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Guard Flexibility Basics
6 year(s) ago • 1219 views • 7 replies
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
Hey folks.
Thought this might be useful to some of my fellow BJJ enthusiasts in Lockdown. With many of us in lockdown and spending most of our time at home, its a great chance to develop certain physical attributes off the mats.
Guard flexibility is a huge one of these attributes that opens up entirely new areas of the game. Whether it be for guard retention, guard recovery or getting offensive with that BJ Penn esq leg/hands or playing leg clinch variations (Williams guard, Rubber Guard, etc).
My own background is as a Sports Scientist and while there are plenty of other methods out there, I can tell you from experience that static stretching works.
Hopefully this basic starter routine is useful to a few of you. I like to do it directly after a 3-5km run.
https://www.youtube.com/w[...]&t=23s
Enjoy
Perform at your own risk ;)
Thought this might be useful to some of my fellow BJJ enthusiasts in Lockdown. With many of us in lockdown and spending most of our time at home, its a great chance to develop certain physical attributes off the mats.
Guard flexibility is a huge one of these attributes that opens up entirely new areas of the game. Whether it be for guard retention, guard recovery or getting offensive with that BJ Penn esq leg/hands or playing leg clinch variations (Williams guard, Rubber Guard, etc).
My own background is as a Sports Scientist and while there are plenty of other methods out there, I can tell you from experience that static stretching works.
Hopefully this basic starter routine is useful to a few of you. I like to do it directly after a 3-5km run.
https://www.youtube.com/w[...]&t=23s
Enjoy
Perform at your own risk ;)
Black belt 3rd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
Very cool, thank you for sharing!
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
Thanks. How do you design your routines / affect your motivation to actually do something that inherently is not very interesting and is physically dyscomforting :) ?
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
Thanks. How do you design your routines / affect your motivation to actually do something that inherently is not very interesting and is physically dyscomforting :) ?
I like to keep my routines simple in terms of design. I always joke that if I ever write a book it will be called the "Lazy mans guide to stretching". I use as much gravity as possible and make tweaks wherever possible so it doesn't feel like hardwork. For example I use my belt and my own body as counterweight for most stretches or weights to do the pushing for me. I'm actually recording a routine demonstrating that this week for my students but I'll post it in this topic also.
I used to stretch for 45 minutes to an hour every day in my late teens/early twenties and got extremely flexible. What I find is that it IS boring no matter how complex you make it, so combine it with something that's not. I like to setup my laptop in front of me and pick mostly stretches that I can do while watching it.
I think the ultimate setup is if you have a partner to do partner assisted stretches (ideally PNF stretching). The best I can manage at the moment is following my wife around the house for conversation and stretching while she gives out to me for putting my foot on the kitchen counter top sadly :)
I used to stretch for 45 minutes to an hour every day in my late teens/early twenties and got extremely flexible. What I find is that it IS boring no matter how complex you make it, so combine it with something that's not. I like to setup my laptop in front of me and pick mostly stretches that I can do while watching it.
I think the ultimate setup is if you have a partner to do partner assisted stretches (ideally PNF stretching). The best I can manage at the moment is following my wife around the house for conversation and stretching while she gives out to me for putting my foot on the kitchen counter top sadly :)
Black belt 4th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
This is exactly what I've been doing lately! I've always been more flexible than the average Masters 3 individual, but I've always wanted more! These past week weeks of flexibility training has helped tremendously!
Black belt 4th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I need to work on flexibility more. My mobility and flexibility sucks after the back surgery.
Thanks for posting
Thanks for posting
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
This is exactly what I've been doing lately! I've always been more flexible than the average Masters 3 individual, but I've always wanted more! These past week weeks of flexibility training has helped tremendously!
Yeah its a great chance to make big strides in that side of the game. Its easy to forget how potent a weapon flexibility is till you come up against it. I'd say it causes opponents big problems at M3. I've found it incredibly beneficial even for M1!


