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Roger Gracie’s Closed Guard

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The Roger Gracie Closed Guard System

By Roger Gracie

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The Roger Gracie Closed Guard System is a focused gi course on maintaining closed guard and building offense from it. Roger covers collar and lapel chokes, arm locks, kimura and wrist-lock attacks, alongside a dedicated sweep section.

The sweep material includes scissor and hook sweeps, attacks against an opponent with both knees down and omoplata sweeps. This is a choice for someone who wants more from closed guard; it does not attempt to cover every gi guard or the whole standing and passing game.

Is this for you?

• You use closed guard in the gi and want both submission attacks and ways to come on top.
• You want collar and lapel offense alongside guard maintenance.

Also consider

Jonathan Thomas: Double Sleeve Guard — Jonathan Thomas’s Double Sleeve Guard focuses on open guard with sleeve grips, lasso and spider variations.

Coverage and limits

• Closed-guard maintenance and collar/lapel chokes.
• Lapel arm locks, kimura and wrist-lock material.
• Scissor, hook and omoplata sweeps, plus options against an opponent with both knees down.

Limits

• The course centers on closed guard; open-guard systems, takedowns and guard passing are outside its main scope.
• Competition legality still depends on the event and division.

Go to this course: The Roger Gracie Closed Guard System

Related guides and principles

These related references are not a claim about what the course teaches or evidence of practical mastery.

Collar Control

Sleeve Control

Grips

Hand Fighting

Posture

Frames

Lapel Guard: What Stops the Entry

Roger Gracie: Closed Guard

Bernardo Faria: No-Gi Pressure Passing

Mikey Musumeci: Berimbolo Variations

IBJJF Competition Requirements — IBJJF eligibility, uniform and division requirements.

Review related technique cards

• Closed Guard (Position)

• Collar Sleeve Guard (Position)

• Lasso Guard (Position)

• Spider Guard (Position)

• De La Riva Guard (Position)

• Lapel Guard (Position)

• Cross Collar Choke (Submission)

• Baseball Bat Choke (Submission)

• Bow and Arrow Choke (Submission)

• Clock Choke (Submission)

• Berimbolo Entry (Transition)

• Arm Drag (Transition)

• Body Lock Pass (Transition)

• Back Step Pass (Transition)

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The Roger Gracie Closed Guard System by Roger Gracie — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Verified title, instructor and four-volume outline: closed-guard maintenance, collar and lapel attacks, arm attacks and sweeps. The page labels a free sample; its video content has not been 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 by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.

IBJJF Rules Book — ruleset; checked 2026-09-16. Verified the prohibition on gripping inside an opponent’s sleeve or pant-leg opening; this rule supplies the grip-legality recall card. Inspected: Article 6.2.2(H)