Closed Guard (Bottom)

Question 1

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Back take from closed guard

Answer 1

1. With your opponent in your closed guard, gain control of both sleeves. Once secure, secure a cross grip (two hands on one sleeve).
2. In the same motion (a) try to pull the cross-grip sleeve across your body to the floor (your opponent will resist) and (b) secure a cross grip on their collar (on the opposite side as the sleeve grip) to break their posture and pull them down. Your elbow on the arm you’re grabbing the collar should drop down on the inside of their elbow, effectively trapping their arm against your body so they can’t pull away.
3. To get your opponent’s arm on the floor and trapped between your bodies, open your guard and hip escape (butt moving towards the same side as the initial cross-sleeve grip) to get your hips out of the way of their elbow. Once their arm is on the floor, trapped between your bodies you can reclose your guard.
4. Let go of your opponent’s sleeve and grab the back of their head (NOT the neck) to prevent them from posturing up.
5. Let go of your opponent’s collar and reach around their back to grab the gi around the underside of their armpit (can grab for the fabric under their tricep if there’s more slack there). Keep your chest TIGHT to their shoulder to prevent their elbow coming back between you.
6. In quick succession, let go of their head and drop your elbow to the floor to wedge yourself up into a side-plank of sorts. Open your guard and prop your top foot on your opponent’s hip. Using both your arm on the floor to push up and your foot on their hip to push out, manoeuvre yourself onto their back. Try to get your second hook in and secure the seatbelt to finish the backtake.

Question 2

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Arm bar from closed guard

Answer 2

1. Grab one of your opponent’s sleeves and hold to your chest.
2. Reach across overtop their trapped arm and grab/cup the back of their tricep under the armpit and pull opponent down to break their posture.
3. On the same side as your initial sleeve grip, open your guard and place one foot on your opponent’s hip.
4. Press against your opponent’s hip and use this to rotate your body so your head points the same direction as their trapped hand. Keep your other leg on their back to keep their posture broken. Slide your leg high on their back just under the armpit. Your groin should be level with opponent’s trapped elbow or even higher up on their arm.
5. Once your body is perpendicular to your opponent’s, use your free hand to press their face out of the way and swing your pushing leg up over the back of their head.
6. Rotate opponent’s hand so their thumb faces the sky. Hold their arm tight to your chest. Squeeze your thighs together and raise your hips to put pressure on the elbow joint.

Question 3

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Triangle from closed guard (if opponent is on knees)

Answer 3

1. Grab both your opponent’s sleeves.
2. Keep one sleeve close to your chest and push the other down between both your hips.
3. Let go over the sleeve grip on the hand you pushed away and grab their collar on the same side as the trapped hand. Pull down to break your opponent’s posture.
4. Open your guard and shoot hips upward to lock legs around your opponent’s head.
5. Shift their trapped arm out of the way downward toward their opposite side.
6. With the same hand that initially trapped the arm, grab your own shin to keep opponent locked in.
7. Drop your free leg to the ground and use it to push and turn your body perpendicular to your opponent so your head faces the same direction as their trapped hand.
8. When you have the angle right, swing your free leg back up to lock around their head. Hold their head downward into your groin and squeeze with your thighs until they tap or pass out.

Question 4

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Switch to omoplata if arm bar from closed guard fails

Answer 4

1. If you are attempting an arm guard from closed guard and are at the point where your body is perpendicular to your opponent’s, you’ve used your free hand to press their face out of the way and swung your pushing leg up over the back of their head only to have them jerk that arm free - switch focus to their other arm.
2. Grab their remaining arm with your near hand and force it toward your hip closest to them.
3. With your other hand grab the back of their gi to keep them near the floor and stop them from standing or posturing up.
4. Hook the leg closest to their hips over the front of their face and swing your other leg free like a pendulum to help you sit up. This should force their face into the floor and their arm behind their back.
5. Shift your hips forward putting pressure on their shoulder until they tap or something pops.

