Neglecting The Half Guard?

Having difficulty with your opponent in your half guard?

It's common for beginners to get stuck with their opponents in half guard when they don't understand the key points to keeping their opponents from immobilizing them or passing their half guard.

The first key strategy is bringing your head is close to your hips.
One of the worst things you can do is let your opponent trap your head facing the opposite direction of his leg that you have in half guard. This will enable him to pin you flat against the ground which will open up possibilities for him and greatly reduce them for you so your first strategy should be to get your head close to your hips or your opponents stomach. This way you will have better leverage for sweeping or moving him and he'll have less opportunity for controlling your head.

You'll want to master being able to break your opponents posture from here and controlling him.
Working in two or three good sweeps from the half guard will help give you options that you can use as opposed to learning as many sweeps as possible that will only overwhelm you early on.
The same with set ups and reversals, arming yourself with two to three techniques that you quickly can master and put to use is alot more practical than trying to learn tons of techniques and not being able to aply them.

A video resource that I highly recommend is Marcello Monteiro's Half Guard Attacks DVD.

Packed with techniques to give you an edge in not only the options available to you but the specific details on making the moves work during sparring.
It gives clear instructions on implementing sweeps, reversals, counters and attacks from half guard that no one's game should be without.

Just some of what you'll learn:
-Half guard techniques for taking your opponents back and moving to side control.
-Half guard to Roleta sweep.
-Half guard to arm drag techniques for attacking the back.
-Attack setups from the Half guard.
-and much much more...

You can order the DVD at www.bjjcoach.com