Front Headlock and Turtle Escapes

1. Introduction and Overview (opens in a new tab) (00:00:00)
2. Sunny's Personal Note and Outfit of the Day (opens in a new tab) (00:00:21)
3. Importance of Turtle and Front Headlock Escapes (opens in a new tab) (00:01:30)
4. Differences Between Wrestling and Jiu Jitsu (opens in a new tab) (00:03:24)
5. Goals and Strategies for Front Headlock Escapes (opens in a new tab) (00:09:18)
6. Defensive Hand Positions and Early Escapes (opens in a new tab) (00:28:10)
7. Escaping the Darce Lock (opens in a new tab) (00:48:39)
8. Defending Against Front Headlock Strangles (opens in a new tab) (00:49:42)
9. Techniques to Counter Go Behinds (opens in a new tab) (00:50:16)
10. Using Knee Blocks for Defense (opens in a new tab) (00:52:02)
11. Arm Drags and Misdirection Methods (opens in a new tab) (00:53:04)
12. Sitting to Guard and Rolling to Escape (opens in a new tab) (01:01:10)
13. Clearing the Headlock with Elbow Posts (opens in a new tab) (01:37:15)
14. Arm Drag from Front Headlock (opens in a new tab) (01:41:50)
15. Escaping from Knees in Front Headlock (opens in a new tab) (01:44:12)
16. Building to a Four Point Position (opens in a new tab) (01:45:05)
17. Udegishi Escape Technique (opens in a new tab) (01:47:10)
18. Dealing with Unlocked Hands (opens in a new tab) (01:51:58)
19. Front Chest Lock Mechanics (opens in a new tab) (01:57:35)
20. Peek Out Techniques (opens in a new tab) (02:02:35)
21. Combining Jiu Jitsu and Wrestling Escapes (opens in a new tab) (02:22:48)
22. Introduction to Turtle Position Escapes (opens in a new tab) (02:25:06)
23. Introduction to Turtle Positions (opens in a new tab) (02:31:38)
24. Closed Turtle: Advantages and Disadvantages (opens in a new tab) (02:32:02)
25. Open Turtle: Advantages and Disadvantages (opens in a new tab) (02:34:34)
26. Balancing Between Open and Closed Turtle (opens in a new tab) (02:35:13)
27. Opponent's Goals from Top Position (opens in a new tab) (02:36:20)
28. Defensive Goals from Bottom Position (opens in a new tab) (02:40:54)
29. Technical vs Tactical Decisions in Turtle Position (opens in a new tab) (02:43:30)
30. Upper Body Hand Positions for Top Player (opens in a new tab) (02:47:07)
31. Leg Positions for Top Player (opens in a new tab) (02:52:15)
32. Escaping Turtle Position: Kazushi and Misdirection (opens in a new tab) (02:57:36)
33. Nearside Shoulder Roll vs Gramby (opens in a new tab) (03:00:01)
34. When Not to Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:03:20)
35. When to Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:08:29)
36. Introduction to Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:17:17)
37. Key Scenarios for Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:17:31)
38. Executing the Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:18:33)
39. Offensive Strategies from Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:20:24)
40. Entering the Legs: Techniques and Tips (opens in a new tab) (03:24:11)
41. Advanced Leg Entries and Upper Body Threats (opens in a new tab) (03:32:00)
42. Defensive Tactics Against Backhanded Arm (opens in a new tab) (03:49:37)
43. Escaping and Counterattacking from Backhanded Arm (opens in a new tab) (03:53:24)
44. Far Side Shoulder Roll: When and How (opens in a new tab) (03:59:47)
45. Ensuring Hip Freedom for Effective Rolls (opens in a new tab) (04:05:03)
46. Trapping the Partner's Leg for Control (opens in a new tab) (04:05:28)
47. Creating Hip Disconnection for Rolls (opens in a new tab) (04:06:34)
48. Rolling Without Trapping the Leg (opens in a new tab) (04:08:54)
49. Escaping from Backhand and Arm Control (opens in a new tab) (04:15:59)
50. Escaping from Double Underhooks (opens in a new tab) (04:21:20)
51. Sitting to Half Guard from Backhand and Arm (opens in a new tab) (04:25:48)
52. Nearside vs. Farside Shoulder Rolls (opens in a new tab) (04:29:37)
53. Head-First Stand Ups and Escapes (opens in a new tab) (04:35:52)
54. Referee vs. Tripod Stand Ups (opens in a new tab) (04:39:54)
55. Inside Leg vs. Outside Leg Stand Ups (opens in a new tab) (04:51:09)
56. Creating Disconnection for Inside Leg Standup (opens in a new tab) (04:58:32)
57. Building to a Referee Position (opens in a new tab) (04:59:04)
58. Outside Leg Standup Techniques (opens in a new tab) (05:01:30)

1. Defensive Hand Positioning in Front Headlock (opens in a new tab) (00:10:00)

   a. Start with both hands on opponent's biceps

   b. Slide one hand to opponent's hip to create space

   c. Use other hand to frame against opponent's neck or shoulder

   d. Keep elbows tight to your body to prevent chokes

   e. Be ready to transition hands quickly as opponent moves

   Key Point: Proper hand placement prevents chokes and creates opportunities for escapes.

2. Shoulder Rolling to Guard from Turtle (opens in a new tab) (00:20:00)

   a. From turtle, drop your far shoulder to the mat

   b. Kick your legs over your head, aiming to land on your back

   c. As you roll, use your arms to control opponent's legs or hips

   d. Keep your chin tucked to protect your neck during the roll

   e. Immediately establish guard once you land on your back

   Key Point: Timing is crucial. Roll when opponent shifts their weight forward.

3. Standing Up from Turtle Position (opens in a new tab) (00:30:00)

   a. Create space by pushing opponent's hands off your head

   b. Quickly bring one foot under your body for base

   c. Drive up with your legs while controlling opponent's arms

   d. Keep your head up and back straight as you stand

   e. Be prepared to sprawl or defend takedowns as you rise

   Key Point: Speed and hand fighting are essential for successful stand-ups.

4. Escaping Darce Lock (opens in a new tab) (00:48:39)

   a. Recognize the Darce setup early

   b. Frame with your free arm against opponent's body

   c. Turn your body towards the opponent to relieve pressure

   d. Use your legs to create space and potentially sweep

   e. Focus on clearing your trapped arm

   Key Point: Early recognition and framing are crucial for successful Darce escapes.

5. Countering Go-Behinds (opens in a new tab) (00:50:16)

   a. Maintain awareness of opponent's hip position

   b. Use your arms to block opponent's entry behind you

   c. Pivot your hips to face the opponent if they start to move behind

   d. Consider dropping to your hip to prevent the back take

   e. Be ready to stand up or re-guard if necessary

   Key Point: Hip awareness and quick reactions prevent opponents from taking your back.

6. Knee Block Defense (opens in a new tab) (00:52:02)

   a. Identify when opponent is attempting to block your knee

   b. Keep your base low and wide to maintain stability

   c. Use your hands to clear the opponent's blocking leg

   d. Consider transitioning to a single leg takedown

   e. Be prepared to sprawl if opponent changes to a shot

   Key Point: Maintaining a strong base while clearing the block is essential for this defense.

7. Arm Drags from Bottom (opens in a new tab) (00:53:04)

   a. Grip opponent's wrist or sleeve with both hands

   b. Pull the arm across your body while shrimping out

   c. Use your legs to create space and assist the drag

   d. Follow through by coming up to your knees or feet

   e. Be ready to take the back or transition to a dominant position

   Key Point: Coordinating the arm pull with hip movement maximizes the effectiveness of the drag.

8. Elbow Post Headlock Clearing (opens in a new tab) (01:37:15)

   a. Identify the pressure point on opponent's inner elbow

   b. Post your elbow firmly against this point

   c. Use your other hand to frame against opponent's hip or ribs

   d. Drive your posted elbow upwards to create space

   e. As space is created, turn into your opponent to escape

   Key Point: Precise elbow placement and consistent pressure are key to this escape.

9. Four-Point Position Building (opens in a new tab) (01:45:05)

   a. Start on your hands and knees with a strong base

   b. Keep your elbows slightly bent for mobility

   c. Tuck your toes under for quick movement

   d. Keep your head up and back flat

   e. Be ready to move in any direction or transition to other positions

   Key Point: A strong, mobile four-point position is the foundation for many escapes and transitions.

10. Udegishi Escape (opens in a new tab) (01:47:10)

    a. From the front headlock, grip opponent's choking arm

    b. Step your same-side foot forward and to the outside

    c. Drop your head and shoulder under opponent's armpit

    d. Use your legs to drive upward, lifting opponent

    e. Continue the motion to throw opponent over your shoulder

    Key Point: Timing and explosive leg drive are crucial for this dynamic escape.

11. Peek Out Techniques (opens in a new tab) (02:02:35)

    a. From front headlock, create space with your hands

    b. Turn your head to face your opponent's body

    c. Drive your near shoulder into opponent's armpit

    d. Use your legs to circle out and behind your opponent

    e. Be prepared to sprawl or take the back

    Key Point: Quick head movement and body positioning are essential for successful peek outs.

12. Closed vs. Open Turtle Positioning (opens in a new tab) (02:34:34)

    a. Closed turtle: Tight ball with minimal exposed areas

    b. Open turtle: More extended position with limbs ready to move

    c. Understand the defensive benefits of closed turtle

    d. Recognize the offensive opportunities of open turtle

    e. Practice transitioning between the two based on opponent's actions

    Key Point: Flexibility in turtle positioning allows for both strong defense and offensive opportunities.

13. Nearside Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:17:17)

    a. From turtle, drop your near shoulder to the mat

    b. Tuck your chin and look towards your hip

    c. Kick your legs over, aiming to land on your back

    d. Use your arms to control opponent's legs during the roll

    e. Immediately work to establish guard or stand up

    Key Point: Smooth, quick execution prevents opponent from following and maintaining top position.

14. Gramby Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:00:01)

    a. From turtle, place your far hand on the mat

    b. Kick your near leg up and over your head

    c. Roll over your far shoulder

    d. Land facing your opponent, ready to engage

    e. Use momentum to come up to your feet or establish guard

    Key Point: The Gramby roll provides a dynamic escape option when other techniques are blocked.

15. Leg Entries from Turtle (opens in a new tab) (03:24:11)

    a. From open turtle, identify opponent's lead leg

    b. Shoot your arm between opponent's legs

    c. Use your head to block opponent's hip

    d. Drive forward to enter into a single leg position

    e. Be ready to finish the takedown or transition to other leg attacks

    Key Point: Quick recognition of opportunities and explosive entries are crucial for successful leg attacks from turtle.

16. Far Side Shoulder Roll (opens in a new tab) (03:59:47)

    a. From turtle, reach your far arm across your body

    b. Drop your far shoulder to the mat

    c. Kick your legs over, rolling away from your opponent

    d. Use your near arm to post and control your roll

    e. Come up facing your opponent, ready to engage or stand

    Key Point: The far side roll can create more space than the nearside roll, but requires more coordination.

17. Hip Disconnection for Rolls (opens in a new tab) (04:06:34)

    a. From turtle, create space between your hips and opponent's body

    b. Use your arms to frame against opponent's pressure

    c. Slightly elevate your hips to create a gap

    d. Use this space to initiate your chosen roll technique

    e. Maintain the disconnect throughout the roll to prevent opponent from following

    Key Point: Creating and maintaining hip space is crucial for successful rolling escapes.

18. Escaping from Backhand and Arm Control (opens in a new tab) (04:15:59)

    a. Recognize the backhand and arm control position

    b. Use your free hand to grip opponent's controlling arm

    c. Bridge your hips to create space

    d. Turn towards the trapped arm side

    e. Use the momentum to come up to your knees or feet

    Key Point: Coordinating the bridge with the turn maximizes the effectiveness of this escape.

19. Sitting to Half Guard (opens in a new tab) (04:25:48)

    a. From turtle, identify the opportunity to capture a leg

    b. Quickly drop to your hip, facing your opponent

    c. Use your near leg to hook opponent's leg

    d. Establish grips on opponent's upper body

    e. Work to recover full guard or initiate sweeps

    Key Point: This technique provides a safer alternative to standing up when under heavy pressure.

20. Head-First Stand Ups (opens in a new tab) (04:35:52)

    a. From turtle, create space with your hands

    b. Drive your head forward between opponent's legs

    c. Push off the ground with your feet

    d. Keep your hips low as you come to a standing position

    e. Be ready to sprawl or defend takedowns

    Key Point: This explosive stand-up can surprise opponents and create scramble opportunities.

21. Referee Position Stand Up (opens in a new tab) (04:39:54)

    a. From turtle, place one foot flat on the ground

    b. Keep your other knee on the mat for base

    c. Use your hands to create space and post

    d. Drive up with your legs to a standing position

    e. Maintain hand fighting throughout the stand-up

    Key Point: This controlled stand-up provides good balance and defensive posture.

22. Tripod Stand Up (opens in a new tab) (04:39:54)

    a. From turtle, place both feet flat on the ground

    b. Keep your head down for a third point of contact

    c. Use your hands to post and create space

    d. Explosively drive up with your legs

    e. Quickly bring your head up and establish hand fighting

    Key Point: The tripod stand up offers a quick rise but requires good timing to avoid exposing your back.

