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Leg Pull Escape
     

Marcelo explains to Andrew the importance of extracting your legs vertically before an opponent has a chance to entangle your legs for an attack. Raising your knee toward the ceiling is the easiest way to avoid letting your opponent sn...
Posted: 2922 days ago
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Leg-Locks
     

Marcelo expresses his fear and respect for leg-locks. Prevention and avoidance are long-term strategies that can keep you on the mats injury-free. The severity of the oftentimes permanent damage that can potentially occur, even acciden...
Preemptive Defense
     

Marcelo explains to Charlene his views on how and what to train for when it comes to escaping dangerous positions such as the X-Guard. The strategy of vigilance and avoidance optimizes your success in defense as it can translate across...
Escape vs 50/50 Entry
     

A student asks Philzinho and Marcelo how to effectively escape the "50/50" leg entanglement. Although many escapes are possible, not all are equally probable given the intentions of your opponent. Typically, both players must choose to...
Heelhook Escape
     

Marcelo explains to Dillon that spending time developing and getting good at using the dimensions of your jiu-jitsu to avoid your opponent's strongest positions (e.g. Saddle/4-11/Honey-Hole/Uchisankaku Ashigarami) is more important tha...
Changing Up How You Train
     

Vary your training between slow, methodical, tight-holding pressure and fast-paced, heightened risk, problem-solving. Practice entering into your opponent's game and untangling yourself from his or her attacks and entries. It's importa...
Posted: 1829 days ago
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Breaking Grips vs Open Guard, Foot Pummel vs Guard, Leg Pull Escape
     

Marcelo teaches RC about how lighter (but luckily, faster and more conditioned) competitors mustn't try any standing-passes by carelessly or casually wading into the deep waters of advanced guard-play -without first having taken the fo...
Breaking Your Opponent
     

Marcelo and Marcus help Jon to better understand his technical options for passing against a very strong and flexible Open Guard. You must systematically break your opponent's shell, keeping your weight on top of their frames by drivin...
Leg Pull Counter vs Deep Half Guard
     

Marcelo demystifies an under-utilized Single-Leg Counter to help Hudson sharpen a Lapel-Assisted Sweep: When playing to sweep/reverse your partner or opponent from a Deep-Half-Guard (Faria, et al.) by feeding and securing a jacket's la...
Leg Pull Escape vs Heel Hook Entries
     

Marcelo shares some late-stage and preferably early-stage defenses for heel-hooks: Free your hips from your opponent's feet by using your elbow to dig off their outside heel when placed inside Single-Leg X (Irimi-Ashigarami, Foot-Lock ...
Posture vs Spider-Guard Lasso, Omoplata Escape, Leg-Pull Escape
     

Marcelo and Hana help Savannah defend a sequence of attacks from Lasso: Posture yourself up away from your opponent's torso by making a palm-down, closed-finger grip around their lapels and posting your arm such that your shoulder rema...
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