Key Takeaways
- A two-component BJJ DVD bundle combining two passing methods into one super-effective system.
- Features Shawn’s take on passing with the body lock pass for pressure and float passing for movement.
- 10+ hours of details on how to set up pressure and pummel your way past all the most popular BJJ guards in No-Gi.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8.5 out of 10.
THE OPEN GUARD SHAWN WILLIAMS DVD BUNDLE AVAILABLE HERE!!!
Passing is hard, and it is going to remain hard no matter what you do. However, if you want to figure out how to succeed with it, then you need to think past just singular methods of passing. Combining passing methods, not passes, is the best way to break all types of guards you’re going to encounter.
Just to make things clear — the Guard Shawn Williams Bundle is a set of BJJ DVDs about passing the guard, not playing it. Why should you pick up a bundle about passing made by one of the foremost experts on playing guard in BJJ? This question already holds the answer.
Guard Prodigy Shawn Williams
I was a big fan of the closed guard for a long while, but could never make my attacks work like people showed them to me. The problem was that I was trying to do stuff that was not optimal, even when I tried my hand at different closed guard variations or hybrids.
Then, sometime during my guard struggles as a blue belt, I came across a fellow called Shawn Williams and his take on the closed guard. He called it the Williams guard, and to this day, some 12 or so years later, it is still my favorite closed guard variation to play. In fact, I avoid using it these days — it just feels like I’m rolling with a cheat code.
For those unfamiliar with Shawn, he is a black belt under Renzo Gracie and is one of the old-school crew that made the blue basement such a popular place to train. He is also one of the most exceptional guard players, Gi and No-Gi, to ever step (or pull guard) on the mats — just take a look at the Shawn Williams Open Guard Bundle!
Components Of The Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle Review
The Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle does a perfect job of blending together two passing methods — one with upper-body focus and the other targeting mostly the lower body — into one cohesive and very effective passing system.
Body Lock the World DVD – FULL DOWNLOAD
Subject:
Passing, but with a twist. The first part of the Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle is all about tying up the guard player’s hips with your arms, as you pressure past any attacks and kill off all hopeless retention and recovery attempts.
Key Points Covered:
Shawn kicks it off by explaining how you should use the material presented in his first DVD from the Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle. He also talks about the intentions and goals of guard players, mostly relating to the butterfly guard.
This sets him up to demonstrate the best ways to kill out using the body lock pass. Williams begins by addressing the underhooks — more precisely, the near side only — and how to attack and pass the guard using just it and some good ol’ smashing.
He then introduces his shins, teasing at pummeling, as he presents plenty of different ways to get your legs over the guard player’s hips. Only when all of this is covered does Shawn connect his arms (or, better said, underhooks) into the body lock pass.
A host of internet passing scenarios follows, including spinning passes, rolling back takes, and killing off all counters the guard player can throw at you. A bit of half guard smashing concludes this DVD.
Technical DVD specifications:
This Shawn Williams passing DVD brings almost 6 hours of material to the bundle, spread over no fewer than eight volumes. The structure is pristine, and there’s pretty much nothing missed by Williams in this one.
Dynamic Leg Pummeling DVD – DOWNLOAD NOW
Subject:
In the second, and final, part of this Shawn Williams BJJ bundle, the focus is on another key movement for pressure passing — this time covering what your legs need to do: pummeling.
Key Points Covered:
After the broader range of the first component of the Shawn Williams Open Guard Bundle, we get to go deeper into just one aspect of passing in the second one. That motion you’ve most likely used to warm up — or perhaps drill — is now the star of the show as Williams breaks down how to pummel your legs past most guards.
He starts with a bang, explaining how his signature ladder pass works, complete with passing instructions, common scenarios, and even troubleshooting. He ties in the body lock pass to pummeling early, making the entire bundle make sense.
After ladder passing, Shawn focuses on near-side shin-to-shin work and pummeling, as he explores how to beat the locked-legs half guard variations, such as the Z-guard and knee shield. He shares plenty of grip positions that make the actual pummeling effective before moving on to open leg passes.
Lots of floating, hip switching, and back-stepping precede a flurry of Ashi Garami attacks introduced through smash passing. Towards the end, Shawn also covers how to keep passing even after pummeling fails, as well as plenty of examples of how to set it up against the most common guards in BJJ.
Technical DVD specifications:
The second instructional in the Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle delivers half the volume of the first — it comes in the standard format of four. Length-wise, it is pretty much the same ratio, with this DVD running for a total of three and a half hours.
It’s All About Pressure and Pummeling
Why try to pass only using one means of passing? Why not float and move as you pressure your opponents into letting you past their crumbling guard? Oh, is it because nobody told you how to do it? Well, that’s no longer true.
The Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle delivers a great interplay of two popular passing methods, which, when combined, result in a method of guard passing that few will be able to stop. Seriously, if anyone knows what a good guard is, it’s Shawn, so when he delivers you a way to beat his guard, it means beating others’ guards is going to become an effortless task.
After all, when you’re passing, you have a huge ally on your side — gravity. It actually pays off to be semi-lazy and slow when passing, rather than rushing it. Let the guard player carry your weight, put your grips in to increase the pressure, and be ready to pummel and slip past their guard the moment they attempt to do something. Easy, right?
OPEN GUARD SHAWN WILLIAMS BUNDLE DOWNLOAD
Unstoppable Passing!
Well, okay, it’s not really unstoppable, but it is as close to it as you can get. The Open Guard Shawn Williams DVD Bundle doesn’t just talk about passing — it solves it. You don’t have to know what guard you’re up against anymore, as all it takes is combining the pressure and pummeling concepts in it to get your pin or your submission. In some cases, even both!
