It applies to nearly all of Jiu Jitsu, but I find myself needing the reminder when I struggle with butterfly guard. If you’re fully committed to pulling someone in, they’ll sit their weight back and it’ll be hard to move them. Sometimes you gotta give’em the ole Rabbit Season, Duck Season and threaten them in a different direction so that they’ll help you move them in the direction you want to go.
I watched Gordon’s sweep of Buchecha over and over again:
Look at Buchecha!
He’s a big dude. He’s sitting all the way back to the opposite side of the trapped arm. He also has his left leg posted out in opposition to the anticipated sweeping direction. Outside of detaching his left arm, Buchecha is doing everything to stop a roll to his left, Gordon’s right. But that’s what happens. I know Gordon consumes his share of acai, but how the hell does he just roll over from there?
He doesn’t. He pushes into Buchecha first:
Gordon mentions this in his video with Bernardo, but you don’t see him really push Bernardo because Bernardo is being a cooperative uke. Compare the position of Buchecha’s hip to his knee. In the second picture, he’s being driven backward. If he goes further back, he’ll be on his ass. He can’t accept that, so he pushes forward to get his right leg back underneath him.
At that point, he’s Daffy declaring “Duck season! Shoot!” and Gordon “Buggs” Ryan gets what he wants.
I posted this one before, but here’s Saulo talking about butterfly setups as “going through the guy” to get them to push back:
This guy hunts: