When the opponent uses the Collar & Sleeve Guard, position your legs in between his legs to be aware of the triangle and omoplata. You can use the Staple Pass. If he uses a lasso to prevent the pass, you can swim under for a Leg Drag Pass. Or you can counter grip his leg and sit down to break his...

When you have closed guard the cross collar grip opens the opportunity for doing the Cross Collar Choke. You can finish the choke using grips on one or two collars. You can also use the opponents lapel to finish the choke, or you can use the lapel and his arm if his arm is defending the choke (Br...

The Closed Guard can be used to enter the Collar & Sleeve Guard. You can use this guard to enter the triangle or omoplata submission hold. If he is standing, you can use the shin-on-shin to lower him to his knees for better entry to the triangle and omoplata.

The Cross Collar Grip from your closed guard can help you set up the Collar Drag Sweep, the Hip Bump to Triangle, or the Hip Bump to No-Arm Triangle.

The Collar Drag is very effective at bringing the opponent's legs and hips closer to you, whether your seated or standing. When you're seated, you can do a sweep or attack the back. When you're standing, you can do a takedown.

When you attempt a Collar Drag Sweep, you can immediately launch follow-up attacks depending on the opponent's reaction. If he moves his hips away from you, do the Loop Choke. If he underhooks you, enter the Omoplata. If he pushes on your hips with his forearm, enter the Barataplata or Triangle.

When you do the Single Leg X Sweep and finish with the footlock, you have the option of finishing without wrapping your forearm around his heel. This highlights the goal of crushing his toes.

When you do a Single Leg X sweep, you are in an excellent position to immediately execute a straight footlock. If he grips onto your collar to prevent twisting your upper body, switch your legs to the Butterfly Ashi and then do the footlock.

Details on the finishing mechanics for the Straight Foot Lock (aka Ankle Lock) from the Single Leg X position (SLX) and from the Belly Down position. This video includes the most common defenses against the Foot Lock and explains the conditions for reaping the knee in tournament rules.

When the opponent has you in the Single Leg X position (SLX), you can counter with your own footlock from his foot on your hip.

In setting up the Arm Triangle choke (Head & Arm Choke), you can abandon this choke and choose to finish with the chest-to-chest armbar, Kimura giftwrap armbar, or the Ezikiel choke.

To defend the Arm Triangle Choke (Head & Arm Choke), grab your leg to give you the option of swinging arm in front of opponent, or turn away to get onto your knees. If you are attacking the Arm Triangle, and your opponent defends, you can transition to the Armbar, or the Ezikiel choke.

Enter the Arm Triangle Choke (Head & Arm Choke) from Mount or Side Control with special attention on how to trap the arm during the set up.

When the opponent attempts the arm triangle (head and arm choke), you can use the rock and bridge techniques to escape to your knees or bring your trapped arm back in front of his face.

When doing the Rugby Pass, they have a higher chance at stopping the pass if they square their hips to the mat when you smash their knees together, or when they apply stiff arm to prevent progression to the chest to chest side control. This video shows you how to deal with those defenses and how ...

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.