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Systematically Attacking The Guard

By Gordon Ryan

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The featured Systematically Attacking The Guard by Gordon Ryan offers broad no-gi coverage across several guard families, with sparring and commentary. It suits passers looking for responses beyond a single preferred pass.

The alternatives have more concentrated emphases: body-lock passing, over/under pressure passing, or float passing alongside knee-cut and standing options. These are distinct courses, not parts of one shared curriculum.

Is this for you?

• You want to compare broad guard coverage with courses focused on a passing family you already use.

Also consider

Lachlan Giles: Body-Lock Passing — For a dedicated body-lock course with entries, knee clearance, finishes and narrated rolling.

Bernardo Faria: No-Gi Pressure Passing — For over/under entries and troubleshooting within no-gi pressure passing.

Vagner Rocha: Float, Knee-Cut and Standing Passing — For float-position exits alongside separate knee-cut and standing-passing volumes.

Coverage and limits

• The featured course covers several guard families, including knee shields, half butterfly and leg-entanglement positions.
• The linked alternatives offer body-lock, over/under or float-passing emphases.

Limits

• This is a comparison of the featured courses, not a complete catalogue of no-gi passing or a combined technical system.

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Related guides and principles

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

Guard Passing

Forward Pressure

Connection Principles

Frames

Gordon Ryan: No-Gi Guard Passing — Broad guard-by-guard course companion.

Power Ride: Craig Jones’s Pinning System

Bernardo Faria: No-Gi Pressure Passing — For over/under entries and troubleshooting within no-gi pressure passing.

Lachlan Giles: Body-Lock Passing — For a dedicated body-lock course with entries, knee clearance, finishes and narrated rolling.

Vagner Rocha: Float, Knee-Cut and Standing Passing — For float-position exits alongside separate knee-cut and standing-passing volumes.

Review related technique cards

• Headquarters Position (Position)

• Knee Shield Half Guard (Position)

• Butterfly Guard (Position)

• Body Lock (Position)

• Leg Drag Control (Position)

• Side Control (Position)

• Ashi Garami (Position)

• Open Guard (Position)

• Turtle (Position)

• Knee Slice Pass (Transition)

• Leg Drag Pass (Transition)

• Body Lock Pass (Transition)

• Headquarters Pass (Transition)

• Long Step Pass (Transition)

• Knee Cut Pass (Transition)

• Smash Pass (Transition)

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Systematically Attacking The Guard by Gordon Ryan — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Verified course identity and eight-volume outline, including split squat, half guard, half butterfly, rolling and commentary. Listing inspected; 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 by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.

The Body Lock Pass by Lachlan Giles — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified title, Lachlan Giles attribution, six-volume description, body-lock stages and narrated rolling. The page embeds a video labeled 5 stages of the body lock pass by Lachlan Giles; video content not reviewed.

No Gi Pressure Passing by Bernardo Faria — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified No Gi Pressure Passing by Bernardo Faria and its over/under entries, troubleshooting and other pressure passes. Listing inspected; video content not reviewed.

Float Passing System by Vagner Rocha — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified Float Passing System by Vagner Rocha and three-volume outline organized into knee cut, float and standing passing. Official page labels an embedded free sample; sample content not reviewed.