Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Guard retention is a set of strategies, techniques, and movements that you can use to prevent your opponent from passing your guard, which in turn will make you much more fearless about attacking from the guard. Even if your sweep or submission doesn’t work, you know that you’ll be able to recover and reset. Guard retention movement will also help you with your pin escapes because there is a lot of overlap between those two areas.