Question 5

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Cross collar choke from closed guard

Answer 5

1. From the closed guard, open your opponent’s lapel with your outer hand on the same side and make space to slide your inner hand up into a deep grip on their collar (should attempt to grab the tag on the back of their collar so as much of your forearm is pressed against their neck as possible).
2. Use your legs to break your opponent’s posture and bring them closer to you.
3. Reach across your opponent’s face with your free hand and press their face toward the side you have a collar grip on by using your forearm to drag their forehead to one side until you’ve made space to grab the fabric of their gi as close to their neck as possible.
4. Twist your wrists in so the blades of your forearms are pressed against your opponent’s neck. Expand your chest and pull your arms into an x position (bringing elbows low, not wide) to tighten the choke.

Question 6

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Loop choke from closed guard

Answer 6

1. From closed guard, get a cross-collar grip on your opponent’s lapel with your choking hand - don’t grab too close to their neck, you want to leave some space to manoeuvre their head.
2. With your free hand, grab the back of their neck to sit/lift yourself up and manoeuvre your choking arm to make space to push their head through the hole.
3. Shove their head into the ‘headlock’ hole and push your free hand into the space between your choking arm and the back of their head to close up the gap.
4. Twist your upper body to the opposite side to tighten the choke.

Question 7

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Kimura from closed guard

Answer 7

1. If your opponent is in your closed guard, first establish your grips: same-side wrist and cross-collar.
2. Use your legs to bump your opponent forward or pull them off base on top of you.
3. Once your opponent is over you, let go of the cross-collar grip and sit up/reach over your opponent’s shoulder to grab your own wrist (no thumb). At this same time, you should also transition to cup your opponent’s wrist (no thumb) rather than grabbing the fabric (end up with your wrist-holding hand to form a ‘cup’ for maximum pressure on the next step)
4. Torque your body so your butt faces away from your opponent (squeeze with your legs to make it uncomfortable for them) while at the same time pulling your opponent’s wrist to the back of their neck to apply pressure on their shoulder joint. Continue to twist/pull, increasing pressure until your opponent taps.

Question 8

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Triangle choke from closed guard (if opponent is on their knees and has grip on your belt)

Answer 8

1. If your opponent is on their knees in your closed guard and has a grip on your lapel/belt, first establish your own grips (same-side sleeve and cross-collar).
2. Pull your opponent’s arm across your body while at the same time hip-escaping and planting your foot on their hip (on the same side as the arm you are isolating).
3. Your opponent should still have a grip on your belt/lapel preventing you from going directly for the triangle. Extend your upper leg out and around your opponent’s arm so your knee ends up in their bicep. Extend your body and use this knee shoot to break their grip on your belt/lapel.
4. Once your opponent’s grip is broken, swing that knee-shoot leg to hook around their head while pivoting your body so your head faces the same direction as their isolated arm is pointing.
5. Make sure your opponent’s arm is pulled directly across your body so it is under their own chin. Switch your grips so your cross-collar grip hand now grabs your opponent’s sleeve. With your newly freed hand, reach over your opponent’s shoulder to grab your own shin and ensure your opponent’s posture stays broken.
6. Your remaining foot should still be planted on your opponent’s hip. Now swing it up over your own leg to complete the triangle and lock it in.
7. Let go of your leg and your opponent’s arm and lace your fingers together and wrap your hands over the back of their head. Pull their head down while squeezing with your thighs to tighten the choke.