23. Inside Leg vs. Outside Leg Stand Ups (opens in a new tab) (04:51:09)

    a. Inside Leg: Step your near foot between opponent's legs

    b. Outside Leg: Step your far foot outside opponent's legs

    c. Choose based on opponent's leg positioning and pressure

    d. Use your hands to create space and assist the stand-up

    e. Be prepared to sprawl or defend takedowns as you rise

    Key Point: Understanding when to use each variation improves your stand-up success rate.

1. Differences Between Wrestling and BJJ Approaches (opens in a new tab) (00:03:24)

   a. Wrestling focuses on pins and back exposure

   b. BJJ emphasizes submissions and positional control

   c. Grip fighting variations between the two sports

   Key Point: Understanding these differences is crucial for adapting techniques to different rulesets.

2. Submission Threats in BJJ vs. Wrestling (opens in a new tab) (00:05:00)

   a. BJJ-specific chokes (e.g., Darce, Anaconda)

   b. Joint locks and their applicability

   c. How submission threats change escape strategies

   Key Point: Awareness of submission threats is critical in BJJ escapes.

3. Scoring Criteria Differences (opens in a new tab) (00:06:40)

   a. Point systems and their impact on strategy

   b. Advantages and penalties in BJJ

   c. How scoring affects risk assessment in escapes

   Key Point: Understanding scoring helps in making strategic decisions during escapes.

4. Balancing Between Open and Closed Turtle (opens in a new tab) (02:35:13)

   a. Advantages of closed turtle for defense

   b. Benefits of open turtle for mobility and escapes

   c. Situational considerations for choosing between the two

   Key Point: Flexibility in turtle positioning enhances defensive capabilities.

5. Technical vs Tactical Decisions in Turtle Position (opens in a new tab) (02:43:30)

   a. Technical decisions: specific escape techniques

   b. Tactical decisions: timing and strategy of escapes

   c. Balancing technical proficiency with tactical awareness

   Key Point: Successful escapes require both technical skill and tactical decision-making.

6. Kazushi (Off-Balancing) and Misdirection in Escapes (opens in a new tab) (02:57:36)

   a. Using opponent's momentum against them

   b. Creating false movements to set up escapes

   c. Timing kazushi with escape attempts

   Key Point: Off-balancing and misdirection create opportunities for effective escapes.

7. Choosing Between Nearside and Farside Shoulder Rolls (opens in a new tab) (04:29:37)

   a. Factors influencing roll direction choice

   b. Advantages and risks of each roll type

   c. Transitioning between roll types based on opponent's reactions

   Key Point: Versatility in shoulder rolling enhances escape options.

8. Creating and Maintaining Hip Freedom for Effective Escapes (opens in a new tab) (04:05:03)

   a. Importance of hip mobility in turtle position

   b. Techniques to prevent opponent from controlling hips

   c. Using hip movement to initiate escapes

   Key Point: Hip freedom is fundamental to most turtle escapes.

9. Adapting Wrestling Techniques for BJJ Scenarios (opens in a new tab) (02:22:48)

   a. Modifying wrestling stand-ups for BJJ

   b. Integrating submission defense into wrestling-style escapes

   c. Combining wrestling and BJJ concepts for hybrid techniques

   Key Point: Blending wrestling and BJJ approaches creates a more comprehensive escape game.

10. Importance of Hand Fighting in Submission Grappling (opens in a new tab) (00:10:00)

    a. Hand placement for choke prevention

    b. Using grips to create space and leverage

    c. Hand fighting to set up escapes and counters

    Key Point: Effective hand fighting is crucial for both defense and creating escape opportunities.

[00:00:00] What's up, [00:00:10] guys? We are here again for another DVD, another instructional. Uh, it's going to be Front Headlocks and Turtle Escapes this time. Before we start, Sunny has a few things she wants to, uh, go [00:00:20] over with you guys. Well, hello, guys. Uh, this is my DVD number 16, and I just realized that in the beginning it was really fun, and now [00:00:30] I just don't like to be here anymore.

[00:00:32] So maybe this is going to be the last one. Anyways, uh, outfit of the day, this is brand new.[00:00:40]

[00:00:47] There's some rubber here, so it can go crazy on the leg [00:00:50] locks. And, uh, well, I had some cold brew pumpkin coffee from Starbucks and I'm ready to go. And [00:01:00] for some reason you just unpacked your clothes and they smell like food, right? And I never wore this before, it smells like food. She hates smelling like food and whenever she does, she has to take [00:01:10] a shower.

[00:01:10] Which usually results in her showering 10 to 15 times a day. Um, so we're going to see how this is going to go. This is uh, like a four or five day operation here. [00:01:20] And, uh, she'll be smelling like food the entire time, so it should be great. Um, All right, now that's out of the way. That's more or less the most important part of the instructional, by the way.

[00:01:29] Um, now that's out [00:01:30] of the way. Um, we're gonna be looking at, uh, turtle and, turtle and front headlock escapes. Um, these are something that, two areas that are very undertaught in the sport because, uh, [00:01:40] you don't really see them too often in our sport and competition. Uh, besides, um, when people are wrestling and when [00:01:50] people are competing under ADCC rules because of the turtle rule.

[00:01:53] Um, when you get taken down, you get passed an ADCC and you turn the turtle position, um, you don't, you don't, uh, you don't give up any [00:02:00] points. So you see, uh, you see, you see there's a lot in MMA as guys go to try to stand up, they get taken down, they turn the turtle, try to stand up or, uh, you know, guys shoot a lot, they end up in front [00:02:10] headlock.

[00:02:10] Um, but normally what you see when people are teaching Uh, turtle escapes as you see either a jiu jitsu guy teaching turtle escapes where, [00:02:20] uh, they roll into some kind of guard position or if they're teaching turtle and front headlock escapes, uh, if a wrestler teaching turtle and front headlock escapes, it's just wrestling [00:02:30] moves to either stand up and get away from turtle or to shoot in the legs or stand up and get away from, from wrestling, uh, and wrestling.

[00:02:37] But they're They're very different. We're gonna talk [00:02:40] about the differences between wrestling and Jiu Jitsu shortly But we're gonna really dive into Escaping front headlock when you're dealing with submissions escaping turtle [00:02:50] position By both rolling to guard and standing up and getting away from our partner so very two positions that are very undertaught by Jiu Jitsu guys and are [00:03:00] mostly taught by Jiu Jitsu guys preparing for competition and bringing in pure wrestlers to teach them.

[00:03:06] Um, and I don't think that's the best approach, um, but nonetheless that's what you see [00:03:10] most of the time. Um, so we're going to dive into, uh, turtle or front headlock first and then turtle second.

[00:03:19] [00:03:20] All right, now let's talk about, uh, kind of segue from the last, the introduction clip. Let's talk about the differences between front headlock and turtle when you're talking about wrestling versus jiu jitsu. Okay, [00:03:30] first of all, the scoring criteria is completely different. Um, So, in wrestling, something that scores may not score in jiu jitsu and vice versa.[00:03:40]

[00:03:40] Uh, in wrestling, you're trying to expose your partner's back to the floor, and in jiu jitsu, you're trying to expose your partner's back to yourself. Um, so, [00:03:50] for example, if someone goes behind me and gets to a turtle position, me bellying out and going down to my stomach would not be a good thing for me to do, because my partner could just take my back and strangle me.

[00:03:59] Whereas in [00:04:00] wrestling, that's not, that's not what the goal is. Um, The main difference between, uh, Jiu Jitsu and wrestling, when you're talking about front headlock and turtle [00:04:10] attacks, is a threat of submissions. Okay? Um, If I have something down in front headlock, for example, Okay? [00:04:20] If at no point she has hands on my hands, I can always come through, and I can start feeding guillotines into place, I can start coming through, and I can start feeding [00:04:30] guillotines into place.

[00:04:30] Strangles into place, kagatames into place, various kinds of strangles from here. So my partner's first thing from a turtle or from a front headlock position Is always [00:04:40] to address my hand position and if she doesn't she's going to get strangled most of the time, okay Um, whereas in wrestling your partner doesn't have to have a primary defensive hand because there's no threat of [00:04:50] actually Getting strangled and the match being ended from here Okay, so you'll see you'll see things in jiu jitsu that you don't normally see in wrestling where from here Instead of sprawling, being in a [00:05:00] situation like so, where my partner can't access my legs, I actually come in, in some cases, and I bait my leg and I give my partner my leg like so.

[00:05:08] So that now from here, we can [00:05:10] go through, we can bait the leg, so that her defensive hands come off of my, uh, come off of my hand, and as she goes to grab my leg, she exposes the neck, and now I can go in and sit the guillotine. [00:05:20] Where, in wrestling, you almost never see a situation where your partner baits the leg, where now she can start going into her attacks.

[00:05:27] But in Jiu Jitsu, I don't always have to keep [00:05:30] my legs back and away from my partner because of the fact that if she does, right now she has defensive hands in place, if I bring my leg towards my partner and she goes to lock on, [00:05:40] now from here we can start going in and we can start passing and feeding hands into place and going in for strangles and whatnot.

[00:05:46] This is, there's dangers of, of, uh, of submissions [00:05:50] when you're working in Jiu Jitsu. One of the main differences that we look at from turtle position is that my partner from here, when you're talking about a Jiu Jitsu [00:06:00] context, is mostly looking to roll into a bottom guard position. Okay, so she'll roll over the near shoulder for example, and she'll [00:06:10] put me back into a guard.

[00:06:10] Okay, in wrestling obviously you can't do this because you can't expose your partner's back to the floor, or you can't, you can't expose your back to the floor in wrestling because you get pinned, you give up points. [00:06:20] Okay, so in jiu jitsu she's obviously looking first to defend the submission. If I can't just If I can just bring my hands across and lock a submission, I'm going to submit my partner.

[00:06:28] So again, she has to have defensive hands in [00:06:30] place, and she has the ability to start shoulder rolling either over the near shoulder or the far shoulder, and putting me back into some kind of guard position, which doesn't exist in wrestling. [00:06:40] In a wrestling type scenario, my partner is looking to either one belly out, which doesn't make any sense for us because now I just step over and I can start [00:06:50] strangling my partner, or more applicably looking to separate hands stand up and looking to get away from me, which makes sense.

[00:06:59] Okay. [00:07:00] The issue is, is that some things that are applicable, uh, in wrestling defensively don't work for Jiu Jitsu and some things that work in Jiu Jitsu aren't applicable for [00:07:10] wrestling. Um, so the, the goal for the job that we have Um, is to figure out what things that we, what things we can use effectively [00:07:20] from classical jiu jitsu and what things that we can take from wrestling and use them and modify them if we have to, to use in jiu jitsu [00:07:30] to get up and get away or, uh, to, to reverse our partner.

[00:07:33] Okay. So some major differences between wrestling and jiu jitsu from both front headlock and from turtle position. [00:07:40] Number one, obviously the threat of submission. You can't just have your hands out on the floor, be reaching for your partner's legs if your neck's getting attacked and you're getting, uh, you're [00:07:50] getting strangled.

[00:07:50] You can't leave your arms out of your arms to get attacked. You can't let your partner lock you more, things like that. Um, so the threat of submission is obviously the biggest one. Number two [00:08:00] is there's a drastic difference in how points are scored and matches are finished in wrestling versus jiu jitsu.

[00:08:06] Um, some things that work. in wrestling [00:08:10] won't work in Jiu Jitsu, and some things that work in Jiu Jitsu obviously won't work in wrestling. So our, our job is to take a classical Jiu Jitsu approach, combined with a classical [00:08:20] wrestling approach, and modify moves that can work from wrestling, and use them and integrate them into our Jiu Jitsu to become an effective submission grappler, okay?

[00:08:29] Um, [00:08:30] you always hear Jiu Jitsu guys, you know, old school Jiu Jitsu guys preaching just Jiu Jitsu, alright? Just Jiu Jitsu isn't all there is, okay? And you hear wrestlers saying that, [00:08:40] you know, uh, Jiu Jitsu guys are pussies or whatever, whatever the case is. Um, that would never work. Um, you have to understand there are two different sports, and you can [00:08:50] take elements from each sport and be very effective, uh, you can be very effective, uh, combining the two sports together.

[00:08:57] And that's what we're looking to do. Um, so we're going to be looking [00:09:00] at classical Jiu Jitsu combined with Jiu Jitsu. your typical wrestling approach. We're going to be looking at both standing and rolling escapes to put our partner back in guard or to get up and reshoot in a [00:09:10] partner. So it's going to be going to be a good combination of the two.

[00:09:18] All right, let's look at a quick overview of what we're going to [00:09:20] look at in this instructional. First, we're going to start in front headlock. And then we're going to go into Turtle Escapes. Alright, when we're in front of headlock, the first thing we're going to look at [00:09:30] is obviously defending submissions.

[00:09:32] How to place our hands so our partner doesn't just immediately strangle us the second we get into a front headlock. And then we're going to go into some early [00:09:40] defensive Strangle Escapes. I'm not going to go too far in depth because I'm doing a full video. Strangle Escaping Instructional, uh, coming up. I could spend hours on just escaping strangles, you [00:09:50] know, just guillotines themselves.

