Guard Forum
Discuss guard retention, sweeps, submissions, off-balancing, frames, grips, entries, transitions, and the systems grapplers use to attack and survive from the bottom.
Guard Forum Guidelines
How to ask technical questions, share positional details, and keep discussions useful for other grapplers.
How do you stop the knee cut once your opponent gets inside position?
Looking for details on frames, hip position, grips, and when to switch to another guard.
Butterfly guard against a standing opponent
What are your preferred entries when the opponent refuses to engage from their knees?
Best way to break posture in closed guard?
Discussing grips, angles, knee pulling, hip movement, and methods for keeping posture broken.
Guard Topics
Browse specific areas of the guard game or use these topics when categorizing a new discussion.
Closed Guard
Posture control, sweeps, submissions, grip fighting, opening reactions, and attacking from closed guard.
Guard TypeOpen Guard
Distance management, grips, hooks, guard retention, attacks, entries, and open-guard systems.
Guard TypeHalf Guard
Knee shield, underhooks, deep half, sweeps, wrestle-ups, recoveries, and half-guard attacks.
Guard TypeButterfly Guard
Hooks, elevation, arm drags, sweeps, wrestle-ups, seated guard, and controlling inside position.
DefenseGuard Retention
Frames, hip movement, leg positioning, recovering inside position, and preventing passes.
OffenseSweeps
Kuzushi, elevation, timing, combinations, reversals, and turning bottom position into top.
OffenseGuard Submissions
Triangles, armbars, omoplatas, guillotines, kimuras, leg attacks, and chained submission systems.
TransitionWrestle-Ups
Singles, doubles, body locks, technical stands, reactions, and converting guard into wrestling.
QuestionsGuard Troubleshooting
Describe what keeps going wrong in your guard and discuss possible technical solutions.