Question 9

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Arm lock from the triangle (if the triangle isn’t tight enough and your opponent is escaping)

Answer 9

1. If your opponent is on their knees in your closed guard and has a grip on your lapel/belt, first establish your own grips (same-side sleeve and cross-collar).
2. Pull your opponent’s arm across your body while at the same time hip-escaping and planting your foot on their hip (on the same side as the arm you are isolating).
3. Your opponent should still have a grip on your belt/lapel preventing you from going directly for the triangle. Extend your upper leg out and around your opponent’s arm so your knee ends up in their bicep. Extend your body and use this knee shoot to break their grip on your belt/lapel.
4. Once your opponent’s grip is broken, swing that knee-shoot leg to hook around their head while pivoting your body so your head faces the same direction as their isolated arm is pointing.
5. Make sure your opponent’s arm is pulled directly across your body so it is under their own chin. Switch your grips so your cross-collar grip hand now grabs your opponent’s sleeve. With your newly freed hand, reach over your opponent’s shoulder to grab your own shin and ensure your opponent’s posture stays broken.
6. If this fails and you cannot close your triangle or reach your foot because your opponent is posturing up or escaping, transition instead to the arm lock.
7. While still squeezing your thighs together tightly, grab your opponent’s wrist from their isolated arm in both hands.
8. Twist their hand so their thumb is facing their forehead and bring their hand to their own forehead. Then simply turn their arm ‘outward’ to apply pressure on their shoulder. You should not need to move it very far to get the tap.

Question 10

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Closed guard to spider guard sweep to knee on belly

Answer 10

1. From closed guard grab both your opponent’s sleeves.
2. Open guard and place feet on opponent’s hips.
3. Jam the extending foot into opponent’s inner elbow and extend leg out.
4. Bring opponent’s other sleeve close to your belly and loop leg around the outside of their arm and thread your foot under their arm pit for the lasso. Hook the back of their armpit with your foot and pull them close to you
5. Begin to shift your body so you rotate your head toward their hip on the same side you have their arm extended.
6. With your lasso, jerk them off base so their head comes close to your hip on the same side you have the lasso in.
7. Retract your extending foot and slide your shin into the space in from of your opponent’s hips.
8. Sit up and hold onto them, letting their weight pull you up into the knee on belly position.

Question 11

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Scissor sweep from closed guard (narrow base) into side control or mount

Answer 11

1. From closed guard, grab your opponent’s sleeve and collar on the same side.
2. Open your guard and hip escape to create space.
3. Using the leg facing the sky, slide part of your knee in front of their hips to keep the distance. Your other leg should stay on the ground with the back of your calf pressed against the side of their shin to not give them space to move.
4. Extend your body and pull your arm holding their sleeve back as if you were pulling a bow and arrow (elbow should be facing out, not tucked in) to extend them and pull them off base.
5. Using your leg that is on the ground, kick/pull it into them while at the same time using your knee in their hips to kick out and flip them over.
6. Keep your grip on the sleeve/collar to hopefully roll right into mount or at least side control

Question 12

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Scissor sweep from closed guard (wide base) into side control or mount

Answer 12

1. From closed guard, grab your opponent’s sleeve and collar on the same side.
2. Open your guard and hip escape to create space.
3. Using the leg facing the sky, slide part of your knee in front of their hips to keep the distance. Your other leg should stay on the ground with the back of your calf pressed against the side of their shin to not give them space to move.
4. Extend your body and pull your arm holding their sleeve back as if you were pulling a bow and arrow (elbow should be facing out, not tucked in) to extend them and pull them off base.
5. Using your leg that is on the ground, kick/press your opponent’s knee back forcing them to straighten it and lose their base. At the same time use your knee in their hips to kick out and flip them over.
6. Keep your grip on the sleeve/collar to hopefully roll right into mount or at least side control

Question 13

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Kimura sweep from closed guard into mount

Answer 13

1. If your opponent is in your closed guard and plants one or two hands on the floor, grasp one of the wrists planted on the floor with your nearest hand.
2. Open your guard and sit up, reaching over and around your opponent’s arm above the elbow. Weave your arm through and grasp your own wrist.
3. If your opponent attempts to escape the kimura by posturing up and pulling their arm out, keep their arm tight with your lasso arm and post your wrist-grabbing hand on the floor.
4. Raise your hips and bridge (towards the side you initially grabbed the wrist), pushing your opponent off base to sweep them and land in mount.

