De La Riva Playbook
Mat Manual companion guide to "Playing De La Riva." Print it. The article explains the outside-hook guard as a full game. This book builds it: hook standards, grip architecture cards for gi and no-gi, sweep cards with d…
| Art | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
|---|---|
| Family | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Level | intermediate |
| Format | playbook |
| Topics | groundwork, fundamentals, training-plans |
Mat Manual companion guide to "Playing De La Riva." Print it. The article explains the outside-hook guard as a full game. This book builds it: hook standards, grip architecture cards for gi and no-gi, sweep cards with dose and pass standards, staged back takes, anti-pass recovery for each way the guard dies, positional games, and the berimbolo printed as a gate, not a technique.
Name: ______________________________ Dojo: ______________________________ Current belt / grade: ______________ Starter book (De La Riva-lite) stable: ☐ Yes, coach-confirmed
BEFORE ANYTHING: SCOPE AND SAFETY ☐ This book is the full game beyond the starter book's De La Riva-lite scope line. If the lite version is not yet stable against a walking passer, that book is your work and your coach confirms the move up. ☐ Tap early and tap clearly, on the mat, on your partner, or verbally. A tap ends the rep at once, whatever was about to happen. Control before submission is the standard on every card in this book: the position is held first, the finish is applied slowly, and the partner's tap is expected and honored before pressure peaks. ☐ Leg and ankle pressure stays inside your format's rules and your coach's teaching for your level. No card in this book asks for twisting leg pressure. If a sweep or entanglement starts to load a knee sideways, stop, unwind, and reset. ☐ Inversion work appears in this book only inside the Part 17 gate: neck readiness, coach sign-off, orientation drills only. No sign-off, no inversion reps, no exceptions negotiated on the mat. ☐ Neck, shoulder, or knee pain that is sharp or still present the next day ends this work and is reported to your coach.
Part 1: The Guard Card
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Name | De La Riva guard: open guard with the outside leg hooked around the standing passer's lead leg |
| Named for | Ricardo de la Riva |
| Answers | A standing passer who steps in, above all the circling pass to the hook side |
| Architecture | Outside hook, hook-side leg control (ankle, heel, or pant), a live far grip, free foot as the pusher, hips angled to the hook side |
| Core finishes | The tilt, the sit-up, the waiter-style lift (Parts 8 to 10); the back take off the passer's recovery turn (Parts 12 to 13) |
| Scope | Full game. The starter book's lite version (hook, grips, off-balance only) is the prerequisite, not a chapter of this book |
| Gated branch | The berimbolo: Part 17. Orientation level only in this book |
| Your coach's variations | Hook depth preference: ______________ Far grip preference in no-gi: ______________ Waiter-style lift taught: ☐ Yes ☐ Not in our room |
De La Riva Playbook
Mat Manual companion guide to "Playing De La Riva." Print it. The article explains the outside-hook guard as a full game. This book builds it: hook standards, grip architecture cards for gi and no-gi, sweep cards with dose and pass standards, staged back takes, anti-pass recovery for each way the guard dies, positional games, and the berimbolo printed as a gate, not a technique.
What's Inside
- Part 1: The Guard Card
- Part 2: Hook Standards
- Part 3: Grip Architecture: Gi
- Part 4: Grip Architecture: No-Gi
- Part 5: Angle Standards: Frozen Checks
- Part 6: Off-Balance Standards
- …and 22 more sections
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