Mendes vs. Cobrinha

The De la Riva guard is a guard that is mainly utilized at the highest level of Jiu Jitsu. Mainly people like Rafael Mendes and Cobrinha have been using this guard and destroying their opponents with. Making it a guard that if you don’t understand how the guard works and everything flows together then your being left in the dust.

At Team Third Law we have realized this and have utilized the position in competition and drilling the guard everyday in the combat gold program. Drilling the back-takes, sweeps, submissions everything about the guard, as well as learning to understand the concept of how De La Riva flows together with 2 other positions as well. Those being the Half Guard, and 50/50.

So as you can see the De La Riva Guard is definitely a guard where the possibilities of attacks are limitless, and very effective if being utilized by World Champions. Like I said earlier we need to mimic the best to be the best. Do what works, and do what you know works. So I look forward to drilling the position more and more to better understand the overall concept behind the entire position

For more blog posts and information about Jiu Jitsu check out…

http://www.BJJEngineer.com
http://www.ThirdLawBJJ.com