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.

When your opponent begins a knee cut pass, you can frame and enter the half butterfly position with a belt grip. You can set up the position with an underhook or overhook and then control the far side arm or leg to determine which side you will sweep.

When you have back control and the opponent starts his back escape, apply these control techniques to keep the attacking rather than switching positions.

An effective clock choke requires a collar grip and control of the opponent's shoulder, head, and hip movement. You understand why you need the controls, and you will learn how to enter from the opponent's turtle position, and from your backtake.

When the opponent is in Turtle, and you can secure a seatbel using your lapel, you can do a choke. If he rolls you before you can do the choke, you can secure the crucifix from underneath and transition to side or back control. If he doesn't roll you, and you can't get a choke, you can force the ...

From Williams Guard, you can do an Omoplata sweep and then immediately attack a nearside armbar. Or, you can do a Meat Hook sweep and then immediately do a Monoplata shoulder lock. Or, you can do a belly down Armbar.

When you enter the Omoplata from closed guard, finishing the shoulder lock may be difficult when he has his knees under his hips to keep his shoulder off the mat. You can move your hips behind his knees to drag his hips down, or you can finish with your legs in figure-4 at a right angle.

When you have closed guard, you and you secure a cross collar grip, you can enter the Omoplata position and finish a shoulder lock. If he rolls out, you can enter the Bicep Sandwich position on his arm to secure re-entry of the omoplata.

When you isolate the arm from your side control or mount, you can launch into the omoplata hold. From side control, you can move yourself into the bicep sandwich and roll forward into the omoplata. From mount, you can dig your elbow to isolate the arm and then position yourself for the maximum nu...

When opponent is standing in your seated guard and he puts his hands on your shoulders, you can enter the armbar threat with a cutting armbar. Then you can transition to the corkscrew armbar and then to the goldchain armbar. This sequence was inspired by Mica Galvao's match with Roberto Jiminez.

When opponent's hand is near your shoulder, you can enter the cutting armbar. There are multiple entries from closed guard and seated guard. You can also enter from your mount when your opponent hugs you.

This video details the conditions for the cutting armbar and the finishing mechanics. You can enter from closed guard from a shoulder crunch, from an arm drag, or when the opponent hugs you when you have mount.

When you do the arm drag from your butterfly guard, you can enter the corkscrew armbar on his nearside arm, or a bow & arrow choke, or the helicopter choke.

When you get to chest-to-chest half guard, you can use the tripod method to clear your knee, and then you would have multiple options to complete the pass. You can go to three-quarters mount to pass the quarter guard, or do a knee cut either from the near side or far side.

When you set up the pendulum sweep by trapping his arm on your chest with a grip across his back, you create multiple options if you cannot complete the sweep. Depending on how he reacts with his free arm, you can attack the shotgun armbar on the trapped arm, attack the cutting armbar or omoplata...

While in closed guard, you enter the Pendulum Sweep from an arm drag, from a collar grip grip break with cross sleeve grip, and from same-side collar grip. If the opponent lifts up his knee to prevent the sweep, you can push on the knee to finish the sweep as a scissors sweep.

Enter the Crucifix top position from side control and then attack the Americana, Armlock, or Kimura on the nearside arm. You can also attack the Americana and Kimura on the far side using your legs.

When you do a seated arm drag, you can access the back using the Power Half. But if you don't get a hook in when he is in turtle, you can enter the Crucifix where you have options to do an armbar or a choke from top position or from the bottom position.

When you do an Arm Drag from the standing position, you can secure a grip on his far hip, access the leg, or switch to a collar grip for a takedown. (Microphone was not connected during instruction, so speech quality degraded.)

When you start the Toreando pass with two pant grips and the opponent balls up with his limbs tight to his chest, you can move all the way to North South to complete your pass.

The Toreando Pass is controlling both legs while maneuvering into a position where you can eventually get a dominant control. Understand the goals and learn some techniques to get to our goals.