Quick Tips #12 Ideas on passing an open / non-committal guard
Posted Jun 02 2009 4:32pm
This entry is part 12 of 13 in the series Quick Tips
In a continuation of last weeks ideas on Conceptual Guard Passing, today we’re going to be looking at passing an open / non-committal guard.
By non-committal, I mean that your opponent isn’t playing any guard in particular, rather keeping you at range, playing a more retention based guard without the trappings or characteristics of any one type of guard.
Because this type of guard can be quite vague and ranging, today’s tip looks at playing on your feet and it the end of the reach to limit their ability to track your movement and keep you from passing.
As with the ideas of keeping a low centre of gravity to play against the strengths of the hooking guard, this concept can be interlaced with other ideas and 1001 passes. It also acts as a reminder that whoever controls the centre ground, controls the battle, so:
If the passer controls it by playing on the end of the reach of the opponents guard, then more often than not they will pass.
On the other hand…
If the person on the bottom controls it then they have you where they want you and will: stop you passing, retain guard easier and pull off more sweeps and submissions etc.
Check it out and see how it fits in with both the passing concepts but also the guard retention.
In a continuation of last weeks ideas on Conceptual Guard Passing, today we’re going to be looking at passing an open / non-committal guard.
By non-committal, I mean that your opponent isn’t playing any guard in particular, rather keeping you at range, playing a more retention based guard without the trappings or characteristics of any one type of guard.
Because this type of guard can be quite vague and ranging, today’s tip looks at playing on your feet and it the end of the reach to limit their ability to track your movement and keep you from passing.
As with the ideas of keeping a low centre of gravity to play against the strengths of the hooking guard, this concept can be interlaced with other ideas and 1001 passes. It also acts as a reminder that whoever controls the centre ground, controls the battle, so:
If the passer controls it by playing on the end of the reach of the opponents guard, then more often than not they will pass.
On the other hand…
If the person on the bottom controls it then they have you where they want you and will: stop you passing, retain guard easier and pull off more sweeps and submissions etc.
Check it out and see how it fits in with both the passing concepts but also the guard retention.
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