Key Takeaways
- A four-part Gi instructional containing a complete collar sleeve guard system.
- Features positioning nuances, sweeps, submissions, and flanking attacks.
- Mikey also provides plenty of dedicated drills as well as modifications to make sure the system works for everyone!
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9.5 out of 10.
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The secrets to one of the most successful Gi guards in BJJ are now available, demonstrated by the grappler everyone (except maybe Gordon Ryan) loves – Mikey Musumeci. If you want to understand how to best use one of his best guards, then the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD is tailor-made for you.
The best part about this instructional is that Mikey offers adjustments for bigger grapplers and people who can’t find a way to make his favorite setups work for them. Take it from a No-Gi guy – if there’s one guard you need to use when rolling/competing with the Gi it is the collar sleeve. This is how you learn it fast!
The Most Reliable Gi Grips for Guard Players
If you’re playing guard, and you’re not using the collar sleeve guard you’re missing out on one of the most effective options to control and attack the top person in BJJ. To be honest the only drawback the collar sleeve guard has is that it doesn’t work in No-Gi.
There is hardly a more paralyzing position to deal with than having one arm and one shoulder isolated as you’re trying to defy gravity and deal with guards as a passer. One very useful aspect of the collar sleeve guard is that you can opt for either collar and still end up with a huge set of offensive options.
The most common version, though, as demonstrated in the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD is to isolate one part of the opponent’s body, meaning the same side sleeve and collar. This group structure alone creates an imbalance in the top person, which means it is ridiculously easy to start combining sweeps, submissions, and backtakes from there.
The Man of the Hour – Mikey Musumeci
Everyone in the BJJ world knows exactly who Mikey Musumeci is at this point. Despite having a heap of World Titles in Gi and No-Gi, and winning just about everything there is (No ADCC title yet), Mikey Musumeci is in the public’s eye a lot these days for more than just his crazy BJJ skills.
He started riding headlines earlier this year (2024) when he gave up on his ONE FC contract and left to go back to the USA. At the time, nobody was any wiser to the fact that Mikey was actually going back to spearhead the UFC’s attempt at signing the best grappling talent in the world for their new pro-grappling league.
Mikey already got his first ‘W’ in the UFC Fight Pass Invitational, defeating Felipe Machado on points on his debut for the promotion. The dominant win just cemented Mikey’s place as one of the best grapplers in the world, particularly in the lighter-weight divisions.
The diminutive Fabio Gurgel black belt is also one of the most sought-after teachers, filling his time in between matches with packed seminars. He also has quite a few DVDs out, and we’ll be looking more closely at his Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD here today.
Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD Review
The four-part Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD offers a deep dive into the collar sleeve guard, along with super-effective variations and modifications taught by one of the best grapplers in the world. Each volume covers a specific aspect of the guard system, with the full length of the material just over 2 hours.
Part 1 – Combat Base Collar Sleeve Guard
the task of the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD is to provide a versatile and offensive option against one of the most common passing positions at the highest levels – the combat base, a.k.a. the half-kneeling position.
Musumeci first defines the combat base, outlining where its weaknesses are and offering the most easily attainable ways to exploit them. Mikey’s guards are legendary because people can’t find a way to break them, so a good portion of this first volume goes into explaining essentials like elbow positioning, grip attachments, foot placement, and hip motions.
As you’d expect from any resource featuring Mikey Musumeci, there is a section on how to drill the basic positioning, constantly attacking the weaknesses of the combat base. He wraps up the first part with an Omoplata attack as his focus shifts towards attacking.
Part 2 – Sweeping
The first set of attacks, or as Mikey likest to dub them ‘box’ of attacks contains sweeps. The second portion of the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD contains just over 30 minutes of sweep chains, with Musumeci constantly showing dilemma and trilemma attacks.
He also includes flanking attacks in the sweep series, given how often people choose to end up on the bottom rather than allow a back take. Of course, Mikey also shows how to get the back despite the top person’s defenses, as well as how to constantly change between back takes and sweep chains.
Part 3 – Overhook Collar Sleeve
The real innovation in this Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD appears in the third part of the series, with Mikey managing to craft a brand new hybrid guard position. He combines the collar sleeve configuration with the overhook grip, ending up with what seems like the perfect guard for half-kneeling and kneeling opponents.
In the longest volume of this Mikey Musumeci DVD, you get to learn about the mechanics of the overhook collar sleeve guard, and how it leads to submissions such as Omoplatas and the super-fast shotgun armbar, as well as more sweep attacks you can add to your sweep chains.
Musumeci also covers some De la Riva options (it’s Mikey Musumeci, there was no way this DVD wouldn’t have DLR chapters) that work perfectly against the combat base. He sticks to the Omoplata as his main submission threat but does offer a different box of sweeps from the DLR version of the collar sleeve guard.
Part 4 – Modifications
Wrapping up a really great DVD is a volume offering modifications to some of the most common aspects Mikey already demonstrated. In a unique approach to DVD content delivery, Mikey acknowledges that his favorite setups from the collar sleeve might not fit all types of grapplers, so he offers ways to adjust.
The final part of the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD contains modifications on the Omoplata entry, the De la Riva transition, and attacking setups, as well as the initial grip positioning and body alignment.
Pass Prevention 101
Have someone try to pass your guard as you keep pushing one of their shoulders to the mats. Even better, try it yourself.
What you’ll discover is one of the best defensive options you have to prevent guard passes. When only looking at guard retention, the common reaction for the guard player is to try and get the top person’s head to the mats at the same time they’re trying to pass. You’ll get a sweep.
The collar sleeve guard allows you the same, but without having to push the limits of your guard just before a pass works in order to implement it. As long as you can force a shoulder to the mats, and prevent the top person from posting out, you can sweep easily, or set up subs as they desperately try to block the sweep.
Guess what people don’t try to do when caught in such a dilemma? Pass. That makes that collar sleeve guard one of the best guards to prevent direct passing sequences, while at the same time having direct access to plenty of attacking options. Just like the ones in the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD.
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Combat Base Destruction
Mikey managed to beat all kinds of top-level opponents using his ways to break the most common passing position people use – the combat base. Now, you can use one of his proven methods, outlined in the Collar Sleeve Guard Mikey Musumeci DVD to do the same, transforming your guard from good to world-class.
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