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The Most Deadly Closed Guard by Marcio Stambowsky reviews
The Most Deadly Closed Guard by Marcio Stambowsky has 10 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.90 out of 5. 90% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from November 12, 2021 to March 16, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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| Belt | Reviews | Average rating |
|---|---|---|
| Purple | 1 | 5.0 |
| Brown | 1 | 5.0 |
| Black | 1 | 5.0 |
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The reviews
Chad Pomeroy
such a great instructional, Professor Marcio is one of the best Jiu Jitsu Instructor's in the game and also a living Legend.
the most deadly closed guard
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Very Practical
The moves are very practical and simple. It can be easily learned and can't wait to apply in training tomorrow!
Very good teaching materials and can be applied in the mats!
Techniques are effective and very simple!
Old school guard Mastery.
Old school guard Mastery taught by a Legend.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging:up your game with this video
Useful! I use this in training
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Closed guard
Informative
Put some effective old school sweeps and submissions into your closed guard game ***(Long review)***
This instructional teaches a series of old school Gi sweeps and submissions. This is a techniques focused instructional. It does not attempt to be a comprehensive closed guard instructional, but rather provides a series of interesting and effective sweeps and submissions that are generally not taught in other closed guard instructionals. Marcio Stambowsky effectively explains and demonstrates the techniques contained in this instructional. As expected, techniques are repeated from multiple angles. In my opinion these techniques are effective and not complicated. There is a good flow from technique to technique (e.g., Volume 2 teaches the combo grip and then a series of submissions based on what opportunities are provided by the opponent). A person of average fitness and flexibility should have no difficulty learning and using the techniques taught in this instructional. There is minimal banter, which I think is a good thing. The instructional has been filmed with a fixed camera. The quality of the video is good as is the range and there are no issues with the microphone. If you are wanting to surprise your training partners and competitors with closed guard techniques that they are unlikely to be familiar with, then this instructional should interest you. This instructional has a total runtime of 1 hour and 37 minutes. The next section of the review gives an overview of the content of this instructional by volume, if this information interests you. Volume 1 (30 minutes long) covers sweep techniques all using a cross grip. The volume also includes variations for some of these techniques. The big brother sweep is where the opponent is pulled forward using both your arms on the same side (i.e., cross grip to the sleeve and the other hand holding either the top of their shoulder or the GI under the triceps) in unison with your legs so that the opponent is pulled onto your chest, held down and swept over primarily with the use of your legs in a movement like a pendulum sweep. After the opponent is swept you should end in mount top with your chest pinning their elbow onto their own chest and they are submitted with a wrist lock from the application of pressure to their elbow with their hand held flat to the mat. The second sweep taught is the hip bump with an emphasis on teaching the action reaction entry, lifting your hips and finishing with an S mount armbar. The final technique is the alpha position and multiple finishes are taught. The alpha position is entered using the same hand position (i.e., cross grip to sleeve and other hand connected at the top of their shoulder) and using the legs the opponent’s arm is pulled across their chest. Once their arm comes across their body you reach over their back and grasp under their armpit and with your free arm raise yourself to attach your body across their lower shoulder. This blocks their ability to pull their arm back that you have pulled across their body. From the alpha position you can drive forward using your back leg to take the mount; attack a simple and cool submission, if the opponent attempts to pull out your posting arm; depending on the response from the opponent there are options to take their back or sweep them backwards to the mount and again finish with a simple and clever armlock submission. Volume 2 (25minutes long) covers primarily submissions from closed guard using the combo grip. A series of techniques are taught that are based on the combo grip, which is achieved in situations where you are in closed guard and your opponent steps up with one leg. The grip is initiated where your cross grip already controls the opponent’s arm and you pass your other arm under and through the opponent’s raised leg. Then sleeve control of their arm is passed to your arm that is under and through their leg. Your same side arm will now control their arm via their sleeve. Once this initial control is gained then with your other arm you initially pass it under the opponent’s arm, which will be supporting some of their weight and then dropping your arm close to their hand to pull their arm back towards your chest and finally gripping their sleeve for control. The combo grip is now complete and the opponent can be swept firstly by pulling them forward using your legs and then using your legs in a movement similar to a pendulum sweep so that you finish in the mount top. The second technique taught from the combo grip is an armbar when the opponent postures up to avoid the risk of the sweep. Again, from the combo grip Marcio Stambowsky teaches an omaplata sweep and the triangle choke, if the opponent pulls their arm out when you are attempting the armbar. If the opponent cannot be swept because they bring their weight low, then a backwards rolling sweep to either a wrist lock or alternatively moving to mount top and then applying either a triangle choke or an armbar is taught. The armbar leg placement is interesting. The final technique of this volume is a sweep
Awesome
Just a plethora of great old school BJJ, You can see the decades refinement...
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Old school, tried and true!
Can't wait for open mat now.
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