No Gi Open Guard Volume 3: RDLR & Leg Entanglements by Lachlan Giles

Combine your attacks into a no-gi open guard system that grapplers of all level can use to sweep, submit, and more off your back with Lachlan Giles!

• Use the Reverse De La Riva guard to retain guard and start launching attacks off your back, with options to invert and not invert under for a more potent arsenal.
• Enter into the legs with traditional single leg X and X guard options that help you leg lock and transition to stronger positions.
• Lachlan Giles is an ADCC Absolute bronze medalist, with one of the most legendary runs to the podium ever using the techniques he uses on this series.
• Learn the 70/30 heel hook position that Lachlan specializes in, including how to heel hook systematically.

ADCC Absolute Medalist Lachlan Giles Shares His System For The No-Gi Open Guard With Reverse De La Riva & Leg Entanglements On This 8-Volume Mega Series

 

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What Will You Learn?

Learn the systematic no-gi open guard with this 8-volume series on using the reverse de la riva guard and the X guard to set up leg entanglements, sweeps, and more with Lachlan Giles’s help. Lachlan is one of the most requested instructors on BJJ Fanatics, and now you can learn some of the same tricks that helped him excel in his career.

Lachlan Giles used his tricky and methodical open guard to medal in the absolute division in the 2019 ADCC World Championships, heel hooking three much larger black belts on his way to bronze. Now you can learn some of those same techniques in this masterclass on using the reverse De La Riva and the x guard family to attack.

With options to invert and options that don’t need inverting, learn how grapplers of all levels can use this series to level up. Use the reverse De La Riva hook to manage pressure, off balance, and find your way to high percentage offense using Lachlan’s guidance and structured teaching.

Modify the X guard and learn how to take this well known leg locking position and start using it for innovative and proven entries into 50/50 attacks and inside heel hooks from unusual angles, with Lachlan showing you every detail you’ll need for success.

 

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

INTRODUCTION

REVERSE DE LA RIVA

OVERVIEW, RETENTION, ENTRIES

INTRO TO RDLR

OFFENSIVE OPTIONS

THE RDLR HOOK

CONTROL BOTH THEIR SHOULDERS

TOP LEG AND BATTLE FOR CONTROL

NARRATION: ENTRIES AND GETTING TO OFFENSE

RDLR OFFENSE PRINCIPLES

ELEVATE THEIR HIPS

ELEVATING THE LEG

FREEING THE BOTTOM LEG

CHOOSING ATTACK BASED ON FAR LEG POSITION

NON-INVERSION OFFENSE

NON INVERT OFFENSE

PRIMARY ATTACK: RDLR TO DLR

TO FAR LEG K GUARD

TO MODIFIED X GUARD

NARRATION

PART 2

INVERSION OPTIONS

PRIMARY ATTACK: INVERT

TIMING THE INVERT

GRIP TYPE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INVERT

DON'T SWING YOUR LEG WIDE

HEEL GRIP INVERT (WHEN SHIN HORIZONTAL)

INVERT VS DROP TO KNEE 70/30 ENTRY

INVERT VS STANDING TALL 50/50 ENTRY

INVERT VS STAND TALL & BACK NEAR LEG K GUARD ENTRY

SUMMARY AND STRATEGY

NARRATION INVERT OFFENSE

PART 3

RDLR SUMMARY AND TROUBLESHOOTING

SUMMARY

ESTIMA LOCK

TOE HOLD AND KNEEBAR

STANDING CRAB RIDE

BREAKING THEM DOWN

VS STAYING UPRIGHT

ADJUNCTS

DRILLS

RDLR LIVE EXAMPLES

PART 4

50/50 AND 70/30

INTRO AND OVERVIEW

50/50 & 70/30: PROS, CONS

ENTRIES

FROM OPEN GUARD

ENTRY FROM KNEE RIDE ATTEMPT

NARRATION ENTRIES

50/50

TILT TO HEEL HOOK

SPIN TO HEEL HOOK

VS COUNTER HEEL HOOK

TO 70/30

SUMMARY

NARRATION

PART 5

70/30

POSITIONING

FACING IN OR AWAY AND ABILITY TO GET UP

70/30 FACING IN

OVERVIEW OF OPTIONS

PRIMARY ATTACK VS STAND UP INVERT TO HEEL HOOK

DROP TO HIP: ELBOW HOP HEEL HOOK

THEY TURN AWAY: BACK TAKE

TROUBLESHOOTING LEG PUMMELLING

THEY FACE YOU: FISHNET

NARRATION

PART 6

70/30 FACING AWAY

OPTIONS

PRIMARY ATTACK: GET UP SWEEP

TO BACKSIDE 50/50

TO BERIMBOLO

WHEN YOU LOSE THE LEG: BOLO

NARRATION 70/30 FACING AWAY

CHAPTER SUMMARIES

ENTRIES TO 50/50 & 70/30

50/50

70/30

DRILLS

LIVE CLIPS

PART 7

SINGLE LEG X AND X GUARD

OVERVIEW

INTRO TO SLX AND X

POSITIONAL HIERARCHY

POSITIONS I DON'T USE

OUTSIDE ASHI

THE REAP

REVERSE X

ENTRIES

ENTRIES TO SLX AND X

SINGLE LEG X

OPTIONS FROM SLX

OPPONENTS OPTIONS

FOOT ON HIP VS HOOK

RIGHT LEG POSITION

ARM POSITIONING

HANDS TO THE MAT

RETENTION

PRIMARY ATTACK SLX LUMBERJACK SWEEP

GET UP VS DROP TO KNEE

TO 70/30

TO X GUARD

SUMMARY SLX

X GUARD

OPTIONS FROM X GUARD

TOP PLAYER OPTIONS

POSITIONING

PRIMARY ATTACK: TECHNICAL STAND UP

TO 70/30 AND BACK

TO BACKSIDE 50/50

LUMBERJACK SWEEP

SUMMARY

SUMMARY SINGLE X AND X GUARD

DRILLS

NARRATED ROLLING

LIVE CLIPS

PART 8

OPEN GUARD SUMMARY

CONTINUOUS NARRATED ROLLING

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