A Great Guard in BJJ for Short People or Short Legs
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- What's the best Guard for a shorter person with strong thick legs?
This is the question I received from a White Belt who is a short powerlifter and has some super strong legs.
Her issue is that when she plays her BJJ game from the bottom she has trouble getting the positions and techniques to work for her.
In my experience with Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as someone who has shorter legs for his height, and as someone who has found themselves against people 300+ on more than 1 occasion.
Full guard is generally not going to be the most idea position for someone with shorter legs.
Personally, Half Guard became my go to Guard in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu almost as soon as I began getting exposed to it.
The advantage the Half Guard gives to someone with short legs or who is much smaller than their opponent.
Is. . .
1. You only have to get your legs around 1 leg! Not their entire waist.
2. Being smaller or more stocky. It's a position in Brazilian Jiujitsu that favors a more compact build.
So if you're having issues with full guard and you're on the shorter / stockier side, or maybe you're opponent is just much bigger.
Than try using the BJJ Half Guard. This will probably open up options to Butterfly Guard and X Guard in the future as well.
In the video I show an entry into the Half Guard from Mount.
Hope the video helps!
-Chewy
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I’ve been cursed with short legs. Thank you for your service.. 🙏
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Blessed by the MMA founder!
Who needs long legs when you have high level Mexican No-Touch Martial arts.
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Holy smokes! Thank you so much for posting and answering my question! I can't wait to try this in class tonight. By the way, you pronounced my name perfectly! Thanks again! 😊
Steve MacInnis It did! It made a world of a difference. I am going to start drilling to go into half guard to make it quick.
As a dude with a similar body type (short, strong legs and an average torso) but a little taller, thanks for asking the question that led to this video.
This is gold for me! Ty! I’m 5’5” 155 with stocky short legs. My regular guard is so easy for most people to break, I’m sure this takes practice but I can’t wait to try it.
I am so glad I found this video. As a small beginner I am getting so frustrated attempting to hold full guard on all of my bigger more experienced training partners. I really don't feel I am learning anything from rolling because I am continually being squashed even if I manager to get into "good" positions like full guard. I think it's time I just accepted what is a "good" position for someone bigger and more powerful isn't neccessarily going to suit me.
X Guard, reverse de la riva, half guard, butterfly guard, deep half.... Thats my whole guard game as a 85 kilo guy who is pretty short 1.70 meters. You will get so easy under people it's hilarious. Oh, and you will get many takedowns
What about rubber guard?
@@clumsypotato2065 to be fair, being short legged in my opinion for rubberguard is the same as being short legged for triangles. You can get it to work, but it is harder and you have to play it differently!
@@grapplingbuddy2418 you're right thanks mate but I also found out that a 10th planet guy named john botello is 5'4 and also got insane rubber guard.
Awesome, thanks for the info. I weigh 63kgs and stand at 1.68m, most of my training partners are 75kgs and up so this will be very useful...
great channel your tipps helped me a lot i am a fresh white belt and started bjj three month ago and practice two time a week sometimes three if work allows me. Sometimes its frustrated because i want to get better but its need time its a long process but your videos help me to stay focus thanks man greetings from Germany ✌
Hey Patrick! Glad the videos have helped you brother. Thanks so much for the comment.
I really appreciate these videos especially for a newbie like me thank you
Thanks! I'll be sure to use this in my next roll. I am one of the shortest guys in our team and I often find myself under the mount after takedowns.
I'm 5'6 and pulling guard is like death to me a lot of the time unless the person is just as tall as me or if I'm not injured currently injured at the moment but besides that but this is extremely helpful I have try to escape now doing the foot thing and grabbing their hand and just kind of bridging which is great to do but going against people in your class they know exactly what you're going to do so they counter it but I like this one because it's more safe proof and harder to counter in my opinion
Super helpful, I am also incredibly short and find I can't lock full guard on many people.😊
Chew is the man! We appreciate you.
Awesome, thank you Chewy! I will be implementing that on the mats next week.
