When you are attacked by leglocks or feel that your guard is being pressured do you have a plan for defending yourself that you have confidence in or do you feel panic set in and start to flail about in aimless desperation?
Learn Robert Degle's complete Leglock defense & guard retention system developed while training under John Danaher in the blue basement of the Renzo Gracie Academy in New York City.
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Any given entanglement used to inhibit movement in Ju-Jitsu can be understood as being a series of wedges set around our opponents body in a certain configuration. Just as any knot is configured in such a way and can be loosened only through the specific and deliberate actions of someone working rationally and with a plan so too must we come forward against entanglements in Ju-Jitsu with a well designed plan of escape. Aimlessly flailing about will do you no good and is more likely to get you into worse danger than less.
This is my goal with my leglock defense and guard retention instructional: to give you, the learner, the confidence to begin exploring the late stage of the leglock game knowing that you have a well designed plan of escape.
Example Curriculum
- 1. The connection between leglock defense and guard retention (1:42)
- 2. Introduction to the concept of sustained pressure over time through the pursuit of forced errors (4:50)
- 3. The distinction between seated and supine guards (9:06)
- 4. Expanding the concept of guard retention (7:25)
- 5. The relevance of shifting into offense as an aspect of defense (3:36)
- 6. Working to maintain a good angle of our hips and shoulders in relation to our opponents body when playing guard (4:58)
- 7. Supine guard position movement drill (2:17)
- 8. Supine guard position drill example with Max Meenan (1:01)
- 9. Working to protect inside position at our hips (11:26)
- 10. Maintaining good defense while shifting into offense with the shield guard (11:21)
- 11. Inhibiting our opponents ability to lock our ankles above our knees (8:37)
- 12. Mitigating the risk associated with excessive limb extension while retaining guard (6:42)
- 13. The dichotomy between chest and back exposure (5:03)
- 14. Late stage guard retention with a whizzer (4:50)
- 15. Standard Irimi Ashi Garami defense and escape from a double seated situation (6:03)
- 16. Standard Irimi Ashi Garami defense and escape from a kneeling situation (2:59)
- 17. Late stage heel slipping in a transition from Far hip Ashi Garami to Outside Ashi Garami (3:24)
- 19. Outside Ashi Garami heel hook defense in the black basement (4:15)
- 20. Outside Ashi Garami ankle lock defense in the black basement (5:25)
- 21. Countering the transition from Far hip Ashi Garami to Outside Ashi Garami by taking the back (3:54)
- 22. Double seated 5050 heel hook defense (8:47)
- 23. Double seated 5050 non heel hook leglock defense and escaping the 5050 (11:43)
- 24. Backside 5050 defense (8:24)
- 25. Top 5050 defense (9:11)
- 26. Outside Sankaku defense (12:48)
- 27. Cross Ashi Garami, Double Cross Ashi Garami and Top Cross Ashi Garami defense (14:34)
- 28. Cross Ashi defense against non heel hook leglocks when only one of our legs are controlled (9:38)
- 29. Pete Pisarz's follow up question to one of the movements in lecture 28 (2:31)
- 30. Defending against non heel hook leg locks in the Cross Ashi Garami when our opponent controls both of our legs (8:21)
- 31. Defending against the Aoki lock inside the Cross Ashi Garami (3:28)
- 32. Cross Ashi Garami escape to the 5050 (2:30)
- 33. Cross Ashi Garami escape into the back control (5:49)
- 34. Cross Ashi Garami escape into a Cross Ashi Garami entry (3:20)
- 35. Diagonal Ashi Garami defense (9:48)
- 36. Defense against leg entanglements from the top position (13:55)
- 37. Front calf slicer defense (4:10)