Alias · Guard Passing
Anti-inversion
Also known as Inverted Guard Pass — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: common gym language
Informal — shutting down the opponent's inversion
Anti-inversion is a colloquial name for the inverted guard pass — framing the pass as a counter to the opponent’s attempt to invert.
Etymology. “Anti-inversion” names the pass by what it opposes rather than what it does; “inversion” is the opponent’s act of rolling under to recover guard. The term is informal and reactive, common among passers who treat inversion as the threat to be smothered.
Mechanics. Inversion is hip mobility taken to its extreme — rolling onto the shoulders to reorient the hips toward the passer. Shutting down that mobility, by pinning the hips before they can spin, denies the inversion the room it needs and the guard cannot reset.
Cross-reference. “Inverted guard smash” is a sibling alias. Full mechanical coverage on Inverted Guard Pass.