The other day I let you know about my in-depth First Principles Open Guard course.
But here’s what I didn’t mention:
In addition to all the “to the camera” instruction in the course, we’re also including over 2 hours of bonus footage from one of my 2-day Open Guard seminars where you’ll see me troubleshooting student’s guards in real time!
You can go here now to get it.
ABOUT THE COURSE:
My mission was to create a comprehensive and easy-to-learn curriculum around a connection based open guard that:
- Anyone can play, regardless of body type, flexibility, athleticism, or experience level
- Dramatically decreases the amount of energy required to have an extremely hard to pass and dangerous guard
- Radically simplifies the number of variables required to control and attack bigger, stronger, and faster opponents vs. other approaches
- Is equally effective for sport (gi or submission grappling), self-defense, or MMA, so you only ever need to focus on ONE core skill set – allowing you to get compounding results with your training time
- Serves as the sturdy foundation for entering into any other guard “games” that you personally like to use
And after years of training, refining, and coaching this material with hundreds (if not thousands) of Jiu-Jitsu students, I can say with absolute confidence that this curriculum delivers on all of these.
What’s different about First Principles Open Guard?
First and foremost, it’s the fact that my emphasis in this course is much more on developing skills from the perspective of the “roots” (irreducible first principles) rather than the “routes” (specific techniques or styles of guard). So although you’ll learn many techniques in the course, everything stems from a brand new understanding of base, posture, connection, and pressure…
It’s the secret sauce, where even some skills you thought you knew well become exponentially more effective;
Where situations that previously would have required 3 or 4 movements to counter or attack and opponent suddenly require only 1; And where you’ll find that your training partners (the guard passer) will quickly become fatigued trying to pass and survive while you’re doing less work on bottom than ever before.
Here are a few counter-intutive “Ah Ha!” breakthrough moments students who go through this training experience, whether they’re white belts or seasoned multi-stripe black belts…
- Your guard will quickly begin to feel sticker than ever before, allowing you to slow down even the fastest, most explosive opponents while doing much less work on bottom to control distance.
- You’ll learn how to be sticky like this and control even highly skilled opponents without the usual reliance on your grips, leaving your hands free to attack at will as they try to solve the riddle of your guard.
