Pull Guard

[Michael McGuire]

In my search for Jiu-Jitsu knowledge I've come across many different types of Guards, some known and some not so known. So, in an effort to help educate the new white belt or whomever, I'm listing below the names & types of Guards I've come across. Please feel free to look up these Guards to learn more about them, give your 2cents worth, & post any Guard you may know of that I have not listed. Thanks


1. Closed Guard

Basic Closed Guard
High Guard
Leghook Guard
Shawn Williams Guard
Rubber Guard

2. Half Guard

Basic Half Guard
Deep Half Guard
Lockdown Half Guard
Quarter Guard
93 Guard
Z Guard
Half Butterfly Guard
Instep Guard
Sitting Half Guard

3. Open Guard

Basic Open Guard
Turtle Guard
Octopus Guard
X Guard
Butterfly Guard
Spider Guard
Grasshopper Guard
Cross Guard
De La Riva Guard
Reverse De La Riva Guard
50/50 Guard
Tornado Guard
Upside Down Guard
Sitting Open Guard


"Pull Guard": putting your opponent into one of your Guards (Closed, Half, or Open).

"Passing Guard": escaping your opponents Guard (Closed, Half, or Open) to a control position.

[Michael McGuire]

[Harry Evans]

Here's a few more:
Shield (1/2-g like Z, but the leg does not cross the body, it pushes the same-side shoulder away)
Inverted De La Riva - start in DLR, switch to your other foot on the same leg, like a mirror to your original DLR, and switch your ankle grip to the other hand. Great transitional guard to go from DLR to deep half, and many others, or to sweep.
Turtle - it's a guard, technically!
Single-leg X-guard - has like 50 names, but that is what Xande is calling it. Start in X, take your inside leg, wrap it behind and around the non-X-guarded leg of your opponent, and put the heel on his hip (in gi BJJ so that you don't get a DQ for knee reaping). It's been unbelievably effective since he showed us some new sweeps from there.

[chronic_jiujitsu]

Mouth Guard.. Life-guard.. Security-guard..

[Enrique "Kiko"]

[chronic_jiujitsu]

^^My Hero ^^

[AJ Camacho]

and you can't forget The Peter Sarsgaard

[Michael McGuire]

Here's a few more:
Shield (1/2-g like Z, but the leg does not cross the body, it pushes the same-side shoulder away)
Inverted De La Riva - start in DLR, switch to your other foot on the same leg, like a mirror to your original DLR, and switch your ankle grip to the other hand. Great transitional guard to go from DLR to deep half, and many others, or to sweep.
Turtle - it's a guard, technically!
Single-leg X-guard - has like 50 names, but that is what Xande is calling it. Start in X, take your inside leg, wrap it behind and around the non-X-guarded leg of your opponent, and put the heel on his hip (in gi BJJ so that you don't get a DQ for knee reaping). It's been unbelievably effective since he showed us some new sweeps from there.

Thanks Harry.