Giancarlo Bodoni – Essential Connections: Chest To Chest Half Guard Passing

Giancarlo Bodoni – Essential Connections: Chest To Chest Half Guard Passing

Revolutionize Your Passing With ADCC Champ Giancarlo Bodoni’s 6-Part Series On Chest To Chest Half Guard Passing!

• Learn one of the highest percentage passing systems used in the sport of Jiu-Jitsu, with ADCC 2022 breakout star Giancarlo Bodoni!
• Develop consistent methods of FORCING your opponent into disadvantageous half guard positions.
• Defeat lower body connections with leg pummeling that can be impossible to defend, while punishing opponents with crippling upper body grips!
• Further shutdown opponents with a variety of controls including head and arm, shin pin, cross face, body locks, and more.
• Solidify passes with controlling methods that will have you snuffing out any hope of your opponent regaining their guard!
• Troubleshoot common encounters when half guard passing including knee shield, underhook half guard, half butterfly, and even deep half!

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

• INTRO
• CHEST TO CHEST PASSING INTRO
• BENEFITS OF HALF GUARD PASSING
• GENERAL STRATEGIES FOR FORCING HALF GUARD
• BAITING HALF GUARD WITH LOOSE PASSING THREATS

PART 2

FORCING HALF GUARD FROM INSIDE THE LEGS

• LEG PUMMEL TO HALF GUARD
• THREATENING FOLDING PASS TO FORCE HALF GUARD
• GOING STRAIGHT INTO A HEAD BLOCK KNEE CUT

FORCING HALF GUARD FROM BODY LOCK

• BASIC BODY LOCK ENTRIES KNEELING
• BASIC BODY LOCK ENTRIES STANDING
• SPRAWLING METHOD
• FAR SIDE KNEE CUT WHEN YOU CAN’T BEAT THEIR HOOK
• OVERVIEW OF GOALS FOR TOP HALF GUARD
• OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENT UPPER BODY GRIPS

PART 3

CONTROLLING THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS

• SETTING A CROSS FACE
• SETTING A HEAD AND ARM
• SHIN PIN VS INSIDE BICEP TIE
• SHIN PIN VS INSIDE WRIST
• HEAD BLOCK VS INSIDE BICEP TIE
• NEAR SIDE UNDERTOOK
• OVERBACK
• PROPER BODY PLACEMENT

PART 4

SOLIDIFYING PASSES

• STAGES OF EXTRACTING THE TRAPPED LEG
• FORCING 3/4 MOUNT TO PASS
• PASSING WITH A HEAD AND ARM
• SWITCHING TO A HEAD BLOCK
• DOUBLE UNDER HOOK GUARD PASS

PART 5

TROUBLESHOOTING

• BEATING A SCORPION

KNEE SHIELD

• CLEARING THE UPPER BODY FRAMES
• KNEE POSITION AND CLEARING THE KNEE SHIELD

UNDER HOOK

• UNDER HOOK EARLY STAGE (CHIN OVER ELBOW, GO BACK TO CROSS FACE)
• UNDER HOOK MID STAGE (NEAR SIDE UNDER HOOK WHEN THEY ARE ON AN ELBOW)
• UNDER HOOK MID STAGE – LOWER LEG SHIFT (KNEE TO THE FAR HIP)
• UNDER HOOK LATE STAGE (BACK STEP, RE PUMMEL)

PART 6

HALF BUTTERFLY

• STEP OVER
• PUMMEL THE FOOT TO FAR SIDE KNEE CUT
• BODY LOCK TO FAR SIDE KNEE CUT

DEEP HALF GUARD

• EARLY PREVENTION
• RECOVERING FROM DEEP HALF