The Half Guard Anthology by Lachlan Giles
1,192 reviews · 4.98 / 5
Lachlan Giles · Combo
Guard Retention Anthology Bundle by Lachlan Giles & Ariel Tabak reviews, page 3
Guard Retention Anthology Bundle by Lachlan Giles & Ariel Tabak has 154 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.98 out of 5. 98% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from July 13, 2021 to August 14, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Lots of details
Really helpful instructional. The instructors really know their stuff. Lots of knowledge in this instructional and they have really made it accessible to anyone to learn.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗If people are passing your guard this is the product to buy
If you dont want to be passed ever again then this is your DVD. Some moves need flexibility or willingness to start to strech every day
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗lachlan arial masterclass
Lachlan covers all bases in this retention instructional. I learned so much. He explains principals,movements,and specific instructions vs types of guard passes. This is the essential retention dvd
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗High quality
Highest quality guard retention instructional
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗guard retention
very detailed, i learn so much
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great instructional
Really detailed instructional that really helped my guard retention. I find myself coming back to it a lot and gradually improving.
Highly recommended
Really well structured and complete series
Best guard retention instructional
Lachlan and Ariel do a great job at explaning the details of guard retention. All the positions are detailled, and the most usefull way to study is to go back at it when we have a specific problem and look for the corresponding chapter.
Really useful concepts and techniques.
Really useful concepts and techniques. The focus on retention really valuable as this is needed before you can consider offence
Super concise and well structured!
Super concise and well structured! Really has helped my retention and conceptualization of the open guard game
Changed the way I approached guard retention
Lots of good nuggets and philosophies that are easily adopted. Improved my game pretty quickly
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Essential Instructional
Essential instructional for all serious guard players.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Best instructional on the topic
Best instructional on guard retention.
The ultimate guide to high level guard retention
This is like google for guard retention. Any question you have about it the answer is in this instructional. its a great reference to keep coming back to over and over again.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻The guard retention bible
Top quality
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Tons of content
Retaining your guard, from anywhere.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Amazing
The different concepts related to the guard retention is clearly explained and showned. It will take me some Time to include them in my jiu-jitsu pratice. I really like all the tutorials that i purchased made by Lachlan Giles. Combined with his escapes and half guard tutorials, i think that i will have a strong foundation to improve my bjj.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻A must have for any advanced BJJ practitioner
This is one of the most unique instructionals in the sport of BJJ. I personally prefer teaching students guard retention without the use of any frames, but of course at one point you will need to improve the retention to an earlier more pro-active approach. This is were this course excels, it shows so many details on how to frame and proper postures to do so, While opening the fingers, to have a bigger surface to post, is more risky for injuring your fingers. It helps and it's a method I haven't seen elsewhere in 25+ years of BJJ. I would recommend less advanced people to start with the through the legs as they are more likely to end up there first, for the advanced student the around is probably the more interesting. Beginners should probably skip this course for now,
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Retention masterclass
Lachlan is a master presentation in the masterfully organized course. Each lesson shows the moves before he goes into great detail explaining the concepts. My skills have greatly improved since watching this instructional
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻GOAT of guard retention instructionals
Everything you need to know about guard retention
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Good teach
He is good teacher
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Good integration of multiple modalities
Love that they blend gi and nogi in the same instructional.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Opens up my game
This instructional helped me feel comfortable being on the attack and not worry too much about having my guard passed while in open and seated guard. Preventing the bad situations and regaining good position has really helped my game. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗best retention instructional
super in depth and worth a purchase
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Very detailed instructions. Covered everything.
Very detailed instructions. Covered everything.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Extremely detailed and good conceptual details
Just getting through the first section - it's extremely thorough and informative. I like the applications for gi and nogi.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Very good
This is great for people would like this style of guard, very detail and lengthy explanation. A little too long ;)
My favourite instructional
Has made the biggest difference to my game out of any instructional
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Good DVD
Thanks to this DVD, I am now able to stop attacks by people with more experience than me! You will learn the points that must be observed in guard retention.
Stop right there, you've found what you were looking for
1. Lachlan Giles is the best instructor around 2. Guard retention is probably the single most important skill to master for all levels of BJJ (probably alongside escapes) 3, You get more than 20 hours of content covering basic concepts, systematic concepts, and specific guard pass responses, including live drilling and commentary 4. You invest in something that you will be using for most of your BJJ journey. Even if you were only focusing on this series, it would take you a couple of years to digest everything he shows. In full disclosure, I don't think I've even been through half of the material he shows here, and my guard retention skills have skyrocketed already.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Guard retention anthology
Absolutely loved every second. Being a big guy this helped my guard retention so much!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗WOW!
