Defensive Concepts

Frames, posture and the principles that keep bad positions survivable.

Foundational · Gi and no-gi
Frames versus blocks
A frame holds distance with aligned bone and costs almost nothing to maintain; a block holds distance with muscle and is on a timer, and confusing the two is why defence gets exhausting.

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Guard retention as a system
Retention is usually taught as a list of recoveries, which describes what a held guard looks like from outside without saying what is being held.

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