Guard passing gets messy when you treat every guard the same. That was the big theme in the eighth lesson of my couple client’s Submission Grappling course. We came back to guard passing, but this time we didn’t start with a single pass. We started with distance.

In this post, I want to share how we worked on transitioning between submissions, specifically around necktie attacks, and how this can improve your grappling game while deepening your partnership.