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Basic BJJ Drills, Best BJJ Partner Drills, bjj guard, closed guard attacks, spider guard, Starting BJJ

Vicente Jr shows a nice triangle choke set-up

Vicente Jr, Kail Bosque, and Lance Trippett at Pan Ams in 2010
Pa Ams 2010

World Champion and 5X Pan Am champion Vicente Jr (VJ) is one of my best friends, business partner, and also my BJJ Professor. I started training under him as a Purple belt but, (I might as well have been a white belt) I was not very good and most of what I did know was wrong. Once I stared training under him, he started to fix my bad habits and teach me the proper way to train, learn, teach and compete. I’m very lucky to have a professor that is as good as he is, but I’m even more lucky to have him as friend and mentor.

This was a drill we did last week in our Conquest competition team training. It show the correct way to get from a closed guard to spider guard and ends with a nice triangle choke.

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armbar, Basic BJJ Drills, Best BJJ Partner Drills, bjj guard, closed guard attacks, Starting BJJ

My Tricky Closed Guard Armbar Setup!

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Lance Trippett setting up his closed guard armbar.
Lance Trippett setting up his closed guard armbar.
If you know me, then you know, I love the closed guard. To me the closed guard is a position that, I feel, everyone needs to master.  (or at least try to) In BJJ your guard is your home, and you need to control who comes in and who gets out.

This is a slick armbar setup that I use all the time and it almost always works! It will take some drilling to get the timing down, but it is worth it.

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