The Gracie Gift: how to pass without getting triangled

The “Gracie Gift” is one of the most debated techniques from the old Gracie curriculum.
You open the closed guard and leave one arm in, which practically invites your opponent to go for the triangle. Then you turn it into a guard pass.

For years, people dismissed it as bad Jiu-Jitsu. One common explanation is that Helio and Rorion Gracie taught it for self-defense against untrained attackers, not against someone who knows the triangle.

I agree the Gracies were teaching for self-defense. But I use this pass a lot against trained opponents, and it works at a high percentage when you get the details right. In this video I show you how

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