Half Guard

Position where you are laying on your back or side and are controlling one of your opponents legs with one or both of your legs, and your opponent has one or both of his knees on the ground.

Threatening To Stand

Initially, the half-guard would seem to be a terrible position for self-defense since your head is more open to strikes than it is from closed guard. To lower this risk, the bottom half guard player should always be threatening to stand up. This causes your opponent to focus on holding you down which means they aren't able to easily strike you. 

Half-Guard for MMA

The 6 Ranges of Half Guard

All guards in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (with videos)

Closed Guard

A true closed guard is a position where you are laying on your back or side and both of your legs are wrapped around your opponents torso and your legs are locked together in some way. 

My method of categorizing guards as closed guards is a bit looser. It is a position where you are laying on your back or side and your opponent is positioned between your legs. The legs do not have to be locked. This looser definition allows me to include clamp guard as a type of closed guard. 

Positions

Head and Overhook Grip

Clamp Guard & Split Guard

Head and Underhook Grip (Pinch Headlock)

Head and Wrist/Elbow Grip

Double Wrist Control

Double Underhook

Side Scissor Guard

Other

Rat Guard

Rubber Guard

Williams Guard

Various Guards Using Different Gi-Grips

Four Scenarios

1. Opponent on 2 Knees

2. Opponent Goes To Stand Up (2 Steps)

3. Opponent Has Stood Up But Is In Bent Over Posture

4. Opponent Has Stood Up And Achieved Vertical Posture

The four scenarios from Danaher's Closed Guard Going Further Faster 

Passing - Seated Guard

Standing Pass Foot Positions

Inside foot (your foot steps in between opp legs.

1) Inside straight hamstring 

2) Inside cross hamstring

Outside foot (both your feet are outside of one of opp legs)

*Avoid allowing opp. to establish shin on shin connection (which allows them to enter leg locks)

Establishing Inside Foot Position

Entry 1: Stepping Outside (see G.R. Attacking the Guard Vol 1 @37:30)

-technique example

Entry 2: 

No-Gi Outside Knee Cut Pass

Rolling Kimura

  - Kyle Boehm

   -Chewy

   -technique

   -RVV

   -See Attacking the Guard, Vol 1: Gordon Ryan

Cross Step Passing

   -Posting Version *technique

   -No Post Version *example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BH9zLZct0&feature=emb_title

Butterfly Guard

Position 

-Flattened Butterfly Guard to Seated Butterfly Guard (Extent Your Legs) *Example

Sweeps
-Basic Butterfly Sweep  *Lachlan Giles Tutorial *Kesting Example

X Guard

Sweeps
Basic X Guard Sweep  *Kesting Tutorial

Passing - de la Riva Guard

*Breaking grips and knee slike - John Danaher

North South (Offense)

Positions

1) Double Over

2) Double Under

3) Over Under

Submissions
Over Under Position

-(Gi) Paper cutter (aka bread cutter) *example *example

-Armpit Cross Armbar (Over Opp. Arm Side) *example