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(More customer reviews)To succeed in the highly competitive nature of combative grappling disciplines, one must establish and master an active, aggressive ground game, including being able to dominate an adversary when we find ourselves on our back, needing to fight the opponent who is between our legs. This is especially true for small fighters, like this reviewer, working against much larger and stronger athletes. By default, we often find ourselves in this position, needing the skills to better our situation aggressively and with confidence.
THE GUARD, Volume 2, Expanded offers the practitioner just that: an extremely active and aggressive curriculum for learning how to dominate an adversary with confidence. This book provides the detailed instruction we will need when we find ourselves on the ground, on our back, needing to win.
Once again, Grappling Arts Publications of Costa Mesa, California with Ed Beneville and his instructor, Joe Moreira have created a visual work of art that moves from page to page as a still-framed motion picture, where we can inspect each and every frame of action for a specific learning experience. This format of flowing photos, taken at various angles, leaves nothing to be presumed, insofar as what the specific application is being taught and demonstrated.
As with all previous manuals from Grappling Arts Publications, this second edition of THE GUARD, teaches NO movement in isolation. Movements are grouped or chained together for a more comprehensive and thorough understanding of not only the guard's fundamentals, but explicates the flexibility and the inherent variety of defensive and offensive maneuvering within this very active position.
There are twelve color-coded chapters, which are instructional solid with both color photos of superior quality and paper, coupled with concise text to fully explain what we are observing through the visual contents. The twelve chapters cover all of the fundamental aspects of maneuvering successfully from an active and aggressive guard position into the most appropriate follow-up, submission or change to a more dominate position. At the conclusion of each chapter, an entire review is provided, which serves to join the chapter's composites into an expanded flow chart, where the practitioner can literally visualize this unified diversity of movement options available.
There are no passive guard applications within its 264, 8 ½ X 11 inch pages. What's more, an entire chapter demonstrates what we can do to the one who is in our guard, behaving passively, just lying there, attempting to smother us with his body's mass. This book strongly conveys that the guard is supposed to be a very active and aggressive position--not one where we merely lie on our backs, holding on to the adversary, hoping for the best.
The chapters cover the fundamentals of moving comfortably and aggressively while on our backs into the appropriate guard postures; counters to those who will attempt to pass our guard; chokes we can slip on successfully when we have achieved a strong guard posture; sweeps; offensive counters we can apply to those attempting to stack us; attacking both upright and stalling (aforementioned) postures within our guard; three different series of flowing (chained) attacks; achieving head and neck control over the adversary who is in our guard; reversing a pass with roll-outs; learning how to get to our knees or to a standing posture from our guard, and the conditions when this will be necessary; and finally, sweeping the standing opponent who is hovering about our guard.
Over all, this book is a beautifully created, quality made, and comprehensive training manual dedicated to assisting the serious grappler toward developing a complete, aggressive guard repertoire. This book exceeds well beyond the norm of any standard, competent training manual covering the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu's infamous Guard position. Well done, gentlemen.
Rev. Arthur Bodhi Chenevey, RM, DD
Hikaze Learning Corner
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The guard is the quintessential Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighting position. Other martial arts assume that once someone is on their back that the fight is over. But that assumption is unfounded. Fights don't end just because they hit the ground; for the jiu-jitsu man the fight has only just begun. The Guard is a detailed analysis of core concepts, details, and techniques, key to success for ground fighting from the guard position.
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