okay guys I'm here today for the great John Daniel huge honor for America's always guy said today John's gonna show us here how to build the perfect Coast Guard game okay so how should you build your clothes good and I think clothing is one of the best positions in your sheets because it's the type of position that everybody can do that it's not like a deal ahi for being below that you've got to be flexible it's the type of game you just have to close your legs and you have the clothes go so I'm very
excited to learn from John how to build this game so it's a fascinating thing you said this is a game for everybody I do believe that length and height is an important attribute for a clothes guy gaming can definitely help but anyone you know I've got short limbs my height but I can play a close game without a problem I do believe it's a game that almost anyone can use but there are some interesting elements behind the idea of a close guard have you ever thought there's a bit of a contradiction within Judaism and so
far as were always taught that in order to attack someone we have to get some kind of positional advantage first and then we attack people that's probably the first thing you learned you too you get positioned first and then you start submitting people normally when we talk about getting position on so on we mean in an advantageous position you get past a lady at the side control get amount gets ran out and you start finishing people the dominant positions in jiu-jitsu score points but when it comes time to attack from bottom position close guard in
particular you don't get any points from pulling close god if we start the match I come out and pull close guard on you score any points it's not considered to be dominant and yet when we're in bottom position we get taught to attack out of a norm dominant position by its very nature by definition close God is a neutral position that's why does a score any points and from bottom position we get taught to attack from a neutral position and that kind of goes against the trained in jiu-jitsu which is the heir to a dominant
position first and then started taking people so something we need to do in this video is to kind of resolve this apparent contradiction how do L do that we work from bottom that we're supposed to attack out of a neutral position rather than a dominant one well the basic idea that we're going to throw at you in this video and also in the go further faster close guidance functional is the idea that in neutral positions we can make small adjustments to the position that starts confer mechanical or tactical advantage to the person using what would
otherwise be a neutral position so that even within neutral positions we can make small adjustments that will make it at least mildly dominant and then from there from mild dominance you can go on to attack people with a high percentage rate of success I think it's natural for most students introduce it when they first start off to see close guard as a more or less defensive position okay that's because typically we get taught to escape out of pins put the guy back and close guard and hold on and so most YouTube students have an unconscious
reaction of seeing close guard as a holding position a defensive position for example let's say I get out of Mountain position there's a working and you know your first days and you don't see the guys in the mounted position we go into a classic elbow escape and from here we capture a leg and come out on the other side we capture a second leg would come out and we close to God and mentally you stop thinking yourself okay I got out of a bad position there's some relief in let me just move onto this guy
and see what happens okay that mindset is something we got to get over and a big big theme of the Gopher and faster clothes guy video is exactly there to take you to see close guard as first and foremost an attacking position where you take the fight to your opponent from bottom position a big part of how we start doing this is to understand what are the what are the central attributes of a closed guard position now one of the most interesting to me and one which I received very very very few people talking about
is the idea of who's really on top when you take a close guard position this is something interesting okay someone opens the room and saw closed guard situation and was asked a simple question who was on top of these two athletes who has top position they're all gonna point to panada I said well obviously come on and he's on top I'm on bottom is it really that obvious I'll give you one thing Bernardo's upper body is definitely on top of mine his chest and shoulders are above mine no question but what else we go down
to the lower body if you look you'll see that in fact my hips are on top of benardos hips and my legs are on top of his legs so really what's going on here is Bernardo his upper body top position but I have lower body top position and interestingly the way the human body is constructed the lower body is typically the more the more more useful of the two so even though ostensibly I'm underneath my opponent the most important part of my body my hips and legs are actually on top position so there any reversal
from a situation like this is going to end up with us in a true top position so for example if I broke my opponent's hands down towards the mat coming up to the side we not going part more but now this would be a true top position because not only is my upper body on top of Bernardo but my lower body my hips are on top of his hips so my chest is on top of his chest and my hips and legs on top of his hips and legs as opposed to a clothes hard situation
where yes is upper body's on top of mine but my lower body is on top of his the fact that our lower body actually has top position has big ramifications for the position overall it means that I can create breaking or disruptions in my opponent's posture very very easily understand that your training partners would bring the camera in this direction in the human body the spine is the single longest lever that we get to work with it runs from our training partners tailbone all the way up to the crown of their here when we lock
the closed guard we're down here low on our training partners spine but we can bring our knees together underneath this outfit and employ a knee pole that goes through my training partners defensive hands and enables us to break posture forward we can use this in any situation where our Pollan's head is in front of his hips the more the head comes in front of the hips the easier it becomes to employ the Annie pole to break our pilot down towards the mat okay if in conjunction with this we control our training partners hands and keep
