March 2022

Side Control

When we returned to side control as a position, we started with transitions to mount:

I love me some Twister side, so this is the mount movement that I use the most:

We also talked about the more traditional knee-across transition:

I’m not a big user of Kimuras or Americanas, so we acknowledged but haven’t spent a lot of time on these yet. We can come back to them.

Boom brought out the Brabo choke a couple months back. I love it. We will also work on the cross and baseball bat chokes that exist in the same neighborhood.

In case you trust it more with an accent:

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Unstoppable Sweep

Everyone at Roots knows that I want to play half guard on my right side and lock down my opponent’s right leg. To avoid that, training partners will put their right foot on the mat and keep their right knee up. This is how I like to respond.

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Countering Stiff Arms

When we were practicing side control defense, we covered stiff arms to prevent guard passers from securing side control. Now Jared just shoves everyone off of him and it’s hard to complete passes on him. How can we deal with that from the top position?

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Omoplata 2

We added some more spice to our omoplatas.

Can’t break ’em down? Go backward. As he says “Use the fleep to sweep”:

We also worked on log roll sweeps. The first video shows both the sideways roll as well as the backward roll if your opponent postures up:

Roll again!

Really though, everyone should just watch as many Clark Gracie highlights as you can find:

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