Bottom Closed Guard Concepts
- Break your opponents posture by pulling down on the head or crunching your abs forward
- Create angles off to the side – This is often called not staying “Flat”
- Use your foot on their hip to create angles don’t create angles with your foot on the mat.
- Get Opponents hands past the centerline
- Disrupt their balance when they go to move
- If the opponent goes 2 hands on one side take the back
- Break grips with figure four grips
- Work on spider walk with legs
- Don’t allow them to make frames on your hips
- Don’t squeeze too much with your legs
- Pop the grip with a palm strike to the bottom wrist