Question 14

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Sweep into mount if attempt at backtake from fullguard fails

Answer 14

STATE ONE: attempting back take
1. With your opponent in your closed guard, gain control of both sleeves. Once secure, secure a cross grip (two hands on one sleeve).
2. In the same motion (a) try to pull the cross-grip sleeve across your body to the floor (your opponent will resist) and (b) secure a cross grip on their collar (on the opposite side as the sleeve grip) to break their posture and pull them down. Your elbow on the arm you’re grabbing the collar should drop down on the inside of their elbow, effectively trapping their arm against your body so they can’t pull away.
3. To get your opponent’s arm on the floor and trapped between your bodies, open your guard and hip escape (butt moving towards the same side as the initial cross-sleeve grip) to get your hips out of the way of their elbow. Once their arm is on the floor, trapped between your bodies you can reclose your guard.
4. Let go of your opponent’s sleeve and grab the back of their head (NOT the neck) to prevent them from posturing up.
5. Let go of your opponent’s collar and reach around their back to grab the gi around the underside of their armpit (can grab for the fabric under their tricep if there’s more slack there). Keep your chest TIGHT to their shoulder to prevent their elbow coming back between you.
STATE TWO: opponent defends, abandon back take and go for sweep
6. If your opponent is already posturing up and has their leg up to stand, switch gears and go for the sweep to get to mount position instead as they will be off base. Let go of your opponent’s head and reach your hand under their face to grab their leg (grab the fabric around the knee).
7. Open your guard and post your ‘top’ leg on the floor next to their leg for leverage.
8. Keeping a tight grip on their underarm, rotate your body pushing up with the arm holding their leg and ‘pulling’ with your leg on the ground to sweep your opponent.
9. As you are sweeping, let go of the leg and shoot your arm under your opponent’s armpit for the underhook so you end up in mount controlling both arms above their head.

Question 15

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Back take from closed guard and use cross collar choke to finish

Answer 15

1. With your opponent in your closed guard, gain control of both sleeves. Once secure, secure a cross grip (two hands on one sleeve).
2. In the same motion (a) try to pull the cross-grip sleeve across your body to the floor (your opponent will resist) and (b) secure a cross grip on their collar (on the opposite side as the sleeve grip) to break their posture and pull them down. Your elbow on the arm you’re grabbing the collar should drop down on the inside of their elbow, effectively trapping their arm against your body so they can’t pull away.
3. To get your opponent’s arm on the floor and trapped between your bodies, open your guard and hip escape (butt moving towards the same side as the initial cross-sleeve grip) to get your hips out of the way of their elbow. Once their arm is on the floor, trapped between your bodies you can reclose your guard.
4. Let go of your opponent’s collar and reach around their back to grab the gi around the underside of their armpit (can grab for the fabric under their tricep if there’s more slack there). Keep your chest TIGHT to their shoulder to prevent their elbow coming back between you.
5. Let go of your opponent’s sleeve and grab the back of their head (NOT the neck) to prevent them from posturing up.
6. In quick succession, let go of their head and drop your elbow to the floor to wedge yourself up into a side-plank of sorts. Open your guard and prop your top foot on your opponent’s hip. Using both your arm on the floor to push up and your foot on their hip to push out, manoeuvre yourself onto their back. Try to get your second hook in if possible.
7. Let go of your opponent’s arm pit and snake your hand under their arm pit to grab and control their wrist.
8. With your other hand, post it on the outside of their elbow (which should be on the ground) and push to get them off base. Roll them to the ground but don’t continue the roll - keep it there.
9. With your hand that posted on their elbow, reach across their neck and get a deep grip in their collar. If need be, use your hand that was controlling the wrist to shimmy your choking hand higher up their collar to get a deeper grip.
10. With your hand that was controlling their wrist, go UNDER their arm pit and reach across their body for the opposite collar. That hand will be dragging their collar across their neck while your other hand will be dragging your fore arm blade across their neck. Squeeze until you get the tap.

