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I was first exposed to X-guard around 2002, and although it was being tinkered with before then, it wasn't until 2003 when Marcelo Garcia really brought the position to the forefront of the collective sport BJJ brain. Marcelo won all of his matches to win gold that year, and used X-guard sweeps to seal the deal in most of the matches. As a consequence, the familiar sweeps from X-guard are very well understood, and often preemptively defended. We're going to throw a monkey wrench into that.
I was first exposed to X-guard around 2002, and although it was being tinkered with before then, it wasn't until 2003 when Marcelo Garcia really brought the position to the forefront of the collective sport BJJ brain. Marcelo won all of his matches to win gold that year, and used X-guard sweeps to seal the deal in most of the matches. As a consequence, the familiar sweeps from X-guard are very well understood, and often preemptively defended. We're going to throw a monkey wrench into that.