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