BJJ Training: Williams Guard by Shawn Williams

[@jackmorris9542]

I absolutely love using Williams guard when rolling in BJJ and MMA, I find its great for controlling posture and actually managed to win a match in my first BJJ tournament with a Neil knot choke from Williams guard.

[@ashwinchidambaram4100]

Jack Morris Neil not is such an under rated technique I keep catching people in it too

[@chenchi6623]

this whole guard seems lot similar like neils stuff...

[@scotturban54]

Thanks for posting

[@snakehawk8164]

Good stuff

[@MackTrainingAcademy]

Great breakdown on the why of this guard. Seems to be a good alternative to the rubber guard or at least is similar.

[@Luke-cg8cv]

Jiu claw

[@MateuszTTT]

Is it not Dean Lister guard? He was first I seen using that.

[@mattyc7]

It's literally named after Sean Willians dude.

[@MateuszTTT]

@@mattyc7 Well Dean Lister is the first guy I have seen using it in 2006 fighting Alesio Sakara in UFC.

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

@@MateuszTTT this is like 1999 stuff

[@joejitsuway960]

Watching this video with zero references to Bravo or the rubber guard is... Odd.

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

This position was well before Eddie's introduction to the game and Eddie also saw Nino doing high guard and got the idea from him.

[@freedom9729]

@FelipFlop Media elaborate 😂

[@basedchris8784]

This is so much like rubber guard but seems to be less effective and versatile to me.

[@VincentMMALife]

It is, but the big advantage you have with this type of guard is that you have a great position to throw elbows of your back. You also have this with muddy waters but with a bigger opponent stacking you muddy waters isn't your best bet in my experience in mma.

[@mattyc7]

It also requires no special flexibility. Getting good at rubberguard requires a lot of flexibility training to avoid injuring your knees. William's guard is accessible to basically everyone.

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

You are so confused

[@kallepikku4991]

This guy just copied the great Neil Melanson's Neil Knot and renamed it after himself. The audacity of these people. LoL

[@iwillnotcomply007]

Danaher actually is the one that started calling it the Williams guard. Shawn is a humble guy.

[@aarondrew4861]

I'm not too sure about that. I first heard of this as the Williams guard about 7-8 years ago.

[@iwillnotcomply007]

@@aarondrew4861 Danaher and Williams are Renzo students. They've been around teaching for a while. There is an interview somewhere where danaher discusses it.

[@matthewparsons6496]

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Neil Melanson is ok with calling it the Williams guard so...

[@mattyc7]

@@matthewparsons6496 lol exactly. Catch guys aren't catch guys unless they're accusing BJJ of stealing from them though lol

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

Looks like no flexibility rubber guard. Seems like if you were more aware of the tenth planet system you would’ve had more success. Very surprised you didn’t mention 10th planet or rubber guard.

[@yangtroy1]

Trust me he's aware of the rubber guard.

[@daduhafanai8273]

I'm guessing your a white belt and new to bjj it's ok tho

[@yangtroy1]

@Mike S lol i remember that, yea they called it london

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

Colby Price-Lampkin I didn’t say I wasn’t happy with it. I said I surprised he didn’t mention rubber guard. As it seems relevant and it would be handy to reference what the commonalities and differences. Did you notice? It said William’s guard in the title?

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

Troy Yang oh the old school tenth planet with New York- London etc. cool thanks. I live in Phoenix eddies first blackbelt teaches in AZ I’m really hoping to learn Eddies original system, the prevent ground and pound system before Danaher changed bjj to Leg Lock Hell. Old School 10th being Eddies how to do bjj in an mma setting without taking damage. Surprised it doesn’t get more use I’ve seen multiple stand ups just from holding rubber guard til the ref get bored.