Half guard is way underrated. I know a ton of BJJers that treat half guard as just the place between full guard and getting passed, and they singlemindedly defend against side control or full mount passes while trying to reassert full guard. Simultaneously, the guy on top is almost totally dedicated to the pass, rarely attacking (unless you do something stupid) and often not particularly concerned about getting swept or subbed. So one of the best reasons to focus on half guard, in my experience, is because so few other people even think about it. It's not treated as a position, it's treated as an obstacle between two different positions, which is, at least in my view, technically incorrect.
Half guard is if you play it right an agressive guard, it's even more agressive than closed guard. Imagine all those sweeps that are there, even the half guard kimura is there
Thanks chewy, always appreciate your videos.
Thank you for this. Can't wait to try to implement it
This looks magnificent. Im going to drill it tomorrow. Thanks chewy!!!
Love the videos! Keep it up
Much appreciated! More like this haha :)
Marcelo Garcia.
Hi chewy love your rambles. Can you give your opinion on the brazilian black belt who got shot after a road rage incident and if you think being confident from BJJ in the street can be dangerous?
So uhh how do we go about asking chewy questions?
I'm 410 152 lbs. Never had any training currently attending academy what would be a good way to start getting someone off
Yo Chewy Love the channel, I use this technique A LOT!
Do you ever run into people doing a Ninja Roll Jeff Glover style into the truck position as you get the initial hook? Blew my mind the first time it happened.
I have the same issue. im 5"3 130lb and i cant lock my feet in closed guard for anything. Thank you!
Where do ask a question for a video? Anyone know?
chewy lately i have been absent from bjj because i feel like im too tired to do it. i feel like i really wanna go but i cannot risk not going to work. whatd be ur advice
haru glory what’s your schedule usually look like? What kind of work do you do?
I think Chewy is the BJJ coach on whole web, don't you think too?
I train in jujitsu (2 months) it was going well and having fun and stead progress my trainer never where’s a gi or says what belt he is(This is Ireland not many gyms around or high level belts)found out today he’s a blue is it worth to stay or should I just quit
Jay Finn check out checkmat dublin bro great team I train there myself great coach and new club thats growing
Parvind Tamil sadly I live in Waterford where there’s 2 jijitsu gyms and 1 of them brands it self as a mma gym jujitsu as a side peice,thanks though
Jay Finn check out bjj academu luvezuti team they are based in waterford at johnstown business park. The head coach is good friends with my coach and is a black belt. I went there for open mat great little facility
Skilled blue belts can have years of experience and a wealth of knowledge to share. He might have a decade of grappling experience outside of the BJJ belt system. I would not abandon a gym that I was otherwise happy at simply because of the official rank of an instructor.
You should also check out other gyms anyway, because they are nearly always inviting and testing your grappling vs new people is great for everyone involved.
Jay, Is this 10th planet? I don't know many BJJ schools that train exclusively No Gi.
How big is ol' Chewy? (height and weight) Always good videos. Thank you.
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Do you have any standing takedown tips for short people?
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I am dreaming about being your student
Maybe alex saw this
How can I better train in BJJ if I have arthritis in one or both of my hands?
Hey chewy I can't handle pressure at all. How should I deal with this
I'm tall and I'm still watching this lol
TrueLegendGamer you are not tall
John wik well not tall tall but I am considered tall at 6ft 2
TrueLegendGamer 6'2 is small
John wik lol okay. People that comment idiotic things usually have low self-esteem. Have a good day😃
John wik and btw you will never make it in bjj with that attitude.... you act like the world follows your every move but in reality you are a small little dot on earth.
How tall is the instructor?
I just noticed chew looks like Steven Crowder.... lol
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Beck I've never been shown anything like that. I just get men deliberately trying to overpower me and undermine me. Nobody not even the coaches adapt it for by body size. They just wrestle with me and try to overpower me. It often feels like they just wanna show me who's boss rather than try to help me. I don't mean to brag but I have got skill and it feels like they just want to put me down for it and undermine me. They make me feel like sh1t.
Pffft...short legged people