[00:09:51] Um, so we're just going to do very early, very conservative escapes, uh, with, uh, with front headlock strangles. After that, we're going to look [00:10:00] at how to defend our partner going behind and taking our back. Okay, we end up in a front headlock. We don't get strangled first, then our partner uses the threat of the strangle to threaten to [00:10:10] go behind.

[00:10:10] And I want my partner to go behind and take my back right away. So defending strangles first, defending go behind second. Once we can establish ourselves not getting [00:10:20] submitted and not immediately getting our partner, uh, or having our partner using a go behind and getting behind us, then we're going to start to go into our actual escapes.

[00:10:29] Alright, we're going to [00:10:30] start on our knees and we're going to start with sitting into half guard. Alright, because that's one of the things that, um, you know. You don't see in wrestling because obviously you can't play guard. So sitting into [00:10:40] half guard, pulling ashi garami and using a classical jujitsu approach to.

[00:10:45] Perhaps deal with someone who's a very good wrestler. Um, and it's going to be [00:10:50] hard to use traditional wrestling escapes against. Um, so sitting into half guard, sitting into ashigurami and just in general, sitting into a guard. Okay. Then we're gonna start with [00:11:00] using escapes on our knees, depending on what kind of a hand position our partner has at the front headlock.

[00:11:06] And then we're going to start to go into situations where we build to our feet and [00:11:10] use four point escapes and building all the way to our feet to start escaping our partner's front headlock. Okay, so we're going to start first with immediately just not getting strangled and not getting our back taken [00:11:20] by having our partner go behind.

[00:11:21] Then using sitting to guard methods, where we can go into escapes via sitting down, pulling half guard, pulling Hashigurami, um, things like that. [00:11:30] Then we're gonna go into kneeling escapes, and then we're gonna go into standing and four point escapes, okay? Once we go into turtle position, we're gonna, I'm [00:11:40] gonna break that down to, uh, into various sections when we get there.

[00:11:45] We're gonna talk about that later. But just understand because there [00:11:50] are so many different upper body Combinations that your partner can use and so many lower body [00:12:00] Combinations your partner can use so I'm just gonna break it down to like near side shoulder roll far side shoulder roll Get [00:12:10] four point get ups standing escapes inside like skin that stand ups outside like stand ups and we're gonna break into sections like that We'll talk about that later.

[00:12:17] I put the first thing we're gonna look at is [00:12:20] defending from a front head, escaping from a front head, and then we're going to do turtle defenses and escapes, um, and then we're going to do it just like that. So front head first, [00:12:30] then turtle second.

[00:12:36] All right, so before we start, let's look at what [00:12:40] hand positions my partner can have when they're operating from a front headlock, because there's many different combinations that they can use. Okay, my partner is down in a front [00:12:50] headlock like so. We can use situations where we have a Front head and arm where we have control of our partner's head and our partner's arm [00:13:00] and we have locked hands Okay, now there are various combinations we can use from here.

[00:13:04] We can have my hands relatively centered along my partner's center line [00:13:10] like so We can be in situations where I shoot a hand across where I have a deep arm like so and now we can start going in and Uh locking up our [00:13:20] hands Locking up kagetames things like that We can shoot our hands in the opposite direction, where we come through here, we switch sides.[00:13:30]

[00:13:31] We have a front head, we can shoot our hands through in the opposite direction, where now from here, we can start going in and locking up kagetanme like so, and breaking our partner down to a [00:13:40] hip. Alright, I have control of my partner's head, and my partner's arm, the whole time, I'm just moving my hand position.

[00:13:47] So we have locked hands, in the front [00:13:50] head like so, where my hands are relatively centered, and I'm looking to control my partner from here. I can shoot my hands through in either direction. I can go through towards my partner's armpit, [00:14:00] or I can go through towards my partner's head. And now from here, we can start changing angles, going in, breaking our partner down to a hip, locking our hands, [00:14:10] locking dorsus, things like that.

[00:14:11] Okay, so we have a front headlock, control of our partner's head and arm with locked hands. Okay, we have various configurations we can lock in like so. [00:14:20] My partner can have a front headlock with unlocked hands. My partner has control over my chin with a chin strap and a grip on my tricep, [00:14:30] like so. Okay, we're now from here, this gives us readily available gaitines.

[00:14:37] We can start moving our partner around. We can start switching [00:14:40] into arm drags. We can do all kinds of things from here. So we have front headlock locked hands, front headlock unlocked hands. We have [00:14:50] a front head where we have a chin strap, and control of our partner's, uh, an underhook on our partner. So now if she tries to use this arm to reach for my leg, she runs into an [00:15:00] underhook.

[00:15:00] When she goes to put her primary defensive hand in, other one, it's difficult, okay, because now there's an underhook. Now when she has to put her primary hand in from [00:15:10] here, it's easy. When I have an underhook, it's a lot more difficult now, and strangles become easier. So that's a problem we have to deal with here.

[00:15:19] We can go into a [00:15:20] situation where we have a chest lock on our partner. Where we go over our partner's arms like so, instead of having control of one of my partner's arms and the head, we go over both of our [00:15:30] partner's arms from here and we lock our hands like so. So now my partner goes to move around and grab legs like so, it's a pretty easy thing to go in and lock a chest lock.[00:15:40]

[00:15:40] If my partner were to shoot a double leg for example, and fall, from here we can go in and we can start using this to gain positional advantage where we take our partner over with [00:15:50] to our geishi and we can start going in and coming up on top of our partner. So we can use chest locks from a front head as well.

[00:15:59] We can go [00:16:00] over a partner's arms and just as with the front head we can go locked or unlocked, we can unlock our hands and we can go double triceps like so. So [00:16:10] now from here my partner goes to move around, I can control my partner. When she goes to peek out in either direction she goes to sit through, difficult because I have short elbows.

[00:16:19] Okay, [00:16:20] if I have a chest lock, I have control of the locked hand, so when my partner's greasy, it's harder for her to escape, but now peek out has become easier. Okay, because I don't [00:16:30] have, I have, uh, I'm more invested and my elbows are, my arms are more extended from here. When I have short elbows, now it's harder for me to actually control because my hands aren't locked, [00:16:40] but once you get to peek out from here, it's a very difficult thing to do.

[00:16:44] Okay, so we have chest lock. We've locked our hands, and we have [00:16:50] double triceps, and we have short and pinched elbows like so. Okay? And, we can move into situations, this is pretty uncommon, but, [00:17:00] a situation where we've got two hands under our partner, our partner's arms like so, we have double underhooks. So now she has to access either one of my legs, it's a very difficult thing, [00:17:10] and we can control our partner from here.

[00:17:12] I believe in ADCC, it's actually illegal to lock our hands like this. Because you have control of both of your partner's, uh, both your [00:17:20] partner's shoulders and the head's controlled. So they count this as like a spine lock kind of position here. I'm pretty sure you cannot lock or if you can lock you definitely can't sit [00:17:30] to this position if you're under ADCC rules.

[00:17:32] Um, so just keep that in mind. But those are the main hand positions we're going to be dealing with defensively. [00:17:40] We have someone in front of us who has us in a front headlock and is looking to either control us submit us or go behind us. So we have to address all those hand positions accordingly [00:17:50] and recognize which one, uh, which ones we're dealing with, whether or not there's a strangle danger, whether that's a submission danger, and then act accordingly.[00:18:00]

[00:18:02] All right, let's look at what our opponent's goals are. Okay, by opponent I mean the top player. All right, so right now I'm gonna beat the top player just so [00:18:10] we can run through this. But, top man's goals, okay, now these are general goals, um, they change and they get more specific as you get more in depth into the [00:18:20] position.

[00:18:20] But in general, the top player is looking to keep their legs away from the bottom player. Okay? Now, when you're in a wrestling type [00:18:30] situation, this is pretty much always true. Where if she gets to my legs, now she can start to go into some kind of offense from here. So in general, I want to play a kind of game where [00:18:40] my legs are out and away from my partner's.

[00:18:42] Like so, I have weight on my partner, and I can look to keep a chest to back contact and keep my partner controlled with [00:18:50] my legs away from my partner. Now, this will change when you add submissions in. So in general, I'm looking to keep my legs away, but not always. [00:19:00] If I want my partner, she has defensive hands in place.

[00:19:04] I'm playing like so. If I want my partner to start coming in and shooting for my legs, [00:19:10] I can put my legs in various positions, which will allow my partner to actually access my legs. So I bring my legs in, and I start playing on my knees here. Now she feels confident enough to [00:19:20] take her two hands off and switch to a double maybe, for example.

[00:19:23] Or now she goes to drive me down, but her defensive hands come off and now we can start falling into guillotines or other [00:19:30] various submissions. Or she goes in, she locks into my leg, with a single leg maybe, maybe I bring one leg close. And now from here, this gives me the [00:19:40] opportunity to go through and lock Kimura and start going into, uh, submissions and, uh, counters with Kimura.

[00:19:47] So in general, the top player is [00:19:50] looking to keep their legs away from their partner, but not always. I can bait my legs coming towards my partner and create threats of submissions. Okay. That's the first one. Number [00:20:00] two is I'm looking to keep a chest to back connection. Like so. And my partner's head down.

[00:20:08] Anytime my partner's head [00:20:10] can rise, I start running into problems. So for example, if my partner peeks out, either side, and the head starts to rise, now I start to run into some [00:20:20] major problems from here. If from here, my partner locks a double leg, and from here, the head starts to rise, I start to run into some major [00:20:30] problems from here.

[00:20:31] So I'm looking to keep a chest to back connection. Like so to put weight on my partner. I'm looking to keep my partner's head down So anytime she goes to raise the [00:20:40] head, I'm always looking to go in and keep the head down. She locks into my legs

[00:20:47] For example, and she goes to bring that head up. [00:20:50] I'm always looking to keep my partner's head down And put it back between my two elbows and keep the head down and a check strong chest to back contact Okay, [00:21:00] so in general keep my legs away from my partner keep my chest to my partner's back, keep my partner's head down.

[00:21:07] Obviously, because we're doing Jiu Jitsu, we're looking [00:21:10] for submissions.

[00:21:14] So if we're an offense, looking to go into various submissions, where from here we can feed through, [00:21:20] we can switch hands, we can feed through, we can break our partner down, we can go into Darces, we can hit various submissions from this position here. Okay, if my partner goes in [00:21:30] and she locks onto my legs.

[00:21:32] There are various submissions that we can do from this front headlock position that you don't have access to in wrestling. Okay, so looking [00:21:40] to get into submissions. And finally, looking to use the threat of submissions or just positional advances towards the back to go behind your [00:21:50] partner. Okay? Whether it be I go in, I switch to a drag, I go behind my partner.

[00:21:59] [00:22:00] Whether it be I use the threat of submission, she's fighting the hands, we go in, we start going behind our partner. So anytime that we can get from a situation where we're in [00:22:10] front of our partner to behind our partner. will be great for us. Okay. And in wrestling, it's the same, same idea. All right. Anytime we can [00:22:20] get behind our partner, we can score.

[00:22:22] So let's look to go and pin our partner. She has no access to my legs. In our sport, we can go and look to submit our partner. Okay. So the [00:22:30] offensive player, the top man, your opponent in this situation is looking to keep the legs away from you in general, looking to stay chest to [00:22:40] back and keep your head down, looking to hit submissions or looking to use a threat of submission to go behind and start to attack your back [00:22:50] and put hooks in from turtle position or score any kind of other advances from there.

[00:22:54] Okay, so those are opponent's goals, the top player from a front handlock position.[00:23:00]

[00:23:03] All right, so now let's take a look at what our goals are as bottom defensive player. Okay, first and foremost, [00:23:10] we have to defend submissions. Okay, we can't end the situation from wherever we may act to enter. In a front headlock, my partner shoots in a guillotine. She locks it up, she sits down and [00:23:20] now I tap and the match is over.

[00:23:23] Okay. So the first thing we have to do is figure out, okay, where are my partner's hands placed and how do I defend [00:23:30] submissions from here? Okay. Once we can accomplish that, then we have to stop our partner from going behind us. Okay. Because ultimately she's using the front headlock to either submit us. Or if she [00:23:40] can't submit us, go behind.

[00:23:41] So we have to stop submissions first, stop, go behind second, and those are our initial two goals. All right, we don't want to have someone snap us to a front [00:23:50] head or at the front head and either immediately submit us and the match is over, or use the threat of a submission to immediately go behind us.

[00:23:57] Okay. If at any [00:24:00] point we can access a par, we can access our partner's legs without the threat of a submission being there, that's good for us. Okay? So if we can at any point [00:24:10] access one of our partner's legs, where now I feel like I'm not gonna get submitted, I can't just go towards my partner's legs and a GA team comes in and out, I'm gonna get submitted from here.

[00:24:19] This is no [00:24:20] good. Okay? But if at any point I can access my partner's legs where when she goes to gee teaming, now there's no Gee team available. And from here we can come in, we can access our partner's legs. And either [00:24:30] one,

[00:24:33] look to go in and use it as counter offense in a jiu jitsu fashion, or two, look [00:24:40] to come in and go in and use it as a positional advance to switch positions and go into attacks on our partner. That's good for [00:24:50] us. So anytime we can access our partner's legs in any way, assuming there's no threat of a submission, this is going to be good for us.

