The other night, we were working on some different sweeps from the bottom of butterfly guard using an arm drag. Now, I titled this as a butterfly/half-guard sweep. And the reason for that is that there is a transition that resembles half guard, which got me thinking that I could also execute the move from [...]
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Who knew deep half guard would be my new go to move?
A few months back, we began drilling deep half guard in the advanced class and it was beyond awkward for me– heck, for most of us. But this past Thursday, something changed and I found myself using it several times during training, and with success. The past 8 weeks have been pretty rough on me, [...]
Guillotine from side control
I should have written this one down right after class. The details are quite fuzzy right now as I’m trying to recall the steps leading up to the choke. I am guessing that the setup for this choke is gonna come from when we have our opponent in side control and he executes a bridge [...]
Bread cutter choke from side
So, a couple of weeks ago I tried using the bread cutter choke on my opponent and had zero luck with it. I could have sworn my elbow was on the ground on one side of the neck while my wrist was on the ground on the other side. And it very well could have [...]
Revisiting a double threat from side control
A while back I learned a double threat attack from side control. This consisted of a kimura and arm bar combination that attacks the far side arm. I pretty much forgot how to do it and then we went over it again in class on Wednesday. Let’s suppose we’ve got our opponent in standard side [...]