Question 16

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Back take from closed guard and use arm bar to finish (if opponent defends cross collar choke)

Answer 16

1. With your opponent in your closed guard, gain control of both sleeves. Once secure, secure a cross grip (two hands on one sleeve).
2. In the same motion (a) try to pull the cross-grip sleeve across your body to the floor (your opponent will resist) and (b) secure a cross grip on their collar (on the opposite side as the sleeve grip) to break their posture and pull them down. Your elbow on the arm you’re grabbing the collar should drop down on the inside of their elbow, effectively trapping their arm against your body so they can’t pull away.
3. To get your opponent’s arm on the floor and trapped between your bodies, open your guard and hip escape (butt moving towards the same side as the initial cross-sleeve grip) to get your hips out of the way of their elbow. Once their arm is on the floor, trapped between your bodies you can reclose your guard.
4. Let go of your opponent’s collar and reach around their back to grab the gi around the underside of their armpit (can grab for the fabric under their tricep if there’s more slack there). Keep your chest TIGHT to their shoulder to prevent their elbow coming back between you.
5. Let go of your opponent’s sleeve and grab the back of their head (NOT the neck) to prevent them from posturing up.
6. In quick succession, let go of their head and drop your elbow to the floor to wedge yourself up into a side-plank of sorts. Open your guard and prop your top foot on your opponent’s hip. Using both your arm on the floor to push up and your foot on their hip to push out, manoeuvre yourself onto their back. Try to get your second hook in if possible.
7. If your opponent closes the space on the side you have an arm-pit grip and you cannot snake your hand through to set up the choke, transition instead to the arm bar. Reach behind their head over to their arm still posted on the floor. Hook your arm through and grab your own collar.
8. Extend your body to stretch out their arm and create space between their head and your body so you can slide your knee/shin behind their head and touch your knee to the floor.
9. Twist your body so you roll onto your side (butt should be facing ‘up’ the same direction as your opponent’s head). Your knees should be close together and ‘in the space’ under your opponent. One leg should be in front of their body and the other behind their head, hooking the back of their neck.
10. Begin to stretch and apply pressure on their arm. If they don’t tap, they will likely try to roll to escape. Allow them to and go with them, transitioning to bring your leg behind their head in front of their head for the full arm-bar. Again, apply pressure on their arm until you get the tap.

Question 17

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Cross-sleeve grip > pull over head > lasso/over-grip > punch-choke or can-opener choke

Answer 17

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard and they have grips on your lapels, first establish a cross-grip on your opponent’s sleeve.
2. Yank your opponent’s sleeve up over your head to break their grip on your lapel and get their hand behind your head. If your opponent is strong, first establish a kimura-grip so you can use both hands to pull their one hand.
3. Once your opponent’s hand is behind your head, begin to turn onto your side (facing inward) while maintaining a grip on your opponent’s sleeve with one hand. With your other hand (the one closest to your opponent), reach over their exposed arm and lasso your arm through theirs while reaching under their arm pit for their lapel on the opposite side. Your guard should remain closed and tight.
4. If you cannot reach your opponent’s lapel, continue to shrimp/twist your body and use your legs to bring your opponent’s chest into the ground and closer to your hand. If you still cannot reach, release your opponent’s sleeve and use your hand to assist your choking hand.
5. Once you’ve established the lapel grip, make sure it is as deep and tight as possible. The blade of your forearm should be pressed against your opponent’s neck. Then use your other hand to grip your opponent’s collar on the opposite side of their neck. With your fist, ‘punch’ your knuckles into the soft triangle of your opponent’s neck while pulling HARD on their lapel. Extend your body and use your legs to increase pressure as well as putting pressure on their trapped arm.

Option: If you cannot get your fingers into your opponent’s collar or if they are defending well, instead grab as much fabric on their shoulder as possible and put your forearm underneath their chin. Next put your butt back on the floor (do not roll) and raise your second elbow in the air in a ‘can-opener’ motion to ‘lift’ their neck to press it harder into the lapel choke on the opposite side.

