This video shows you the important finishing mechanics of the Corkscrew Armbar and several entries: (1) collar drag, (2) omoplata from guard, (3) back control, (4) De La Riva guard, and (5) standard armbar from guard.

When the opponent has passed your knees but has not yet gained control of your head in side control, you can lock out your arm while pushing his arm to prevent him from controlling your head. Then sit up, turn away from him, while scooting your hips away to gain guard again.

When the opponent has the same side collar grip on you, get a cross collar grip on his sleeve to trap his grip on your collar. Then get your own grip with your forearm underneath his elbow. Pull his posture down and then spin under his arm for the takedown.

When you have half guard top, backstep into reverse half guard and sit on the opponent's hip. Then grab the knee with the outside arm, grab the heel with your inside hand, and sit onto the floor to straighten out his leg for a kneebar. You can do this from his open guard, half guard, or De La Riva.

When you trap the opponent's farside arm in front of his face from your side control, you can trap a straight-jacket and then farside S-Mount armbar. You can also do a farside entry into the back triangle.

When you have knee ride, and your opponent pushes his hand against your knee to alleviate the pressure, you can get an underhook and step over his head into an armbar. You can also do a similar armbar from side control if you have tighter control of his arm. This video includes a grip breaking te...

When the opponent turns to his side and attempts to get onto his knees, you can launch into a loop choke if you have the underhook. If he gets the underhook, then you can do a kneeling kimura, omoplata, or monoplata.

When opponent underhooks his nearside arm to attempt a Ghost Escape, you can do an nearside armbar. When he underhooks his farside arm, you can step over his chest to isolate and attack his far arm or shoulder. If he underhooks his farside arm and gets onto his knees, you can execute an overhook ...

When you have knee ride and the opponent uses his far arm to push on your knee, you can underhook his arm and spin into the farside armbar. You can also enter this armbar if he hugs your head to defend your Americana from side control.

When you have SLX (Single Leg X), you can buckle his knees outwards to get a sweep, put him into 50/50, and catch a false grip. If he rotates in the direction of the heel hook, you can finish him from Backside 50/50. Alternatively from SLX, if he turns his knee the other way, you can enter direct...

From side control, get a thumb in grip on the cross face arm, then step over head to get the Canto Choke. You can also start with an Americana attack to get the opponent to roll onto his side. When you trap him on his side you can launch the Half Nelson choke, Ezikiel Choke, or nearside Armbar us...

When you have side control and the opponent hugs your head, you can keep him from returning his arm in front of his head while you set up your north south gi chokes. You can do this using his lapel or his collar.

Basics of Americana from side control and mount. You can also do a chest-to-chest armlock when the opponent defends by straightening his arm.

When you set up the paper cutter choke from North South, you can get a sneaky armbar with the grips. When he defends your armbar by connecting his hands, you can grip the nearside collar and take your leg off his head to score a sneaky loop choke. You can also set this all up starting from back c...

When you are in side control or mount, you can do an Americana or Cutting Armbar by separating the arm and applying the submission using both arms. You can switch between the Americana and Cutting Armbar depending on how the opponent reacts.

When the opponent has half guard and sits up with an underhook, you can counter with a cross collar grip. Counter with a cross collar choke on the side or from mounted quarter guard. You can also do an arm-in loop choke.

Enter the Saddle (Inside Sankaku) from X-Guard by getting weight on hands, switching X-guard hooks, lift his far leg up. Then from Saddle, when the opponent turns away to do Running Man escape, you can catch the backside 50/50 using the Double 50 variation of trapping his secondary leg with X hooks.

This class was about 4 of the takedowns (Osoto Gari, Ouchi Gari, Uchi Mata, Ankle Pick) learned during the week along with a new option Kouchi Gari. We also practiced drilled chaining them together.

This video goes over 3 takedowns: Ouchi Gari (Inside Reap, with collar and sleeve grips), Uchi Mata when opponent steps leg back to defend your Osoto Gari, and Ankle Pick when your Uchi Mata does not knock him over.

This class introduces 3 takedowns: (1) Osoto Gari using collar and sleeve grip, (2) Ankle Pick with transitions from Osoto Gari or no-gi entry, (3) Double leg with quick transition from single leg with head on the inside, and from shoot in with head on the outside.

When the opponent attempts an Osoto Gari takedown on you, you can time his entry and execute your own Osoto Gari takedown. If the opponent steps his leg back to defend the Osoto Gari, you can drop to one knee and do an inside leg reap while grabbing the other leg.

Uchi Mata takedown from the underhook/whizzer connection where the guy with the underhook on the leg gets the takedown. Set up can also be from the failed Osoto Gari takedown. Also options to go from Uchi Mata to Ankle Pick or Uchi Mata takedown to Armbar.

This video shows how to do the Osoto Gari takedown, the Ankle Pick takedown, and the Single-leg to Double-leg takedown.

This class is about catching the exposed heel midroll and freezing the opponent in the ideal condition for a heel hook at the end of the roll. The 2 rolls explored are (1) the SLX reaping roll, ending in the Outside Ashi Heel Hook and (2) Inside Sankaku running man roll, ending in Inside Heel Hoo...