Marcello Monteiro – Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu White to Blue Curriculum Level 3

The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu White to Blue Curriculum series consists of four levels and 180 techniques.

The BJJ Curriculum was designed to develop all facets of the combat game in order to get each student to the greatest level feasible for each belt.

Marcello explains the most crucial methods, tricks, and intricacies that speed up the learning process and make each movement easier to perform.

Effective postures, how to attack and defend, counters and re-counters, guard passes, and set-ups for fighting more experienced training partners will all be covered.

The techniques covered in this section are as follows:

Pulling from a standing posture to a closed guard
Cross arm control for mountaineer sweep
Hugging the leg to close guard sweep into mount position
From the open guard control position to the knee sweep
Control position: closed guard to half guard
Turning inside out on all fours
From the half guard control position to the single leg takedown
Closed guard to half guard, then knee push to sweep
Half guard to butterfly control position basic
Position of the butterfly control (explanation only)
Position of complete butterfly control
Half guard control leads to a butterfly sweep, which leads to side control.
Using the fundamental half guard control posture to counter the opponent’s back assault
Variation 1: Countering an opponent’s back assault to the half guard control position
Breaking closed guard and entering half guard
Diving to underhook one leg while pressing down the other, resulting in a half guard.
Guard to half guard pass
The fundamental counter to the underhook
From the half guard control posture, do basic passing guard.
The Ananias guard pass counters both legs while embracing the head.
Underhooking one side with both legs and gaining side control
Knee on the stomach from the 100-kilogram side
Crossing your feet and controlling your opponent’s wrists is a mount control posture.
Countering the underhook escape while maintaining scissor side control
Standing stance after raising one’s knee (explanation only)
Kneel to a standing position.
From a standing stance, sprawl
Basic Sprawl with cross face to attack the opponent’s back Back attack to side control by Juca
Armbar workout
Underhooking the leg with a basic armbar
Underhooking the leg to sweep with an armbar is a basic armbar move.
Armbar to the omoplata
Triangle gripping the cross collar to oppose the standing position
Armbar set-up with triangle and armbar
The mount’s basic double submission attack
The standard guillotine
Clock suffocation
Escape off the mount by assuming half guard.
Escape the armbar from the top by gripping your own bicep.
Triangle escape involves exerting pressure to the crotch.
Selecting one side to avoid the back choke
Basic calf muscle strike for sweep-takedown
From a standing posture, do a basic single leg takedown.