'm gonna now which attack well all right
so as much time as you get the person inside your clothes girl in your mind you were winning you're not in a hurry at all like you have a lot of threat on you here yeah a lot i don't know there's a whole bunch of attacks that you have to worry about you have to worry about your porsche getting swept triangle chokes kimura there's many there's none against me the only thing that i have to worry about is you opening my guard that that is all right the moment that the guy is open changes everything
yeah okay now is it now it's even yeah right you pass and i'm defending then it becomes equal yeah this is not equal because i'm attacking and you're defending you're not attacking back that's incredible so this is a is a very advantaged position for me for me because i mean there's no threat yeah i can look up you know i can't relax here i have no nothing to to worry about yeah you do yeah one mistake you tap there's no mistake that'll make me tap my mistake will make you stand up and open my guard
that's it i got it so your whole goal here is to not let me open your guard my whole goal is to keep you in my clothes but i didn't stay down if you stand up now you will open my guard i'm at a time i have one chance of attack if that fails the guy is over one chance oh no and now like gunner head you can only teach one attack to someone which one you would teach like right now like from from here like you you were able to keep me in the closet
so let's say in this position if i'm gonna choose i'll go over and then i'm gonna start attacking your arm yeah because being over i have the adventure then i'm holding your arm you cannot go over my nose okay if you try to go over mine i'm holding yeah there's no way yeah and then the next step you'll be trying to gain your shoulder all right which is not very difficult because i'm over here it's different from here are you on it because the moment that i initiate my climbing the legs you're going to push
it up exactly well now look i'm struggling but because i'm grabbing there no push it up there's no way you can't because both of your shoulders are talking then again your shoulder and now like it's life-changing i mean i'm like i'm almost to the end of the the the arm attack you know you know the amla i mean now i have a massive adventures on you yeah i'm you know almost you know if you see most of my the amrocks i was successful i always gained the shoulder first very difficult to go from zero to
red very hard right that's very hard but you know breaking through like getting the shoulders keeping that position and then when the moment is comes to go over then my success is much higher so michael will be getting the shoulder first with the grip across oh i have seen you doing that many times it's you know this is not it's not hard yeah because you cannot push it and if you try to bring your elbow in to defend is put the elbow on the side on my hips it's you can still do it i can
still fight against you no that's because i'm pulling the hips and pushing and then boom i'm not oh so would you say that keeping the opponent in the closer and breaking his posture is made like 50 60 and then wherever you bring from there that that is like regardless of your attack that is a must fighting against porsche right it's like that's what gonna keep keep you in the closed door keep handling your clothes you were one of the few people in jiu jitsu that pretty much won everything is with the techniques that you learn
in the first week pretty much bone attacks guard passing like a very basic one close guard so yeah people they they underestimate basic for easy no basic is easy and that's what i was thinking there like they they take my introducer for a for a basic game i think my game is very complex i do simple things you know it's like okay it's a cross-collar joke i mean it's the hardest attack that i that you took me to develop that's something that you learn on the first day i mean who how many people do you
know that has a very strong close guard cross culture from the mouth it's so hard over here it's so hard to develop it took me years years to develop that attack and i'm go go do a season sweeping of what's happening impossible so the basic there's nothing easy with the basic moves and it's not the base because when people say oh you have a your game is very basic what it is basic is kimura basic i mean kimura is is very simple but it can be so complex yeah yeah you know it's like it's closed
guard it's but it's so complex the attack you know in the details is so it's just it's easy but it's it's not it's not it's simple but it's not easy but it's not easy yeah no that's amazing yeah yeah no that's incredible so guys hydra has an entire instruction all about clothes girl at bgj fanatics.com make sure to check that out this is the very best clothes girl in the history of and thanks so much please help me out to grow my youtube channel just click subscribe and to watch more videos just click under see
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