Older grapplers often find passing the guard of younger guys exhausting. Young punks are like the Energizer bunny – they keep going and going and going. To beat them you first need to wear them down and then break their will to fight. Here's how to do exactly that...
Think of the young punk’s gas tank as completely full. However unless you’re in amazing shape (congratulations if you are) then your own gas tank might only be at 60% full.
Now if you match the other guy move for move, technique for technique, and scramble for scramble then soon you’ll end up completely depleted (i.e. no fuel left in your tank at all) and he’ll still have enough to make your life miserable.
So you have to make haste slowly, and engineer situations where he’ll burn through his reserves much faster than you!
One of the best ways to do this is with slow, pressure-based guard passing.
This is very different from the fast paced, speed-based style of passing guard.
In pressure passing you stay low, kill his legs to keep you safe, and pin his hips to make it much harder for him to move. Then, as a piece de resistance, you spike all of your body weight down into his belly or diaphram so that he struggles to draw breath.
It may take a while to pass in this situation, but don’t worry.
He’ll be fighting at 100% just to keep things from getting worse, while you’re essentially just hanging out, watching him get tired.
Once you get to a good guard passing postion it’s not quite taking a nap on the mats, but it’s pretty close.
In fact you may even choose to DELAY your final guard pass for a while.
During the pass he’ll be struggling, fighting, and – more importantly – burning energy at a crazy rate. So why not leave him there a little bit longer so that when you finally do pass he’ll be in an even worse position to resist your submission attacks.
This slow, delayed method of passing guard is a favorite strategy of 4 time BJJ black belt world champion Fabio Gurgel. And he has taught it to many of his very top students, 57 of whom are BJJ world champions themselves.
Detailed techniques to use pressure passing against the guards you'll run into on the mat at [ Ссылка ]
