X-guard sweep
Get under their hips with your legs in an X on one leg and hold the other ankle or a sleeve, then extend your legs to tip them backward, forward or to the side and come up on top.
6 free YouTube videos from 6 channels, filed on the Position Map under open guard (bottom).
Free lessons on YouTube
- Basic X Guard Sweep by Bernardo Faria · BJJ Fanatics · Beginner
- BJJ X-Guard Technical Stand up Sweep Tutorial · Stuart Tomlinson · Beginner
- Easy X Guard Sweep for All Levels. Prof. Chris Standing BTT · BTT Portland · All levels
- X Guard Tomoe Nage (Overhead Sweep) · Absolute MMA St Kilda - Melbourne · All levels
- Michelle Nicolini X guard Sweep · GSW BJJ Wellington NZ · Intermediate
- The 4 Directions of Every X Guard Sweep · Stephan Kesting · Intermediate
See it in competition
- BJJ Guard Studies (Seated Open Guard and Single Leg X Guard): Marcelo Garcia · Marcelo Garcia · Breakdown
- Marcelo Garcia & Rafael Lovato Jr. - Sparring Analysis: Unorthodox X-Guard Sweep · Marcelo Garcia · Breakdown
- Marcelo Garcia X Guard & Other Sweeps Highlight Worlds 2004 · Marcelo Garcia · Worlds 2004 · Match