De La Riva Guard

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 [...]

Mike’s Tournament

Mike’s Tournament

Mike competes at his first submission grappling tournament at the Grappler’s X held in Long Beach, CA this sunday and takes Silver Medal, great job, Mike!
song is “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire

Controlling Side Mount

Controlling Side Mount

Side Mount, Side Control, Side Position, Keep that Mofo on his Back, whatever you want to call it, is a very dominant position in grappling. what i wanted to convey is how i use many wing chun concepts and apply them to my grappling. to me, this is “chi sau” or sensitivity drills using the [...]

How to Shrimp

How to Shrimp

Knowing how to shrimp is a very important movement, because it is used in many different situations. The concepts of how to shrimp are very similar to the wing chun structure, especially, how the elbows are used to maintain proper body structure.
you can practice this by doing the shrimp movement down the length of a [...]

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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!