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.

When passing the open guard, the opponent often defends by turning on his side and framing with his arms to buy time for recovering the legs. You can use the topspin concept to move to the other side. When your opponents uses the stepover to defend a pass, you can smash his legs to the floor and ...

The Flower Sweep is a simple and low-risk sweep techniques that involve the same-side sleeve grip and the opposite pant grip. It is crucial to understand the timing of when to use the sweep and how to overcome common defenses.

The Flower Sweep is a simple but effective sweep when the opponent is not aware of the set up. You can use the Hip Bump Sweep and the Armbar to disguise the set up of the Flower Sweep. Also, if the opponent defends the flower sweep with a cross post, you can switch to an armdrag backtake.

You can defend the knee cut pass using the Reverse De la Riva Guard, finishing with a tripod sweep. You can use a stiff arm with a belt grip. You can use a butterfly hook to reset the knee position. You can bump his bum forward with your knee and take the back; if he backsteps to defend the backt...

The Knee Cut pass is very effective pass, but if it's not controlled you will not be able to maintain the pass. This video will show you details on how to control the knee cut pass and deal with common counters.

Trapping the opponent's foot against his bum is a great way to stay outside of his guard before attempting the knee cut. It will also give you options of the Xpass to knee ride or over-under pass to the other side.

The Reverse Scissors Sweep has similar leg configuration as the standard scissors sweep with the shin across the belly, but the grips will vary to sweep in the opposite direction from the way you face.

When the opponent defends your scissors sweep with combat base, you can attack with an omoplata, triangle, or sit up into a single leg.

When you get the underhook from half guard, the opponent may counter with a backstep to prevent the sweep. We can deal with this counter by getting a hook sweep or take the opponent's backside.