Question 18

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Cross-sleeve grip > pull over head > lasso/over-grip > sweep into mount

Answer 18

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard and they have grips on your lapels, first establish a cross-grip on your opponent’s sleeve.
2. Yank your opponent’s sleeve up over your head to break their grip on your lapel and get their hand behind your head. If your opponent is strong, first establish a kimura-grip so you can use both hands to pull their one hand.
3. Once your opponent’s hand is behind your head, begin to turn onto your side (facing inward) while maintaining a grip on your opponent’s sleeve with one hand. With your other hand (the one closest to your opponent), reach over their exposed arm and lasso your arm through theirs while reaching under their arm pit for their lapel on the opposite side. Your guard should remain closed and tight.
4. If you cannot reach your opponent’s lapel, continue to shrimp/twist your body and use your legs to bring your opponent’s chest into the ground and closer to your hand. If you still cannot reach, release your opponent’s sleeve and use your hand to assist your choking hand.
5. Once you’ve established the lapel grip, open your guard and use your bottom leg to kick out the far knee of your opponent to remove their base.
6. Release your opponent’s sleeve grip and plant your hand on the floor to lever yourself up and roll into mount. Take care with your balance so your opponent does not continue to roll and get back on top.

Question 19

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Cross-sleeve grip > pull over head > back take

Answer 19

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard and they have grips on your lapels, first establish a cross-grip on your opponent’s sleeve.
2. Yank your opponent’s sleeve up over your head to break their grip on your lapel and get their hand above your head. If your opponent is strong, first establish a kimura-grip so you can use both hands to pull their one hand.
3. Once your opponent’s hand is over your head, begin to turn onto your side (facing inward) while maintaining a grip on your opponent’s sleeve with one hand. Your guard should remain closed and tight.
4. With your hand closest to your opponent, let go of your own wrist and reach behind your opponent to get a grip on their arm pit. Use this grip to pull yourself onto your opponent’s back.

Question 20

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Use cross-sleeve and cross-collar grip to pull opponent off-base when they stand to break your guard and transition into an arm bar

Answer 20

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard, try and establish a cross-sleeve and cross-collar grip while maintaining a calm and relaxed state to lull your opponent into not posturing up too hard.
2. When your opponent stands to break your guard, wait until the moment they just get up onto their second leg and then yank HARD with both hands while using your legs to also pull them forward. This should jerk them off balance onto you and completely take away their base.
3. Immediately transition into an arm bar by stacking your leg (on the cross-collar side) high up on their back and using your other leg to push off their hip and rotate yourself. Swing that same leg over your opponent’s head and tighten up the arm bar.

Question 21

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Cross-sleeve grip > pull arm low > gift-wrap arm > transition to back

Answer 21

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard, establish a cross-sleeve grip and yank your opponent’s arm across your body. Keep your opponent’s hand lower than their shoulder, but not so low that it is at their hips.
2. Shrimp away and use your upper hand to reach over across your opponent’s back to their arm pit. Your other hand should now feed your opponent’s sleeve to the waiting hand.
3. Once you seize your opponent’s sleeve they will be ‘gift wrapped’ and you can now use your free hand to post up on the floor and take their back.

Question 22

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Use cross sleeve grip and underhook leg to sweep from closed guard into mount

Answer 22

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard, establish a 2-on-1 grip on one of your opponent’s sleeves.
2. In the same motion: a) use your legs to pull your opponent off base into you, and b) YANK that sleeve across your body so they can’t post it on the ground.
3. Open your guard and post one foot on your opponent’s hip (same side as the sleeve you’ve controlled) to push and pivot yourself perpendicular to your opponent.
4. Underhook your opponent’s leg (as long as you still have them pulled off base, there should be space for your arm). Ensure you use your entire arm and have your bicep right up under their thigh so they cannot easily extend their leg and break your grip.
5. Use your leg still behind your opponent’s back to keep their posture down (you should have your leg up high on their back, just under their arm pit). Use your other leg as a pendulum to sweep your opponent’s base away. Make sure you remove your leg as you roll so you don’t get it caught. You should land in mount.

