Marcelo demonstrates an integral sweeping technique: Isolate your opponent's lead-leg by raising your hips up off the mat, pinching your knees around their thigh, and hugging tightly around their lower-leg with your arm. Use your legs ...

4 Part Lesson -- Marcelo imparts the concept of the primacy of the finish: Don't think of your game in terms of discrete chunks that are subject to the scoring conditions of a match and are stitched together in a piecemeal fashion; rat...

3 Part Lesson -- Marcelo covers a sequence originating from Seated Butterfly: If you cannot readily manage your opponent's hands while engaging from Open Guard, don't let them control your head or find your feet unprotected. Scoot forw...

3 Part Lesson - Marcelo explains common scenarios with 1LX-Guard against the opponent when Seated in Butterfly Guard.

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo sweeps a standing passer from Seated (Butterfly) Guard: Latch onto your opponent's lead leg for Single Leg Control w/ a Butterfly Hook engaged (Koala-Guard, Shin-Guard, Shin-to-Shin, Shin-on-Shin, etc). Lift th...

2 Part Lesson — Marcelo teaches two tactical variations of the Single-Leg X-Guard Sweep against more advanced counter-play from the top: [I] If your opponent doesn't quite lose his base after you knock him down and back with a rattle, ...

3 Part Lesson - Marcelo explains the principal of playing jiu-jitsu dynamically by throttling through idled, static self-restraining movement with composed explosive techniques in 1 Leg X-Guard.

3 Part Lesson — Marcelo finds a way to open up a conservative kneeler: [I] If no openings are presented during the Hand-Fight, shove your opponent's shoulders and collide with Double Underhooks when he rebounds back. Contain his postur...

3 Part Lesson - If you feel you cannot take the opponent down, look to Pull Guard instead through the security of controls. Seize the opponent's arms and hands before sitting to guard and instantly attack their exposed lead leg with a ...

2 Part Lesson - Pull Guard from 2on1 Control and depending on the opponent's base, either score with the Tripod Sweep or enter 1 Leg X-Guard. However, if he grabs your far leg and forces you into empty space, close a pseudo Half Guard ...

3 Part Lesson — Marcelo teaches a sequence: [I] If you lose control over your opponent's hands after pulling Seated Guard and he picks up your ankles to place you flat on your back for the Stacking Pass, straighten out your legs, makin...

3 Part Lesson - The opponent can defend the standard 1LXG Sweep by controlling your collars and basing forward. However, his defense allows you to push him into placing his hands on the mat, allowing you to Ankle pick Sweep or slip int...