My first Online Instructional Course is here! limibjj.mykajabi.com/course I have spent the past few months focused on passing half guard and am happy to announce that I have compiled all of my findings to create my first instructional course! My goal is to give you a clear game plan and training methods to transform your guard passing

I’m a purple belt and this content is so advanced I can’t even comprehend it. This is a compliment.

We really see the change in Gordon's opinion on his new passing instructional, whereas in the first one he emphasized entering a guard, in the second one he tells us that when our opponent gets a grip on us this sends warnings in our head and we should disengage and go to an angle.

Bro I just got purple belt a few months ago and still feel like idk wtf I’m doing. But your videos are definitely helping me understand jiujitsu more! Thank you!

The concept of never ever letting an easy grip to your opponent kinda reminds me the concept of buzzsaw passing developped by Wiltse.

This video is gold for me because I’ve been that guy who can’t seem to get passed the knee shield. Recently I’ve been studying Craig Jones’s Power Ride Instructional and I think the problem is that a lot of us in bjj get stuck in the mindset of either being past the legs or in front of them, but never attacking the legs in a guard passing sense, we’re always taught to stay away or out of the legs. Thanks for the content! Going to use these concepts at training this week.

Newly minted purple belt. I’ve really developed a pressure passing game, but been struggling with the knee shield as I move from arm weave to knee slice as their knee shield moves up and down. My BB coach just gave me the exact same advice as your PDF in my private lesson. Nicely done!

Man this video was worth the wait! Great job again Jake! I am excited to try these ideas out in my passing.

I've had 2 classes of bjj and got choked out many times and never escaped. Good tips in this video

Welcome back, as always great content and the video has shown me my tunnel vision on forcing inside foot position. Thanks for pointing it out. I will think about it tomorrow when rolling.

I’ve definitely been guilty of entering guards too quickly because of Gordon’s instructional. Great video, hyped for next week

Glad to have you back! Hope you had a good holiday! I’m a little over half way through the video and your emphasis on respecting grips and frames reminds me of Greg Souder’s approach to teaching guard passing(from Standard Jiu jitsu). Greg doesn’t teach any passes per se but he has his students play “games” where the goal of the game is to “win” at particular aspects of guard passing. You should definitely check out the Standard jiu jitsu class video on their KZfaq channel. Sure we can talk about and drill it but until we create a training environment that produces similar ecological demands of the guard passer, we’re all really just doing reps at half speed…Big fan! Can’t wait for a Nicky Rod vs Gordon Ryan video!

Glad to have you back! Happy new year!! Another excellent video!

Really great video! This articulates something I've been noticing lately in my own guard passing game but haven't been able to put into words.

Nice to see you back! Your videos are my second best source of information to improve my jiujitsu, only losing to Danaher's and Gordon's instructionals.

I like how you always tie your content back to the fundamentals and history

And we're back!

Absolutely fantastic Jake! Love to have you back 🤜🏻

We're glad you're back and Happy New Year! Let's get it! 👊

This is the best bjj channel. Such high level concepts explained in a clear way

Great video! No matter how many times I learn passes for the knee shield I some how always end up going back to just pressuring into it

One thing I do to get rid of the knee shield is I turn around and grab my opponents top foot and threaten a toe hold, almost every single time they have a massive reaction which in some cases let's me throw that knee shield to the side and pass, other times it ends up with us totally disengaging but it does work sometimes

Your content is something really special! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Good shit mate! I teach two main concepts for passing the guard. The first is what I call magic circles. It just refers to the spot next to the person who is playing guard hip. This spot follows the hip so if the person is flat on the back you have access to both magic circles if they are on their side one magic circle is now in the air and the other is blocked by the mat. We want to get to and control those magic circles and this will be the basic of all guard passing. Next is how do we deal with the frames to get to these magic circles, which is part two which I call MT. GAI. There are three main ways to address frames, Move it, Trap it, Go Around It. All guard passing will address the frames in one of these three ways and as you get better you will start to combine those three methods to get to those magic circles. For example with the knee shield the arm weave uses a trap it, followed by a go around it to try and pass. I prefer to back out of knee shield and start by trying to go around and as the leg extends to follow I move it by using a leg drag. Using this you don't need to know guard passes you just need to realize what frames are in you way and decide how you want to address them via MT. GAI then get to dominating the magic circle.

