Most Important Concepts for Guard Retention with Henry Akins

Most Important Concepts for Guard Retention
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Henry Akins demonstrates the Most Important Concepts for Guard Retention, in this BJJ Training video.
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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.

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[PauloBerni]

Henry is right up there with John D as my favorite Jiu-Jitsu scientists. I tried Xande’s Diamond Concept with limited success; I think Akins gets to the underlying principle better, as simple as it sounds. I’m a 9 year black belt but still in search of that ultimate unifying concept which is the simplest to actualize under extreme pressure.

[saharaharris]

Henry is the GOAT at conveying information via simple concepts. What a privilege to have a student of Rickson who is so articulate and clear in passing on the wisdom

[hajikelist]

Akins is a genius instructor - super clear

[rustlerruner]

I really like this hanry atkins guy. His side control video, I started using it right away, and he explains the basics in a way that make a lot of sense to me.

[scottsmith]

Henry's mind is just plain amazing when it comes to jiu jitsu. I love his stuff

[ablackcrane]

This is such great concept to follow. Everyone is trying to learn all these open guard movements and it can get a little complex. So I like things that are simple to learn.

[statcmf]

Bernardo asked such a brilliant question too

[scottnelson]

ALwasy top notch concepts and techniques from Herny AKins 🔥🔥🔥

[ricardomazzaseixas]

Awesome Henry techniques and detais so simple so eficiency ❤

[MackTrainingAcademy]

Great principle to follow. I was already doing something like this but now I’ll start focusing on it.

[jjpc]

Henry Akins rocks. Been hooked since the super chill! 🥶🥶

[newenglandguitarman]

Wow efficient & instantly applicable

[ronchew]

Wow! Simple, amazing and profound! Love it!

[JoeyG-or]

I love these easy to remember fundamentals.

[BEN-hlyt]

5:02 forbidden angle
The illusion is ruined for me now hahaha

Thanks for the useful concepts!

[ggodss.]

Does to feet on the outside expose you for leg attacks?

[richarddukard]

At 5:25, how did he just stretch his leg and get his butterfly hook when Bernardo had the leg weave? 🤔

[coryscook]

So Henry is saying it’s not a bad thing to play half guard offensively.
It’s just bad to try to retain a half guard whenever a pass is initiated. You can get back to your half guard game once the threat of the pass is dealt with by two in or two out.