[00:24:58] Okay, so [00:25:00] accessing our partner's legs, coming in, going, getting to the waist, good. Getting to the legs, getting to the head, this can be good for us. [00:25:10] Okay, so defending submissions first, defending go behind second. Once we can do that, we're looking to access the leg. If we can access the leg, [00:25:20] then we can reverse the position and go into offense.

[00:25:23] If we can expose our back to the floor, we're safe from the front headlock. Okay, now [00:25:30] this may, depending on what rules that you're competing in. It may get you scored on, we'll talk about that a little bit later, but in terms of good jiu jitsu, there's nothing good [00:25:40] that comes from our front head if we can't take our partner down, if we can't access the legs, and we're pending them going behind us.

[00:25:46] So anytime we can expose our back to the floor, for example, [00:25:50] I point out a situation here, if I can expose my back to the floor and sit to a half guard. from [00:26:00] here. Now I'm in a much better, much better shape than I just was being purely defensive from my partner's body weight on me in a bottom, uh, bottom front headlock.

[00:26:09] Okay. [00:26:10] So this is something that you can't do in wrestling that you can do in Jiu Jitsu, which is good. And we can go into escapes. Whether it be escaping, just sitting to guard, falling to our back, ending up in [00:26:20] an ashigurami, whatever the case is, exposing our back to the floor, and escaping the front headlock.

[00:26:25] This is a great, a great option here, that we don't have in wrestling. [00:26:30] And finally, we have a goal of facing our partner. Now this can mean one of a few things, okay? We can face our partner[00:26:40]

[00:26:41] by simply coming through. I'm sitting to half guard or now it's not there's no chest to back contact anymore. I'm physically looking at my partner and [00:26:50] facing my partner.

[00:26:53] We can come in

[00:26:57] and we can strip grips. I can just sit to [00:27:00] guard and I can face my partner. So you can do this seated or if we start building and she comes up with me, we [00:27:10] can come through. We can use standing four point escapes to start going through clearing elbows. Now we're both standing. She squares. Now I'm facing my partner and I'm out of the front headlock.

[00:27:18] Okay, we're back to neutral now. Okay, [00:27:20] so first and foremost, defend submissions. After we know that we're not going to get submitted, defend go behinds because your partner [00:27:30] is playing a dilemma game of threatening a submission, either getting a submission or using the threat of a submission to hit a go behind.

[00:27:38] Okay, if we [00:27:40] can access the legs without there being a threat of submission, we can go back into offense. If we can expose our back to the floor, we we can go into either counter offense [00:27:50] or at least escape the front head. And if we can face our partner, whether it be grounded or standing, we can escape the front head and go back into at least neutral and hopefully [00:28:00] counter offense.

[00:28:00] Okay. So some very general goals for you guys to work with when you're working defensively from a front headlock.[00:28:10]

[00:28:10] Okay. Let's look at your standard front headlock. Control the head, control the arm. Your partner locks the hands on the center line. Let's look at our Right away, go [00:28:20] to defensive hand position. Okay? It's going to be very similar to your hand position when your partner attacks your back. If my partner is behind me on two knees, [00:28:30] and she has one under, one over, okay, she has control of my head and my arm.

[00:28:34] Okay, same as the front headlock. I'm going to have a primary defensive hand with a thumb [00:28:40] inside my partner's wrist like so, and then a secondary defensive hand over my partner's forearm. Okay, the primary hand. We'll stop your partner's hand from coming across [00:28:50] completely. The secondary hand will do some of the work, but your partner can eventually walk the hand through, and it's a pretty easy thing if she bats the hand off, especially from front headlock, but the second [00:29:00] hand, now it's a pretty easy thing to go in and strip and bring the hand through.

[00:29:03] So our primary hand, we have a thumb inside, we do most of the work here. And the secondary hand, if the primary hand gets stripped [00:29:10] for any reason, will catch over your partner's hand. Uh, fingers like so, and then now as she goes to strangle me, I can pull it down, replace the primary hand, and go back in and work [00:29:20] defensively.

[00:29:20] Same thing from a front headlock. If my partner has a front headlock, I have a primary defensive hand in place with a thumb [00:29:30] inside like so. So now my partner's hands are on the center line. If my partner goes to guillotine me from here, there's no guillotine. If my [00:29:40] partner goes to lock her hands in, let's say, an anaconda, and she goes to shoot her hands through, She can't, because of the defensive hand.

[00:29:47] If my partner goes to switch her hands to a Darce, [00:29:50] she can't, because now I can pull the grip back to center. So this primary hand, Does a great job of keeping my partner's hands [00:30:00] centered on my center line. The line of draws. So this primary defensive hand with the thumb inside will keep my partner's [00:30:10] hand on that center line so she can't drift too far towards one side to create the threat of strangles.

[00:30:15] So when she goes to strangle me from here, [00:30:20] I have defensive hands in place, and from here I'm going to look towards my partner's elbow like so. So I look towards the strangle. What I don't want is to look away from the [00:30:30] strangle initially, And now if the primary hand gets stripped, she can expose underneath my chin.

[00:30:37] If I look towards [00:30:40] or away from my partner's elbow, she will always be able to expose the space between my jaw and my collarbone with her wrist. And now she'll be able to slide [00:30:50] through and give me problems. So I always look towards my partner's strangle arm. So now I connect my chin [00:31:00] and my own shoulder.

[00:31:02] So even if she strips the primary hand when she goes to strangle me from here, I'm You can't expose the space between my jaw and my [00:31:10] collarbone, okay? Whereas here, she can expose that space and give me problems. So I always have a primary hand in, lock up, [00:31:20] I look towards my partner's strangle arm, and now I have a secondary hand in like so.

[00:31:28] So if at any point she [00:31:30] strips my primary hand, my secondary hand reaches up and catches over my partner's thumb line, so now when she goes to strangle I pull it down, I replace the primary hand, and [00:31:40] then we're back in business and we're ready to go. Okay, so if you're being very conservative from here, primary hand in place, secondary hand in place, and we're in like so.

[00:31:49] We're [00:31:50] dealing with a guillotine expert or specialist from here, kagatame specialist, we have to be careful. So she has her legs either out and away, out and [00:32:00] away, like so, or towards me, baiting me to go in, and now as I go in, I get strangled. So I'm being very good servant here, looking at what our partner is going to do, [00:32:10] primary hand in place, secondary hand in place.

[00:32:13] We look towards our partner's strangle arm, and now she has to strangle me in either direction, and punch her hands to one side [00:32:20] to go either anaconda, darts, or guillotine. I can keep her hands centered on my center line. And the threat of strangle now is taken away. If she uses her, her, uh, her hand to strip [00:32:30] my primary hand, my secondary hand comes up, I pull everything back down, I replace, and then we go back in and we play, play right from here.

[00:32:38] Okay? My partner's gonna have [00:32:40] locked hands in any configuration. I'm gonna have primary defensive hand. Secondary defensive hand and a good defensive posture with my jaw to defend the initial [00:32:50] strangle. Okay? So this is a second your partner traps the head in the arm This is what you should be looking for whether it's with a chin strap whether it's with locked hands If your partner has control of your head and arm, we have to keep the [00:33:00] hands centered on the center line and not drift too far to either side.

[00:33:08] Okay, so now we're going to look at the [00:33:10] earliest and most conservative way. Again, I'm going to do a full escape instructional on strangles and go through all the strangles you can possibly imagine. But, this is part of front [00:33:20] headlock. We're going to look at very early and the most conservative ways to defend both the guillotine and the sidekagatame.

[00:33:25] Okay, now, you may be asking yourself, what is a seated kagetame? [00:33:30] Alright, most people call, call it an arm and guillotine, but it's not an arm and guillotine. It's a seated kagetame. A seated kagetame is when my partner's arm drifts across the body, [00:33:40] and I lock my hands with a palm to palm grip, like so. And now, we sit into what looks like a guillotine, but it's actually a [00:33:50] seated kagetame.

[00:33:51] Why is it a kagetame versus a guillotine? Any kagetame uses the shoulder, As part of the strangle, [00:34:00] okay? With a guillotine, with any guillotine you can look at, whether it's arm in, whether it's low elbow, whether it's high elbow, whether it's a power guillotine, whether it's a figure four guillotine, [00:34:10] none of the guillotines that you see use your partner's shoulder As part of the actual strangle.

[00:34:16] Every Karigatame you see, whether it's [00:34:20] a Darce, whether it's an Anaconda, whether it's a mounted Karigatame, whether it's a seated Karigatame, every Karigatame involves the shoulder in the [00:34:30] strangle. That's why this is not a seated, it's not a guillotine, an arm and guillotine, it's a seated Karigatame. It looks like a guillotine, but it's not.

[00:34:37] It's a Karigatame. because of the fact that the [00:34:40] shoulder is involved in the strangle. Okay. Nonetheless, the defense remains pretty much the same, whether we have guillotines or seated [00:34:50] kagatame. The second I feel my partner lock any kind of guillotine or any kind of seated kagatame, uh, seated kagatame, I just roll through [00:35:00] and the best example that you can see of this is my actually recent match With philip rowe at who's number one He actually locked his seat to kagatame and I just [00:35:10] pushed a knee by rolled through put my hands on his hips And then ended up I think in some kind of like I think I actually passed him off or something, but i'm not sure Uh, but at [00:35:20] least you can escape from here and you can actually create a lot of offense off of this So let's go into key things first, for example Let's say my partner locks, uh, an arm in [00:35:30] guillotine.

[00:35:30] So we mess up, we lose the hand position, my partner locks an arm in guillotine, and she goes to sit. Okay? The second I see this, my partner is looking to, [00:35:40] at the very least, throw her bottom leg across my body, and throw her top leg over my body, and create some kind of connection at the hips. Okay? So now from here [00:35:50] she can crunch my chin to my chest, and she can start strangling me.

[00:35:53] So I want to create a disconnect at the hips. So the second I see this, I'm immediately going to take a post to my [00:36:00] partner's knee, and I'm going to fall over to my hip, and my right hand is going to post to my partner's hip. Like so. So now, as she goes to follow [00:36:10] me, I just shoot this leg through, and she goes to follow through.

[00:36:14] We just roll to bottom position. And now from here, there's no threat of a guillotine anymore. And [00:36:20] now from here, we can go in, we can fight our partner's hands. Usually what's going to happen is she's going to roll through on the other side. As she does that, we reset our hands and we're back into a situation [00:36:30] where we're back on, back on the, uh, on the defensive and there's no more submission danger.

[00:36:35] Okay. For the second, I see my partner go to lock an arm in guillotine, for example. [00:36:40] We post the hand on the hip. If we, if we lose the beat in the hip and she pulls the arm by, I go to the knee first. Now, as I lean, and right now I [00:36:50] can't expose my partner's hip. As I lean, I can always expose my partner's hip.

[00:36:55] When she goes to strangle me now,[00:37:00]

[00:37:00] I roll through, and then there's various escapes that we can do from there. The same remains with the high elbow gi team. She goes high elbow, [00:37:10] she goes low elbow, doesn't make a difference. The second she goes, We just roll to our side, and we look to move our head back to center line. [00:37:20] The whole thing we're trying to accomplish is to get our head from the hip to the center line.

[00:37:26] If I can do that, I'm out. So [00:37:30] she goes to sit. Watch my head. The second I go to roll, she goes to follow.

[00:37:38] My head comes to center. Now the [00:37:40] head's free. Same remains of the C de kagetame.

[00:37:48] She goes to sit. This time I can't [00:37:50] access my partner's hip. This is why this is so tight. But from here I have to focus on the legs. So now, as I'm going to post to my partner's hip, it's impossible. I post on the knee, she throws the leg over. [00:38:00] I just walk away from my partner's hips. And now I create space, so now she has to follow me.

[00:38:07] Switch hands, turn your leg over. [00:38:10] Now she has to follow me. I put two hands on my partner's hips. And And we can take our partner up and over and away. So I'm looking to place two hands on [00:38:20] my partner's hips to create a disconnect between our two hips and center my head back to my partner's center line.

[00:38:27] This remains the same with every seated katakana katame [00:38:30] and every high elbow gitein, low elbow gitein, uh, arming gitein, any gitein you can think of. I'm trying to post my partner's hips to create a disconnect in the legs. [00:38:40] Disconnecting the hips. I'm trying to recenter my head back on my partner's center line.

[00:38:45] This is when you're doing a rolling escape. There's plenty of other escapes to get. I could spend hours just teaching [00:38:50] guillotine escapes, but when you're doing very, uh, conservative rolling escapes where you capitulate to a side and use a rolling escape, disconnect the hips, recenter [00:39:00] the head, and this will get you out of most guillotines.

[00:39:03] Okay, and most, uh, let's see, Kagetamas. If I can do this, we're going to be out. So every time my partner goes to [00:39:10] lock any kind of Guillotine, we're in the front head, I lose the battle, she goes to lock any kind of Guillotine, we post my partner's hip, as she goes to really try to finish, if I stay here, just back my partner, I'm going to get [00:39:20] finished.

