Back Pocket Guard Pass
Standing up in the Closed Guard is one of the best ways to pass the Closed Guard. Place your right hand underneath your partner’s ankles – as if you were reaching for your back pocket.
Use this control to turn your partner’s left leg into a lever to get around your partner’s Guard.
Knee Cut Guard Pass
The Knee Cut Guard Pass is a wedge that drives through the clamping ability of your partner’s Guard.
In addition, the narrow leading edge of your knee creates a small surface area for your partner to frame against.
Straight Knee Cut
Your Straight Knee Cut Guard Pass is another example of a wedge.
Driving through your partner’s Guard so that it circumvents any clamping or framing from your partner.
Double Under Pass
You can use your partner’s leg and their spine as levers to control their entire body.
Keep your partner’s hip high off the ground so you have as long of a lever as possible.
Folding Pass
Typically, our partner’s legs act like frames when they’re right from their Guard. Our objective is to turn their frames into levers. To turn a frame into a lever, look to apply force to the side of the stick.
In the case of passing your partner’s Butterfly Guard, turn your hips so that force goes to the side of your partner’s legs. Keep your partner’s legs folded to complete the Guard Pass.
Matador Pass
Your partner’s Guard is a set of sticks and sticks can be either frames or levers. As your partner is looking to use their legs as frames. You’re looking to use their legs as levers to control the rest of their body.
By grabbing onto their pant legs, push their legs across to get past their Guard.
