BJJ Video Series: Half Guard
Half Guard in Jiu-Jitsu is a versatile position where you control one of your opponent's legs between yours while lying on your side. You use underhooks, knee shields, and hip movement to create space and sweep opportunities. It is used to set up powerful sweeps, back takes, and submission attacks while serving as an excellent defensive position when you're in trouble. Half guard is like being the middle child of grappling positions - not quite as dominant as full guard, not as desperate as being fully mounted, but with its own sneaky ways of getting what it wants. Many grapplers underestimate half guard until they find themselves getting swept by someone who's made it their specialty - then suddenly that "inferior" position doesn't seem so harmless after all!
Escapes: Standing Closed Guard Break and knee thru, cross face and one leg stack pass - with sleeve grip
Z Guard passing series
Bottom Smash Half: Bicep Blast escape to Z guard to Kimura + Z guard to half guard + half guard sweeping and back take series
Bottom Smash Half Guard bicep blast to Z guard to half guard to dog fight to knee pick, pass to the back
Bottom Half Guard and Z-Guard System
Z Guard: passing, Cold shoulder hip Switch + reset to HQ for re Knee cut, scorpion leg kick to torreando X pass to knee on belly, and folding pass to the other side
Standing Closed Guard: Break and pass - arm pit grips
Bottom Smash Half to Z-Guard to Kimura to Spinning Shin-In Arm Lock
Bottom Smash Half: bicep blast to Z guard
Bottom Smash Half: failed bicep blast leads to arm triangle
Z-Guard Passing Series
Half Guard: passing series, knee cut, hip Switch, shin slide