the hands in close we can employ an ebook to break his posture forward even if my opponent goes to stand up as he places one leg up and he comes up to a second leg we can meet hold to break him down to the floor that vulnerable second step is a great time for us to employ a meatball even if he was so good that he did get up to his feet or he tries to go up to achieve vertical posture it's not an easy thing against a strong knee pole and from here it's not
difficult for us to continue breaking him down to the floor and back to his knees only when our opponent manages to get his head directly over his hips is he and since invulnerable to Annie pole but then he becomes vulnerable to having his it's broken backwards so as the hit goes up further and further away easier and easier person to stop smoking people in backwards directions even if it gets up to its peak now it brings his head vertically up it's not a difficult thing for us to start knocking people down from the floor onto
their buttocks so you can see we could use the fact that our hips are above our training partner steps to severely impact our training partners posture if the head is in front of the hips it's almost always a knee pull that brings them forward and breaks their balance forwards if the head is above the hips or behind and it's almost always a knock back that breaks our pants balance so we can off balance both forwards and backwards because our hips actually hit the top position even though the rest of us is underneath from a closed
guard situation understand always that we work out of closed guard everything we do is an attack on your opponent's posture and balance it's very very difficult from closed guard situations just to launch directly into an attack if my opponent has knowledge of what an arm lock is what a triangle is it's hard for me just to break straight on through but if you can break balance and posture first the subsequent attacks comes so much easier so always there's this pattern I observe where is my head my opponent's head in relation to his hips and we
employ either knee poles to break his balance forward or knock backs to break his balance backwards if we can reliably do these two things all the subsequent attacks in jiu-jitsu from close guard come relatively easily now we talked earlier about the idea that close guard is a neutral position and in general and you did see we didn't like to attack from neutral positions who liked to attack from dominant positions from close guard there are a range of weakly dominant positions that we can work our way into they confer some kind of tactical or mechanical advantage
they're going to make our attacks a lot easier so for example this will run through one of them right now the client position from close guard with my training partner is still on two knees we know that because our hips are on top of our training partnership so even though he is upper body top position we on lower body top position if we could get our opponents hand on the mat that would be a big deal we'll be putting them in a situation where the certain vulnerability has been exposed right now banana has excellent hand
position his hand on my chest makes it difficult for me to sit up his hand on my hip makes it difficult for me to get effective working angles okay but if we were able to put hands on the mat we could do something interesting here so I'm gonna work my hands inside and underneath my training partners hands if necessary I could break rooks from positions like so but ultimately what we want is hands inside now using that long lever of the spine we're gonna hit a knee pull when my knees come up to the armpits
we never pull with our feet down by the bottom of the spine that's a short into the liver it's not very effective I bring my knees high into the armpits and even has been either goes to posture up you'll see we can easily break his balance forward and get hands to the mat if we bring the camera in this direction though now we go when we walk on our training partner the next thing we need with brokenness postures tip number two is to get 'event aegis angle I could do that naively by putting my foot
on the floor problem with that is my pumpkin step over my leg it's not going to half got all kinds of bad things in heaven so let's try to avoid hands on floor so much as foot on hip or even better turning out and pivoting using up just the movement of my legs without ever touching the floor now we've locked up how close god you'll notice everything is different with no achievement angle explain the camber this way so that my knee is behind benardos head and my body is offline if I'm directly lined up with
my training partner in this position it's very easy for better not just stand up and to move my body weight and lift my shoulders up the floor all kinds of things but if I get to an advantageous angle now to the side now when I need pull my knee is directly behind the head at the end of the lever plus because I'm on my side I had much greater mobility to move my head further or closer to my opponent and now we can start bringing the idea of a weekly doorman position within a neutral position
getting to these Evan tators angles doesn't score points okay but it does give you mechanical and tactical advantage particularly when I make the switch to a clamp where I bring a knee in front of my trainee father's shoulder and then me behind the opposite shoulder this knee here pushes this knee here pulls so when Bernardo tries to come towards me my right knee governs distance when he tries to pull away from me I'm putting away my left knee governs distance so his hip his stuff when he tries to bring his hands together defensively it's physically
impossible the hands are separated as opposed to a situation in a neutral closed guard where you can easily bring hands together to defend our marks and settled Sarah okay if I go for a triangle here it's very very hard when the hands involved offensively and quite right there for now I'm open his hands and Walt it's very very hard for me to attack but if I can split my opponents two hands shuffle out to the side and walk in this position when he tries to rough his hands and get a defensive frame going that's so
difficult and from here even though ostensibly you're still in a neutral position you haven't scored any points now he'd have mechanical and tactical advantage and from situations like this it won't be difficult for us to touch the pasha work it's not bringing the legs through and go into our favor attacks from here we obviously have some cargo to trial if he goes up and vertical on us from here standing up saying you know there won't be such a tough thing for us to come around the corner and it's not getting into good attacks from triangles
