Z Guard
This Article comes from SLC MMA
To see the full original article click here
Okay, I’d like to come clean from the get go. I don’t play Z Guard, I’m not good at Z Guard, heck, I don’t know how to break down the Z Guard. (I’ve recently been getting submitted by some z guard moves ) .
Which is why I needed some help.
I asked Eddie Edmunds of Team Fusion Academy to show me some passes and principles of Z guard.
Another to keep in mind is that there are a bunch of “versions” of the z guard. Steven Kesting defines the z guard as the knee-in half guard, with the knee either drawn across the belly (like a half guard scissor sweep) or the knee tilted up on the chest and shoulder ( the variation I use – akin to a half spider guard, shin on bicep sort of thing). I’ve also seen Gene Simco show the “zig zag” guard with the gi – it’s like s-mount but from the guard, if that makes any sense.
Anyway… the point is that the legs make a Z formation of some kind, and the knees and the hooks help create distance and control your opponent.
The above videos come from a longer shoot Eddie and I did together – I’ll release more of them in a future post with an interview with Sensei Edmunds. Also, the full quality version of the videos will be available for direct download at that point as well.
To comment on this post, please visit the original article click here
Related posts:
