Last week we worked all lasso. On bottom, closed guard. Get double wrist control, wiggle wiggle, feet on hips. You should be laying with both feet on hips, double wrist grips, partner’s hands outside of your knees. Pick a side, and shrimp in that direction. Leave opposite foot on hip.
Use near side wrist grip to pull arm inside of knee while spiral wrapping the armpit, hooking your partner’s lat muscle. We drilled unhooking the lat, both knees back on hips, switch to the other side.
Details: with the sleeve grip on the lasso side, make sure to hook the cuff of the sleeve so it’s rolled in a little. Turn palm towards ceiling and keep a solid grip.
more importantly, keep that elbow in your pocket (arm bent) - without that tension, the passer can rotate that arm under your hamstring and get rid of the lasso hook
Today we did a sweep from half guard. Actually did 3 but I only remember the third one, barely.
From bottom you lock in your inside calf behind their knee. Then get a collar and sleeve grip on the opposite side of that hook. You might have to get a 2 on 1 on that arm before grabbing the collar, so they can’t just lift their arm and break the grip. Shrimp out and pull their arm towards you, almost behind your back.
After you do this you switch your feet, bringing you outside leg in for a butterfly hook and bringing your inside foot outside of their hips. The way I brought my inside foot out was by sliding it under their foot. Once you’re here, you’re kind of in a half seated position, hips touching the floor but at kind of an angle.
Once your feet are switched and you have the butterfly hook with your outside leg, you lay back and load their weight onto you. At this point they are up in the air, on one side you have a butterfly hook. On the other side you are using your collar grip to dig your forearm and elbow into their chin, pushing their head away and making them miserable.
Now that they are in the air, you’re going to elevate them using your butterfly hook, while rotating in the opposite direction, turning on your own grounded shoulder. You still have the grips. Your other leg becomes the outside leg and when your rotate your hips and shoulders, you’re also rotating the foot that’s on the ground, and it’s going from being heel down, to being heel up by the end. You’re on the ball of your foot and your heel is pointed up to the ceiling. If they are still trying to post on the side you have your grips, as you’re rotating them, you can also adjust by pulling their arm closer to you so that post is eliminated.
Not sure how exactly you’re supposed to land, but I’ve landed in both their half guard and side control.
If anyone noticed I miss details let me know, there were a lot of half guard sweeps today and I forgot a lot about them
Mount escapes
If their legs are laced and they are higher up, use C grips under their armpits, push up past your head and bridge at the same time.
If their mount is lower, cross frame on their hip with your hand, other hand on the same leg right above the knee. Shrimp out while keeping the frames in place, get a knee in and recover half guard.
The second one I don’t remember as well but visually I can imagine getting half and either shrimping again to get guard, butterfly’s, or get a sweep from half.
Also learned an omoplata yesterday, which mechanically was more simple than I thought. You can do this from lasso guard. Isolate one arm and get a sleeve grip, and collar grip (can grab tricep instead of collar), extend that side leg all the way out under the armpit, and drive it down onto the shoulder and spine, heel touching near the top of the spinal cord and neck.
Use the collar grip to frame away and bring your other leg through, foot hooked in opposite armpit. Their isolated arm should be bent backwards and in your pocket, and by this point you should be almost perpendicular to your partner. Heel of the top foot should be touching the other kneecap.
Now grab the belt on the isolated side, making yourself more parallel to your partner. Once the angle shifts, you created a triangle lock with your feet, pushing down on his tricep and shoulder. Now use your opposite hand to post and sit up, isolated side hand on their opposite waist to keep them from rolling out.
Leg triangle stays tight. Once you’re sitting up, stretch your legs, almost in an X position. Keep them locked. Now grab the opposite waist and hold the elbow, shift your legs backwards, bring your hips off the mat and drive towards his opposite shoulder, bringing his isolated arm towards the back of his head.
You can also do this from spider guard and double sleeve grip, just extend the leg opposite of the side you want to attack, to bring them closer and more easily get to the arm.
Question for the BJJ guys in the thread, what do you use the arm drag to set up?
I rolled with a purple belt today a couple of rounds and he wanted to work specifically arm drag with me.
He showed me how to use it from bottom and top, different things to use it for, etc… I think my favorite thing is using it from bottom to take the back.
