Description

What Will You Learn?

Under Pressure: Half Butterfly Mastery
A complete system for turning half butterfly guard into a pressure-resistant, attack-ready position.

Course Overview

Brian Glick, a senior black belt under John Danaher, teaches a modern and highly effective approach to the half butterfly guard. This position, often seen as transitional, is reimagined here as a stable, versatile platform for sweeps, submissions, and leg entries. The course is designed for grapplers of all levels looking to build structure, timing, and confidence from the bottom—even under intense top pressure.

What You’ll Learn

• Core Concepts & Positional Setup: Inside control, framing, shoulder alignment, entries from closed guard, side control, mount, turtle, and recovery mechanics.
• Sweep Systems: Classic and modified sumi gaeshi, pinch headlock entries, shoulder crunch transitions, timing-based sweeps, kimura traps, and knee-lever mechanics.
• Leg Entanglements: Entries to ashi garami, cross ashi, far-side scooping, transitions into leg locks, leg lace, and kneebar setups.
• Troubleshooting & Counter Pressure: Handling knee cuts, tripod pressure, back-step passes, opponent flattening, and maintaining momentum under heavy top pressure.

Who This Is For

• Grapplers seeking structure and clarity in their half guard game.
• Anyone tired of getting stuck under pressure and wanting to escape or reverse with purpose.
• Practitioners wanting an energy-efficient bottom game that opens paths to both sweeps and submissions.