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.

• Hips up Feet Down

• 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