Have you ever been stuck in someone's closed guard feeling completely helpless – no matter what you tried, nothing worked? And have you ever asked yourself why your own closed guard doesn't create that same feeling, even though you're using basically the same techniques?

The difference is not the technique. It's what's behind it.

In this series, BJJ 4th Degree Black Belt and Submission Wrestling European Champion Björn Friedrich introduces you to a completely different way of playing closed guard – one built on the principles of Internal Martial Arts, refined over 18 years of practice. Not to replace your BJJ. But to take it to a level most practitioners never reach.

The core concept is the Push & Pull Principle: creating two opposing forces at different points of your opponent's body – pulling one part while blocking and pushing another – until he's dragged out of his stable base, off-balance, exposed, and unable to recover. Not because you're stronger. Because you're working with gravity, not against it.

You'll learn how to:

• Control your opponent from the first grip to the final submission
• Make your sweeps and submissions work on bigger, stronger, younger grapplers
• Neutralize your opponent's strength and athleticism without matching it
• Play a closed guard that gets better as you get older

This is BJJ for the long game. If you're ready to play it, this series is your starting point.

Contents:

Vol 1: Foundations of Control
Vol 2: Control to Submission
Vol 3: Control to Sweep