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You raise an interesting question! This guard intrigues me. There's no instructionals so far as I know, though Kenny Florian was rumored to be working on one. I think Roleta uses this guard a lot.
I've tried it a couple times as a novelty, in inverted spider form. I think you could get a lot of the "spinning" sweeps and subs off it once you got good at it, but I haven't mastered any of those. A guard that would only work well if you were a true spider phenom, I think.
The big benefit to becoming good at this guard is that it makes your open guard a nightmare to pass. Being able to roll over and keep a strong guard = unpassable. If you master the turtle guard as well, you may as well quit practicing defending from mount/side control, cause it won't happen to you any more!
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