The Everyday Jiu Jitsu Podcast Ep 40: Improve Your Base On Top

Having an effective top game in Jiu Jitsu is directly correlated with the integrity of your base. In this week’s podcast, I discuss concepts and strategies that will help you improve your top game; layers of guard, half guard passing, camping, blading, and pinning. I hope you can use this episode to absolutely terrorize your training partners from the top position! 

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Chapters

• 0:25 Intro
• 2:22 Base definition
• 5:33 Goals for top athlete
• 12:23 Denying the guard player’s attack vectors & connections
• 21:04 Deny Kuzushi
• 22:38 Understanding the layers of guard
• 29:39 Head position & cycling the leading edge
• 34:33 Blading
• 38:18 Camping & backtracking
• 43:51 Establishing the guard pass
• 46:09 Do not accept the sweep
• 48:48 Pins
• 51:15 Outro