Henry Akins – Inside the Closed Guard

Henry Akins – Inside the Closed Guard: This course focuses on mastering the closed guard position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. It covers techniques for both offense and defense, including submissions, sweeps, and escapes from the closed guard. The program includes detailed instruction, practical drills, and strategies to help practitioners improve their effectiveness and control from this fundamental position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Henry Akins Provides A Detailed Breakdown Of The Closed Guard Including Controlling Opponents, Avoiding Sweeps/Submissions, And MORE! 

• Finding yourself inside the closed guard can be an absolute nightmare if you don’t have the right tools to manage the bottom player’s advances, and Akins’ has assembled the perfect roadmap to help you dominate from this common position
• Change your game with Akins’ closed guard secrets derived from years of study and experience with the best practitioners in the world
• Crack open the closed guard, defend submissions, and use key concepts from Akins’ own personal toolbox to help you intelligently dismantle the guard and pass
• Defend multiple high percentage closed guard attacks including the hip bump sweep, armbar, cross collar choke, and more with reliable instruction that you’ll only find from Akins
• Use the infamous arm behind the back guard break and pass to surprise your training partners and opponents and pass with greater ease
• Master Akins’ ultimate triangle escape so you can avoid tapping from this classic submission and stay in the fight

PART 1

• KEEPING POSTURE IN THE CLOSED GUARD
• POSTURE WHEN PULLING THE ARM
• POSTURE WHEN PULLING THE NECK
• USING THE LEAD ARM
• SECONDARY ARM DEFENSE
• KILLING THE HIP BUMP SWEEP
• FREEING THE ARM TO GET POSTURE
• FREEING THE HEAD TO GET POSTURE
• CONCEPT OF STANDING & BREAKING THE LEGS VS BREAKING THE LEGS FROM THE KNEES
• BREAKING THE LEGS WITH THE KNEE BEHIND THE BUTT

PART 2

• STANDING TO OPEN THE LEGS
• PRELIMINARY DEFENSE CROSS COLLAR CHOKE
• THE CLOSED GUARD STANDING UP TO OPEN THE GUARD
• CLOSED GUARD OPENING LEGS FROM THE KNEES
• CLOSED GUARD PROPER POSTURE
• CLOSED GUARD CONCEPT & PHILOSOPHY OF GUARD PASSING

PART 3

• CAN OPENER TO OPEN LEGS
• DOES IT MATTER WHAT LEG IS ON TOP WHEN OPENING THE LEGS
• ARM BAR DEFENSE AND ESCAPE
• ARM BEHIND THE BACK GUARD BREAK AND PASS
• DEFLECTING THE TRIANGLE WITH ELBOW (USING THE SECONDARY ARM)

PART 4

• PRELIMINARY DEFENSE FOR THE TRIANGLE CHOKE (PREVENTING THE OPPONENT FROM LOCKING THE LEGS)
• ULTIMATE ESCAPE FROM THE TRIANGLE CHOKE
• THE ANATOMY AND MECHANICS OF THE ULTIMATE TRIANGLE ESCAPE WITH DR. KICKASS
• ESCAPE TO THE GUILLOTINE FROM THE GUARDS
• Q&A ESCAPE FROM THE GUILLOTINE FROM THE GUARD