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Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

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Learn the Guard Passing - BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

Back Pocket Guard Pass

Standing up in the Closed Guard is one of the best ways to pass the Closed Guard. Place your right hand underneath your partner’s ankles – as if you were reaching for your back pocket.

Use this control to turn your partner’s left leg into a lever to get around your partner’s Guard.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

Knee Cut Guard Pass

The Knee Cut Guard Pass is a wedge that drives through the clamping ability of your partner’s Guard.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

In addition, the narrow leading edge of your knee creates a small surface area for your partner to frame against.

Straight Knee Cut

Your Straight Knee Cut Guard Pass is another example of a wedge.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

Driving through your partner’s Guard so that it circumvents any clamping or framing from your partner.

Double Under Pass

You can use your partner’s leg and their spine as levers to control their entire body.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

Keep your partner’s hip high off the ground so you have as long of a lever as possible.

Folding Pass

Typically, our partner’s legs act like frames when they’re right from their Guard. Our objective is to turn their frames into levers. To turn a frame into a lever, look to apply force to the side of the stick.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

In the case of passing your partner’s Butterfly Guard, turn your hips so that force goes to the side of your partner’s legs. Keep your partner’s legs folded to complete the Guard Pass.

Matador Pass

Your partner’s Guard is a set of sticks and sticks can be either frames or levers. As your partner is looking to use their legs as frames. You’re looking to use their legs as levers to control the rest of their body.

Learn the Guard Passing – BJJ tutorial from InFighting Burnaby

By grabbing onto their pant legs, push their legs across to get past their Guard.

Ritchie Yip

Ritchie Yip

Ritchie Yip is the Head Instructor for InFighting Training Centers located in Downtown Vancouver and Brentwood Burnaby. InFighting Training Centers offers programs in Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Bootcamp Conditioning Classes and Personal Training

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Ritchie Yip

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