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Week 8 of 96

Closed Guard — High Level Closed Guard

High Level Closed Guard Attacks

What To Think About This Week

The Lesson

This week completes Month 2. You now have the full Closed Guard Bottom system — Traditional Closed Guard, Elbow Trap Hub, Tip Sweep Hub, and High Level Closed Guard.

The theme of this final week is timing over technique. Every single option on this page — the clinch, the lumber jack, the spin under, the overhead — is available for a very specific window of time. That window opens when your opponent stands and closes quickly. Your job this week is to feel where that window is.

Drill each technique slowly first. Find the moment. Then build speed. The technique is simple. The timing is the skill.

Class Warm-Up

The Drills

Line Drills

Hip Escape
Hip Escape to Sprawl
Shoulder Roll Break Fall
Break Fall Stand in Base
Sprawl

Dominant Position Movement Drill

Side Control → Knee on Belly → Mount → Knee on Belly → Side Control → North/South → Repeat

▸ Video · The Drill

Escape Drill

Side Control Turn Away to Guard Recovery

▸ Video · The Drill

Side Control Turn Away to Guard Recovery

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Strike Defense

Striking Offense

▸ Video · The Drill

This Week's Techniques

The Material

Sweep, Transition & Submission Sequence

High Level Closed Guard Attacks

▸ Video · The Technique

High Level Closed Guard Attacks

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Class Rolling & Takedown Rules

How We Roll

White vs White

Flow training by default unless the instructor specifies otherwise.

Upper vs Lower

Lower ranking student picks their top position. Blue through black vs white, or blue vs black — the lower rank decides where to start.

Purple / Brown / Black

Neutral start or request a specific position you want to work on.

Takedown Rounds

Same rules apply across all ranks.