Smashing The Half Guard BJJ Course

SMASHING THE HALF GUARD

COMPLETE GI & NO GI SYSTEM ON HOW TO ATTACK THE MODERN HALF GUARD

Course Overview

Do you find it hard to pass the Knee Shield Half Guard? How about Deep Half Guard and Lockdown?

The Half Guard game has evolved so much in the last decade or so that it has quickly become one of the strongest positions from the bottom.

Guys like Lucas Leite and Bernardo Faria have won multiple WORLD titles playing a Half Guard based game.

Even in MMA the Half Guard position is highly successful, look at Demian Maia for example...

What makes the Half Guard so effective is its ENDLESS possibilities.

It's a very dynamic guard. You can sweep, submit, take the back, transition to closed guard, transition to its many variations like z-guard, knee shield, lockdown, deep half, half butterfly, reverse de la riva, and so on...

So the question is... how do you STOP the Half Guard?

As you can imagine, there is no silver bullet.

Proper body positioning should kill about 60-70% of the whole Half Guard game. But you still gotta have answers for everything they throw at you. You gotta know how to pass its many variations in case they get in there.

So I called my longtime friend Leonardo "Cascao" Saggioro (2017-18 IBJJF Worlds silver medalist) to help me build my new online course, called Smashing The Half Guard.

Cascao is regarded as one of the best featherweight competitors of his generation, and is widely known for his SMASHING pass style.

He will be teaching the Gi based techniques that made him one of the best in the world, and I'm going to unveil my No Gi system that helped me win the No Gi Masters Worlds 3 times.

I will be narrating his technique series, since he speaks little english... hope you guys don't mind... straight from the jungle stuff 🙂

Gi, No Gi, passes, concepts, back takes, submissions, transitions to mount... we've got you covered in this 3-hour course.

Please Note: You are purchasing a DIGITAL product - You will not receive a physical DVD.

Course Curriculum

1. Identifying Points Of Control

2. Understanding Head Positioning And Underhooks

3. Establishing The Arm Weave

4. Arm Weave Counters

5. Z-Guard Cross Body Pass

6. Cross Body Pass Into Mount

7. Z-Guard Drawer Pass

8. Drawer Pass Into Mount & Windshield Choke

9. Straight Armbar & Rolling Kimura Back Take

10. Z-Guard Shin Slide Pass

11. Shin Slide Variation

12. Z-Guard Double Leg Pass

13. Knee Shield Windshield Wiper Pass

14. Windshield Wiper Into Ashi Garami Position

15. Knee Shield Near Side Underhook Pass

16. Near Side Underhook Pass Variation

17. Xande Ribeiro Standing Pass

18. Standing Pass Into X-Pass

19. Standing Pass Into Leg Smash Pass

20. Early Defense To Underhook

21. Late Defense To Underhook

22. Backstepping Into Reverse Half Guard

23. Rolling Back Take From Reverse Half-Guard

24. Reverse Half-Guard Into Tripod Pass

25. Backstepping Into Honey Hole

26. Deep Half Guard Into Reverse Half Guard

27. No Gi Lockdown Pass

28. Knee Shield Pummel Pass

29. Z-Guard Standing Pass

30. Finishing With Shoulder Pressure

31. Z-Guard Standing Pass Variation

32. Z-Guard Reverse De La Riva Pass

33. Z-Guard Reverse De La Riva Pass Variation

34. Half Butterfly Guard Pass

35. Half Butterfly Guard Pass Variation

36. Beating The Collar & Sleeve Control

37. Countering The Underhook

38. Deep Half-Guard Pass Into Back Choke

39. Deep Half-Guard Pass Into Mount

40. Gi Lockdown Pass

41. Bonus: How Gordon Ryan Smashed The Half Guard

42. Bonus: One-Armed Kimura From Cross Body Pass

About Your Instructors

Gustavo Gasperin

Professor Gustavo is a 3rd degree BJJ Black Belt under the great Fabricio Werdum, and was the Head Instructor at Fabricio's gym for many years, located in Venice, CA.

Training among the best for over 2 decades, Gustavo brings an unique approach to his teaching style, a perfect balance between theory and practice, accumulated over hundreds of tournaments matches. All killer, no filler.

Leonardo Saggioro

Leonardo "Cascao" Saggioro is widely regarded as one of the best featherweights of his generation, with a very distinctive style of grappling based on grinding pressure and a forward moving half-guard.

Cascao is a 2x Brazilian National Champion, Abu Dhabi World Pro Champion, and 2017-18 IBJJF Worlds silver medalist.