Learn how to smoothly reverse out of any position and turn a bad situation into a great one with black belt grappling coach Pete Lestos!
For the most part, you don’t want to be stuck on your back in BJJ. Even if you have your opponent in your guard, your options are still very limited. That’s why it’s going to help you a lot to know as many ways to get off your back as possible.
In this instructional, you’ll learn how to properly use your open guard and not just sit on your back waiting for your opponent to make a move. You’ll learn how to sweep from open guard and even how to pull your opponent into you from your open guard. You’ll learn how to use no-gi grips and ties as a replacement to the grips you're used to having when your opponent is wearing a gi.
Learn simple but highly effective butterfly sweeps to help yourself get on top and work. On top of things like the amazing simple and effective bodylock butterfly sweep, you’ll learn how to combine sweeps and set up combinations so that your opponent doesn’t get a chance to rest and recover as you attack.
You’ll also learn just how powerful and effective arm drags can be, not just from one position but a bunch of them. Arm drags are possible off your back, in the butterfly position and pretty much everywhere. Not only do you have arm drags from everywhere, you can use them to upgrade position to get on top or even get the back.
The deep half guard can be a hard position to create action but, but in this instructional Pete The Greek goes over all the options that you have available to you. From being able to get from deep half to X guard to even going from being in deep half to being standing.