Hey this is the blue belt you rolled with last night. The young black guy. You recommended this video to me. Just wanted to say thanks. I will study and add this to my game.
@@sgloobal3091 ayyy dope! Yea man your closed guard is good but you can definitely level it up by adding some Roger Gracie in your life lol. thanks for watching
I’ve been waiting for this video 🙏 thank you ! I started studying Roger’s closed guard in depth recently and also got the instructional (my very first) and I’m simply amazed at the mastery I’m witnessing.
@@DeepDiveJJ keep at it. Takes a long time to be truly proficient at it. It, along with Butterfly Guard, is the MOST DIFFICULT guard to master. But when you do it’s money.
Been waiting for this study to drop! Especially since I've adopted closed guard as my bread and butter and building a system of attacks is what I'm currently working on. Plus I'm around the same size at 6"4" but 50 lbs heavier than Roger lol PURE GOLD! Thank you!
yes! roger's videos have changed my game entirely. i think too many black belts start teaching and focus on attacking from positions and forget to talk about retention. Roger almost always talks about control. controlling mount, controlling closed guard, controlling side control, controlling back. that's why his style seems so "simple"
As always, another great breakdown. 🏆 Thank you for this. I've been on my closed-guard groove!! Awesome to learn the closed guard study from someone no other than Roger Gracie 🐐!! Can't wait for more videos
amazing video thank you! do you have any examples of a Roger Gracie student in the5 10" range with success in the closed guard? I am constantly watching Roger and would love to know if it works as well for someone my size
what happen whit short people that can´t even close the guard? (170 cm 65 i.e) Roger is a big guy so for him is easy to close guard but for shorter guys closing guard becomes an issue
Yea Roger himself says that taller people definitely have the advantage when it comes to playing closed guard and that you only need to be as tall as your opponent for it to be easy enough to use. If its that difficult for you, than maybe a half guard or butterfly type of game might make more sense
learnt a berimblo earlier this week from the assistant jiu jitsu coach, jiu jitsu coach tells me to try it when i roll with a higher belt, my white belt dumb ass thinks hes being genuine so i try to berimbolo a high blue belt and get embarassed, he told me to come back next class and drill better basic guards before trying something like that (belts are an estimation because i do no gi, my fellow training partner for this story very may well be purple equivalent he has many years of experience but i think high blue is good)
Roger and Gordon show that being a big, strong person is a huge advantage. Technique + size /strength is unstoppable. I know this is obvious but some people still think technique is king. It’s still a sport!
Bjj and japanes jj are very different... Japan's focus on tradition made Jiu-Jitsu stale because it had very littke techniques, it even branched out into judo to make it a sport. Brazilians took it to another level by being open to new moves and that is what made it great. And since the origins of jiu jitsu are from budist monks in india, you could say that japanese people also stole...😅
@@adybalanolomete And the Filipino's took it even further than the Brasilians but even THEY don't claim to have "invented" anything. We'll have to agree to disagree since I've seen and learned all 3 while you didn't mention Filipino Dumag
Jiu-Jitsu is not a good martial art it's basically just a wrestling with joint manipulation it is good to know because you need to know that when you go to the ground but like UFC was first created to promote Jiu-Jitsu to try to make it a mainstream martial art but as we can see nowadays well-rounded Fighters yes they know Jujitsu but it ain't used that much it is wrestling with joint manipulation it is nothing fancy never has been never will be
What you called the imanari roll is actually commonly called the star sweep. It’s essentially a scoop grip on the leg followed by the back roll from closed guard when they stand.
👍 It‘s also being discussed in Renzo‘s old books on BJJ (co-authored by, of course, John Danaher). One of those things we learn in the first days and forget - and then rediscover when we’re too old to invert 😅
When he underhooks the leg for the muscle sweep at the end there, Jacare steps out. And while his foot is still in the air, Roger does a knee pull to chest to pull him down. I never noticed that combo before or thought about it. But that seems pretty strong.
The closed guard is an inherently unathletic position and weve seen from mma that its a stalling position at best. Maybe the gi would help, but even in bjj once they learn to post on the biceps good luck using it in an absolute division
No, he competed in the 99 kg weight class. Which is about 218 pounds. His walk around weight is 215 meaning he did not cut any weight to fight in this category like a lot of other guys did. Yes, he is much taller than many guys. He faced, but typically, he weighed the same if not less. The highlights you see of roger facing much smaller opponents is from absolute category matches where everyone willingly competes without weight categories. In this set up he would often fight smaller opponents, but also face the ultra heavyweight category above his for example his match with Fabricio werdum adcc absolute 2005. He choked him btw…