[00:39:20] So the second I see this, go ahead,

[00:39:27] and we can reach out of the head, we can post in the hips, [00:39:30] and we can escape. Okay, so I want to touch on that. So if you do get beat, if Primordial Hand gets beat, your partner locks the Guillotine, Again, I could spend hours on this, uh, and I'm [00:39:40] going to, but very conservative, very early, uh, escapes to sitikagatames and guillotines, any kind of guillotine you can think of.[00:39:50]

[00:39:50] We post a hand on the hip. If we can, we post a hand on the knee and we fall down to a hip looking to disconnect our hips from our partners [00:40:00] and looking to recenter our head somewhere in the roll through. And if we can't do that, looking to, if we can't resign the head completely, looking to at least put primary hand back in [00:40:10] place to control my partner's wrist and then eventually wiggle the head out.

[00:40:13] Okay, again, there's plenty of other options we have from here. If our partner locks a closed guard, it's a completely different thing. Um, but [00:40:20] if your partner initially locks a strangle, just rolling through, falling to a hip, and that's it. Escaping the initial luck and then working defensively from there.

[00:40:28] Okay, so just touching on that kind [00:40:30] of segue into the strangle escapes That we're gonna do and the strangle escapes for those of you wondering is going to entail every strangle that I can think of [00:40:40] as far as escaping triangles, kagetames, giteens, any strangle you can think of we're gonna touch on it. So [00:40:50] I just want to kind of Touch on that just a little bit so you guys know if from front head someone locks an initial guillotine just fall to a hip Disconnect the hips by posting one or two hands on the hips [00:41:00] and then as you roll through Recenter the head and you're out.

[00:41:08] Alright, so now we're gonna look at [00:41:10] looked at guillotines and sidhi kagatame Let's look at a situation where a porter feeds a guillotine and actually locks kagetame. Now we're gonna look at drags and stuff [00:41:20] off of that, escapes, when our partner does go to feed into it, but let's say, right away, we end up at her front head, she shoots the hand through, what can we do to defend?

[00:41:28] Okay, so, [00:41:30] we're gonna be in a front headlock, she has her hands locked, and from here, She shoots a hand all the way through, and she goes in to lock the kagetame. Once she [00:41:40] gets the, the kagetame locked, what I'm looking to do, from this position, is I'm looking to take a thumb post inside my partner's bicep, like so.[00:41:50]

[00:41:50] What this does is it alleviates the pressure and disrupts the connection between my partner's bicep and the left side of my neck. So when she goes to strangle [00:42:00] from here, it's a difficult thing, and it's harder for her to close her elbow and actually push my elbow across in this direction. So we put a thumb post in like so, and we tuck our jaw [00:42:10] inside of our own thumb.

[00:42:11] So now when she goes to strangle from here, it's a difficult, difficult thing. Not impossible, but difficult. Okay, now what we're going to look to [00:42:20] do is just kip and pump, pump, pump our right elbow to separate our partner's fingertips from the body. Again, this is very conservative. We're not going to dive deep into this, but this is [00:42:30] the initial conservative approach.

[00:42:32] As she goes to lock up, we just take our right elbow and just retract it in small kipping motions. [00:42:40] We separate our partner's elbow like so. Now the danger from here is that as your elbow comes back you expose yourself [00:42:50] to a high elbow guillotine, okay? Because right now, go back, if my elbow, if my elbow is in this position, you see my shoulder and my chin are connected on this side.[00:43:00]

[00:43:00] So my partner goes to shoot into a high elbow. The grip actually gets disrupted by the fact that my elbow or my shoulder and my chin are connected. But when [00:43:10] my elbow retracts, I open up space now for that arm to shoot through. So I'll be ready to do a couple of things. I put my hand in [00:43:20] defensively. From here, when she goes to strangle me, it's a difficult thing.

[00:43:25] Now, I kip one, two, three, I separate my partner's elbow. [00:43:30] The second I see my partner's hands become separated, I take my secondary hand and I trake, uh, track my partner's, uh, strangle hand. When she goes to pump [00:43:40] that, uh, that hand up there and put the high elbow in place, I pull that hand down, I replace my primary hand, my secondary hand comes on, she [00:43:50] We'll either lock our hands or change grips and now we're ready to play back defensively once again.

[00:43:54] So she feeds her hands through. She locks up [00:44:00] from here. We go and we put a defensive hand in place. She goes to strangle me. It's a difficult thing. Now we go one, two, three. Okay, and this, [00:44:10] again, this is as your partner's locking, not when she has like a fully locked strangle in place. It's hard, much harder to do.

[00:44:15] We'll cover that later in a different series. When my partner's initially locking and setting [00:44:20] everything in place, we just bring the elbow down to our hips and we track our partner's elbow. I can't just pull my elbow randomly back. I have to connect my elbow to [00:44:30] my partner's elbow. So I pull my right elbow down.

[00:44:33] to my hips, and I expose my partner's elbow. What this does [00:44:40] is my elbow is in this position. If I just pull back, I'm pulling into the short end of the lever. So I pull my elbow down to my hips to track my partner's elbow, and I expose the elbow, and I [00:44:50] separate the hands. So as her hands come through, we put a thumb post in place.

[00:44:56] We hide our jaw like so. I've pulled the elbow back, [00:45:00] and now I go 1, 2, 3. I separate my partner's hands. Now I'm exposed for a high elbow guillotine, so she goes to shoot it in. The secondary hand goes to shoot [00:45:10] through. We catch. We replace. We put the secondary hand back in place. And now we're ready to play.

[00:45:17] Okay? So our partner actually shoots an anaconda into [00:45:20] place. First thing we're going to look to do is put a thumb post in and hide this side of our neck from the strangle. Like so. Then I track my partner's elbow. [00:45:30] I find it. I go 1, 2, 3, 4. I expose myself for the high elbow on the other side. We come in. We pull that hand down.

[00:45:38] We replace the primary. Replace the [00:45:40] secondary. And we're back in business. Not getting finished and ready to go and defensively and eventually counter offense.[00:45:50]

[00:45:51] Okay, now let's look at a very conservative and early stage escape for a dars. So let's say our partner's hands, we looked at our partner's hands feeding through for a [00:46:00] gikin, sitaka, kagatame, then in one direction for the anaconda, now let's look at the other direction for a, for a dars. Okay, this time [00:46:10] my partner is going to take her hands in from an initial front head.

[00:46:13] And instead of shooting her hands through to this armpit, she's going to shoot her hands through to the opposite shoulder. And now she's going to take a [00:46:20] forearm on top of my head, and lock her hands like so. We'll have to walk to an angle, out on this side like so. The second I see this, before the [00:46:30] strangle is actually locked, we're just immediately going to come up to our two hands.

[00:46:35] And my partner's goal from here is to crunch my chin down to my chest and in towards my [00:46:40] right shoulder and force me to a hip. And now she can lock her hands in a triangle. So what I want, the second she locks up, to just build to my hands, and instead of falling [00:46:50] over to a hip, I just look in the opposite direction.

[00:46:53] So she wants to go right shoulder, I'm just gonna look slightly left. And now from here, as she goes to start [00:47:00] crunching me, I'm just gonna look directly between my legs. And then do a forward roll and bring my back to the floor. Okay? This will [00:47:10] always disrupt your partner's ability to lock a full triangle with her hands.

[00:47:13] And even if she follows me through, she'll end up in no position to strangle me. Okay? So she locks off a position where [00:47:20] she takes her hands through and she actually locks into place. Before she actually locks her hands, I just come up to my two hands like so. What I don't want is my elbow [00:47:30] getting pushed across the center line.

[00:47:32] So I split my elbows by coming up to my two hands. When she goes to knock me down to my hip now, it's difficult. Now, [00:47:40] she wants to crunch me in this direction. So I look slightly to my left in the opposite direction. And when I'm ready, I just roll directly over my head over two shoulders. If [00:47:50] she goes to follow me from here again,

[00:47:54] it puts her in a strange position now where she has no ability to lock her hands. And if she stays here, she actually ends up in [00:48:00] bottom position. Okay. So whenever I see someone come through, even if [00:48:10] I go to follow her and she goes to roll through kind of end up in a strange position here. We're now from here.

[00:48:17] It's a pretty easy thing, even if I went to go lock up [00:48:20] if she turns up to her knees, of course, I can still lock it. But from here, she can shoot her arm across my body. Nope. Good. And now from here, turn [00:48:30] on top. Nope.

[00:48:35] And now from here, she's out. Okay. So if at [00:48:40] any point I try to go re lock, she just quickly shoots the arm across, and now there's no Darce anymore, and we're gone. So the second [00:48:50] I see someone lock up, we just come here. She goes to go in. If she unlocks her hands, great. If she does it and she tries to follow me, [00:49:00] the second I get here, I can't stay in this position.

[00:49:03] I immediately take my arm up and over. Like so. And now from [00:49:10] here, once she unlocks her hands, I'm in perfect position now to start going into Kimura's back handed arms and going into attacks right from there. [00:49:20] It's very conservative, again, very basic. Thank you. Before my partner locks the darts, as she gets to shoot her hands through, she gets a wedge over the top of my head, just coming up to the [00:49:30] hands into a referee position, and then forward rolling to disrupt our partner's ability to actually lock a figure four.

[00:49:35] Again, tons of different things we can do from here, but this is the most conservative [00:49:40] and earliest escape that we can look at.

[00:49:42] Gordon Ryan: [00:49:50] Alright, so now we're going to look at, we've addressed the main strangles we can look at from front headlock. Um, now let's look at, I mean, nice [00:50:00] triangles and stuff, but triangles get very intricate and you're not even in front headlock anymore and guys are locking triangles. They're off of like single legs and stuff.

[00:50:06] So, um, we're going to do mostly escapes from front headlock and [00:50:10] not full, a full wrestling tutorial here. Um, We're going to get into that later, I promise. Um, let's look at go behinds now. So, let's look at the major types of [00:50:20] go behinds that we can be looking to defend, um, from a front headlock. Alright? In wrestling, you're almost never going to see this.

[00:50:27] But Jiu Jitsu guys are very terrible, um, [00:50:30] in your traditional wrestling sense. And, uh, they just try to circle to your back, being, trying to make themselves more athletic than you, without using any wedges [00:50:40] or, you know, Any method of actually getting behind you. So we actually have to deal with this because this is what most guys do in Jiu Jitsu.

[00:50:45] And it's just very naive and would never work against anybody high level. But, It [00:50:50] works on guys in Jiu Jitsu. Actually, uh, when I was training with Jaden, Jaden Cox, um, we were like drilling some stuff, and he was like shocked that I went from [00:51:00] like, uh, that I used an arm drag from a front head to go into a go behind.

[00:51:03] We were like, uh, like in a four point or maybe a turtle position, and I actually switched to a drag to go behind them, and he's [00:51:10] like, man, I've trained with so many Jiu Jitsu guys, and they just try to circle behind me and get taken down. I'm like, yeah, because they're all terrible. Um, so, uh, you see this a lot where [00:51:20] guys have any various front head from here and they just move around and they just try to quickly jump to a situation where they're behind their partner.

[00:51:27] So they'll be here, be snapping, snapping, and they'll just try to [00:51:30] jump behind their partner like so. Now this can work if the guy's terrible, but with anyone good that is never going to work. Okay, but you have to understand this is what most guys will [00:51:40] do. They'll try to just take a front head. and they'll play a game where they just snap you down and then they just walk and they try to circle behind you.

[00:51:47] Okay, so that's, that's the first method where they [00:51:50] just simply circle with no wedging, no misdirection, nothing, and they're just trying to walk behind you. Okay, it'll work on very low level guys and very low [00:52:00] level wrestlers and world class black belts. Um, the next is a knee block method. Okay, we'll use any kind of variation of situations where I [00:52:10] use my knee to block my partner's elbow and circle behind my partner.

[00:52:15] Whether it be with an outside knee or whether it be with an inside knee, [00:52:20] we block our partner's elbow. And the beauty of this is that from here, now my partner goes to circle and actually attack my [00:52:30] legs and square to me as a wedge behind my partner's elbow. Versus if I just circle. around my partner. If he just sticks their hand out, [00:52:40] I'm running into my partner's legs.

[00:52:43] So when I actually use a wedge behind my partner's knee with a knee block, now as you have to shoot on me, you [00:52:50] expose yourself to crucifix and, and things like that. So, um, using a knee block method to actually block our partner's elbow, um, to, [00:53:00] to go behind. So using physical wedges to get behind our partner.

[00:53:03] Okay. The next method is using dragging methods. From here, we switch our head [00:53:10] and we use an arm drag like so. So now as our partner goes to shoot on us or access my legs in any way, I can put weight on my [00:53:20] partner's hand and I can make it sure that my legs never end up between my partner's elbows like so.

[00:53:27] So now as she has to shoot on my [00:53:30] legs, I run around and I'm behind my partner. And finally. We have a misdirectional method. Where [00:53:40] whether we're in turtle, whether we're in referee, whether we're in four point, it doesn't make a difference. From here, I circle in one direction. And I can do this in multiple different hand positions.

