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Old 04-03-2007, 10:45 PM   #10 (permalink)
Kimuralex

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Originally Posted by knoxpk
Closed guard IMO is a safety position. It gives you some semblance of control of your opponent while your opponent has to actively seek to get out in order to be in the safest of position. In MMA it IS a lil different due to some good GnP guys like Fedor for example bust still its much safer than being moutned by Fedor.

Anyway many will disagree with me so take it with a grain of salt.
lol bad example man, ANY position is a bad position to be in with fedor

but yea i also think it is a safety position, i like the closed guard cuz i can just chill out for a second and regain my composure, from there there are still quite a lot of attacks/setups sweeps
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