Guard Flow Pattern (diary entry)

23.06.2023 The tenth and final hour of training my teacher client from UKASKO Cotswolds on his first course in Submission Grappling/Ground Fighting. This morning we moved off top position to work movements in the guard. My flow pattern transitions from side-to-side using all three range concepts (long, mid and close), four actual guards (closed, spider, butterfly, Z and half) and several transitional variations. Although the partner playing the role of the opponent does resist as such, he makes counter movements so that the fighter might flow into the next guard position. It is important that the fighter maintains a minimum of three control points on the opponent throughout the exercise. They must remain in a strong position whenever transitioning. We begin in closed guard. From here the fighter opens their guard, blocks the opponent's hips and clamps their knees to the side, restricting arm movement. The fighter then transitions to spider guard on one side before moving to another and then begins pummelling one foot and then another into butterfly guard. They then switch to Z-guard before moving back to butterfly and perform Z-guard on the opposite side. They then go from butterfly to Z-guard again before using a knee-shield in a half-guard position. Closed half-guard follows on the same side before reversing back into the knee-shield then to Z-guard and back to butterfly only to repeat the entire sequence on the other side. To finish, the fighter moves from butterfly to an open guard where he blocks opponent's hips as he did at the beginning of the entire pattern and then closes the guard. https://clubbchimera.com/services/