[00:53:49] I [00:53:50] circle in one direction, and then I throw by in the other direction. So I move it this way. So I start pulling on my partner's head, I circle, I [00:54:00] walk, walk, walk, and as she goes to follow me, if she doesn't follow me, I just use knee blocks to go behind. What will happen is, she'll follow [00:54:10] me, and I'll use a misdirectional method to get by my partner and throw her to the opposite side.

[00:54:16] You can do this from four points as well. Over here, [00:54:20] I'm circling in one direction, and I use a misdirection. As she goes to follow me from here, we throw a bike. And now from here, we're behind our partner. And we can start to play [00:54:30] from turtle or four point referee, wherever you're at. Okay? So our main methods of getting behind our partner that we have to deal with defensively will be a [00:54:40] naive method where your partner just tries to run around to the back of you.

[00:54:43] Which you see a lot in Jiu Jitsu, but not in wrestling, obviously, because it shouldn't work. Um, Uh, a knee block go [00:54:50] behind or any method where we use wedging behind our partner's elbows Uh, to actually go behind them. Dragging methods, where we use arm drags to go behind our [00:55:00] partner. And misdirectionals, where we circle in one direction, and then throw by in the other direction to get a misdirectional and get behind our partner in the opposite direction that we're [00:55:10] circling them.

[00:55:10] Okay, so main ways that we're going to have to deal with defensively, as far as our partner getting behind us and scoring from, uh, from turtle position.[00:55:20]

[00:55:24] All right, so now let's look at a naive opponent on top trying to just run around behind us. Um, just [00:55:30] getting used to the idea of following them and just circling with them. Okay, if there's no wedge actually holding you in place where you can't actually circle or follow them, then of [00:55:40] course you're gonna get your back taken or they're gonna at least go behind you.

[00:55:43] Um, but if they just try to jump behind you, you just walk in a circle with them. This is pretty self explanatory, but, um [00:55:50] This actually works on Jiu Jitsu guys, when you see the highest level guys just jump around and it's just a mystery why it works, but it does. So let's go over it. [00:56:00] So she has a front headlock, and now she just tries to take her legs off the floor, or knees off the floor, and she just tries to jump behind me.

[00:56:07] Okay? Okay. Okay. [00:56:10] All we have to do from here, it's pretty simple, is I just walk in a circle with my partner. So when she goes to walk around, I just walk towards my partner. She goes to go in the opposite [00:56:20] direction,

[00:56:23] I just walk towards my partner. I just circle my hips, I just stay in front of my partner, and she goes to just jump behind me with no [00:56:30] wedging of any kind, no misdirectional, no fainting, nothing, just circle with your partner, and you'll stay, and you'll keep your partner in front of you the whole time.[00:56:40]

[00:56:41] Alright, so this time your partner is just trying to jump behind you. Again, because there's nothing actually blocking your arm or stopping you from reaching, you can easily go into your partner's legs. [00:56:50] So as she has to circle around you, you're just going to reach out, and you're going to get to the legs.

[00:56:54] Alright, now there's a million different finishes we can do once we actually get to the legs, but [00:57:00] we're going to look at, um, some ways that we can actually go from here. So this time, she goes in, she has a front head, and she just jumps around and she has to start [00:57:10] Moving towards my back. The second I see this, we just go in, and we just catch her leg like so.

[00:57:15] Okay? Now, as she goes to walk towards my back, her hand is going to come off, and she's going to [00:57:20] be looking to go in, and chase my far hip, and make it, exactly, uh, transition to a backhand arm, or double underhooks, whatever the case is. Okay? So, as your partner [00:57:30] goes to transition, from the front head to the back head armor to the, to the tight waist, whatever the case is.

[00:57:36] Go ahead. We're just going to reach out. I'm going to catch our partner's legs like so. [00:57:40] And there are many different ways that we can go from here. We can step a leg up and we can start getting to a double leg on the far side. So our head can start rising. We can slide across with the knee. [00:57:50] We can cut a corner and start going into double legs.

[00:57:54] We can go in. If I feel like the double leg is not going to do that, I feel like I can't get my head up, I can't get to [00:58:00] the far leg, we go in, we get to a single, and go below our partner's knee. So now when she goes to sprawl, I can pull that leg in. And now from here, we have many different options. [00:58:10] We can step over our partner's leg, we can step to half guard, we can go into a lower leg shift and start playing a half guard game.

[00:58:17] [00:58:20] We can access a leg, we can put our shin and our ankle underneath our partner's shin and ankle. And from here We can [00:58:30] sit into Ashi Garami. We can access a leg. She goes to sprawl. We can go [00:58:40] up to the body. And we can start playing from here. We can start jousting for knee position. We can start moving to pinch headlock.

[00:58:47] We can do all kinds of things from here. Okay? But just [00:58:50] getting to our partner's leg will give us a chance now to start going into some kind of offense. Okay? Whether it be Playing a standard wrestling game, [00:59:00] or a wrestling esque game, or playing a classical jiu jitsu game. Normally, if I can get to a leg, when my partner goes to [00:59:10] circle around, if I'm dealing with a wrestler, I use more jiu jitsu moves.

[00:59:16] If I'm dealing with a jiu jitsu guy, I use wrestling moves. [00:59:20] So if I'm dealing with a guy who's An Olympic level athlete, okay? And he goes to circle behind me, and I happen to access one of his legs. [00:59:30] He's going to be ready for me to start going in and doing all the things that he normally looks at. Trying to get to his waist, trying to get to the second leg, trying to build up and start [00:59:40] moving to a situation where I can get to his waist.

[00:59:43] He's going to be ready for all of that. What he's not going to be ready for is me accessing his legs. So this will [00:59:50] be me. Something that he has no idea how to defend, he has no idea what's going on, and he, as he's going to sprawl, he actually gives me the leg, and now, we're in a [01:00:00] completely different territory, which he's not used to at all.

[01:00:03] If we did it with a Jitsu guy, maybe he's good at defending leg locks, maybe he's good at defending half guard, but maybe he's not ready for me to start pulling on the [01:00:10] single, and start moving into a waist, and putting a thigh pry on the other side. So now he's a lot more helpless and hopeless from here than an Olympic level wrestler will be [01:00:20] and he starts playing from here He doesn't know what's going on.

[01:00:22] I start moving around. I run to the far hip and I put a hook in and now I'm ready to score with a more [01:00:30] traditional wrestling style then That he's used to so in general just get if he goes to circle and you can get to a leg There's plenty of different things you can do from there We're not gonna run through [01:00:40] all of them because we're Now we're going into more of a scrimmage wrestling instructional, which I'm eventually going to do, but it's not Front High Lock Escapes.

[01:00:48] But if he goes to circle around [01:00:50] and you can access a leg, you can either finish with traditional wrestling moves, or you can sit and play more of a jiu jitsu game. I [01:01:00] generally recommend, uh, if you're dealing with a high level wrestler, to use jiu jitsu. If you're dealing with a high level jiu jitsu player, to use more wrestling, [01:01:10] okay?

[01:01:10] Um, now we're gonna look at just basic sitting to guard. Okay, this is accessing a leg. Let's assume this time we can't access a leg. We're just gonna sit to guard and play from an open [01:01:20] guard as someone goes to circle around with no wedging.

[01:01:26] Alright, so now let's look at, again, our partner is naive. They [01:01:30] use no wedging to actually get behind this. And they rely on speed and athleticism to just jump behind this. If you can't access a leg, you feel like you're going to get your back taken, [01:01:40] just fall to a hip and connect your knees and elbows.

[01:01:44] That's the most basic way I can put this. If you can fall to your hip, Exposure back to the [01:01:50] floor while simultaneously facing your partner and connect your knees and your elbows. Your partner is not going to take your back and they're not going to pass your guard. Okay? So, let's take a look at [01:02:00] what this actually means.

[01:02:01] My partner goes to run to a side. When she goes to switch, I just simply fall to a hip and I just connect my knees and elbows. [01:02:10] So as she goes to do anything from here, I just fall and I just connect my knees and elbows. So now, as she has to pressure me to fall into side control or whatever the case is, I can easily [01:02:20] re guard and look to start going into situations where I'm back in offense, or at least neutral.

[01:02:25] So the second I see my partner just go to sprint around me. If she's sprinting right, I just fall left. What I [01:02:30] can't do is fall right if she goes right. If she goes to my right, and I fall right and connect my knees and elbows, now I'm pinned. My knees are pointing away from my partner and my back's exposed.[01:02:40]

[01:02:40] So I always fall facing her. So she circles right, I fall left. And I look to face her. Just think about falling to face her and connecting your knees and elbows. I'm here, she [01:02:50] goes to circle, and now I have knees and elbows connected. The big mistake everyone makes is when they fall to guard, they feel their partner is [01:03:00] trying to pin them and they try to bridge, and they give up, they lose all the inside position.

[01:03:04] What I can't have is my partner going to circle, I go here, she goes to come in, and now I'm trying to bridge my [01:03:10] partner over, now I've lost all the inside position. Just think about facing your partner, falling to a hip, and Connecting your knees and elbows. If there's no [01:03:20] wedging, there's no way she can, she can steal the inside position.

[01:03:23] So she just goes to circle quickly, and we just sit to guard, and now we can insert legs, and start going [01:03:30] into all of our counter offense from here. Okay? So she has no wedges, and she goes to just jump behind you, just falls to face her, connect your knees and elbows, [01:03:40] and voila, you're back in open guard.

[01:03:47] Okay, so this time, she actually gets behind you, [01:03:50] you're a day late and a dollar short, you can't sit to guard, The good news is because she has no connection to you and she's just relying on athleticism to get behind you [01:04:00] There's no actual solid connection she has to you So when she actually gets behind you you can just roll over the near side shoulder and she has no ability to actually follow you You see this all the time in world level competition.[01:04:10]

[01:04:10] So from a situation where She goes behind me And now from here, on the transition, she has no control over me. So go [01:04:20] ahead, go back. The second she goes to just jump behind me, I just roll over the neophyte's shoulder, and I can put my partner back in a guard very easy. [01:04:30] And this is almost impossible to do if you use actual methods like a drag, for example.

[01:04:34] Or from here, I go in, and now, I use the drag, and [01:04:40] I get to my partner's far hip. So if she goes to sit to guard from here, she can't connect her knee and her elbow because of the drag grip. So when she goes to actually recover to a guard, [01:04:50] I can jump across my partner's body,

[01:04:55] or I can insert my knee, go ahead, I can insert my knee like so, [01:05:00] I can get to my partner's far wrist, now she's not in guard anymore. If she goes to roll over the far shoulder, or the near shoulder, She just rolls into my lap. [01:05:10] But when I have, when there's no connection from here, it's the easiest thing in the world, where Ashley just goes to jump across, I just roll over my shoulder, [01:05:20] and from here we can put our partner back in guard.

[01:05:21] Okay, it's a simple thing, without anyone in front of me. I just tuck my hand across my hip, I look away from my [01:05:30] partner, and I just simply roll over my shoulder and I regard like so. So in the event of my partner trying to just jump behind me, [01:05:40] an intermediary step between here, go back to the head, okay, and here we just roll [01:05:50] over the shoulder.

[01:05:51] So she goes to jump behind, we're playing from here, defensive hands in, she goes to go behind, we just roll. Now we're back in position ready to play. Okay, [01:06:00] so if she uses no wedging It's a pretty easy thing. We just use an opportunistic shoulder roll Put my partner back in guard, and now you're back in business.[01:06:10]

[01:06:13] Alright, let's look at, let's look at uh, these two knee blocks. Um, a straight and a cross knee block. So a straight knee block, [01:06:20] is when my knee just goes straight forward, and blocks my partner's knee like so. A cross knee block is where I open up my partner's elbow, and I use a cross step, [01:06:30] and a cross knee to block my partner's elbow like so.

[01:06:32] Okay? Okay. Let's look at a straight knee block first. Okay, a couple things that we can do from here. One, she goes in [01:06:40] and she blocks my elbow like so. Okay, from this position we're going to step our right leg up. Okay, so now my partner goes to circle behind me. It's a [01:06:50] much more difficult thing because I physically have a wedge over my partner's hip.

[01:06:53] Okay, lock up. Tight. Okay, now from here we're going to start building up to our [01:07:00] hands briefly, briefly like so and now we're going to look to use a wedge to clear apart, to clear my elbow. Uh, try to lock my elbow between your [01:07:10] legs, okay, like so. From here I'm going to physically take my left knee and place it over my partner's knee like so, so that from here we can pull our elbow [01:07:20] through and catch our partner's ankle like so.

[01:07:25] The danger from here is that now my neck's exposed. So if at any point I see [01:07:30] my partner trying to lock a guillotine, my secondary hand has to address this. Okay? And now that I have access to my partner's legs, there's many different ways that we can go from here. We can play a game where we [01:07:40] sit into half guard and we start playing a half guard game.

[01:07:45] We can play a game where we pull an ashi garami. We can do all kinds of things from here. All right. The main thing [01:07:50] is initially stopping my partner. From coming through and getting behind me. So we step a leg up, she's in [01:08:00] tight, tight, tight. We put a wedge on top of our partner's thigh, and we pull this elbow free, and we go towards our partner's ankle like so.[01:08:10]

[01:08:10] From this position, when she goes to move from here, there's many different ways we can go. One of the most conservative is to just sit to Ashi [01:08:20] Garami, forcing her hands to the floor. And now we're ready to go in and play from this position, okay, so That's one great way Those can do [01:08:30] that we can stop a knee block go behind It's by physically stepping up like so once you guys are run behind me from here [01:08:40] It's a hard thing and now from here.

