Whats a rubbergaurd?

[mmagraduate]

What does it do? All I know is that Eddie Bravo invented it and its supposed to be designed for mma.


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[Bulletproof]

Lock your leg over your opponents back so they can't create distance to hurt you. It's called a rubber guard cause it stretches like a rubberband.

 

[mmagraduate]

isnt that just a normal closed gaurd?

 

[Bigj383]

A rubber guard is where you bring your leg high on his back and grab your ankle with one of your hands.

 

[NeoOsiris]

no its a different. it involves using your hand

 

[RGVBadBoy]

isnt that just a normal closed gaurd?

No, in the "Rubber Gaurd" its a HIGH Gaurd, but instead of locking you feet, you grabbing your ankle with your hand, leaving ONE LEG and ONE arm free, i have used it and it makes it a little easier to get sweeps and its kinda hard to pass too....alot of BJJ guys DONT like it, im kinda in the middle.... but its a cool technique if you can master it, Eddie Bravo is a BEAST from Rubber AND Half Gaurd....

 

[U.S. Soldier]

I think i saw Shogun Rua do that once

 

[mmagraduate]

ok I get it now, Ive seen alot of fighters do that

 

[random_hero]

I think i saw Shogun Rua do that once

He pulls it against Arona. He manages to get Arona off of him really quickly with it. Except instead of trying to control him he pulls his foot right over Aronas headand pulls what i believe was some what of an omoplata but im not sure about that.

 

[Bulletproof]

I think you can use a rubber guard to set up a gogoplata.

 

[random_hero]

I think you can use a rubber guard to set up a gogoplata.

Is that what Shogun does to Arona? Im not really framiliar with the Omoplata and the Gogoplata.

 

[Bulletproof]

This is a gogoplata:

If you pull your leg up far enough you can lock it underneath their neck and push down on the back of their head to choke them out.

 

[mmagraduate]

^^that looks very strange

 

[Miral]

This is a gogoplata:

If you pull your leg up far enough you can lock it underneath their neck and push down on the back of their head to choke them out.

bloody hell

 

[VampireMonk]

ughhhh I use it all the time.

the main thing is that in normal guard it is easy for the guy to posture
and pass, so the answer is to go to some kind of an open guard when your
opponent is good enough to posture.

The rubber guard allows you to fight from the closed guard and do a lil more
than what the closed guard can do by itself.

 

[pyr0]

The night I broke my arm, my rubber guard was working great. You can use it in gi, but there are better ways to break posture with the lapel. I use it no gi exclusively. You have to be pretty flexible to get it work properly. The tips to help it work are to:

A) Make sure their posture is broken good.
B) Keep pressure on your hip with your other foot.

I use a modified version of this for the triangle:

http://www.grapplearts.com/Rubber-Guard-Setup-1.htm

You can also set up the omaplata, gogoplata (shown in a previous post), kimuras, among other things.

 

[chdnny]

i wanna go to a bravo seminar pretty badly, i see rubberguard as being super sick

dang! i wanna learn rubber guard