Options from Closed Guard
From Closed Guard, you can:
- Submit with Armbar (two on one wrist) — Isolate one arm and extend the elbow joint against your hips or body. The most versatile …
- Submit with Triangle Choke (arm in arm out) — When opponent has one arm in and one out, trap the head and in-arm between your legs and …
- Submit with Omoplata (far arm straight) — Wrap one of opponent's arms with your leg and rotate to attack the shoulder. Common follo…
- Submit with Kimura (hand posts mat) — Figure-4 grip on the opponent's arm, rotate it behind their back to attack the shoulder. …
- Submit with Cross Choke (deep cross collar) — Cross-grip both collars and squeeze. White-belt fundamental gi choke; available from clos…
- Submit with Ezekiel Choke — Grip your own sleeve, slide the other forearm across the throat. The canonical applicatio…
- Submit with Guillotine (head dives forward) — When the opponent's head dips forward, wrap the neck and finish. Often paired with a sit-…
- Sweep Hip Bump Sweep (posture up tall) — Sit up, post one arm behind, drive the hip to roll the opponent over. The most basic swee…
- Sweep Scissor Sweep (collar sleeve grip) — One shin across the opponent's belly, the other leg blocking the knee. Scissor the legs t…
- Sweep Flower Sweep — Trap one arm and the same-side leg, then swing the legs in a pendulum motion to roll. Wid…
- Sweep Pendulum Sweep (lean back post) — Use hip rotation momentum to break the opponent's base diagonally. Strong against posture…
- Sweep Sit-up Sweep — Sit up, post one arm, push the opponent's far shoulder to roll. Same family as the hip bu…
- Try Back Take (on the arm drag) — Gain an angle, secure one arm or seatbelt grip, and climb to the opponent's back. Availab…
- Move to Open Guard — Feet and grips active, legs no longer locked. The parent family of every modern guard — s…
- Move to Half Guard — Only one of opponent's legs trapped. Modern half guard is offensive — underhook to take b…
- Move to Butterfly Guard — Both feet hooked under opponent's thighs from a seated position. Strong sweep platform; d…
- Move to Spider Guard — Grip both sleeves, plant feet on biceps. Strong grip and sweep platform in gi; chains nat…
- Move to De La Riva (if they stand to pass) — Outside hook behind opponent's standing knee, control the same-side sleeve. Pivots into b…
- Move to Lasso Guard — Spider grip with the foot threaded under opponent's sleeve. Heavy grip control, slow but …
- Move to X Guard — Both feet hook one of opponent's legs in an X shape. High-percentage sweep platform popul…
- Move to Reverse De La Riva — Inside-hook variation. Sets up kiss-of-the-dragon, waiter sweep, and leg drag entries.
- Move to Single Leg X — One foot in opponent's hip, the other hooked behind their knee. Sweep platform that funne…