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Guard is a bottom position where you use your legs and grips to manage distance, off-balance your partner and attack. Explore guard techniques.

In closed guard, your legs wrap around your partner with your ankles crossed. Open guard keeps the legs uncrossed and uses frames, hooks or grips to control distance. See the glossary.

A guard pass moves around or through the bottom player’s legs to reach a controlling position such as side control. Knee cut, leg drag and toreando are examples. Browse techniques.

A sweep reverses position from guard so the bottom player comes on top. Scissor, flower and hip bump sweeps are common examples. Explore sweeps.

A sweep starts from guard on the ground and reverses the position. A takedown brings a standing opponent to the mat. Browse the glossary.

Gi training uses a jacket, pants and belt that can be gripped for control and submissions. No-gi training does not use those clothing grips. Rules can vary by event. See competition prep.

Back control places you behind your partner, often with hooks or a body triangle and a seatbelt grip. It creates strong opportunities for chokes. Browse techniques.

Side control is a top position across your partner’s torso after you pass the guard. It offers control and several routes to mount or submissions. Explore positions.

An armbar is a submission that extends the elbow joint while controlling the arm and body. Apply submissions with your training partner’s safety in mind. Explore submissions.

Ashi garami is a family of leg entanglements used to control a leg and enter leg attacks. Specific finishes and permitted techniques depend on the ruleset. See related terms.

Start with recognizing the main positions, keeping a stable base, using frames and learning a few escapes. Ask your coach which skills to prioritize in your academy’s beginner curriculum. Browse fundamentals.

A frame uses the alignment of your forearm, shin or another body part to maintain space. Instead of repeatedly pushing with your arms, connect your frame to hip movement so you can improve your position. Watch a frames lesson.

Keeping your elbows near your ribs can make it harder for a partner to isolate an arm and helps connect your arms to your defensive frames. The exact placement changes with the position; avoid treating it as a rule to stay curled up everywhere. Explore defensive positions.

An underhook places your arm underneath your partner’s arm to control the upper body. It can help you turn onto your side, come up from half guard or connect to a body lock, depending on your position. Find underhook lessons.

Retention keeps a passer from getting beyond your legs. Recovery puts your legs back between you and your partner after your guard has been partly or fully beaten. Both rely on managing distance and moving your hips. Explore guard lessons.

Reaching can leave your legs and hips unprotected. Try establishing useful leg connections and frames while you grip, and notice whether the passer is controlling your knees or turning your hips away. Study guard positions.

Practice protecting your arms, establishing frames and creating enough space to move your hips and recover a leg. Start with a coach-taught escape and test it in short positional rounds rather than trying to bench-press your partner. Find side-control lessons.

Two common approaches are trapping an arm and leg to bridge and roll, or using frames and hip movement to bring a knee back inside. Your partner’s balance and reactions help determine which route is available. Explore mount lessons.

Protect your neck and address the choking grips before concentrating on removing hooks. Learn an escape with your coach that combines hand fighting, body positioning and turning toward a safer position. Find back-control lessons.

Getting past the legs is only part of the pass. Check whether your partner can turn toward you, insert a knee or move their hips freely. Practice settling into control before immediately reaching for a submission. Explore passing lessons.

Pick one position or skill to focus on, drill its entry and response, then try it during positional sparring. Record what worked and what needs another round of practice. Use the training guide.

Build enough control to keep your partner from easily escaping before committing to a finish. It is a useful learning principle: if an attack repeatedly costs you the position, work on the control and transition first. Browse positions and submissions.

Choose a starting position, one attack and one response to a common defense. Drill that small sequence, then let your partner choose whether to defend so you learn when to switch rather than forcing the first move. Plan a focused session.

Cooperative drills make the starting grips and timing predictable. Rolling adds movement and resistance. Bridge the gap with positional rounds from the relevant setup and gradually make the partner’s reactions less predictable. Explore training methods.

You start in a specific position with agreed goals, such as passing versus retaining guard. Reset after an escape, pass or other agreed outcome so both partners get repeated chances to solve the same problem. Use the training guide.

Flow rolling is cooperative movement with lighter resistance and an emphasis on transitions. Agree on the pace with your partner first; it works best when both people allow movement rather than turning it into a hard round. Explore training methods.

Keep the same skill but vary one detail: the starting grip, the partner’s posture or a specific defensive response. Add resistance gradually and keep a clear goal so the variation still trains the technique. Build a practice plan.

Pick one action you can recognize, such as recovering a knee inside, securing an underhook or maintaining control after a pass. Judge the round by your decisions and attempts as well as its final outcome. Set a training focus.

Record the position you studied, one detail that helped, one recurring problem and a question to ask next time. A short note you revisit is more useful than a long list of moves you never practice. Visit the training page.

Use the Training page for solo movement drills, review a video and rehearse the order of a technique’s steps. Solo practice can reinforce movement, but timing and resistance still need partner work. Find solo drills.

Choose one problem from your recent training, watch a lesson that addresses it and bring one or two details to practice. Revisit the lesson after trying it rather than collecting unrelated moves. Choose a video lesson.

Describe the position, the grip or movement you tried and your partner’s reaction. For example, “When I recover my knee from side control, they block my hip—what should I change?” gives your coach a specific problem to inspect. Contact the creator about the site.

Check your event’s current rules and weigh-in details, pack your required gear, and plan how you will warm up and get to the venue. Use the competition checklist.

Search the video library by technique name or a related term, then select Watch video. Category filters narrow the results, and Pick a lesson chooses a video from all matching entries, including those you have not loaded yet. Open the video library.

The daily game gives visitors the same day’s challenge. Training puzzles let you practice additional BJJ Connections rounds by belt level, including brown belt, without waiting for tomorrow’s puzzle. Try training puzzles.

The site’s belt levels organize learning difficulty; they are not a universal syllabus or a competition permission list. Use your coach’s guidance to choose suitable techniques and check your event’s rules separately. Browse belt-level techniques.