Lachlan Giles: K-Guard Entries and Offense
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No Gi Open Guard Volume 1: K Guard
By Lachlan Giles
No Gi Open Guard Volume 1: K Guard places K guard within Lachlan Giles’s wider open-guard approach. It covers entries against different opponent postures and from retention situations, then develops offense through backside 50/50, X guard and other positions. The course contains eight parts, including troubleshooting and narrated rolling.
Is this for you?
- You want a detailed no-gi K-guard course with entries, leg entanglements and offensive follow-ups.
Also consider
Giles and Tabak: Guard Retention Around and Under — Choose Around and Under if preventing passes around or under the legs is your main priority.
Coverage and limits
- K-guard positioning and entries against kneeling, combat-base and standing opponents.
- Retention entries, backside-50/50 heel-hook attacks, X-guard options and counter responses.
Limits
- Leg entanglements and heel-hook offense form a substantial part of the course; its scope goes well beyond learning a single guard entry.
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No Gi Open Guard Volume 1: K Guard by Lachlan Giles — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Verified eight player volumes within this titled release, positional overview, posture-specific entries, offense and troubleshooting. Only unambiguous timestamps used. Listing and official sample iframe inspected; player 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 by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.
The guard Retention Anthology: Around and Under by Lachlan Giles & Ariel Tabak — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified both instructors and parts devoted to around-the-legs, north-south and under-the-legs retention; scope follows title and detailed outline. Listing inspected; course video content not reviewed.