I think by far the best way to pass the knee shield is to get an overback grip. Gordon uses that a lot and that same Overback grip combined with a leg weave is Craig Jones's prefered method as well as he states in his Z guard dvd. After that standing up and loose passing is a solid number 2

This video helped me progress so much. Felt like giving it a rewatch ❤

Finally you upload dude. Been waiting

phenomenal videos, thanks so much for providing this.

The down ward v grip on the top shin and hip pinch as you pull your leg out is a game changer for all passing

Excellent video! I'm definitely guilty of just stepping directly into the guard 😂😂I've recently been trying to work on more misdirection with my passes (i.e. get them thinking about one thing, then do another). Like you mentioned, stepping directly is not only super predictable, but can halt any sort of passing progress instantly Love the videos though! Always something to learn from watching your breakdowns 😊

This video is awesome because it definitely highlights the huge issues that I'm having as a beginner going up against intermediate guys. I'm in this weigud state where they like to get me in the card but I neutralize everything they do in the guard however I'm stuck there too. And with me being stuck in the guard have to get creative using more unconventional means that I've done and learned through wrestling. I pull guard a lot and I use my elbows to smother their abdomen just so I can neutralize their stamina and as we all know with no stamina you can't do anything especially attack. So I do thank you for the instructional video because this build not only my fight IQ but it gives me an idea of what I need to work on and some options

Great breakdowns man!

You prove time and time again what an outstanding member of this community you are, your breakdowns never cease to amaze me mate, always learning from you Good luck with the program and the new computer! Btw I think you should consider a Patreon account for extra support and what not, if you got the time and so on

Great breakdown as always!!

I like the way you look at the differences between intermediate and advanced practitioners. I’m starting to “make my own waves,” but when I get gassed, I revert back to waiting around for them to happen. Im gonna get there though.

Great video as always !

HAPPY NEW YEAR! was just thinking about you

Love the video very insightful

Great video as usual! 🔥

Been training for three years, it feels like the story of my life. Forever defensive cycle for past few months

Giancarlo is the head evening trainer out our gym here in Austin and we get to train on their current technology at new wave nightly. Is wild how different the things they are doing from the traditional techniques.

you are so good at this bro, gj

Great video! Thank you

Just what was excited for and looking for. Awesome

Another great video, 🙏 thanks 🤜

YES… Just YES!! Fire video as always bro. 🔥 It’s best not to purposely get caught up in their entanglements and approach the guard at the j point to begin with.

man you are awesome, it is an honor for me, to see your videos.

My man’s back at it!

O would really love to see a Henry Akins video, his guard passing ideas and concepts are amazing, really changed the way I'm training, thanks for the good content as always my friend.

Awesome video! Who's passing system would you start with for someone who wants to be a really good passer? Im a brown belt and want a full systemised approach! Thanks

Knee shield is like any other frame, it's strong in certain directions and weak in others. I think it was Rickson that said gaurd passing is constant angle changes to defeat different frames

Lol all your insight and humor is appreciated while you intelligently dissect the passing game.

yet another great video! need to rewatch this as I got some guys that do good knee shields. would be nice to pass it sometime :')

dont break up your computer. Im about to die waiting for your new video. Welcome back!

As someone who has done some online marketing before, for an unrelated business, I appreciate that the download of the passing knee shield pdf goes to a file called "lead magnet" haha. Good content brother!

The past two classes I've really struggled against good knee shields. Thank you for the knowledge

You keep changing my game.... thanks much!!

That was me on top at 38 seconds and I too was very restless. Great video 😂

THIS WAS REALY GOOD THANKS!

Fantastic video dude.

A problem that I see and I use the knee shield I do a lot is when the opponent disengages I sit down when he forces the entrance for me to lie down I already put the knee shield. It's a very strong position to take and very difficult to face.

thanks a lot!

You been looking through my browsing history…’how to beat a knee shield’ 😂😂 Create content as always, thanks man!

Thanks!

All these analogies about waves feels like an advert for New Wave jiu-jitsu

Best content, thanks.

Something I got from Galvao is to either come over the knee shield with your chest and push it down into a smash pass or else submarine up under it and turn it into an over/under. Has always worked for me but I know that’s smashy, but boy, heavyweight, prosaic jiu jitsu which some of you do not like.

Your best video so far ! I am still puzzled by andrew wiltse's passing which seem to work very well (on lower competition maybe?) when compared to the style of passing you are talking about in your latest videos, which I totally understand and agree with by the way. If you are aware of his style of passing what do you think about it?

a good analogy as opposed to that surf one would be the line from The Departed. "I dont want to be a product of my environment, i want my environment to be a product of me."

