Blue Belt · Guard Passing → Top Control
A standing pass around an open guard: the passer sets a wide split base over the guard player's legs, steps long around the side, and drives his chest across in a sprawl to land in side control. The pass is shown twice, with an explanation break in the middle where the instructor resets and talks through the position again.
The passer stands over the seated guard player in a long split stance — one leg far forward, one far back — with his hands controlling the legs. He talks to the camera as he settles, hand coming to his own chest to make a point. The wide stance is the foundation: his base sits outside the reach of the guard player's legs.
Still standing tall in the split base, he adjusts his grips on the legs and leans his weight in. His hands stay busy on the guard player's legs and hip area so the legs cannot follow him when he moves.
He drives forward and across the guard player's body, dropping his chest over the torso and sprawling his legs wide behind him. His far arm reaches long across the mat as the weight comes down — the guard is beaten once his chest crosses the line of the legs.
He lands chest-to-chest in side control, head low by the guard player's head with an arm wrapping the head, legs still sprawled wide behind him. He holds and adjusts the position while the guard player's legs kick free behind, no longer part of the fight.
The instructor releases, kneels up, and talks the position through again, gesturing for the camera while his partner lies flat, then re-engages standing over the legs to set up the second rep — the same wide base, hands back on the legs.
He runs the pass again: long step around, chest drive across, and settles into side control with the head wrapped, holding it several seconds. He then releases, resets to the start, and closes by showing the grip on his partner's arm while he explains the last detail.
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