Butterfly Guard Playbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "Butterfly Guard: The Guard That Sweeps or Stands." Print it. The article teaches butterfly as a posture with two hooks attached, a sweep that lifts and tips, and a stand-up that makes the guard's failure mode useful. This book installs that order: seat first, grips second, hooks loaded third, and only then sweeps, stand-ups, and recoveries, each with a dose and a pass standard.

Name: ______________________________ Dojo: ______________________________ Belt: ______________ Start date: ______________ Lead sweep side (circle): Left / Right

BEFORE ANYTHING: SAFETY AND PARTNER AGREEMENTS ☐ Tap early and often applies here too. A butterfly picture that becomes a submission, a leg entanglement, or a neck position follows normal tap and release rules at once, with no finishing a rep first. ☐ Sweeps lift and tip a partner who can base and fall. No sweep in this book is thrown against a partner whose posting arm you have trapped unless that card says so, the dose is slow, and both partners know the fall is coming. ☐ Stand-ups end in wrestling range. Partners agree the exchange stops at the stand, a taught takedown, or a clean re-seat. No improvised throws out of a stand-up drill. ☐ Knees and ankles: hooks press and lift, they are never kicked off, wrenched sideways, or trapped and twisted. Any knee or ankle complaint ends the rep and is logged. ☐ Flattened work stays honest. The top partner in recovery drills applies weight at the named percentage only, and either partner can call a reset with one word, at any point, without owing a reason.

Part 1: How This Book Scores Butterfly

Counting finishes flatters students who sweep tired beginners. This book scores the order that makes sweeps happen.