Brian Glick: Half Butterfly
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Under Pressure: Half Butterfly Mastery
By Brian Glick
Brian Glick builds Under Pressure: Half Butterfly Mastery around reaching and attacking from half butterfly. Positioning and entries lead into sumi gaeshi, shoulder-crunch and kimura material, followed by near- and far-leg entanglements. A fourth volume condenses the main material into an executive summary.
Is this for you?
- You want half butterfly as an attacking guard, including both sweeping and leg-entry options.
Also consider
Marcelo Garcia: Butterfly Guard — Choose Garcia for seated butterfly posture, upper-body controls and sweeps against pressure or standing opponents.
Coverage and limits
- Inside and head position; entries from closed guard, seated butterfly, reverse De La Riva and pinned positions.
- Sumi gaeshi, shoulder crunch and kimura; near- and far-leg ashi entries and troubleshooting.
Limits
- The attacks center on half butterfly. The entries from other positions do not make this a general seated-guard or pin-escape course.
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Under Pressure: Half Butterfly Mastery by Brian Glick — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Verified inside-position and head-position sections, entry positions, two attack groups, troubleshooting and executive summary. Listing inspected; course video content not reviewed. On 2026-09-19 UTC, verified the introductory player in the product banner and the course cover image. Muted inline autoplay was verified on https://bjjgraph.org, https://dev.bjjgraph.pages.dev by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.
The Complete Butterfly Guard by Marcelo Garcia — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified posture/control, sweeping, distance, standing-opponent and pressure sections in four volumes. Listing inspected; course video content not reviewed.