once we lock up from here we're ready to win underneath our trainee partisan here also all manner of arm walk attacks if my opponent starts moving in a direction where you try to sort of get away from us there won't be a difficult thing for us to cut a couple floor it's got an inverting and find ourselves in geudaega tally upside down it's a difficult thing from situations like this to turn off my Sultana it goes through into pompadour attacks all of these as we go further into the go further fire faster video let's quickly
run through this again from a close guard situation essentially we're neutral here the only real advantage we have is affected our hips are higher than our opponents hips so we had some height advantage but he is upper body height we have lower body height okay it's only when we start getting some kind of technical and mechanical advantage one that we're looking at here is their gear hands to floor hence the floor make it possible us to move out to an advantageous angle so I'll close god is not lined up with him anymore but we hit
we're offline once we get to an offline position I'll knee is right behind our opponents head so when we need Paul he tries to poster up you're right at the end of the liver may be very effective from here now we make a switch here into the clamp guard when my poet tries to move towards me very very difficult tries to move away equally difficult and from here more difficult thing for us to start going into various forms of attack it can be highly effective from boss position in this way we get to see the
idea that even though ostensibly we're in a neutral position getting score points we didn't get to dominant positions in the usual sense we did get a measure of dominance out of a neutral position we took a completely neutral situation you just came in for closed guard and suddenly we had different mechanical and technical advantages by minor movements and body weight everything began with breaking our opponents posture everything began with the insight that even though ostensibly you're underneath your opponent you hips on top of them it's a huge huge mechanical biomechanical advantage and as a result
we could break out upon it down we saw one method of breaking now let's get hands on the mat that's one form of advantage that we'll be investigating in this video there are many others we're gonna look at some of them even stronger than this once we get hands to the man it's all about getting that angular advantage we shoot our hips out to the side and we convert what with ordinarily be a neutral situation into a weakly dominant one then we convert the client guide we can rule II govern the distance between your head
and your opponent's head you can exert the pushing at a pulling force and separate your opponent's arm so we can't use one arm to defend the other and from a situation like that the conventional attacks triangles are bars formalize etcetera etcetera becomes so much easier to apply on our existing opponent in this way you can take a neutral position which may not seem particularly promising to attack a talented opponent and turn it into a dominant one not dominance in the usual sense insofar as you've done some kind of major transition to a new position at
scores points but rather of a subtle sense of dominance where you're separated hands governed your ability to push and control your opponent's head it's a subtle fascinating form of dominance within a neutral position but that is the kind of dominance which is so often wins a championship level it's not so easy to observe from the outside but it's readily felt when another athlete puts it upon you will be in this getting a ton of these kinds of things we've seen them as we film Bernardo throughout this go for the faster close guy video so guys
yeah one thing that one of the things that call them the most my attention is this fact that I'm on top but your hip is on sorry I had never fought about it of course I haven't been to this positions like thousands of times right close gear is a very popular position in jujitsu but I had never thought that at somehow joints on top of me because his hips are on top of my legs and they while you were doing the techniques I was thinking about it like most of the sweeps from close girl that's
exactly the sweet peppers because you are heaped is on top of my hip and it's enough because superficially you look at the position ago but the the persons on the bar hips is on top of my hip which is gonna make a huge difference for the leverage and the another thing as well Joe was like I had seen before the clamp guard clamp readies but I had never thought that the reason works so well is because you take out all my chance connect my hands think that Oh see I mean you close got it oh
yeah let's bring the camera in this direction here well I mean your clothes God my arms shoulders scapula upper back down through the other form a circuit Circle your the circle of power so if you went to apply an armbar on my right arm it forms a circle of hell which as you go into the arm all creates a closed circuit from with the finger is quite easy if you go to achieve the triangle from here it's hard for you again it's very different music so sometimes an advantage first okay however if you separate my
hands which almost always starts with you putting a hand on the floor now I can't join one hand to the other as you've occupy the space inside which is easily my favorite attacks come in there makes a lot of sense so learning to separate your opponent's hands and getting their mechanical advantage first before you perform the basic attacks of Judson triangle armbar on the platter it's doubles triples or quadruples you can jump in percentage chance of success don't work out of neutrality that's the the king of theme that we all learned on our first ad
units who don't attack from neutral positions get advantage first but close God is the neutral position by definition you go out of pole close god no one's getting points with a different it's neutral so it's up to us to find small measures of advantage within a neutral position and then stop doing our attacking and that was one I think that's gonna help a lot who is watching because it now when you play close girl if we start is closer to that you want to find a way to separate the guys hands it's gonna be you
ya know there was also Jeff hey guys we just shot on the entire structure we've draw all about closed guard that's gonna be part of the fundamental series go for the faster and we got eyelashes someone BJ fanatics calm so there's a chance there by by the time you are watching its it's already launches so make sure it's check it out of GTA fanatics calm and we also have all the other instructions from Joan as well and they also this dis fundamental series that it's be amazing and I think it's like changing your ginseng great
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