Which description matches the guard position when breaking the guard using a rib-cage body scissor?

• A. The officer has escaped the subject's mount by bridging and rolling the subject over. The subject tries to break officer's rib by applying body scissors to the officer's rib cage. The body scissor is called the guard position
• B. The subject is on his knees beside and choking the officer with two hands.
• C. The officer is on his back after being tackled to the ground and the subject is punching at the officer's head from between the officer's legs.
• D. The subject is lying across the officer side holding the officer down on the ground.

Answer: (A)

Guard is the position where the person on the bottom uses their legs to wrap around the opponent’s torso, controlling hips and limiting the top fighter’s movement while looking for a way to escape or improve position. In this scenario, the officer has just escaped the mount by bridging and rolling the subject over, and the subject is now applying a rib-cage body scissor to control the officer from the bottom. That rib-cage scissor around the top’s torso is a textbook way to establish guard, using the legs to pin and constrain from below. The other descriptions depict different setups that don’t represent the bottom-guard control.