What do I need to become more proficient in for a good ground/open guard/bottom game?

I have been working on the annoying butterfly guard to harass opponents, the rubber guard (since I am very flexible, I can skip some steps), leg locks, leg triangles, guillotines, omaplatas, gogoplatas, sorcerers, kimoras, wrist locks, armbars, the crucifix, and the asylum. My tactic is just to pull my opponent into my guard and from there decide what I should attack. If the attack fails, I quickly switch to the closest submission to the attack, only retreating when necessary. So, what are techniques that I need to know for a good closed and open guard game?

That's a lot of things to work on at one time. Personally I would only choose 2 or 3 techniques from a given position to work on.

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Originally Posted by MrTectonicFusion

If the attack fails, I quickly switch to the closest submission to the attack, only retreating when necessary. So, what are techniques that I need to know for a good closed and open guard game?

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You've for sure got the right idea of thinking with your head when attacking submissions. With closed guard and half-guard clinch type stuff, Eddie's all you need. His literature is all you need. Before that though, as far as open guard stuff, I'd recommend checking out this video. It's completely brought our school and our head instructor who made it to another level of understanding. Absolutely foundational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnq9mN2odAg

Learn some prison guard from Mastering the System. It adds a whole new element to your guard game

Which episode?

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