When you bring the knees together on the opponent's Kneeshield Half Guard, you can either do the Smash Pass or the Rugby Pass. You can also bring the knees together on the opposite side of the knee shield to do the Smash Pass or the Rugby Pass.

When opponent has Kneeshield half guard, we can get a reaction to progress into a pass. The scoop grip will position us for a staple to Smash Pass. A threat of a toe hold will get us a fast Knee Cut pass. We can also move them into Headquarters to execute the Knee Cut or Long Step Pass.

You can enter X-Guard from your seated butterfly guard when the opponent is kneeling. If he is standing in your spider guard, you can get to X-guard through De La Riva. Then, you can complete the standup sweep or overhead sweep.

When your opponent gets into X-Guard when you're standing, the easiest pass is to push his top foot down onto his bottom shin to unhook the X legs. You can also left and weave your leg around his leg to unravel. To prevent the stand up sweep when you fall forward, split your legs evenly and hold ...

Learn the basic structure of the X-guard and how to enter it on a standing opponent. After entering the X-Guard, a good start is the ankle pick sweep and the technical stand up sweep.

Use Spider Guard grips and one foot on the floor to enter the X Guard. Then secure the near side sleeve, far side sleeve, or collar grip to get a sweep or backtake.

When you have double sleeve grips, you can find many ways to enter the Triangle. You can enter from a scissors sweep fake, from shin over bicep, from north south, sleeve grips, or from lasso guard.

When you enter spider guard, your hip movement and placement of your feet on the body are crucial for retaining spider guard. The Toreando and Throwby passes are two common ways to pass the Spider Guard, so you will learn how to defend against them.

When the opponents grabs both sleeves to enter his spider guard, you can counter by throwing his leg over, or walking backwards to push his feet down, or squatting and using your knees to push the feet off your biceps. Also, anticipating his adjustments will give you the opportunities to counter.

The Ghost Escape from Side Control is a great set up for the Darce choke, Loop Choke with Arm in, or Loop Choke from Side Control top.

When you use the Ghost Escape and get out of a tight side control, you can transition directly into a choke. This video shows you the details of the ghost escape and how to use it to enter the arm-in guillotine, arm-in loop choke, or mounted loop choke.

When the opponent passes your guard into side control, the basic escape is to create strong frames until you can secure a stable guard. This principle is used for full side control with head control and side control with switched hips.

To defend the pass to side control you must react to stop the opponent's weight from crushing your chest. If you get a grip on his nearside sleeve, you can execute a reversal before he can settle into the pass. You can also turn away and lift your hips high in the air before circling your leg aro...

When you secure the lasso control of the opponent, you can sweep him when he is on his knees by hooking your lasso leg to the farside armpit, farside knee, or farside upper thigh. If he is standing you can break his posture to lasso the farside upper thigh to do the sweep. If he is squatting with...

When controlling the opponent's arm using a Lasso from your guard, you can complete sweeps by hooking the farside armpit, farside knee, or nearside knee.

The Catapult Sweep from your Lasso Guard offers an effective way to knock your opponent's balance for a sweep. To make it effective you have to keep a tight Lasso grip and counter his shifts in weight and cross face attempts.

Use the Stiff Arm to re-guard on the Double Under or Over Under passes. You can also transition into the Crucifix from the Over Under (aka Hippoplata) and attack a choke. Or, you can transition to the No-Arm Triangle from the Double Under.

When the opponent begins the Double Under Pass, spread your knees wide apart to prevent him from stacking you. From there you can launch into a Spider Guard Sweep, Backtake, Barataplata shoulder lock, or Tarikoplata shoulder lock.

After breaking your opponent's closed guard, you can immediately do double underhook on his legs to start a Stack pass. If he resists, you can transition the grips on the leg for options to the Over-Under pass.

When you secure collar and sleeve grips for a guard pull, you can immediately launch in to attacks after establishing guard. With the collar and sleeve grips, you can go into the omoplata, triangle, armbar, DLR back sweep, or scissors sweep.

If you pass the knee shield while in half guard, you can use the opponent's far lapel to control his shoulder while switching your hips to free your knee. Then you have the option to pass to side control or mount.

When you have chest-to-chest half guard, peel out the opponent's farside lapel to pin his far shoulder to the mat. Then free up your knee and then pass to either side control or mount.

You can pass the opponent's Butterfly Guard when he is supine by clearing the hook and then immediately transitioning to the X pass or Knee Cut. If he is seated in open guard, you can clear the hook and grip the foot and his back to pass. If he arm drags you, you can secure double cross grips on ...

When doing the Butterfly Hook Sweep, it's important to understand the mechanics of breaking down the opponent's balance to successfully execute the sweep. You need to consider timing, shifts of his weight, and tools you need to overcome each obstacle he presents.