X-Guard Beyond The Basics by Thomas Lisboa

Highly Decorated Alliance competitor and Fabio Gurgel Black Belt Thomas Lisboa Is Back to Take You Beyond the Basics with an Ultimate Guide to the X-Guard!

In addition to an incredibly successful competitive career, Lisboa has also been an instructor at some of the most prestigious academies in the world, including Marcelo Garcia Academy in NY and he now resides as the head instructor at Alliance Gym in Vancouver, BC
If you’re looking for the next step in the evolution of the x-guard or new ways to dispatch even the most ferocious guard passers, the x-guard is for you
The x-guard is one of the most exciting and effective guards in BJJ and Lisboa is going to show you the secrets of the position to help you tame, frustrate, and shut down top players of all ranks and sizes
Explore multiple sweeps, masterful transitions, slick entries, helpful drilling sequences, and even concepts on x-guard maintenance to take your understanding of the x-guard to new heights

With X-Guard Beyond The Basics, you’ll receive high-level instruction from one of Team Alliance’s most respected competitors and teachers. Thomas Lisboa has enjoyed a wildly successful competition career and has continued his amazing contributions to BJJ through his instruction at some of the finest academies in the world, including Marcelo Garcia Academy and his home base at Alliance Gym in Vancouver., B.C. Lisboa will provide you with the tools you need to create a seemingly impenetrable x-guard game that includes multiple ways to best your training partners and opponents! You’ll build new confidence in your guard game with x-guard techniques and concepts already proven at the highest levels of the sport!

You’ll begin with an intro to the position, some helpful tips on understanding the x-guard, and how to use it properly. Lisboa will follow up your introduction with multiple ways to enter the x-guard from your favorite positions! In part-2 Lisboa will introduce you to a library of amazing sweeps and transitions that will inspire you to get to the mat and start experimenting! X-guard maintenance and drills will make up the final parts of the series to help you maintain the position and become more familiar with controls and strategies!

It’s time to transition your x-guard skills from average to FEARED! Lisboa is one of the most respected instructors in the country and his approach to teaching will help you quickly add new skills to your bottom game so that you can feel a renewed sense of confidence in holding down the fort and dismantling your training partners and opponents!

PART 1
INTRODUCTION
UNDERSTANDING THE X-GUARD
BUTTERFLY GUARD TO X-GUARD
BUTTERFLY GUARD DOUBLE UNDERHOOK TO X-GUARD
SLX TO X-GUARD
CLOSED GUARD TO SHORT X-GUARD
Z-GUARD TO X-GUARD
DEEP HALF GUARD TO X-GUARD
DE LA RIVA TO X-GUARD
UNDERHOOK DE LA RIVA TO X-GUARD
KNEE-CAP GRIP TO X-GUARD
X-GUARD PULL FROM STANDING

PART 2
X-GUARD SWEEP VS. OPPONENT KNEELS TO THE FLOOR
X-GUARD OPENING THE SCISSORS SWEEP
X-GUARD TECHNICAL STAND-UP SWEEP
X-GUARD BACK TAKE
X-GUARD KICKING THE FOOT SWEEP
X-GUARD SWEEP VS. KNEE FACING DOWN
X-GUARD VS KNEE FACING DOWN VS. BACK TAKE
CRUCIFIX FROM THE X-GUARD
X-GUARD OPENING THE SCISSORS SWEEP VARIATION
X-GUARD OVER HEAD SWEEP
X-GUARD LAPEL SWEEP
X-GUARD LAPEL SWEEP
X-GUARD LAPEL BACK TAKE
SLX TO X-GUARD SWEEP CONTROLLING COLLAR AND SLEEVE
SLX TO X-GUARD BACK ROLL SWEEP
FOOT LOCK FROM THE SHORT X-GUARD
CALF LOCK FROM THE X-GUARD
CALF LOCK BACK TAKE FROM THE X-GUARD

PART 3
X-GUARD MAINTENANCE VS. HEAVY KNEE
X-GUARD MAINTENANCE VS. FOOT INSIDE
X-GUARD MAINTENANCE VS. GRIPS
X-GUARD MAINTENANCE VS. BERIMBOLO

PART 4
DRILLS
X-GUARD SOLO DRILL
X-GUARD BASIC DRILL
X-GUARD MAINTENANCE DRILL
CONCLUSION