# What is guard recovery in BJJ?

Guard recovery is the skill of returning to guard after your opponent passes or nearly passes. Rather than giving up when someone passes your legs, you frame against them, hip escape (shrimp), and reinsert your knee or legs to reestablish guard. Good guard recovery makes you very difficult to contro...

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