Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard (Book of Knowledge)

BJ PENN—UFC World Champion, Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, and best-selling creator of Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge—sheds new light at the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with this unprecedented examination of the closed guard. Through step by step color photographs and descriptive narrative, Penn shares his elaborate system for gaining regulate of your opponent’s body even as fighting off your back, and then unleashes more than eight fight-ending submissions. He divulges his most vicious strangleholds, including collar chokes, arm chokes, and triangle chokes. He demonstrates the way to apply bone-breaking pressure for your opponent’s wrist, elbow, and shoulder the use of his most ruthless straight arm bars, inverted arm bars, kimura locks, Americana locks, and omaplata locks. And to make sure your offense never gets shut down, Penn unveils your opponent’s most common submission defenses, and then teaches you the way to capitalize on that defense by transitioning into secondary submissions and a host of sweeps. Detailing dozens of how you can chain your attacks together to form fluid combinations, this book leaves no stone unturned. Whether you are new to the grappling arts or an experienced practitioner, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard will take your game to the next level.