4 Part Lesson -- Marcelo offers his preferred strategy for mitigating risk against the Closed Guard: If you can control your opponent's hands first, you can pop up to your feet and begin applying pressure to the inside knee for the Clo...

2 Part Lesson - As you stand and extend your body upwards with posture to break the opponent's Close Guard, your legs become vulnerable. Stepping on the opponent's biceps to pin his arm to the mat counters his reach underneath towards ...

3 Part Lesson -- Marcelo trades a bad situation for a slightly better, more manageable one: If you cannot manipulate your hand around your opponent's leg to break his or her grip while held in Lasso-Guard, posture up strongly and pull ...

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo escapes the Triangle: Make a grip on the same-side lapel of your opponent with the arm caught inside of the Triangle. Reinforce your grip by doubling up on top with your outside hand and create a frame against ...

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo evades submission from a Triangle and immediately replies back with an attack: If your opponent fires up a triangle and it's locked tightly around the top of your head, posturing up as an answer will be too dif...

2 Part Lesson - Neutralize the stack pass by crossing the opponent's arm across your body and sit upright to block the oncoming run to North South.

3 Part Lesson -- Marcelo maintains his advantage: Keep in mind the idea to finish strongly when you near consolidating a position. For example, if you run North/South against and inverted guard and dig inside to pass, you can't let up ...

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo suggests controlling the hands at the start of a match so he can protect his feet: Manipulate your opponent's sleeve and pull guard using 2on1; the benefit of controlling the arm being that it is inherently har...

2 Part Lesson - Protect yourself by pulling your legs clear of the opponent's oncoming holds and leg attacks.

2 Part Lesson - With your legs crossed and protected, pin the opponent's upper body to your upper body to prevent him from reaching your legs. Pummel and hook your feet behind the opponent to continue safely into your reversal.

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo escapes straight anklelocks: If your opponent falls back for a leglock against your guard, especially in a situation where you arrive back to your guard after having recovered from a previous exchange, sit up a...

3 Part Lesson - An opponent fortified defensively in Guard requires you to create open space to climb up the lower body before forcing Half Guard.

2 Part Lesson - Marcelo details stripping the opponent's Cross Collar & Sleeve Control before initiating a Guard Pass.