Half Guard Top Flashcards
Vertical Shin Pass
Half Guard Pass #1
From top of half guard, get head and arm control and flatten the opponent. Be sure not to put too much weight over their center line…
Drop your forward hip to the ground and extend your free leg perpendicular to the opponents body for base, keep your hip low to prevent them from getting their elbow under you and making space…
Walk your trapped leg towards their butt so that your shin is vertical, keep the pressure on them with your head and arm control and the dropped hip…
Once your trapped leg is vertical, lift your hips and slice your knee over their leg on the side nearest you (it doesn’t matter how hard they grab your leg with their legs, this will still work)…
Kick their knee to free your leg completely and come to side control…
If you slice your leg through and they trap your foot with their legs, switch your knee to the other side, and pry their legs open with your free foot so that you come to mount…
Half Guard Pass to arm Triangle
The opponent is in half guard bottom with no knee shield…
They have their outside arm(underhooking arm) against your neck in an attempt to prevent you from putting pressure down on them…
Pass their arm across their body and pass your inside arm around their neck so that their arm is trapped across their midline…
Put your head on the ground, walk your feet up into a tripod type position. Your hips are high and your head is on the ground. You’re putting pressure into them with your arm and shoulder…
Walk their feet towards your head to make space. Then slide your free leg across their belly and sit on them with your hip. Use your free leg to pry your other leg free…
Maintain pressure and finish with the arm triangle…
Two Half Guard Passes
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#1 You’re in half guard top and they get an under hook but it’s a shallow under hook…
Clamp down on their hook with your elbow, bring your cross facing arm around their head and sit into reverse half guard. Wedge your cross facing arm under their far arm. Keep this arm trapped using pressure from yourpinching elbow…
Grab the wrist of their trapped arm, push their wrist down and grab a kimura grip. Push their arm intot he mat and keep pressure on their shoulder…
Lift your hips just enough to get your inside leg onto their near hip. Plant your head on the mat on the far side of their head and settle your weight over their shoulders. Your knee is controlling their hips and your hips and your weight it on their shoulders and on their arm, pinning their arm to the mat…
Use the knee on their hip to pry your tapped lag free and come to side control…
You’re in half guard top and they get a deep under hook. They get to their elbow and are looking to posture up and take the back. You can’t clamp down on the under hook because it’s too deep…
As they get to their knees, pop up on your feet and post with your cross facing hand. Slide through with you knee so that your in a quarter guard position with your knee over their leg, pinning it to the mat…
Reach over their back and under their elbow (the one on the mat) and grab their wrist. Stuff their head under your sternum and hold it there.
Grab a kimura or 2 on 1 grip on their trapped arm and roll towards this arm. You should come to a position similar to a crucifix but without their far arm trapped…
Put their wrist in their pocket to control them and reduce their shoulder mobility so that they can’t turn into you…
If their force a turn into you they will have to lift their hips, if they do that slide your knee under them, put your hooks in and take the back or set up for the arm bar from the back…
Marcelo Garcia knee kick pass
From half guard top…
Get the far side underhook and the cross face control. Keep your knees on the mat for stability and keep your hips down…
Place your free foot on the knee of their draping leg. Push on their knee while pulling your trapped leg out. You’ll have to lift your hips a bit to do this…
Baseball slide as soon as you have the room to do so and come to side control…
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