Ryron and Rener Gracie, head instructors of the world famous Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance, CA, teach how to properly defend a guillotine choke from standing and if they pull guard.

A ground fighting technique that is very useful when you are on the bottom with your legs wrapped around your opponent

Pedro Sauer shows how to do an armbar from the guard

A kind of modified butterfly sweep to escape the mont (could be used in half guard too I guess).

Gracie Technique Of The Month Aug06 Fight Sequence (Taking the Back From the Guard)

This prison guard gets the beating of his life by an inmate

Vadim Kolganov, Master of Sport displays leg lock variations from the half guard position

Closed Guard BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) Techniques

This is an example of "passing the guard" using "Ninpo-style" concepts. The first concept is the same in Ninpo and BJJ and that is posture (Kamae) Knees wide, butt down and face in the chest/belly. Hands inside the arms on the biceps or inner elbow and not on the ground. Ninpo will use the same...

Armdrag to establishing a gift wrap from the guard. This leads naturally to a flower sweep, then finishing with a cobra choke. Throughout the entire technique, you have to keep your elbow on the gift-wrap arm tight to his body, pulling it tighter and tighter. Notice that I use my hand like a...