Improve your Closed Guard Posture with Hentry Akins
Kudos to Bernardo Faria for creating this video with Henry Akins. In this video, Henry Akins shows how to improve your closed guard posture.
Review
This video is definitely worth every minute for a beginner. Henry Akins explains in detail how you can protect your posture in the closed guard.
Key points
- Do not rely on your hands for posture, you’ll fall into the trap of getting your posture broken.
- Learn to keep your posture without using your hands.
- Keep your knees tucked in, and not spread out, but something in between.
- Many think that the wider your knees are, the better, but this is not the case. You want to keep your knees in, and not spread out.
- Tuck and turn your pelvic up
- Push your butt into your ankles, as if you sit down
- It will be easier to break the knee line with this pressure, and you’ll be able to get out of the closed guard.
How I Drill
- Start in closed guard
- Your partner will try to break your posture, and you should keep it without using your hands
- You will try to maintain your posture
- Switch roles
- Repeat
Do this for 5 minutes, and you’ll see a huge improvement in your posture.