How long can you control a guard position and prevent people from passing without attacking them with sweeps and submissions? Mastering this skill is what sets elite grapplers apart from everyone else, and is one you should prioritize in terms of your bottom game.
The Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD is one of the few instructionals that gives guard retention the focus it deserves. It mostly explores how to set up guard retention using motion rather than staying static, opening up options for quick submission counters along the way.
Key Takeaways
- 3-part Gi BJJ DVD containing 2 hours of open guard retention concepts.
- Fundamental principles of blending submissions and guard retention for all levels.
- Presents a few innovative concepts for rolling to retain state open guards.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 7 out of 10.
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The Hierarchy of Guard Concepts
What is the most important task you have from the guard? It is to stay in it. There is no point in ‘playing’ guard if you can’t retain a guard. Sadly, people lose sight of this aspect of playing guard in BJJ, especially open guards because of the lure of attacks.
If you try to attack from a guard that has no defensive structure, ti is like trying to defend a fortress with no walls. No matter how much you shoot your cannons, someone will get through.
In the hierarchy of playing open guard, preventing people from getting past your legs is your number one task. Whether you grip fight, move to retain your guard, manage distance, switch between different guards, or all of the above, you have to stay on guard to be able to attack from guard.
Attack-wise, threatening with more than one thing is a must, as you should know by now, regardless of how long (or short) you’ve been training. The Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD addresses such attacks, bunching them together as submission sets, which work off of a very slick guard retention concept.
David Dunn – A Chuck Norris BJJ Instructor
Perhaps seeing Chuck Norris mentioned here seems like a joke, but in case you did not know, Chuck is a 3rd degree BJJ black belt under Jean Jacques Machado. Chuck has his own martial arts federation called the UFAF (United Fighting Arts Federation) with a bunch of affiliates throughout the world.
One of his most esteemed BJJ instructors, in charge of the Sidekicks Fight Academy and a 5th-degree black belt himself under Jean Jacques Machado, is David Dunn. A lifelong martial arts practitioner with several black belts in other arts, Dunn is not just a BJJ enthusiast but also a World No-Gi Champion at a black belt in 2007 and 2009.
David is one of the last representatives of the early breed of American Jiu-Jitsu practitioners who learned their traits directly from the Gracies (or Machados, in this case). He still actively teaches both regular classes and seminars and has decided to make his efficient and highly technical style available to the masses via the Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD.
Detailed DVD Review
What you get in the Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD is roughly 2 hours of opened guard retention and attack concepts, divided into 3 parts. The instructional is recorded with the Gi and is pretty specific, so there is not a whole lot of carryover to No-Gi.
Part 1 – Open Guard Concepts
First up on the roster in this David Dunn BJJ DVD are the fundamental guard concepts that make the position effective. Dunn first addresses how to face your opponent in a way that allows you to retain the guard easily and never risk getting passed.
He then uses this concept as the foundation for setting up a seated guard game vs. a standing opponent, which, especially in No-Gi is crucial for managing distance and creating attacking opportunities. The main focus is on the board structure so that you can deter passes and the crucial goal of attaining inside control.
Once control is in place David moves on to explore a more active version of the seated guard. He has his own take on an open guard variation that he presents here for the first time. Dubbed the “Rollup Position”, it is the main subject covered in the rest of this DVD.
Part 2 – Rollup Position Attacks
After introducing the Rollup Position in the previous volume, David now goes deeper into dissecting it, showing how once you activate your guard after getting inside control you can use it to set up various submission attacks.
In a unique twist, David does not just show solitary submissions, but rather submission sets. he has several different ones and applies them depending on the opponent’s reactions to his Rollup Position. Halfway through this volume, he demonstrates the Fruit Roll Up, a variation he likes to use when attacking to string his submissions together.
A few transitional attacks, such as back takes and fail-safe transitions to the knee shield, introduce the dilemma threat factor in the Undisclosed David Dunn DVD, making it even more legit.
Part 3 – The Fruit Roll Up
The final portion of the instructional is all about the Fruit Roll Up and how David uses it to retain guard against passing threats in cases where he has no inside control from the guard. This volume features lots of reversals and rolls, as David still keeps facing the opponent as his main goal.
This part of the Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD is also where he introduces the body clip concept, which basically has you wrapped around the top person as a paper clip, opening up submission options. Once again, submissions are demonstrated as sets, with lots of triangle options.
Rolling for Guard Retention
Inversions burst into the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as an offensive guard maneuver but its main value is its defensive prowess. While it is fancier to use it for spinning attacks, those tend to backfire, mostly because the bottom person stacks themselves while inverting.
Rolling, whether it is inverting, rolling over your head, or maneuvering left and right through the turtle, has an immense role to play in guard retention and setting up powerful defensive guards. Placing a defensive emphasis on your movement from guard is going to make it very difficult to pass.
the side effect you’ll notice is that you can now enter all those spinning moves like Imanari rolls or Bolos without any effort or resistance, as your opponent is going to be trying to decipher how to deal with your guard. That right there is the power of the guard in BJJ that you should learn how to yield and the Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD is meant to help.
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Let’s Roll!
Playing guard is one of the key aspects of the sport, but the majority of people hit a wall in not being able to stay in guard long enough to play it. Retention is the most important aspect of that guard you should master. To do so, you need to stop attacking and let people try and pass your guard(s) as you focus on retaining it.
If you have no idea where to start, the Undisclosed Open Guard Concepts David Dunn BJJ DVD is a good resource to get you going. While it does focus on motions that are practical and effective, it does skip over some fundamental aspects of defensive guards and guard retention, but it is still a very solid starting point if you’re struggling with guard retention.