What do yall do with the arm drag?
TTT
Haven’t updated this thread in 4 months. Never planned on posting daily but I forgot this thread existed.
I competed at a fight night event my academy hosted. My first “comp”. We have 4 locations all local and once a month, all the Professors get together to make the matchups, then we host a “card” at the headquarters gym. Mine was October 15th.
Well, I was thoroughly dominated. The matches are one 5 minute round. I told myself to be first but I was super nervous. Fight started and I pressured him right away and got a collar grip to look for a single. He pulled guard and I ended up in his closed guard. He was reaching for my arms and moving a lot so I just postured up and kept my arms tight. He tried to sweep me and failed, then we went back to closed. Tried again to sweep me and succeeded (looking at the tape I allowed him to get an insanely deep collar grip).
It was a scissor sweep so once he was on top, he had mount. I was able to recover back to half, at some point got an underhook, created a scramble, and he took my back. I survived the choke attempt and when I attempted to turn into him, he took mount. From there I was able to recover full guard after a lot of work but he passed my guard almost immediately, we ended up against the cage. I created some space by shrimping, got my back to the cage (or so I thought), and tried to stand up. He used the space between the cage and my back to get a hook and he took my back again.
The position this time was much more difficult because of the cage I fell towards the center, so I was flattened out grapevined and he was on a cross collar choke. I tapped at about 2:30 mins into the match.
Initial thoughts:
-I gassed after 45 seconds of being in there
-huge adrenaline dump of being super nervous and not having competed in combat before (not like this)
-kid was technically superior to me
-feel happy that I overcame a lot just to compete and didn’t care about the loss
Thoughts after a couple of days:
-feeling embarrassed by the loss and wanting to get it back
-watched tape and took notes on all my mistakes
-I’m glad I did it but I wanna win now
-I think my cornering kind of sucked
-the guy was a lot younger than me and bigger, although I think he would have won anyways, but it’s a note
-I never quit on myself and always kept working towards the next step, I was in some bad positions and just kept thinking about what I needed to do next, I never panicked
I haven’t been back at training since then but both my kids have been sick and now I’m sick so I’ll probably be back next week. Plus I needed to mentally recover from the whole ordeal. It was a lifetime of nerves and having trouble with pressure of competing that I overcame and I almost pulled out multiple times. I don’t think anyone understands that unless they’ve gone through it. Now that I’ve done it I’m gonna go back to training and I feel like this is gonna make me a monster.
Anyone here wanna share their early comp stories or have any advice of being in a similar position?
I shot a disgustingly bad double leg from my knees out of complete exhaustion and that’s how he took my back the first time. Just so fucking bad lol.
TTT lets go faggots
Scissor sweep “doesn’t work”. It shouldn’t work anyway on anyone that sits down and postures up. Sit-up sweep, on the other hand …
It took years but I learned to hate the obsession with double legs, including my own. They look great, but single leg from standing is so much easier and more accessible and lets you transition into other takedowns, like double leg. Better yet, it doesn involve having to get below your opponents arms and hands and step past their pointy fingers waiting to poke you as you penetrate and drive and for what? Besides burning out your knees prematurely, like really burning them out for life, on a good low double leg, you’re often rewarded with having to work your way into some kind of control position anyway from where you two land.
the trick on higher levels is to get good at hitting this in a transition and not from static position. Also, most people dont control the arm sufficiently and let their opponent either put the hand on the mat to base out of the sweep, or they use their elbow for the same
for standing, its best to step across your opponent when you do the drag. If you step out toward the side of the arm youre dragging, ie away from the person, it effectively becomes a 5050 drag situation where you can be reversed. If you step across their body you will make hip to hip contact and get into your side or back clinch with more frequency.
From guard, I bring my one foot outside of opponents leg then perform the drag. I actually do this to get top side control more than I use it to go to the back. If you get off your butt immediately after dragging, the other person almost always sits to guard. If you anticipate this and move accordingly, you winshield wipe your trail leg as you come to the top and you will end in top side control
also, a push grip on the wrist (palm down) is very effective against bigger opponents. The other arm should scoop closer to under the shoulder vs at the elbow. The palm down grip + the scoop under the shoulder gives you massive push/pull leverage and again, this is extremely effective against stronger opponents