Alexandre “Xande” Ribeiro is two times Black Belt Absolute and five times Black Belt Heavy Weight World Champion. He is well known as amazing guard player.
His guard was only passed two times in competition and that by BJJ legends Roger Gracie and Marcelo Garcia.
Xande Ribeiro: Guard Retention Philosophy
2:45 – recovering from smashed half guard
10:03 – defending the knee slice pass
15:55 – posting the elbow and using technical stand up movement to free the bottom leg from the knee slice
16:33 – concept of “shoulder escaping”
19:35 – discussing the arm weave with Olga
21:34 – defending the “dark side” of the knee shield half guard
23:49 – discussing closed guard
25:48 – using the loop choke to defend the knee slice
28:03 – submitting from the guard rather than sweeping
31:05 – discussing inverting
34:00 – recovering from reverse half guard35:10 – armadillo concept
39:43 – defending the back step
40:13 – defending mount attempt and underhook attempt
42:29 – recovering from kuzure kesa gatame
43:56 – more on recovering from reverse half guard and reverse side control
