Gi Beginner
Jon Thomas short: pummel under the arms to the collar and pin your elbow to their chest so they cannot re-pummel and rebuild posture. Small detail that makes collar chokes and armbars easier.
Control
Posture Control and Grips
Breaking the opponent's posture, controlling the head and arms, and stopping them from standing to pass.
Closed Guard Bottom · Closed Guard
The other side: Closed Guard Top
Techniques in this topic
Shorts
No-gi Intermediate
Adele Fornarino introduces Chopstick Guard and the variations she uses to control from closed and seated guard.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Details for making closed guard harder to break, so you keep control longer.
YouTube videos
Gi Beginner
Roger Gracie teaching closed guard for FloGrappling: collar grip, posture break and the attacks he actually used at black belt.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Danaher's closed-guard fundamentals with Bernardo Faria: posture, grips and why the guard fails before any sweep is attempted.
Gi Beginner
Roger Gracie with Bernardo Faria on why his closed guard works: the collar, the hips and refusing to play a loose open guard.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
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.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Gustavo Gasperin breaks posture with the legs, deflects an arm, wraps it and hip escapes to slide the shin across for a basic triangle setup.
Gi Intermediate
Match-footage breakdown of Roger Gracie's closed guard: two-on-one arm drag to the back take, the flower sweep when they resist, and the cross collar grip when they hide the arm. Analysis rather than a drill-along.
Full BJJ class w/ Heather | Closed Guard Arm Drag Set Up, Drills, & Back Take
Heather Morgan YouTube
Heather Morgan's class on the closed-guard arm drag: drills and the back take that follows.