Closed Guard Flashcards
Triangle choke from closed guard:
When in closed guard grab both of the opponents wrists and push one of their hands into their chest and pull one towards you, as you do this at the same time raise your hip the same side as the hand you’ve pulled in towards you and raise that leg and place youre calf over the back of their neck, next grab your shin behind their neck with the hand on the opposite side and then shimmy back with your hips and pull them into you further with their neck and your leg then cross then place the other leg on the side of their neck and cross the leg behind their neck underneath the leg on the side of their neck and tuck your ankle underneath the knee then squeeze your knees in and pull back and down with their head
Arm bar from closed guard
When in closed we’re trying to at a minimum get the opponents arm that we’re attacking inside our hip, in our center or at best across our body, we’re also using our far side arm to get a grip behind our opponents head to control them from postering you, once we’ve pull our opponents arm to at least inside our house we twist our hips away from the opponent to allow us to throw our legs into a top lock behind the opponent and also causing the opponents elbow of the arm we’re attacking to be inside our hips next grab the under hook behind the opponents hamstring with your far side arm and hook your other arm over the opponents arm we’re attacking to get a grip for the armbar, next twist your hips and body so it’s perpendicular with the opponents body as if you were going for a triangle so that both your toes are pointing the same way and step your free leg over the opponents head so their arms in between both your legs, you can finish from here or sweep your opponent on their bad to go for the normal
Omaplata from closed guard
When your opponents in your closed guard with his arms posted out either side of you decide with arm you want to attack and grab just above the elbow on the arm with your same side arm, next with you leg on the same as the attacking side slide it up and over the opponents body and rest your leg in a right angle on the back of the neck/ upper back area making sure their wrist is tucked into your pocket area creating a bend in their arm the same as a kimora. Next pull your other knee through and rest it on the side of the opponents near side neck and joint your heel and knee together to make it harder for your opponent to escape. Next twist your body towards your opponent so the space between you is reduced then cross your leg on the opponents back under your other leg while still making sure the opponents hand is still in your pocket area. Next straighten your legs out and swing forward so you can sit up and your opponent falls forward. Next twist your legs so your knees are pointing towards your opponent and your feet are point away. To finish this submission sit up towards your opponents far shoulder.
Closed guard to hips bump sweep to full mount
When you have your opponent in closed guard and they have both their hands placed on your chest windscreen wipe your hand under their arms and on the outside of your body in a circular motion causing your opponent to place their hands on the floor, once your opponent has their hands on the floor release your legs and place them on the floor then post yourself up on one of your arms and feet the other one over their arm and sit towards the opposite side then if then grab their arm that’s posted out and pull it towards you to put them off balance then bump your hip roll your opponent over the same side as the arm you have hold of and land in full mount
Closed guard hip bump to kimora:
When you have your opponent in closed guard and they have both their hands placed on your chest windscreen wipe your hand under their arms and on the outside of your body in a circular motion causing your opponent to place their hands on the floor, once your opponent has their hands on the floor release your legs and place them on the floor then post yourself up on one of your arms and feet the other one over their arm and sit towards the opposite side, from here you can extend your hips to make your opponent thing you’re going to sweep them and grab a Kimora grip on the near side am then sit back and hook your near side leg over the opponent back to stop then escaping.
