Leave no chance of escape with the Double Sleeve Open Guard!
- Give your open guard an OVERHAUL with Jonathan Thomas.
- Learn more than one-off techniques, instead develop a complex system of attacks by using the Double Sleeve Open Guard.
- Gritty details about gripping will ensure your grip is UNBREAKABLE!
- Evolve your Double Sleeve tactics by mixing in Spider and Lasso variants!
- Your opponent won’t know what hit ‘em!
Leave no chance of escape with the Double Sleeve Open Guard!
Give your open guard an OVERHAUL with Jonathan Thomas.
What Will You Learn?
The Double Sleeve Open Guard instructional is packed with more than just techniques. Many instructionals give you techniques, but no gameplan. A major difference with Jonathan Thomas’s approach is that he dives into the theory and concepts that have helped him win several IBJJF tournaments.
The Double Sleeve Open Guard is such a tricky guard because it takes away your opponent’s ability to grab you! By controlling both sleeves you free up the ability to use your feet to further enhance your control over your opponent. So who can this guard benefit? EVERYONE!
You don’t have to be tall, strong, flexible, or fast! You simply need to understand when and where to put your limbs to become an aggressive guard player. One of the major benefits to the Double Sleeve Open Guard is that you will be able to launch multiple attacks at all times. This makes passing the guard quite the endeavor!
Right about the time when your opponent gets frustrated with being trapped in your Double Sleeve Open Guard web is when they will make a mistake. Waiting for them are tricky techniques like the Wheel Sweep, that Jon uses to catch his opponent slipping!
Once you get the hang of the basics, Jon keeps the evolution of your Double Sleeve Open Guard going with more advanced variants. As you progress Thomas will show you how to incorporate other aspects of your Jiu-Jitsu. Lasso guard and spider guard are both easily accessible through the Double Sleeve grips. If you think you felt control before, wait until you start to use your feet!
Double Sleeve Open Guard By Jon Thomas packs in the details that will keep you covered from white to black belt….and BEYOND!
So What's On This Series?
Part 1:
- Intro
- Positional Jiu jitsu theory
- The Four Aspects of Guard
- Benefits of the double sleeve guard
- Double sleeve guard set up
- Other Double sleeve guard set ups
- Basic Double Sleeve control
- Double Sleeve De La Riva basic backwards off balance sweep
- Double sleeve DLR classic overhead sweep
- Double sleeve DLR overhead sweep variation
- Double sleeve to sit up guard sweep
- Sit up guard options
Part 2:
- Triangle set up from double sleeve
- Triangle variation 2 from double sleeve
- Triangle variation 3
- Double Sleeve Lasso / Spider Control Concepts
- Lasso / spider defending the wrist loop
- Lasso / Spider defending the stomp
- Lasso / Spider defending the lasso loop out
- Lasso / spider defending the deadlift defense
- Lasso / Spider defending the lasso loop out variations
Part 3:
- Lasso / spider to overhead sweep
- Lasso / Spider to Spider-X guard
- Lasso / spider to spider -x guard step over defense
- Lasso / spider to spider-x guard step over defense 2
- Spider-x guard sweep
- Ankle lock mechanics
Part 4:
- Lasso / spider to spider-x when opponent had staggered stance
- Lasso spider transition to de la Riva backwards off balance sweep
- Spider / Reverse De La Riva Inverted Sweep
- Spider / Reverse De La Riva Hammer Sweep
- Wheel Sweep and triangle vs opponent with one knee up
- Shin to shin to triangle vs opponent with one knee up
- Shin to shin to ankle lock vs opponent with one knee up
- De la Riva entry vs opponent with one knee up
- Triangle vs kneeling opponent
- Wheel sweep to triangle vs kneeling opponent
- Getting the double sleeve grips concepts
- Double sleeve guard transitions
