Inverted Guard BJJ – FREE Techniques & Video Breakdowns
The inverted guard flips your hips overhead to create angles for sweeps, leg entanglements, and back takes from supine positions. Here you’ll browse hand-picked BJJ videos—gi and no-gi—covering entries (Granby, sumi-gaeshi style inversions), berimbolo chains, K-guard/Miami Vice variations, kiss of the dragon, saddle/ashi transitions, and counters to smash passes. Compare teaching styles from systems popularized by Mendes brothers, Danaher/Ryan leg mechanics, Lachlan Giles’ K-guard, and modern lapel and squid guard integrations. This page curates free instructional clips, step-by-step breakdowns, and match examples so you can quickly evaluate grips, framing, safety for the neck, and transition maps. Scroll through to find drills, troubleshooting for pressure, and passing defenses, then stack the best details into your rounds and progress session by session. Read the full Inverted Guard position guide.
Inverted Guard Guard Retention (8 Videos)
Inverted Guard Drills (4 Videos)
Inverted Guard Transitions (4 Videos)
Inverted Guard Sweeps (1 Videos)
The Inverted De La Riva & Gigi Collar Sweep by Alexandre Gigi Paiva
$97.00 • BJJ Fanatics
In this instructional video, Alexandre Gigi Paiva teaches the 'Gigi Collar Sweep' move which he has perfected over the years. He starts by teaching viewers how to engage their opponent from the inverted De La Riva guard and how to set up their attacks from this position. Paiva also shows how to counter common reverse De La Riva passes using your own arm drags, back takes and more. He emphasizes on how to use hooks and the butterfly guard effectively for kimuras, X guard, and powerful sweeps from different positions and grips.