3 Part Lesson -- Marcelo shows how to switch sides while passing: When you approach your opponent's guard and apply pressure, do so without opening yourself up to counterattack; close the distance but keep your limbs tucked. Have your ...

2 Part Lesson -- Marcelo points out the importance of adapting your passing style based on your opponent's vulnerabilities as well as his or her offensive threats: There are a multitude of passing options from the kneeling position aga...

4 Part Lesson -- Marcelo offers his preferred strategy for mitigating risk against the Closed Guard: If you can control your opponent's hands first, you can pop up to your feet and begin applying pressure to the inside knee for the Clo...

1 Part Lesson -- Marcelo talks about what to do when your Tokuiwaza (favorite techniques) consistently fails during a match: If your favorite pass for example, is defended by your opponent, immediately try an attack on the opposite sid...

1 Part Lesson -- Marcelo gives tournament-tested advice on how the best defense is good offense: Don't give your opponent a moment to conceptualize an attack and capitalize on passivity. Constantly pester your opponent's position with ...

2 Part Lesson — Marcelo shares tactics against the Guard-Pull: [I] Use explosive, short movements to break your opponent's grips and release your wrists from his opening holds. When he closes the distance to make contact for his legal ...

3 Part Lesson — Marcelo passes from Quarter Mount: [I] Place your opponent in Quarter Mount and defend your inside space with your two free remaining limbs against the opponent's three active parts until you can close the distance and ...

2 Part Lesson - After fighting through the opponent's hands and grabbing his collar, push him into Open Guard, while controlling his knee and circling away from his furthest hook. As you feel the opponent's hook following you, knock hi...

3 Part Lesson — MG teaches 1Leg-X evasion and counterattack: [I] If you feel your opponent scoop underneath your leg while in Combat Base against his Butterfly Guard, avoid Single Leg X-Guard by raising your knee and stepping up out of...

3 Part Lesson - Control the opponent's Collar and await his Guard Pull. Use your elbow to hand fight away his own Collar Control and distance your other hand away to completely halt his grips. As he pulls, pin his knee, close the dista...

3 Part Lesson — Marcelo answers a common defense to a pass, namely, inversion: [I] Shoot low, underneath your opponent's arms while he is playing Seated Butterfly, and dive into a Circle Pass by hugging his hip with an Underhook (under...

2 Part Techniques - Attack immediately after avoiding the opponent's 50/50 entry attempt. The opponent will feel vulnerable after failing, surrounded with empty space. Fill that space with your attack.