Guard Retention: BJJ Fundamentals – Go Further Faster – John Danaher

Keeping Your Guard Ever Created is the most scientific and easy course to follow.

• This series explains one of the most important skills in all of jiu-jitsu: retaining your guard against an opponent intent on passing and pinning you down
• The Go Further Faster series, like the Enter The System series of instructional releases, operates with a very important goal: to identify and explain the foundational skills, movements, and concepts that every jiu-jitsu practitioner needs to reach their full potential
• Learn and master the movements, techniques, strategies, and concepts necessary to retain guard against even far more experienced grapplers
• This series will focus on three major positions from where we must fight to retain the guard
• John Danaher is the most sought after Jiu Jitsu instructor on the entire planet
• Guard retention, at its core, is so key to success in jiu-jitsu and John is here to simplify it

What Will You Learn?

John Danaher will show you how to go further faster in your search for BJJ basics in the next instructional series.

Retaining your guard against an opponent intent on passing and pinning you down is one of the most important skills in jiu-jitsu.

The goal of the Go Further Faster series is to identify and explain the basic skills, movements, and concepts that every martial artist needs to reach their full potential. One of the keys is how to retain your guard when your opponent is putting you under a lot of stress.

Guard retention is so important to success in jiu-jitsu. One of the most important tools in BJJ is the guard, and keeping an active threat from your back is crucial to your success. Keeping your guard is one of the fundamental tools that you have. Simple as that, the better your guard retention, the better your jiu-jitsu. Thanks to John’s years of study, you can explore this concept in depth.

Break down those important skills to focus on, and understand what makes them so important, to learn and master the movements, techniques, strategies, and concepts necessary to retain guard against even more experienced grapplers.

Combining these moves and movements will allow anyone to keep the guard while attacking and defending from their back.

For this fundamentals course, we will focus on leveling up the following areas:

There are movement skills. You can’t perform moves well if you don’t have the necessary skills.

There are technical skills. These must be taught at a level of sophistication that will speed progress and sustain growth all the way to black belt and beyond.

There is conceptual knowledge. When a student is given a clear picture of the underlying concepts beneath the many moves being taught can he or she put the moves in a context that allows them to be used effectively on the mat.

3 Positions Of Guard Retention In Jiu Jitsu

From where we must fight to retain the guard will be the focus of this series. If you combine all three, you can get a better understanding of the system the Danaher athletes use at the highest levels of competition. Those are the positions.

Seated guard. Learn how to move from a seated position when under danger, using wedges, hip escapes, heists, and rolls to create space and get back to a comfortable guard.

The Supine Guard is made up of soldiers. The important details behind what can make your guard a nightmare to pass, including the little details behind weaving your legs in that everyone gets wrong, and the right ways to position your arms and legs to get back, should be seen when laying down.

Turtle position. When to go to the turtle, what to do once you are there, and how to combine this into your game are all important for a good guard retention.

If you combine all three positions in the right way, you can see the full potential of offense and defense. Work the smart way, not the hard way, and anyone of any skill level can learn the proper approach from one of the world’s best coaches.

Learn The First Skill of Guard Retention With John Danaher:

So What Exactly Is On This Series?

Part 1

There is an introduction to guard retention.

There is a Guard Retention Overview.

Part 2

The general theory of guard retention is the big picture.

There are two most basic requirements of guard retention.

Guard retention is important.

Guard retention has an unforgivable sin.

The guard retention postures are listed.

Part 3

The first skill of guard retention is movement.

There is a seated position.

Scooting

It’s called Rolling Inversion.

Heisting.

The position of the spine.

Shrimping

Pummelling

Pendulum

Scissoring

There is spinning inversion.

Rollbacks

Back Heist

Turtle position.

The shoulder roll is done.

Sitting

All the body movements are put together.

Part 4

The second skill of guard retention is framing.

Nature and purpose of framing.

There are frames and distance.

There is a Forehand Frame.

The forearm frame has an arm.

Back hand frames.

The self framing is done.

The third skill of guard retention is breaking.

Negating vs breaking.

The ultimate theory of guard retention.

There are demarcation lines.

Part 5

Connection

There are 5 things that need to pass your guard.

The most important tool for guard retention is scissor guar.

Hip Heist Retention is the second most important tool of guard retention.

Back Heist Retention is the 3rd most important tool of guard retention.

Power prop is the fourth most important tool of guard retention.

The theory of defense and offense.

The theory of defense and offense.

There is a criticial importance to head control.

Part 6

There is a specific theory of guard retention.

Double Under Pass.

Part 2 of Double Under Pass.

Part 3 of Double Under Pass is here.

Part 2 of Double Under Pass.

Putting it all together.

Over Guard Pass Retention.

Retention 2 is over under guard pass.

Retention 3 is over under guard pass.

Retention 4 of the Over Under Guard Pass.

Part 7

Retention pass for the Guard.

Retention Pass 2 for the Guard.

Retention Pass 3 is called Toreando Guard Pass.

Retention Pass 4 is called Toreando Guard Pass.

Retention Pass 5 is called Toreando Guard Pass.

Retention Pass 6 is called Toreando Guard.

The knee slice guard pass is retained.

Pass Retention 2 of the Knee Slice Guard.

Part 8

Leg drag retention.

Leg drag retention

Leg drag retention 3

Leg drag retention

Leg drag retention

The long step guard pass is retained.

The shift is called the Cranial Shift.

There is back exposure and destructive head protection.

So What Does It All Cost?

What is it worth to learn the basics of retention from the best instructor on the planet?

John Danaher is the most sought after instructor in the world and he is going to help you develop an entirely new perspective on the basics.

We are not going to charge you more than you need to. Cut that price by 50%.

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