How Do You Retain When They Push Down Your Knee Shield?
Part of the course: The Lord of the Guards: Guard Retention by Jon Calestine
Part of the course: The Lord of the Guards: Guard Retention by Jon Calestine
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Retaining guard when your opponent pushes down your knee shield involves several steps:
- When your knee shield is broken and the opponent brings their top knee in, maintain your frames and keep your arm from being exposed. If your arm is exposed, it can be easily controlled by the opponent.
- Use your inside knee to create space and keep your elbow low. From this position, you can make wrist control, preventing the opponent from creating any crawl space.
- Start thinking about where the space for your side guard hook to come back in. This might involve going belly down slightly and creating enough space off your hip to slide your knee in.
- Establish your side guard again and start working to establish a strong butterfly guard where you can be offensive again.
- If your hips get beaten on an angle, build back up to your self-frame. Make sure your elbow remains inside and start to walk out on your foot to reverse hip escape, bringing your hips in.
- Create a little bit of space for your hips and start working to a self-frame. Bring your knee in and start creating the space to turn your opponent away. Walk on your elbow and hip escape off your elbow.
- Reinforce your frames. Any frame that's not reinforced isn't going to be very strong. If you're using a knee shield or any means of frame where your arm's extended or your foot's extended, always make sure that you're reinforcing that structure.
- Prevent your knees from being collapsed and pinched together by using your elbow inside to reinforce the frame. Always work to bring your knees to your chest and reinforce everything. If you're extending a frame, your knee should be behind your elbow to reinforce it. If you're using your leg as a frame, your elbow should be inside to prevent your knees from getting smashed together.
Course Content
2:55
Jon Calestine Guard Retention Introduction
4:55
Butterfly Guard Positioning
3:56
Butterfly Guard Movement
4:02
Using Footpost to Create Off Balances
3:07
Using Outside Hook
5:04
Using Inside Hook
3:44
Hip Heisting
4:28
2 On 1 Grip
2:12
One On One Marcelo Grip
2:53
Making 2 On 1 Off Collar Tie
2:50
Making Elbow Grips Off Opponents Ankle Grips
2:51
Dealing With Grips On Ankles
3:24
K Hook And Hand Frame
2:33
Leg Scissor To Square Up
4:38
Side Guard Framing Bicep
3:08
Side Guard Foot To The Hip
2:54
Side Guard Shin Moves The Head
2:36
Side Guard Stripping Reverse V Grip
Guard Recovery
2:00
Defending North South
2:44
Knee In Shoulder To Recover
2:51
Defending The Stack Pass Shoulder Walk
1:56
Defending Stack Pass: Putting Knee In Shoulder
2:52
Defending Knee Cut Using Reverse De La Riva
3:02
Defending Knee Cut Forcing Side Guard
3:21
Defending Knee Cut Collar Frame Foot Post
3:02
Half Guard Chest To Chest Recover From Side Guard
2:28
Basic Forward Shift And Forward Shift With Bicycle Kick
2:17
Recovery From Leg Drag
2:48
Basic Side Control Escape To Side Guard Recovery
Rolling Commentary
Demonstrations
Bonus Q&A
4:56
How Do You Retain When They Push Down Your Knee Shield?
3:36
How Do You Prevent the Far Knee From Getting Pushed Down From Side Guard?
2:54
How Do You Defend Leg Locks From Side Guard?
5:02
How Do You Deal With An Opponent Disengaging From Seated Butterfly Guard?
3:07
How Do You Deal With An Opponent Who Keeps Circling Out When You Heist?
3:29
How Do You Use The Leg Lasso For Guard Retention?
2:53