Closed guard to hip bump guillotine
When you have your opponent in closed guard and they have both their hands placed on your chest windscreen wipe your hand under their arms and on the outside of your body in a circular motion causing your opponent to place their hands on the floor, once your opponent has their hands on the floor release your legs and place them on the floor then post yourself up on one of your arms and feet the other one over their arm and sit towards the opposite side, from here you can extend your hips to make your opponent thing you’re going to sweep them and either move from the Kimora to the guillotine or move straight into the guillotine by feeding the free arm over their head and under their neck then grab the wrist of the choking arm making sure to keep the choking hands palm open and then lift your elbow of the arm that’s gripping the choking wrist and place it over the opponents shoulder then sit back and lock your leg behind the opponents back and finish by twisting your head towards your legs and bringing your elbow into your side
Closed guard to hip bump guillotine to triangle
When attacking your opponent from closed guard with a guillotine the opponent will grab your choking arm and pull it down to make some space and stop the choke, when they pull their arm in and grab your choking arm fall back and release the choking arm and throw up both your legs behind your opponents back and cross them together making sure you cover the shoulder of the opponents arm that was grabbing your choking arm, next grab the ankle of the leg that’s covering the opponents shoulder then create and angle then lock up the choke and finish
Closed guard hip bump to fake guillotine sweep to full mount:
When moving from closed guard to hip bump instead of feeding the free arm under the opponents neck feed it under the far side armpit making sure to trap the opponents head under your elbow then lock your hands together, from here pull the opponent towards your and with the same side leg get a Butterfly hook in-between the opponents legs and push with your leg and pull with your arm to make your opponent land on their back and your land in full mount
Closed guard to hip bump omoplata:
When you have your opponent in closed guard and they have both their hands placed on your chest windscreen wipe your hand under their arms and on the outside of your body in a circular motion causing your opponent to place their hands on the floor, once your opponent has their hands on the floor release your legs and place them on the floor then post yourself up on one of your arms and feet the other one over their arm and sit towards the opposite side, from here you can extend your hips to make your opponent thing you’re going to sweep them and take the same side leg and feed it over the opponents back and over the head while keeping hold of the and feeding your other leg out so that your end up facing your opponents back with the arm bent backwards like a Kimora then twist your outside leg so that the knee is facing the same way as the leg that has the arm trapped and sit up and towards the opponents far shoulder to finish
Closed guard to hip bump triangle choke:
When you have your opponent in closed guard and they have both their hands placed on your chest windscreen wipe your hand under their arms and on the outside of your body in a circular motion causing your opponent to place their hands on the floor, once your opponent has their hands on the floor release your legs and place them on the floor then post yourself up on one of your arms and feet the other one over their arm and sit towards the opposite side, from here you can extend your hips to make your opponent think you’re going to sweep them and feed your same side leg outside of the opponents arm and sit back and lock your legs together behind their back so your have their head and one arm trapped and the from here you can use your leg on their hip to get perpendicular to your opponents and then lock up your legs again to finish the triangle
Closed guard armbar variation:
When your opponents in your closed guard grab the outside of the tricep of the arm you want to attack with your opposite side arm then with your other arm grab the opponent neck to control their posture next uncross your legs and step the leg on the side your attacking on the opponents hip and push off the hip to angle round to the side of the opponent then bring the other leg back resting on the opponents back then step the leg on the hip over the opponents head and behind their neck then grab both hand on the arm and extend your hips to finish
Closed guard to armbar switch:
When your opponents in your closed guard grab the outside of the tricep of the arm you want to attack with your opposite side arm then with your other arm grab behind the opponents neck to control their posture next uncross your legs and step the leg on the side your attacking on the opponents hip and push off the hip to angle round to the side of the opponent then bring the other leg back resting on the opponents back then step the leg on the hip over the opponents head and behind their neck, if the opponent manages to pull their arm out then twist your hips toward the arm they pulled out then grab their other arm next step your outside leg over the opponent head and lock it on the other side of their head so your legs are crossed then extend your hips to finish
Closed guard triangle choke variation:
While you have your opponent in your closed guard Grab both their wrist and push one hand into their chest and uncross your legs and place them on both of your opponents hips and lift and place your leg over the same side as the arm that you push into their chest then grab your ankle of the leg behind your opponents neck to stop them posturing up, from here we take our other leg off their hip and lock our legs up then we can grab and under hook on the leg to Angle ourselves from our opponent to finish the choke.
Bottom closed guard triangle variation:
When in closed guard on bottom grab the opponents neck and opposite side wrist and pull them into you and place the same side foot on their hip, the opponent will pull back to posture up and as they do this push their wrist into their chest and lift the same side leg over their back and behind their neck and grab your ankle with the opposite side arm if you can’t get and angle on your opponent the shimmy your hips back pulling your opponent forward and breaking their posture the sit up and push down with your legs to Finish
Closed guard to kimora variation
When in closed guard and your opponent has their hands on your stomach windscreen wiper both their hands so they both land on the floor then grab on their wrists with the same side arm then take the same side leg and place it on their hip and trap their arm with your knee and the grip on their wrist, next with your free arm grab their trapped arm elbow and use it to pull you up and pull the arm into your chest and then feed your free arm into a kimora grip then take the leg that’s on their hips and bring it over the opponents back and then lift their arm up and towards their head to finish.
