Side Closed Guard

The side closed guard represents one way to slightly and subtlety manipulate a users centre point in ways that most lower positioning based controls can make that positional manipulation difficult. By setting a variation of an an initial position (Most commonly that of a regular closed guard), here with positional shifting of the bottom person's body so that their body sits on either side or their flank position instead of it remaining directly in front of their top. While this change seems minimal to start you need to continue making key grip placement as normal on upper positions, the added benefit to this small positional change now begins as an effective way to use off balancing tactics with much ease from this particular change making this useful to make new access points and various different offensive-based openings or better set up sweeps from that new angle and their shift into position. Applying these types of techniques should force them onto a defensive style which greatly increases the opportunities for positional take downs by keeping the other players positions compromised with small adjustments of their own during training scenarios or combat matches.