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There are a lot of suggestions out there telling you how to defend your guard. Some of these are: do not allow the other fighter to get a hold of your knees, find an angle, or drive your legs to the ground. However, there is one suggestion that I often see novices failing to do. Head control is critical in retaining guard.

You see, as an opponent passes their head will generally go to one side and they will move their hips to the same side to reach side control. If they are smart they will control your legs and/or hips to prevent you from hip escaping away. However, if you are able to take control of his advance, you won’t even let him pass at all.

As your opponent starts passing to the right, push his head in that same direction. That will both create a large amount of space between you but also not allow him to progress into side control. You don’t have to be rough and go MMA on him, but you can be firm with a palm to the cheek or a forearm to the neck.

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LEARNING FAST is important for every jiu jitsu student. If you’ve been taking classes for any length of time, you’ll quickly find a deep need to get better faster. You know some moves – a submission, a sweep – and it’s frustrating when you aren’t able to use them on your classmates. You can grapple for hours on end, but it’s not making you progress quickly enough.

Here is the solution, and don’t worry, it is not about mastering a new awesome submission or unbeatable guard that the other jiu jitsu students won’t already know about. In order to progress, you are going to have to train with intention.

As you’ve undoubtedly heard before, if you do not make a plan you will not succeed. So to get better, make a plan, WRITE THE PLAN DOWN, and every day take a step towards reaching that plan. You should not deviate from your plan until your reach your goal. Remember: PUT YOUR PLAN IN WRITING! You must believe me about this!

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There are only three levels when it comes to mankinds evolution. These levels are precis and exact, but are not understandable in todays martial arts. When you Matrix the martial arts, however, even specific arts, like Tae Kwon Do or Jujitsu, then your evolutionary path opens up before you.

The first step is nothing more than learning how to survive in the world. We are born, and our parents educate us and help us, but at some point we all must enter into the survival jungle. Feeding and clothing our bodies, finding out what we really want to do, surviving.

Interestingly, many of our problems have to do with our fellow man. It is not just the struggle for survival of the body, but how to get along with a society which, lets face it, is a little cuckoo. If we survive the jungle, however, if we do not jump off a cliff or hang ourselves, then we become sane, though this is a relative state.

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