This week, Renzo Gracie Online Academy (RGOA) carries on with the noble mission of perfecting your skill as a guard passer.

Among the techniques you will learn is one of Renzo’s favorites — this pass that begins standing and ends up terrorizing guard players.

Leo Tunico teaches extremely efficient passes, like this one where, with a quick step, he gets past the guard player’s leg and reaches side control.

In your lifestyle lesson, Sylvio Behring talks about how the study of self-defense techniques offers you emotional control and clear thinking in real scenarios of adversity.

Don’t waste time! Go to www.gallerr.com/rgoa and get access to all of the content of the Internet’s most sophisticated BJJ course.

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Guga in final of Rio Open 2010. Photo: Gustavo Aragão

CheckMat’s Luis Gustavo, a.k.a. Guga, had a fine run in the last two installments of the Rio Open, where he made it to the highest place on the winners’ stand as a middleweight.

The fighter, who has been standing out in gentle art competition, promises to do even better next season. His goal is to win the world title in California in a division littered with top-notch competition like Marcelo Garcia, Claudio Calasans, Kayron Gracie, and Sérgio Moraes. It’s no easy task and so the athlete is keeping on top of his technical training.

Some of the positions the two-time Rio Open champion has been working on he now shares exclusively with GRACIEMAG.com readers, teaching us two ways to pass guard and finish, in the video below.