Need help with my rubber guard

[Troy Yang]

porra you gonna do hubber guardch they gonna pass u guard. porra. u needch the gi

[TThompson]

Thank you guys for all the information and I will look more into developing a strong RG. I'm one of the smaller guys in my gym so when someone gets in my guard I begin to break them down and when I begin to place my foot on their hip that's usually when they press down on my leg and crush it or trap it. My omoplata attacks are good when I need to switch to them, but I really haven't worked on the carni or my meathook. Again though all the advice means the world to me, so thank you for taking your time to help me.

[David Rosado]

Can you get to NY crackhead? Hard to stuff your leg when it's up on their shoulder.

[bobby rivers]

Dont flair your knee out when you go to the hip. Move it up along their ribs under their elbow. Susan Summers that shit.

[Tony "The Goods" Garcia]

Dont flair your knee out when you go to the hip. Move it up along their ribs under their elbow. Susan Summers that shit.

Science! I spent 2 years getting it passed before learning how to correctly Susan Summers that shit.

[Apperz]

In regards to bottom leg being passed, I've found my notes and here you go:

Firstly, watch MTS 77: GOGO CLINCH. Although it is about the GOGO Clinch, during the technique sections Eddie covers No Jersey extensively - commenting multiple times on the need to meat hook and c-grip the bicep should you find yourself there. He shows a number of options including triangles and transitions.

Once you've watched that read this:

Today’s seminar worked on grappling for MMA. We started from the butterfly guard with the over-under control of your partner’s arms (Cocoon). You could simply butterfly sweep but instead. break your opponent’s posture and pull them with you to the mat, free the foot hook on the overhook side and bring this calf up across your opponents shoulders. Your underhook hand grabs your ankle on the lateral side of your leg, palm facing you (Jersey because it’s close to New York the same position from the closed guard). Attempt to bring your knee and heel together. Free your overhook and grab his contralateral axilla, bringing your forearm superiorly to your shin. Release your grip on your shin and place a C-collar with this free hand in their cubital fossa (Meathook).

From the Meathook you could replace your C-collar with wrist control and free the leg underneath your opponent to set up the triangle, by sliding this leg inferiorly to your leg across their shoulders, and then cinching it behind this knee as it transitions back to parallel with your opponent’s body.

If they attempt to control your leg with their free hand, i.e. preventing the C-collar control, instead place your free hand on their pectoral, free your Meathook and grab your foot. Lift it over their head allowing it to land on the shelf formed by your forearm. Release your foot and S-grip behind their head, your former Meathook hand superior to your shin and your shelf hand inferiorly. Figure four your legs a lá an “air triangle” to finish the Gogoclinch.

If you can get “deeper” either due to the size of your opponent or latent flexibility, consider a Gable grip, including your knee inside the circumference of your arms, or even applying a D’arce choke including your own leg
If your opponent disrupts or prevents your leg figure four, simply go for gogoplata by grabbing your foot with the same side hand, scissoring their neck between your forearm/wrist and shin.
If they defend the gogoplata by grabbing your foot, peel it off with your free hand and reapply or use this to set-up your Gogoclinch but now with your foot hooked into their axilla on this side (Hazelett). Now take the hand that would have been applying the gogoplata and grab the wrist of their free hand, abduct your knee of your bent leg to flatten them, preventing them from rolling. You can do a one handed kimura by attempting to push this hand to back of their head.
If they post up on their leg, you can hook the free foot of your Gogoclinch in their popliteal fossa and then rather than grabbing their wrist grab their ankle on this side (Hazelip). You can again apply the one handed kimura as above.
If you end up in the Gogoclinch and your free leg is superior to their shoulders drop your calf across their posterior neck, grab this ankle and pull down to submit (Double Bag).
If your opponent defends the Gogoclinch position and gogoplata by dropping their head to the mat, prop yourself on your elbow and place your gogoplata foot flat on the floor next to their head. Grab their chin with your free hand. Now transition up to your other knee, pushing into your opponent and rolling them laterally. If they post, switch the angle and push over their shoulder and head. They will roll to their back and you will be seated perpendicularly to them. You can control their far wrist and reapply the gogoplata with your other hand.

You can apply a shoulder separator by creating a loose triangle, putting your free foot in his axilla and extend as you grab his free wrist and pull.
If this is unsuccessful, free your foot from the axilla and lift it over his head and arm. Now lift his straight arm against the popliteal fossa to arm bar.
Lastly you can return to the loose seated triangle and attack his trapped arm by hooking the elbow with your forearm and locking it out (Monoplata).

Now that you are up to scratch with the modern day system, go back and watch the classic New Jersey Game:
MTS 32, MTS 59 and MTS 60.

It might seem a strange order, but personally I found Eddie's explanation and the understanding that there was more to this than just the triangle to help me see the position's options. Then, once I was aware of how many options there were, I could go back and see it broken down and really begin studying it.

Enjoy!

[Apperz]

You will see that Eddie explains importance of:

1. Blocking the guy from passing. This is vital, if you don't get that meathook and block that bicep he will be gone.

2. Being fast. You can't hang out in New Jersey or this blocking position either. You have to choose a path ASAP (ep 59 focus).