Butterfly Guard
Seated guard built on hooks inside the thighs, where the legs carry weight rather than merely holding position.
Reading connected to this area
Journal
- Seated guard and supine guard are two different jobs
Sitting up and lying back are usually taught as preferences. Treat them as two different control problems with different failure modes and the choice between them stops being a matter of taste.
Influential Figures
- Marcelo Garcia
He won at the top of no-gi grappling with a deliberately small set of positions, and then taught that set in public, which changed what a competitive game is expected to look like.