Concepts and Combinations

Roger Gracie teaching closed guard for FloGrappling: collar grip, posture break and the attacks he actually used at black belt.

Danaher's closed-guard fundamentals with Bernardo Faria: posture, grips and why the guard fails before any sweep is attempted.

Roger Gracie with Bernardo Faria on why his closed guard works: the collar, the hips and refusing to play a loose open guard.

Gordon Ryan on using the knee pull rather than the arms to break posture, then creating angle so triangles, back takes, pendulum sweeps and armbars all open from the same movement.

Uses the sit-up sweep as a starting point and shows the armbar, triangle and omoplata that appear when the opponent posts or pushes you back down. A tidy first attack chain.