Old school gracie guard pass

[Matthew Bowen]

I saw this while looking for worlds weirdest guard passes. I was not disappointed.


The first technique is the one I am talking about.

[Ben Eddy]

Haha, that's pretty funny to look back on now. I believe this was a legit pass back then because the triangle hadn't been introduced yet. At least I remember Rickson talking about the triangle being a recent addition when he was on JRE so that's what I'm assuming must be the case..

[Slick Rick]

Pretty awesome way to go to sleep. But for the time it was probably legit. Now it just begs, "Pull the arm." Evolution... Now we're using the elbow to open up that thigh, or two in/two out, two high for the arms/or one high around the neck.

[Chris Herzog]

Haha, that's pretty funny to look back on now. I believe this was a legit pass back then because the triangle hadn't been introduced yet. At least I remember Rickson talking about the triangle being a recent addition when he was on JRE so that's what I'm assuming must be the case..

The triangle has been around alot longer than the gracie basic videos. Which includes triangles. Rolls brought the triangle from Judo to GJJ in the 70's . Im willing to bet this pass is still taught in Torrance.

[Damian J]

Wouldve been so interesting to see where bjj would be if Rolls was still around

[Ross Davidson]

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[Brandon Mccaghren]

I feel pretty confident saying that they taught this on purpose, knowing it would get non-Gracies choked unconscious.

[Aiseop]

Relson still teaches a one hand over, one hand under guard pass. Nothing like this, you break guard first, then combat base, then one in while other tucked to own body, posture up. It's pass #1 that only works against new folks, really, but it sets up a cross knee pass or a knee on stomach pass. The over/under and cross knee are paired together, I think it's to get you to work both over and both under to pass. Double unders are also taught but later. White belts are triangled constantly doing it by blues and ups; but they tell us it's not because of the one over/one under but because we didn't have control nor had proper posture. I think it's more of a teaching tool than a high percentage pass later on. As per this particular one, I think he was drunk. This is no where near what his brother teaches...

[Chris Herzog]

I feel pretty confident saying that they taught this on purpose, knowing it would get non-Gracies chokes unconscious.

I was going to actually type that this morning, but then I got high.

[Justin_Pynn]

They taught us this pass in Army Combatives back in the day. :-/ I had trained a bit before so I could see the triangle. Always wondered about its origins.