Question 23

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Use cross sleeve grip and underhook leg to transition to an arm bar from closed guard (if sweep fails because opponent is posturing upward)

Answer 23

Part 1: Establishing the sweep attempt

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard, establish a 2-on-1 grip on one of your opponent’s sleeves.
2. In the same motion: a) use your legs to pull your opponent off base into you, and b) YANK that sleeve across your body so they can’t post it on the ground.
3. Open your guard and post one foot on your opponent’s hip (same side as the sleeve you’ve controlled) to push and pivot yourself perpendicular to your opponent.
4. Underhook your opponent’s leg (as long as you still have them pulled off base, there should be space for your arm). Ensure you use your entire arm and have your bicep right up under their thigh so they cannot easily extend their leg and break your grip.

Part 2: Opponent defends sweep by posturing upward.

5. Quickly swing pendulum leg over your opponent’s head and lock up the arm bar. Keep your leg high on their back (lodged under arm pit) and pull down to slow down/stop their escape. Keep a STRONG hold of your opponent’s sleeve so they can’t pull their arm out. Squeeze your thighs tight together to lock the arm down.

Question 24

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Triangle from closed guard if opponent stands to break your guard.

Answer 24

1. If you have your opponent in your closed guard and they stand to break your legs apart, let them. Keeping grips on both their sleeves, slide your hips down their legs and plant your feet on their hips. Their arms should be one-in-one-out between your legs.
2. Keep your leg planted on your opponent’s hip on the same side you have their arm between your legs.
   Use that to elevate your own hips and lift your other leg over their shoulder and hook your knee around the back of their neck.
3. In the same motion, (a) get a two handed grip on their sleeve (on the same side you have your foot planted on the hip) and PULL it to the opposite side (so their shoulder/arm will be in front of their own neck for the choke) and (b) DROP your hips down, keeping your calf heavy on the back of their neck to bring their head down into your groin.
4. Grab your own shin (with the hand on the same side you have your foot planted on the hip) to prevent your opponent from posturing up. Swing your foot that was on their hip over your own leg to lock in the triangle.
5. SQUEEZE hard with your thighs while holding your opponent’s head down with both hands to tighten the choke. If they are not tapping, you can reach over to their ankle (on the same side their choking arm is pointing) to change the angle to a diagonal to potentially tighten choke (may also relieve choking pressure if you don’t do it right). OR you can go for an arm bar or americana with their trapped arm (probably the easiest option).

Question 25

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[SUBMISSION]
Modified triangle using own arm as choking mechanism if opponent breaks your closed guard and gets double underhooks on your legs

Answer 25

1. If you have your opponent in closed guard and they break out and get double underhooks under your thighs and start to stack you, IMMEDIATELY extend your body to prevent the stack while also shooting one hand in to get a DEEP cross-collar grip. Both your legs should be over your opponent’s shoulders.
2. Once you’ve established the cross-collar grip, use your free hand to grab your opponent’s wrist (same side). Use that same-side leg to KICK your leg out and down, while also pulling on that same arm (to both break your opponent’s hand grips, and to put them on the correct angle to choke).
3. You should now be slightly perpendicular to your opponent. Use the leg you just kicked out to lock up the triangle. You should be able to use your inner thigh and your wrist to form the choking mechanism. Squeeze your thighs to apply pressure. This choke is NASTY when on tight.

Question 26

[CLOSED GUARD - BOTTOM]
[TRANSITION]
Omoplata counter defence via over-stepping leg grab and roll to sweep

Answer 26

1. If you are attempting to put your opponent in an omoplata and they defend by trying to step over your head, immediately grab their first leg with your free arm.
2. Before your opponent can complete their pass, roll (towards the side you are grabbing the leg) to sweep your opponent. Remember to keep your thighs squeezed TIGHT so your opponent cannot worm their way out.
3. Once you are on top, release your opponent’s leg and do a reverse downward dog to sit up and quickly shift into side control.