Since we’re on the topic, here’s more on guard passing:

As the passer decide you are going to dominate and control the other guy. Inner alpha male attitude – Good for Jiu Jitsu and the ladies love it too.

OPENING THE GUARD

1. Maintain posture
Keep top of your head pointed up and arch back
2. Get a double lapel grip
Get double lapel grip with right hand. this grip is used to push your opponent down if they start to sit up.
3. Grab a sleeve and stand
(grabbing their right sleeve with your left hand.)
a. Get same side sleeve grip with left hand grip outside and on top of their sleeve.
b. Put your sleeve-grip elbow on top of the inside of their knee.
c. Big step forward with left leg 45 degrees out.
d. Stand up arch back and stick hips up and out.
4. Push them down off of your hips
(Once you are standing let go of the lapel grip with your right hand )
Push your right hip out to the right and push down on the inside of their left knee with your right hand. *When their left leg falls, grab the pants with your right hand and keep elbow knee connection on both sides.
note – it is important not to stand totally straight and upright when you are pushing them down off your hips. If you do this, they can try to hit a sweep or take down while they are sliding down. to prevent this, remember to bend your knees a little and keep your feet shoulder width apart as they are falling.
5. Get the lapel grip with your left hand
(their butt is now on the ground and you are standing)
Stagger so that your left leg is forward with your knee pushing on the inside of their right thigh. Sit back into horse stance and rock forward over your left knee to make the same side lapel grip with your left hand.

Alternative – Another way to open the guard after you are standing is to switch hands with the sleeve grip, passing their same side sleeve to your cross side hand (your right hand ends up gripping their right sleeve while your left hand is free to push their hips down on that side.)
This way you are only working one side and there’s not much they can do to stop you.
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COMPLETING THE PASS

Once their legs are open, there are 3 options. Choose one depending on where the guys hips are and where his left leg is.

1: Staple
if His left leg is sideways, his inner thigh facing you
then staple down on his left thigh with your left shin.
2: Toreador
if his left leg is on your right hip,
then step right leg over to the outside of his left leg, then left leg kick out, boot pass / bull fighter
3: Back Kick Pass
if he is on his right hip,
then drop to left leg on right leg staple, splits, and then flop onto your right hip against his hips.