BJJ News — Pans 2026

Deep Half Guard Is Apparently Back, According To People Who Swear It Never Left

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Will Wilson won the European Championship. He's 21. He's from Maui. He's been training since he was four years old. And the thing that has the BJJ internet in its feelings this week isn't his gold medal or his path through the bracket — it's that he plays deep half guard. Deep half. The position your coach taught you in 2014 and you immediately filed under "positions that work in theory." The thing Bernardo Faria built an empire on and everyone else built excuses on. Jeff Glover played it with chaotic energy. Jake Mackenzie made it academic. Ryan Hall used...

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