Good stuff. I been playing with with weaving the arm stand stand up used a ruotolo brother step on opponents bottom leg c grip to fall into a lovato side smash. I’m still messing with it.

Excellent video

Ty for keeping my BJJ brain going while I'm sick and injured. Ily.

0:31-0:38 Is my Teammate and amazing Grappler Jacob, idk...just thought it was cool to point that out.

Now THAT'S a spicy title. I'm all for it!

Can you explain your comment of "when it comes to self defense, the survive long enough to attack approach is great"? I feel like that's the opposite of what you want when it comes to self defense. If a conflict occurs, you want to finish it as quickly and effectively as possible while sustaining the least amount of damage as possible, which is a counter to your comment. Love your content, it's helped me alot

Welcome Back!

I would like to congratulat you for awesome videos congratulation

Just what I needed

We missed you.

Glad to have to you back!!! Fantastic video as always. The knee shield has been the bane of my existence for many many years.

Just a bit of advice. When passing to north south yes grab their head and pull it towards you. But you can't land chest to chest. You have to go a little further back. Like chest on face both hands stiff armed on the hips. Keep your butt in the air for a bit while your chest is on the face becuz most the time they'll try n invert. This stops the back roll back take and keeps from spinning since your pinning their face with your chest and controlling the hips you know where they are trying to spend too. Cup your hands on the outside of their hips. That way when they move you know which direction they are trying to move to so you just to be told that direction so you can stay completely north-south and when they put their feet down because they get frustrated then you can start settling down on them and then you can go chest to chest if you want or stay just to face and I recommend one hook over and the other under. Set up armbars easily and pizza cutters or bread cutters. Everyone has a name for it. And yes you can do it no GI. Just use the hand that is facing up when you have his arm hooked and control their shoulder and use the other one that's already in place to cup their trap and turn your body perpendicular towards the side where you have the shoulder bring your elbow and towards you than drop it down and drop your weight all the way down into their neck

Great video

I remember being taught the Leg-Weave Pass in like 2005 and have 15 years of memories of having zero success with it. Back when I started the Knee-Shield was considered a trash position as the goal was to get to an Underhook Half-Guard or Lockdown. I always struggled passing the Knee-Shield and eventually just started backing out because I couldn't get any of the counters to work. Only a couple years ago did I learn how to block the Knee-Shield from coming in in the first place. Thanks for making it all come full circle.

2 month white belt. Crazy. I never knew about stepping into their guard (de la hiva). Intuitively I avoided that and would always try to pass their knee at an angle. I’m not saying I’m doing what GR is doing, but my mind was already going there. That said, I’ve been watching GR videos non-stop and have tried to emulate him without even knowing exactly what I’m doing.

😂😭 man how did you get that clip from Sam McNally stumbling. Like, how do you even remember that?

Just move the knee shield. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's just the hip flexor working.

The real king has returned…and I don’t mean Gordon. We missed you brother.

1:10 My guess is Magid hage on the bjjfanatics podcast but I could be wrong

Even in seld defense it holds true Offensive mindset prevails. Attackers are often keen to disengage when you have the mindset to push the pace asap. Ive never had escalating the level of violence not work. Most predators disengage when they feel like prey.

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mate this blew my mind. I've landed way more leg drags and other passes. You legend

Nice content! But there is an annoying background sound, it kept me thinking my cell phone was ringing, it is like a thin piano sound. It bugged me a bit, I would change it.

I was checking out the pdf and

Why we don't see long backstep pass?

What Gordon video is shown ?

Catch-Wrestling has a saying "never miss an opportunity to hurt your opponent". Now, I don't think that will ever catch on (NPI) in BJJ - probably best if you don't try to use your thumb to rip someone's bicep off the bone while trying to control their arm - I do think it's wise to never let your opponent have it their way when it comes to gripping you.

Eu consigo passar a guarda de pesados amadores mesmo sendo peso leve??????? Plssss

I played rugby most of my childhood, never needed bjj or karate even, rugby makes u tough. But i do appreciate watching 2 masters rolling or 2 wrestlers reversing and slamming, hip throws and tosses, rugby takes a bit of all that when we use takedowns and slip tackles and break tackles, i think you bjj and wrestlers would enjoy using different techniques to use as takedowns(tackles) in a sport like rugby, a different type of resistance training against resistant opponents except ur testing urself against multiple opponents using takedowns and shirt/gi takedowns, trips and spear tackles.

JJM has a very nice technique on passing the knee shield here on KZfaq. I'm curious about your opinion on it.

Hold on, let me hit like before I watch. Welcome back lol