[01:08:43] She comes to her feet. I Can take the hand through and I can catch she stays on her knees [01:08:50] I can pull the arm through. Now we have access to our partner's leg like so. Now if we want, we can go with a typical wrestling [01:09:00] approach. We stay up, we start the fight from here. Or we Jitsu approach, where we sit and start to play from here.

[01:09:08] Okay? Another [01:09:10] great approach that we have, is the second our partner goes to block our elbow like so, we can step up. And from here, we can wedge and we [01:09:20] can put our forearm across our partner's hips like so. Okay, tight. Once we have the hand across our partner's hips like so, we can just take our left [01:09:30] leg, shoot it through, and lock a closed guard on our partner.

[01:09:36] Now if she has to do anything from here, [01:09:40] it means nothing. And if she keeps her hands locked that long, she's just gonna expose her back. Okay, so another great option from here is She blocks the elbow [01:09:50] from this position. We step a leg up when she gets to run behind me from here. It's not an easy thing. So I blocked the [01:10:00] knee.

[01:10:00] We put a wedge across the hips and now we fire a leg through. We set the closed guard and now we're ready to work once again [01:10:10] from a neutral position. Okay. So the main thing is

[01:10:19] when I blocked [01:10:20] my partner's elbow, What she can't have is a situation where, a situation where I replace and I step a leg up. 'cause [01:10:30] now I'm covering the hips and I can start to go into situations where I'm genuinely behind her. So the second from here, I see this. [01:10:40] Immediately a leg comes up. Now, it's a hard thing for me to start running behind my partner from here.

[01:10:45] Sure, you can go into cradles and stuff like that and start putting your partner down to a [01:10:50] hip, but now you're not in front headlock anymore. My partner can start to bring the arms out, recover guard, and play from there. Okay, so we're just trying to escape the front headlock and not give up our back. It doesn't [01:11:00] matter if we get cradled, if we step a leg up, my partner goes over the leg and locks.

[01:11:06] Anything that's not going to get my back exposed is perfect. So now from [01:11:10] here when she has to play around and move around, eventually, her hands come separate, her hands come back inside, and we can re guard. Okay? If we're just looking at a situation where [01:11:20] we don't want to get our back exposed, it doesn't matter if we get pinned.

[01:11:22] It doesn't matter if our back's exposed to the floor. That's fine. We'd rather end up in guard than have someone behind us. So, a couple [01:11:30] great ways, uh, from here, when your partner wedges your elbow in place, to free the elbow, get back to a situation where we can either attack the legs or sit down to a guard and play [01:11:40] from there.

[01:11:40] All right, so now let's talk about a situation where our partner either one [01:11:50] opens up the elbow,

[01:11:55] put the cross knee in or two. It comes straight [01:12:00] forward with the knee and uses it to rep, uses it and replaces the knee like so. And now from here, you're about to get your back taken, okay? Or at least about to get your, a situation where [01:12:10] your partner's behind you. The bad news is, is that your partner's already controlling your hips.

[01:12:18] The rear leg [01:12:20] has already stepped up towards the hips. and the hip is easily accessible to the hand. Okay. The good news is, is that your partner [01:12:30] has no control over the near shoulder. All right. So the second I see that cross knee come into place, it's going [01:12:40] to be extremely hard now for me to hit any circling or do anything from here.

[01:12:44] Okay. I'm so far gone. I can't even access my partner's leg from here. Whereas if it's here, [01:12:50] Tight lock up. If it's here, I can at least access my partner's thigh and pull this arm through and go into my counter offense. But if [01:13:00] it's wedged all the way on the outside of the far knee, you can't even access the knee now, okay?

[01:13:04] So whenever I see this, from this position, I just simply wait. I know that my [01:13:10] partner from here is gonna have to eventually step the leg up behind my hips. And now she's gonna have to transition to [01:13:20] a left hand on my hip and a right hand somewhere on either the floor, on my tricep, on my bicep, or a backhand arm [01:13:30] and lock the hands, okay?

[01:13:32] So in a time between a front hand like so [01:13:40] and a grip where my partner from here goes to switch to the waist, the second I see the hands unlock, I circle away from my partner. [01:13:50] Like so. And now I just tuck my hand all the way through. And when she goes to switch to controlling my shoulder, we just roll through, walk our hips back and away, and now from [01:14:00] here, we're ready to go in and play guard once again.

[01:14:02] So I see my partner come in. She goes to bring the cross knee through. And I thought, okay, my back's going to [01:14:10] get taken here. Leg up. Like my back's gonna get taken here. Okay, there's no circling from here. The second I go to circle, she immediately just grabs my hips and she follows me. It's hard to get a situation where [01:14:20] I can circle all the way away from my partner.

[01:14:22] What I can do is I can move a few inches away to give me space to start rolling. So the second I see her go to access my hip, [01:14:30] we walk away slightly. She goes to grab my hip. Now as she goes to follow, she has to switch her other hand. The second she goes to do that, come back, second she goes to do [01:14:40] that, I just tuck my hand through, I roll over my shoulders, and now we're ready to go in and put our partner back in guard.

[01:14:48] Okay? [01:14:50] So, if I see my partner come straight forward with the knee, Nope, straight forward with the knee, and trap my elbow [01:15:00] between like so, I have some things that I can do from here. Because now, she doesn't have her rear leg behind my hips. I can come through, and I can start playing a game where I take this arm through.[01:15:10]

[01:15:10] If I see my partner's rear leg is covering my hips and she's in a cross knee position or she's using a cross knee block, now from here, it's hard for me to do [01:15:20] anything from here, okay? From this position, she's going to have to make a change in grips from her front head to her back head and arm, or at least a tight waist and [01:15:30] hand on the floor or wherever she's going to put it.

[01:15:32] So the second I see this hand go to the hips, I just walk away slightly. and now there's no control over my near [01:15:40] shoulder. So as she goes to circle and actually solidify the go behind, I just roll through, I can place my partner back in guard and we're ready to go. So from here she goes [01:15:50] in, she opens my elbow, she goes to hit a quick go behind, we just roll through, we put our partner back in guard before she can actually get a [01:16:00] solidified go behind and secure turtle position.

[01:16:03] Okay, so sticky situation, um, but Rolling to guard is usually your best option from there, um, and you can [01:16:10] forepoint and do other things, but, uh, when you're dealing with Submissions and stuff, and your partner has an elbow trapped between your legs, whether it's here, whether it's here, here, [01:16:20] or here If I start forepointing from here, my partner can just step up and easily come up, and now she can start trapping my hands [01:16:30] Pulling the hand out and away, and now from here there's crucifix danger.

[01:16:33] So I generally recommend, when you're dealing with submissions, to just, if your, uh, if your elbow gets trapped, your elbow [01:16:40] gets blocked, just roll over the shoulder. What you don't want is to be in a situation where I trap a leg here, or I trap a leg here, and now if someone four points, [01:16:50] And I have a front headlock and I try to get the arm down and now from here you end up in situations where there's Kimuras and now you're getting rolled through, you're getting your back taken, you're getting triangled, there's all kinds of things from [01:17:00] here.

[01:17:00] So I genuinely recommend when you're doing Jiu Jitsu and someone traps the arm between the, or traps the arm between your legs to use more of a Jiu Jitsu approach [01:17:10] and just roll to guard and use, or sit to guard and use a more conservative route rather than getting your arm trapped. Getting crucifixed and having keymores locked and getting your back taken things like that [01:17:20] so a couple a couple of ways to do that either to get to your legs or to just roll to guard as your partner goes behind you and And recover it to at least [01:17:30] some kind of guard Either from there or accessing your partner's legs and then building to the waist building to the legs going in for your takedowns Whatever you choose to do [01:17:40] Okay, so look at let's look at our partner using an arm drag method To actually, uh, go behind [01:17:50] and this is a great method because now I have no access to my partner's legs.

[01:17:53] I can't follow my partner. It's difficult to, uh, to play a game here where, um, I'm following my partner through the arm drag. Cause you can [01:18:00] always drag and access my hip with the other hand. And it's going to be difficult to circle. My partner's always going to eventually get behind me. Okay, so, how can we defend, uh, arm drags [01:18:10] properly from here?

[01:18:11] First, if we have a naive opponent, which you're gonna find in Jiu Jitsu again, not in wrestling, your partner won't transfer the head to the correct side, and you can just re drag your partner. So what this [01:18:20] looks like is, your partner goes in from a front head, Her head stays on my right side and from here she goes into drag without moving the [01:18:30] head and I just re drag.

[01:18:31] Now what this will look like is I either one, I step my leg up and I drag and I turn everything down towards the floor and I re drag and I end up in turtle [01:18:40] position on my partner or you can do A more classical Jiu Jitsu approach where she goes to, uh, do everything, where she goes to [01:18:50] drag me, the head stays on the wrong side, I drag, but this time instead of dragging, I just sit into a guard, where I step the opposite leg up, instead of stepping this leg [01:19:00] up and dragging, for a more wrestling based approach, I step the opposite leg up, and now I just pull myself in, and now I'm in a situation where I can [01:19:10] hit sumigeshis.

[01:19:11] Or now from here, I can either pull my partner's arm across, and I can start playing a game here, or I sit to guard first, and then I heist my [01:19:20] partner's back, or I pull my partner's arm across, I get a far lat, now I simulgation my partner to the left, I take my partner up, I drag across, and now I have [01:19:30] control over my partner's back.

[01:19:31] There's a variety of different things that I can do from here, but it all starts with the drag. So, during the drag, if you recognize your partner's head position is in the wrong spot, [01:19:40] Just simply go in from here, and now from here. I just post the hand, I catch, and I re [01:19:50] drag. If I want to end up on top and do more of a wrestling based approach, I step up my outside leg, I turn everything towards the floor, and when she goes to circle towards my back, I [01:20:00] just re drag, and I get to my partner's far hip.

[01:20:03] If I want to do more of a jitsu based approach, I From here, she goes to drag, [01:20:10] we step our inside leg up, so we just tuck our left leg in, we step our inside leg up, and then we just slide into a situation like so, where now we can [01:20:20] start elevating our partner over to Tsubagishi, we can start elevating our partner up, and taking our partner's back, or we can [01:20:30] set the guard for in here, I set the guard first, and And now from here, if my partner goes to pull away from me, that brings us into a situation where [01:20:40] now we're here to back behind our partner, and we can go in and we can start to get to situations where we can take our partner's back.

[01:20:47] Okay, so that is [01:20:50] the first situation where our partner is very naive, and she goes in, and she goes to drag, and the head's in the wrong side. Now let's look at a situation [01:21:00] where our opponent's head is on the correct side, where before she goes to do anything, she switches her head across, and now she switches her hand to an arm drag grip, and now from [01:21:10] here, it's gonna be a pretty difficult thing from here to start going in.

[01:21:13] And, uh, and redragging. I'm gonna try to redrag from here. I don't really have a purchase. My head can't rise, [01:21:20] and as I'm gonna redrag, she just circles behind me, and now I'm beat. Okay? So, whenever I see this, understand first, the shoulder roll is out of the question. [01:21:30] Why? My partner goes to switch, and she gets to a far hip.

[01:21:36] Because her hand is over my shoulder already, When I go to [01:21:40] shoulder roll from this position, when she goes to drag, she goes behind me. If I go to shoulder roll, she just locks a back headed arm, and I just fall right into her lap, and now I'm getting my back [01:21:50] taken. So you can't have nearside shoulder roll when your partner tries to arm drag you.

[01:21:54] In the previous moves, she had a front headed arm, and now, [01:22:00] uh, switch, this knee, she had a front headed arm, she had no control over my near shoulder. So when she went to grab my hip, before she switched her, [01:22:10] switched her hands, the shoulder roll was available. But now, this time, with a drag grip, she's physically over my shoulder, okay?[01:22:20]

[01:22:20] So now from here, the second I go to roll, she just locks her hands, and I just fall into her lap and I'm beat from here. So you can't do a shoulder roll. Whenever I see my partner [01:22:30] going to drag, and get to my back, the second I see this, I'm beat. I'm just going to sit down to my hip, and I'm going to connect my left knee [01:22:40] and my left elbow.

[01:22:41] Okay? Now, I'm not going to say that this will always work. You may, in the pin and side control, you may very well do that, [01:22:50] but you're not going to get your back taken at least. Okay, the worst case scenario is I fall, like so, my partner splits my elbows, and she ends up chest to chest with the top pin.[01:23:00]

[01:23:02] As I talked about before, it's difficult to connect both of your knees and elbows because of the fact that your partner has a drag grip. But, [01:23:10] ultimately, what's going to put me back in guard isn't the connection of my right knee and my elbow. It's the connection of my left knee and my left elbow, here. So I go to sit to guard, [01:23:20] my partner theoretically wants to come in and split and pull his arm through.

