Inside Camping Guard Retention

Words I Like – “The low leg is key to guard retention.”

Outlier Mat Minute: Inside Camping Guard Retention

Inside camping can be tough to deal with, but here are some simple ways to keep your guard alive while maintaining your stamina.

• #insidecamping + #butterflyhalfguardpass - The passer wants to inside camp against your knee shield, not butterfly half guard.

  • Gordon Ryan example

• #insidecamping + #guardretention - Threaten to pummel in your butterfly hook. As they adjust their posture to block it, push off your knee shield to retain our guard.

  • Taylor Pearman example

• #insidecamping + #lowleg - Use a shoulder grip with your knee shield push. This gives you the ability to partially invert, increasing the range of motion of your low leg.

  • Diego Pato example 1

  • Diego Pato example 2

• #scoopgrip + #lowleg - Reach for their far leg. As they sprawl to stop it, slip your trapped leg free with a low leg motion.

  • Diego Pato example

• #adelefornarino - If they step over your bottom leg, shoot your knee shield across to their far hip.

  • Adele Fornarino example 1

  • Adele Fornarino example 2

If you are interested in diving deeper, I discuss this in this YouTube video here.

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