07:22 - In the 2019 ADCC, Lachlan was able to use K-Guard to heel hook people that were way bigger than him. This is what we all love about jiu jitsu, the smaller person beating the bigger person.
07:56 - When entering into the legs, you can do so with either an external or internal entry. For an external entry (DLR or K-Guard) you are rotating around your opponent's leg towards the backside. For an internal entry (False Reap, butterfly guard, etc) you are going in between your opponent's legs. External entries tend to lead to 50-50 where as internal entries tend to lead to cross ashi.
12:15 - Internal and external rotation pertains to the direction in which you are twisting someones joint. An example would be if you are trying to turn our opponent's knee out (as in a waiter sweep) that would be external rotation. The body naturally turns this way and the defender is able to stay facing towards you. An example of internal rotation would be a heel hook or a kimura. These tend to be much more devastating as the body does not naturally move in this direction. Often, these internal rotation threats often lead to the defender having to expose their back to alleviate the pressure.
15:43 - What the guard players are doing at the highest levels of the sport is being very active when playing open guard. That does not necessarily mean a lot of work, but there is a lot of movement that is required from the bottom position when playing open guard.
18:22 - When playing guard in no gi jiu jitsu, it is difficult to hold onto grips for extended periods of time. In the gi, you can make a grip and pull the top player into your guard, but this is very unlikely in no gi. This makes it much harder to slow our opponent down, so to counteract this, in no gi we need to be much more fluid when going from gripping our opponent to attacking them. For example, if we get a DLR hook, it is not likely we will be able to stay here for a long time without the gi grips. Therefore, as the bottom player we should be looking to immediately attack. You can do this in the gi as well, but the consequences for not doing this in no gi are much worse.
21:57 - If we are playing a seated or supine guard against a standing opponent, we are going to either be attacking the legs or wrestling up. We do so by using a push / pull dilemma. If we push into someone and they push back, this gives us the ability to pull them forward more effectively leading to leg entries. If we are pulling them and they are pushing away to resist, this gives us the ability to push them away more effectively and wrestle up. If we are playing seated or supine guard against a kneeling opponent, now we can start incorporating attacks to the upper body like triangles and choi bars. As our opponent defends the upper body attacks, that will open up opportunities to enter the legs.
26:11 - When playing a seated guard against a kneeling opponent, you can grip fight as if you were wrestling from the standing position. As the seated player, the benefit of winning the hand fight is you will get a sweep very easily. However, if you lose the grip fight you still have a guard so it is not that bad for you. As the seated player, grip fighting with a kneeling guard passer is relatively low risk with a high return, making it a good option for us as the seated player.
28:16 - If you can interplay leg locks with sweeps, the benefit is going to be very positive sum for you as the attacker. If I try to attack your legs, and you defend properly, it will make it hard for me to finish the leg lock, but more than likely I will be able to get the sweep. As the guard player, attacking the legs is generally a safe route that leads to positive outcomes because even if you do not get the leg lock submission, you will likely get a sweep.
31:41 - Guards like the false reap and K-Guard generally require more hip flexibility to play effectively. If you are more compact and shorter with limited hip flexibility, then it might make more sense to focus more on internal entries like butterfly guard and looking to use outside entries like the matrix style back take that does not require you to capture your opponent's knee.
35:17 - Under ADCC rules, if you turtle for 3 seconds you do not get points scored on you for a guard pass or takedown. In the gym, Chris does turtle rounds every day and it has become an essential part of his open guard. Turtling is a great way to conserve energy and can lead to opportunities to counter attack or reverse your opponent.
38:30 - When in bottom turtle, most of the time we can expect the top player to be trying to take our back. If they carelessly try to throw in their hooks to take our back, this is one of the best times for us to look to counter by entering into their legs.
43:53 - When playing guard, if we get behind our opponent in the gi, we can take a grip on their belt, making it extremely hard for them to turn and face us. This makes it much more likely we will be able to complete the back take. However, in no gi jiu jitsu, we do not have the luxury of taking that grip on the belt which means our opponent is more likely to turn and face us. When they turn to face us, this will open up our ability to enter into a leg entanglement.
