Takk fyrir. Ég er líka ánægður með að vera hættur að sitja heima hjá mér og langa til að æfa þetta en hafa engan kennara.
Ég rakst á athyglisverða grein um “guard” stöðuna í BJJ eftir mann að nafni Frank Benn sem hefur 10 ára reynslu í BJJ (kannski að einhver hafi gaman af):
The guard is one of the most misunderstood positions in groundfighting
– perhaps in all of fighting.
Many people think first of all that the guard is a generalized position
in which you lie on your back, wrap your legs around your opponent, and
you'll be okay.
That's not what it is. People who believe this tend to get seriously
hurt and knocked out.
The truth is, the guard is an entire *family* of positions, each with
its own uses and purposes, and validating/invalidating circumstances.
It is dynamic. It is
multi-range, and three-dimensional.
To set the stage, let's look at facts and possibilities in a fight, how
fighting can progress to grappling, and under what circumstances. Let
us look not only at what
we'd *prefer* to happen in a fight, but also at what *can* and *does*
happen at times.
Fact number one: Sometimes you end up on the ground, whether you like
it or not – particularly if you are small, or do *not* have a grappling
background. This
has even been shown to happen between two combatants who *don't* want to
go to the ground. Grappling is a natural progression off of striking.
Fact number two: Sometimes you end up on your back – particularly if
you are not a grappler and don't know grappling counters. Nobody WANTS
it to
happen. But if you are balanced in your training, you recognize that it
CAN happen, and you train for it. It is ESPECIALLY important to train
the guard if you are
small.
Fact number three: Regarding being on your back in a fight, sometimes
you don't even realize you were in a fight until you wake up on your
back a few seconds
after being blindsided or sucker-punched.
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Now.
If in a fight, you ever find yourself on your back – for whatever
reason, by whatever means – you either know how to use the guard, or
you are in for a tough time.
Various circumstances might require knowledge and use of the guard. For
example, a fight might have progressed to grappling, wherein you failed
to get the
takedown and/or were taken down.
Or as mentioned earlier, you might have been hit from behind, knocked
out for a couple of seconds, and come to while on your back.
If you lack boxing posture while standing, you might be hit on the chin
straight on with him right in front of you, and not even realize you're
falling until you're on your
back. I've seen it happen many times.
You might trip and fall – over a curb, chair, or other obstacle – with
a determined opponent driving into you, hitting you all the time. Very
common.
In these cases and others, you'd better have a guard.
And here is why:
Because in real fighting, under certain circumstances, the guard is a
primary means to some very important ends.
1. It can be the safest way to get back on your feet without being
knocked out. You work to a sitting posture whether he is close or far
away, post your leg, post
the other arm behind you, other foot on his hip if he is close, and hip
heist to a standing base. Works from a variety of ranges, from close to
distant. This method
obeys the two rules for getting back on your feet in a real fight, which
many people do not know: (1) never turn away from your opponent, and
(2) do not move
your head *toward* him as you get up. People who do not know how to use
the guard for getting back to their feet tend to get hurt pretty badly.
Their head is
wide open for kicks and punches as they try to get up, whether coming
toward you or looking away.
2. The guard as a ground position can be a serious threat to the person
who does not understand it. This is important for smaller people
especially – people who
have trouble defeating a larger opponent with strikes, or taking them
down.
When inside the guard, people without knowledge of the position will
assume poor posture and make other mistakes – usually overextending
their arms, placing
their hands in the wrong places, pushing off to get up, or trying to
hit. In these cases – which are very common – it is very easy with
relatively little training to
break an opponent's arms, hyper-rotate his shoulders (fight is over),
choke them out, or in some cases even knock them out.
Understand this: When a man is inside your guard, he is in a mine
field. The most powerful parts of your body are right there dangerously
positioned around his
torso. People don't see this. You are poised to snap arms, tear out
joints, choke him out, knock him out, or sweep him. It's all a matter
of whether the man in
your guard even knows the first thing about what to do and what not to
do.
It is also important to understand that the correct things to do when
inside someone's guard are NON-intuitive.
What an opponent will *intuitively* do inside the guard – extending his
arms or head, forming certain types of base, etc. – is what leads to
him
tapping, snapping, or napping.
3. The guard can be a direct path to a dominant position, for those who
could not land the takedown. It is a ‘plan B’ which leads right into
'plan A' – dominating
position from the top. In grappling, you have to look at the bigger
picture. Successful grappling goes well beyond knowing techniques and
positions. You need to
understand strategy. What leads to what.
People who do not understand groundfighting strategy should not even
comment on the effectiveness of grappling in general, or the guard in
particular. You understand by doing – not by watching and making naive
guesses.
Pretty much anyone besides a collegiate wrestler is reasonably easy to
sweep from the guard, which leads directly to the mount or side
control. >From there, you
dominate position, and can either knock him out or start breaking
things. Against a person who is large or has good balance, you don't
need to sweep them. You
simply use a side door transition to get their back. This is not hard
to do. People who do not train in submission grappling thoroughly and
find themselves inside the
guard do not even know they are about to give up their back.
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In summation, the guard is NOT a cover-all cure for winning a fight.
Anyone who thinks it is is just fooling himself.
But at the same time, the guard *is* a powerful position. It baffles
most people who find themselves there, and their
intuitive actions when in this position tend to lead directly into a
variety of high percentage chokes, armlocks, sweeps,
and other transitions to dominant position.
The guard is a contingency. An area of specialty which comes into play
in certain instances. It's another skill area for real fighting, that
hangs in
balance with the rest – takedown skill, skill in positional dominance,
transition and maintenance, pummelling skill, penetration, escapes and
reversals, skill in finishing etc. – which constitute “combative
grappling ability”. We then add this to the even bigger picture, which
includes boxing
skill, kicking, skill in edged and blunt weapons, etc.