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X-Guard
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You're on bottom. A powerful sweeping guard where you sit underneath your standing opponent with both legs forming an X shape across their lead leg.
A powerful sweeping guard where you sit underneath your standing opponent with both legs forming an X shape across their lead leg. X-guard provides massive leverage for off-balancing and sweeping even much larger opponents. Common entries come from butterfly guard and single leg X.
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