Guard Retention

The work of keeping legs between you and the opponent while they try to remove them.

Intermediate · Gi and no-gi
Getting the hips back underneath
Guard is recovered by moving your hips back under the opponent's centre of mass, and most retention failures are the moment your hips stopped travelling and your legs started reaching.

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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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