Z-Guard

Also known as: Knee Shield Half Guard · Knee Shield · 93 Guard (variation)

Half guard with a knee shield: the bottom knee frames across the top player’s chest or hip, keeping their weight off. The shield creates the space that pressure half guard denies — from here the bottom player enters K-guard, butterfly elevations, and kimura attacks, while the top player fights to collapse the knee line.

Gi & No-gi · Category: Guards

What can you do from Z-Guard?

Z-guard player (positional score 0/10)

Transitions

• K-Guard Entry — Convert the knee shield into the modern leg-attack elevator: cup behind their knee, swing your shield shin across their waistline, and you are in K-guard with their whole lower body on a lever.

Top player

This side of the position is about defending and rebuilding — see the escapes and transitions from the other role.

Where you can go from here

• K-Guard

How you get here

• Knee Shield Entry from Half Guard

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