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INSIDE THE COURSE
Learn a simple, repeatable six-step process applicable across a wide variety of guards—turning guard passing into dependable skill.
Learn to identify what your opponent is preventing, then solve that positional problem before attempting any guard pass.
Discover how base, posture, pressure, and hip control work together to create successful, consistent guard passes against resisting opponents.
Understand the most common reasons guard passes fail—and learn how to eliminate those mistakes permanently from your game.
Follow a structured progression that builds confidence, precision, and measurable guard-passing skill through purposeful training—not just more sparring.
Develop control, timing, and decision-making through guard passing that strengthen your overall Jiu-Jitsu game at every position.
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All Roy Harris Academy courses include access to:
Instantly access professionally recorded video lessons with supportive PDFs and worksheets available to download.
Don’t wait for answers. Ask directly in each lesson’s comment section and get a response within 48-hours, directly from Roy and his team of experts.
Enrollment includes an invitation to our online community, The Virtual Mat, where you can connect with like-minded people and learn from each other as well as our team.
You have access to the course videos and online materials for two years. Any PDFs or other files you download are yours to keep.
You can leave a comment below any lesson within the course and I'll do my best to respond promptly. If you need additional help please reach out to roy@royharris.com. For custom training plans or in-depth questions I recommend booking a 1-on-1 virtual session.
If you'd like individualized guidance, Professor Harris also offers private lessons and one-on-one consultations.
Whether you're struggling with guard passing, preparing for competition, developing a long-term training plan, or simply looking to accelerate your progress, personalized coaching provides direct feedback tailored to your goals, experience level, and learning style.
If you'd like to schedule a lesson or consultation, simply use the contact information provided on this website. We'd be honored to help you continue your development.
That's exactly why this course was created.
Many students believe they need to learn more guard passes. In reality, they often need a better process.
Professor Harris presents guard passing as a simple six-step system that helps you solve positional problems in the proper order. Instead of wondering which technique to use next, you'll learn how to recognize what your opponent is preventing—and how to systematically overcome those obstacles.
The goal isn't to collect more techniques.
The goal is to make the techniques you already know work more consistently.
Yes—but that's not its primary focus.
Rather than overwhelming you with dozens of unrelated techniques, this course teaches a systematic framework that allows you to understand why guard passes succeed or fail.
You'll certainly learn effective passing techniques, but more importantly, you'll learn the principles that allow you to adapt those techniques against a wide variety of guards.
Because once you understand the process, learning new guard passes becomes much easier.
Absolutely.
Successful guard passing requires much more than simply moving around your opponent's legs.
Throughout this instructional, Professor Harris teaches how base, posture, balance, and positional awareness work together to protect you from sweeps, arm locks, collar chokes, and many of the most common attacks encountered during guard passing.
You'll learn to think defensively and offensively at the same time—allowing you to pass with greater confidence and considerably less risk.
Most guard-passing courses are organized around techniques.
This course is organized around problem solving.
Instead of memorizing countless variations, you'll learn a repeatable six-step process that can be applied across many different guard systems.
Professor Harris also emphasizes how to practice, not simply what to practice. Through structured repetitions, progressive refinement, and measurable goals, you'll learn how to transform technical knowledge into dependable skill.
That's a very different approach from simply collecting techniques.
Yes.
One of the strengths of a systematic approach is that it emphasizes leverage, positioning, timing, and efficiency over speed, strength, or athleticism.
As your understanding of the six-step process improves, you'll often discover that you can accomplish more while using less energy.
That's one of the reasons these concepts continue serving practitioners throughout their entire Jiu-Jitsu journey.
Because learning techniques and developing skill are two different things.
One of the defining features of this instructional is Professor Harris' emphasis on purposeful practice.
Rather than encouraging students to immediately try new techniques during sparring, he introduces a structured progression designed to help you build confidence, precision, smoothness, and consistency before adding resistance.
That approach has helped many students experience measurable improvements far sooner than they expected.
Knowledge becomes valuable when it can be applied consistently under pressure.