This is by far my number 1 favorite instructional. I have been consistently watching and using this material for 6 months now and I can’t imagine how my guard retention will look in a year, two years, three… etc. This is by far THE BEST instructional for any skill set and I will always come back to it! Thanks Lachlan and Ariel! My openly regret is not buying it sooner!!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great
Another great Instructional!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Levelled up my Guard
My guard was ****, got passed constantly and could never get off any attacks. Feel really comfortable in my guard now, and getting off attacks consistently. Still a lot to learn but really loved this series, going back over it to troubleshoot and never not learning! Probably what helped me get my blue belt
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Worth the price
I debated this purchase for days because of the cost. I picked it up and have never looked back. There’s a LOT of lessons in this instructional and I’ve only been through a small part but have already learned so much. Worth every penny
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻great
lots of content, really well explained. It simply does not get better than this
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A must for beginners
The retention of the guard changes epoch-making
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Content is very good. Overall
Content is very good. Overall only complaints are with navigating the instructional as chapter titles don’t always show up properly.
Exceptional
Insanely detailed and thorough look at guard retention.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Amazing instructional
Outstanding instructional, the summary presentation of core concepts in the early chapters makes this material immediately useful. For anyone working on developing a better open guard this is a must have. The breadth and depth of details covered in the later chapters make this a useful reference for troubleshooting your technique after each training session.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Awesome coverage, instruction and value!
Instructionals from Lachlan Giles are hard to beat — awesome details, tons of material, and great price. This one covers almost everything you need to know about guard retention.
Amazing
Amazing
Brilliant Product
This series increases understanding of Jiu Jitsu significantly.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻👍�
Great content and details!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Best presentation of content
Locky is among the very best instructors on BJJ Fanatics - what sets his instructionals apart is their organization. In my opinion, his are the very best at delivering the content from the screen to your brain and body. The presentation is pragmatic and efficient on a level that I have yet to find elsewhere.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Excellent Part 1
I bought only Around n Under the Legs. It was great value for money purchase. It has many hours of excellent instructions from 2 instructors not 1. Many techniques are carefully covered and a great summary provided at critical junctures to recap what has been taught. U can tell they have put in a great deal of effort into this video. Very well structured to facilitate learning. Plus they included footage of rolling to illustrate how the techniques were applied in practice. Impressed.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent instructor
Lachlan does an excellent job of addressing the heuristics while not skipping the details in each technique. Buy this set if you want to work towards an impassable guard!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻drastic improvements, great coach
has really helped me with my guard retention, and has a huge amount of techniques for different situations/pass attempts. gets you out of late stage places you usually would not be able to recover from
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗In depth instructional with a lot of scenarios, focused on recovery and troubleshooting each stage and style of guard passes.
As a primarily guard player, I thought this instructional would be good to elevate my guard as I wanted to decrease the amount of times it gets passed. This instructional really opened up my game. As with all of Lachlan's instructionals, it is loaded with content and goes really deep in to the majority of ways people will try and pass, what their goals are, how to prevent them from getting there and what to do when you get yourself in to bad positions or your opponent is close to passing. The system has a lot of leg pummeling and some inverting but nothing that i think the majority of people couldn't do. It took a lot to try and start implementing since it was quite different than what my guard originally was but once I started recognizing how to move my body in the ways shown it made my guard way more tricky to pass and let me recover a lot better. This is a great complement to his no gi open guard set. That one is more attacking the back, leg entanglements, and sweep heavy, while this one is almost strictly recovery. So this is good if you can't get your attacks off, are getting beat, are getting stuck, or if your guard is getting passed in general. If you are getting your guard passed and want to have a complete trouble shooting system or reference, this is great information to refer to. It is best used in conjunction with training where you focus on positions you are in or struggling with and watching those specific content areas, then as you get those down expand to different sections or find new problems to solve with your guard. It is a ton of information and greatly explained with theory, strategies, and actual live rolling examples of how it happens. If you are looking for an attacking sweeping series some of his other stuff is better suited.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Só complete!
I tried guard retention before but my guard would just be smashed in a second. After watching the first part of this instructional I feel my training partners are super frustrated trying to pass my guard.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻
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