De La Riva Guard
De La Riva Guard is a versatile position when on your back. Of course, in a self defense situation you don’t want to ever go to the ground, but things happen and when you do fall on your butt, you want to know an advantages and safe way to get back to your feet without eating kicks and punches along the way.
This is also an excellent guard for Submission Grappling and has many uses. Have fun practicing the De La Riva Guard and the Tripod Sweep. Just make sure to go slow as you perform the sweep to control the takedown of your opponent and keep him safe. This sweep done quickly will completely lift your partner off the ground and he will land violently, so please go slowly and with control.
most of all, have fun training!
15 Responses to “De La Riva Guard”
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thank you again sifu jin!:)
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Jin Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
no problemo
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Interesting. I am not specialist in ground things, but do you think a hit in the genitals at some point of this guard might be dangerous and offer the leg to any control and knee damage ?
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Jin Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
think of this in terms of chi sau, when you roll with someone, what stops your opponent from cranking on your arm, breaking your elbow or kicking you in the balls?
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The way you explain it it seems to have many similarities with chi sao – or chi gerk in the ground position.
You named tan pak and fuk similarities yourself, but I get the feeling that the theorie of the three sticks can also be aplied here. Wing Chun made to appear as grappling so to speak. Dunno if that made sense, but that is how it appears to me. Hope more to come, because actually for the first time I can begin to make heads and tails in the ground game.
Thank you very much sifu
martin
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take care and have a nice day
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Jin Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
yea, you got it right, i’m always telling you that the legs are the same as the arms. if you look at this guard, it’s “dan chi sau” and it follows the exact same principles. good job!
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Jin Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
also note that when this drill is moving quickly back and forth it resembles chi sau even more!
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I’ve done a couple of years of BJJ off and on, and this is a great explanation of the De La Riva guard. I’m going to start playing with it when I get back into regular classes. The idea of the three sticks applied to the ground helps me a lot, as I’m fairly small. Many thanks!
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Jin Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 11:28 am
glad it’s helping you, keep at it!
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I use Wing Chun and my daughter is a young second degree at a local MMA school. This gives the two of us a great way of experimenting with each others skills and applying WC to the ground side. Thanks we’ve been enjoying this a lot.
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Jin Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 11:29 am
nice!
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I agree with the rest Jin,
Great explanation of the The la Riva guard. As always clear and to the point. Thanks for sharing!
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Jin Reply:
November 15th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
no problemo, glad you enjoyed it, peace!
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Hey Jin,
I just want to say that this video saved me today.
I’m practising Wing Chun for about 3 months by now but today I got into a pinch being attacked an falling on the ground and it’s probably due to this video that I got out of that situation. It really saved me so please keep up, you’re doing a great job and really my deepest thanks.
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glad you’re okay Alex, that’s the most important thing, and i’m really happy to know that the tutorial helped you out of a bad situation, keep learning and growing.
Jin
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