Master Guard Retention And Recovery Concepts For Butterfly Guard With Top-Tier Butterfly Guard Player & ADCC Veteran Jon Satava!

Jon Satava is a black belt under Marcelo Garcia and is known for his world-class butterfly guard.

The series brings you a complete system of retention and recovery for the butterfly guard including foundations, battling standing opponents, defeating pressure passes, and MORE!

Learn to utilize butterfly hooks to a high level as you elevate and replace them to re-acquire the butterfly guard. 

Get out of bad situations and near passes by utilizing Satava’s granby series.

Build confidence in your butterfly guard with world-class competitor and instructor Jon Satava!

Butterfly Guard is one of the most useful positions in Jiu-Jitsu. It is a position that lends itself well to both gi and no-gi, and can be used by practitioners of ALL levels. Jon Satava is a Marcelo Garcia black belt, and is widely regarded for having one of the BEST butterfly guards in Jiu-Jitsu. His 6-part series, Seated Solutions, is designed from the ground up to provide foundational concepts, dealing with standing passers, kneeling passers, and much more!

Build your butterfly retention from the ground up with Jon’s easy-to-learn foundations section of the instructional. Here you’ll learn the finer details of stance and posture and how that relates to using butterfly guard to a high level. Prevent opponents from starting tricky passing sequences by learning how to stifle offense early and often with Jon’s guide connecting to opponents with your hands and feet. 

Once the foundations are in place the rest of the series is much easier to add into your butterfly guard arsenal. The next several sections are dedicated to dealing with a wide range of positions and situations that butterfly guard players commonly encounter. Satava will help you understand how to use your butterfly guard to take on both standing and kneeling passers. 

Dealing with standing passers can be one of the hardest concepts to apply on the mat. Jon Satava is no stranger to utilizing his butterfly guard against top-tier standing passers, so he has developed a system that will help you defend anything your opponent throws at you! Learn to defend rolling kimuras, guillotines, knee cut passes, circling opponents, and more. The series also explores what to do when opponents attempt to get up close and personal with pressure passes. If you are getting smashed with body lock passes, over/unders, or stack passes then Satava has you covered with the later sections of his instructional! 

SO, WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU GET?

PART 1

INTRO

FOUNDATIONS

STANCE & POSTURE

OFFENSIVE PREVENTION HAND AND FEET CONNECTION

PART 2

STANDING OPPONENT

CLUB AND POST DEFENSE VS SQUARED CIRCLING OPPONENT

SINGLE LEG OPPONENT

GUILLOTINE DEFENSE

KIMURA DEFENSE

FIGHTING TO STAY SEATED & ROCKS UP VS A KNEE CUT OR CIRCLE PASS

ON THE WAIST

SIT UP RECOVERY SERIES

GUILLOTINE WHEN THEY CLEAR THE COLLAR TIE

PINNING COUNTER OFF OF SIT UP RECOVERY

MOMENTUM CHAINING

FULLY LOCKED SIDE CONTROL RECOVERY

BONUS-LAST DITCH HEADLOCK REVERSAL

PART 3

STACKS & UNDER OVER LEG PASSES

ADDRESSING ANKLE GRIPS

INSIDE HOOK ANCHORS TO GUILLOTINE VS STACK & OVER UNDER PASS

ROCK RECOVERY TO SWEEP OR TRIANGLE VS OVER UNDER

ELBOW PUSH SERIES

CRUCIFIX OPT 1 LEGS OPEN & 2 LEGS CLOSED

STEVEN SEGAL ARMBAR

TRAP CONTROL TO THROW

BACK ROLL COUNTER VS LIFT

BICEP PUSH

PEAK OUT

PART 4

PREVENTING BODY LOCK PASS

KEEPING KNEE LINE AND SITTING BACK UP (LATE BODY LOCK PASS PREVENTION)

COUNTERING FOLDING PASS

PART 5

BUTTERFLY HALF GUARD RETENTION

BUTTERFLY HALF RETENTION

CROSS FACE RECOVERY

GUILLOTINE DEFENSE

GUILLOTINE DEFENSE PT.2

KIMURA DEFENSE

KIMURA DEFENSE 2

PART 6

GRANBY SERIES

GRANBY INTRODUCTION

BACK EXPOSURE

BACKSIDE HOOK ENTRANCE

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