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Like an open guard against a kneeling opponent using a knee shield.
Types of BJJ Guards
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Like an open guard against a kneeling opponent using a knee shield.
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Koala guard is no joke. That's what I call that sit up guard where you're wrapped around their leg. I think Cobrinha has some stuff on it in his set (and the drill where you invert from leg to leg, either front to front or around the world).
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Interesting. I have always used the term for someone in full guard on a standing opponent. I will differ to Cobrinha.
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I'm not sure that Cobra calls it that, but Gerbil does, and that's good enough for me:
And others...
And others...
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you don't need a name for that...It's DLR with a foot on bicep, or Spider with a DLR Hook
Makes sense.
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I use fetal guard, then after i tap it becomes starfish guard...
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don't turn BJJ into judo with your fucking names please.
I haven't watched Lo extensively, but I believe it's a near side X-guard hook (foot on the hip with his knee inside the opponent's), not a DLR hook.
Judo names are well-categorised, systematic, useful, precise, help understand the defining action of the throw (if you understand rudimentary Judo/Japanese terminology), and are universally understood by Judoka worldwide. BJJ on the other hand has multiple names for the same thing (Knee Shield/'93 Guard/Knee Up Guard/Open Half Guard), often the name isn't descriptive of the technique (Ezequiel/Kimura), is a nonsense word (Gogoplata), is misleading (Biceps Slicer - mostly a compression lock on the elbow joint), and the terminology will be different in Portuguese, English, German, Japanese, Swahili, et cetera. In this case BJJ could take a leaf out of Judo's book and come out better for it.
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I like the fact that BJJ has different names for stuff. It's more interesting.
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Names are useful in many scenarios. I don't know why people hate on nomenclature so much. It doesn't make you cooler if you just say 'open guard' for everything. There are some concepts which are generic to open guard, there are some which only apply in certain situations. To say 'I like the berimbolo from open guard' makes no sense...you need DLR to berimbolo. You can scissor sweep, situp sweep, or transition to a single from many open guard positions, but there are details that are different in each. Going to a single from butterfly is very different from going to a single from DLR.
In Judo, it's largely the same. Throwing motions differ, even if throws may look similar. De ashi harai and sasae tsuri komi ashi are different throws, though it might not look obvious. Looks can be deceiving.
In Judo, it's largely the same. Throwing motions differ, even if throws may look similar. De ashi harai and sasae tsuri komi ashi are different throws, though it might not look obvious. Looks can be deceiving.
Those guard positions are all forms of closed guard using different posture controls with the arms/upper body. I wouldn't consider them distinct guards without the leg position being different, but that's just me.
Actually he doesn't put the hook in.. He just rests his leg over the oponents knee, so he can step in the middle of the legs and enter under. When the opponent pushes the knee foreward and maintains the elbow over his own knee Lo throughs his leg over the arm.