[01:23:25] And now she creates space to get to the inside position, and she can pin me. But if I [01:23:30] fall, it doesn't matter what she does with my right arm, if I fall and my left knee and elbow connect, now she has no ability to actually pin me. Now from here, wherever she goes to move around, [01:23:40] eventually I can go through and I can bring my hands into position.

[01:23:43] Okay? So, she goes to drag this time, [01:23:50] her head's in the right position. I feel like from here there's no shoulder roll, there's no re drag. What can I do from here? The second I feel this, I immediately just fall to my [01:24:00] hip and I connect my left knee and my left elbow, the opposite side my partner is dragging to.

[01:24:04] So that from here, as she goes to, uh, as she goes to take my back, or as she goes to pin me in side [01:24:10] control, you see this. Now she has to pin me or control my head. I can always bring hands inside and then eventually legs inside. Worst [01:24:20] case scenario you're going to find

[01:24:25] is you're going to drag your partner goes to sit. I [01:24:30] split the legs and I bring my shin across the hips like so. So now she's connecting me in the elbow and even though it's connected I still have my feet inside so I can start [01:24:40] going in and pinning and playing from here. Or I'm a daylight and a dollar short and I get pinned in side control and my back's on the floor.

[01:24:48] But it doesn't matter. [01:24:50] You'd rather be pinned in side control than have your back being taken 10 times out of 10. So anything that can return your back to the floor and have you face your partner is money in the bank. Okay? So [01:25:00] what do we have so far? We have a situation where our partner keeps their head on the same side and is naive and gets [01:25:10] redragged either to the back with the outside leg.

[01:25:16] Or to a seated guard with the inside leg. This time, [01:25:20] she goes in, her head goes to the right position. She goes to drag, and now from here we just slide our knee forward, and capitulate down to our [01:25:30] hips, so when she goes to actually pin me, it's a difficult thing. She goes to advance now, we bring everything back inside.

[01:25:38] And finally, my partner [01:25:40] goes to drag,

[01:25:44] From here, I can immediately pop up to a four point and I can just look to start circling towards my partner. So when she goes to [01:25:50] start coming in and chasing my back, I just circle, circle, circle from a four point and now it's going to be a situation where, stay in there, stay in the direct, she gets to my [01:26:00] hip, I start circling from the four point and then from here I start building up and I can start bringing my hand back across or I can start going into shooting my partner's legs.

[01:26:08] I can start creating some kind of [01:26:10] motion from here towards my partner's legs or towards an escape. Okay, again, it's more Into a scrimmage wrestling situation not a front headlock escape situation, but [01:26:20] I can start everything off if I want to Where she goes to drag I feel like I'm not gonna hit any previous moves I start to start pulling up and now from here we can start going in and coming [01:26:30] across and moving into various takedowns or other standing escapes.

[01:26:34] Okay, again, it's not really front headlock escapes or hurdle escapes. It's more four point scrimmage [01:26:40] wrestling and wrestling. Um, but just know that you can four point and start circling off of the, uh, off of the initial drag and look to go into, uh, other combinations [01:26:50] off of that. Um, but just as far as escape, escaping the front head, defending the drag, uh, these are some great options.

[01:26:56] Um, as far as putting your partner back in [01:27:00] guard, um, and just exposing your back to the floor, facing your partner, or if they're naive, re dragging and either sitting to guard, using more wrestling or more [01:27:10] jiu jitsu style approaches, and at least escaping, and preferably getting back into some kind of offense.[01:27:20]

[01:27:21] Okay, now let's look at a misdirectional throw by where my partner circles in one and then misdirects as I go to follow. and goes in the opposite direction. [01:27:30] Now, this is actually a very useful tool um, because it uses misdirection and uh, circling in one direction and then you throw back to the other side as your partner follows you.

[01:27:39] [01:27:40] Um, so it actually is very effective and can be used even against the highest level guys. The one knock on it is that it's a speed based [01:27:50] method and not a control based method. Um, And, uh, if you time, if you're, if you're, the bottom man has good timing, you can, uh, you can go with some [01:28:00] offense or at least, uh, you know, counter your part of throwing by and roll to guard or do some things like that.

[01:28:05] So we're going to look at that now. Alright, first we're going to look at a partner who [01:28:10] starts to look to circle, so we have defensive hands in place, like so, a partner has locked hands, she's going to start circling in one direction, as she goes [01:28:20] to do that, I follow, follow, follow, then she throws by in the opposite direction, and I start coming out in this direction, she forms an angle, gets to my far hip, and now goes [01:28:30] behind me.

[01:28:31] Okay, if I'm ready for this, as my partner goes to circle and she goes to throw, I can come through here and we [01:28:40] can quickly just shoot our chin right to our partner's hip, and we can go in and lock our partner's legs. And now from here, we can drive across for a double. [01:28:50] We can send it to our partner's legs.

[01:28:53] We can do a variety of different things from here. Okay. So if you're ready for this, maybe your partner has done it to you a few times, you know what's coming [01:29:00] as your partner goes to circle you, she goes to throw you by. I just got right in here and I shoot right to a double as I got to throw my partner by.[01:29:10]

[01:29:10] Okay. And then from the double, you can do a variety of different things. You can go behind your partner, you can shoot the legs, you can enter into ashi garami, you can sit the guard, you can do various different things. Just getting to your partner's legs [01:29:20] will give you some kind of offense. Now let's say your partner genuinely gets behind you, and you feel like you have no access to your partner's legs.

[01:29:27] So she goes to run by, she goes to throw by. [01:29:30] From here, I go to circle, she goes to throw by. And as she does, the second I see this, again, there's no control over me right now. Just, she's using a misdirectional method. [01:29:40] So the second she goes to circle behind me, I just look across, shoulder roll, and I can return our partner back into guard.

[01:29:46] Okay? So, from here[01:29:50]

[01:29:51] We have defensive hands in place, she goes to start pulling on the head, circle, circle, circle. And we just roll into guard and we put our partner back in guard [01:30:00] like so. Okay, so two great methods. One, she goes to misdirect.

[01:30:08] We go right to the hip, [01:30:10] into the legs. Two, she goes to misdirect, the second she does, I just tuck my arm, roll over the shoulder, [01:30:20] and I return my partner back into guard. So what does it look like in a live situation? As we're playing from here, she's threatening guillotine strangles, and we play from here, she goes to circle, [01:30:30] and now we're ready to play and go back into our counteroffense from a neutral position, versus getting our back [01:30:40] taken.

[01:30:40] Alright guys, so now [01:30:50] let's look at, we've looked at, uh, defending go behinds, defending submissions. Let's look at now how we can actually go into some escapes from here, either recovering guard or standing up and facing our partner. [01:31:00] Alright, we're going to look at first sitting to half guard. Now whether my partner has a typical front head, or she has her hands on my center line, whether she has her [01:31:10] hands fed through to my armpit, or whether she has hands fed through to my opposite shoulder, like so.

[01:31:16] Doesn't really make a difference. I can, I can always sit to a half guard. [01:31:20] Okay, so I'm gonna have, just go back to your front hand, I'm gonna have again my primary and secondary defensive hands in I'm gonna be playing from here. Okay. Now if [01:31:30] my opponent is playing with her chest heavy and her legs back and away Okay, this isn't the time to try to sit to a half guard now because now there's weight on me It's hard [01:31:40] for me to move from here and it's gonna be difficult for me to start getting anything going Okay So if I find and my partner's legs are [01:31:50] out and away from me We're gonna look to go into different escapes from here Usually going in building the four point or looking to go in and thumb post my partner's elbow We'll look at that in a second, but [01:32:00] assuming my partner's knees are in towards me Okay Usually because we have a good submission specialist who's baiting me to go in and grab the legs with my hands So that now she can [01:32:10] attack my neck and go for straggles, okay?

[01:32:13] So whenever I see my partner's knees are on the floor and her legs are in towards me I'm just gonna walk out to an angle like so [01:32:20] I'm gonna step a leg up and I'm just gonna slide my left leg Between my partner's leg and hook into my partner's leg like so Now from this position [01:32:30] my partner has to unlock her hands And that will give me space to come back inside.

[01:32:36] If my partner doesn't unlock her hands, there's no reason [01:32:40] why I can't switch from the primary hand, being in like so, to a grip here, on my partner's opposite wrist. And now, [01:32:50] all I have to do is go back down to the floor, and I just tuck my partner, my elbow behind me, and I post to my partner's hip. Once she goes to pull that left hand out now, it's almost [01:33:00] impossible, and from here, a knee lever comes very easy over the top position.

[01:33:04] So the second we land, if my partner unlocks the hands, [01:33:10] we can recover into a half guard. If my partner keeps the hands locked, we moved from one wrist to the other. And now when she goes to base out or pull that hand [01:33:20] out, we just fall. bringing her chest to chest, trapping her arm underneath her, and then just levering my knees out to the side and taking my partner over like so.[01:33:30]

[01:33:31] So my partner has a front head with locked hands, she has control of my head and arm. And from this position, I see my partner's knees [01:33:40] are in towards me, okay? If our knees are far and away and knees are off the floor and our legs are far and away, it's gonna be hard now. Wait on me, I'm not gonna shoot the half guard from here.

[01:33:48] But assuming my partner's legs are [01:33:50] in towards me, knees are on the floor, I have defensive hands in place. From here, we come in, we step a leg up, then we just slide into a half guard like so. Now [01:34:00] if she releases, great. If she doesn't, she goes right out to a knee lever, where we can easily take our partner up and over and solidify top position.

[01:34:09] So [01:34:10] my partner has a standard front head, sitting into half guard, assuming my partner's knees are on the floor, and our legs are towards me. Now, You don't see this too often in wrestling, because [01:34:20] there's no submissions in wrestling. But it's more common than you think in Jiu Jitsu. My preferred position is actually to play with at least one knee on the floor to bait people going for my legs, singles or doubles, [01:34:30] to take the primary hand off and lead me into submission.

[01:34:33] So, it's actually a pretty common thing you see in Jiu Jitsu. Whenever my partner's legs are towards me, instead of taking the bait and going [01:34:40] for the legs, you can just sit into half guard and recover right away.

[01:34:47] All right, so let's look at now my opponent starts with [01:34:50] locked hands and either she opens her hands to try to switch grips to different variations of front headlock or go for an arm drag, for example, or I managed to just use a two on one to separate my partner's [01:35:00] hands and the hands are open. How can I clear my head from here?

[01:35:03] Okay, we're going to be in a situation where we're in front head, primary and secondary defensive hand are on. Okay, [01:35:10] now I'm going to immediately switch my secondary hand from A defensive secondary hand to an offensive two on one like so, okay, where I take [01:35:20] the two on one here So I have a two on one on my partner's wrist whether or not she has knees towards me whether or not she's sprawled out Uh knees off the floor [01:35:30] doesn't make a difference from here If at any point she tries to switch her head and goes for an arm drag or she goes to unlock her hands It doesn't make a difference Because I have this two on one, I can [01:35:40] easily take my head to the outside, and now the choice is yours.

[01:35:43] The most conservative route is just to simply sit to an open guard with the downward [01:35:50] facing two on one, and now we can go in and play for a neutral position. We can go in, we can clear the head, and immediately we can move up, and we can go [01:36:00] in for a drag on our partner. Right now we can look to take our partner's arm across and we can go to the far hip.

[01:36:06] We can look to take a drag grip on our partner and again [01:36:10] sit to a seated butterfly guard. Now we can go in and play from here. Because we're both on our knees we can clear the head and we can come in and we can snap our [01:36:20] partner's head and we can go into a front headlock. There's a variety of different things that we can do from here.

[01:36:24] All right, the main thing I'm looking for is just to get our head out whenever you see your partner's hands are [01:36:30] separated. So whenever I see this A gap in my partner's hand she goes to open her hands to make any any sort of grip change The second I see this because my primary hand's in place I can easily [01:36:40] control the hand She goes to make any kind of grip change.

[01:36:41] Go ahead Once the head's out, there's a variety of different things you can do from here, ranging from very conservative [01:36:50] to more offensive, where we can go in and start going in on counter offense. Okay? So whenever I see I have an initial primary [01:37:00] defensive hand in, My partner unlocks the hands to make any kind of grip change, and we're on two knees.

[01:37:04] We just use that to take the hand out, the head pops out, and then we can go into either sitting or re dragging or snapping, [01:37:10] whatever you want from there.

[01:37:15] All right, so now let's look at a situation where partner has a front head, you can't make anything happen, you [01:37:20] can't sit to half guard, and we're going to look at, okay, what am I going to look to do now? I can't access my partner's legs. I can't do any of the previous moves we just looked [01:37:30] at. How can I just clear the front head and use an elbow post, assume my partner's As locked hands and I just cannot move my head.

[01:37:36] I can't move anywhere and we need other options [01:37:40] from here She's going to be in she has a tight front headlock on me like so we have primary hand in place Okay now understand [01:37:50] that when you take your primary hand off There is a threat of a strangle so I can't just take my hand off and allow her to come in And strangle me right away So before I take my [01:38:00] primary hand off, I always turn again my chin towards my partner's strangle arm like so So she does try to strangle me from here It goes over my jaw and not [01:38:10] underneath my chin.

[01:38:11] So I play here. Now I step a leg up and I post. [01:38:20] I post on my partner's hip like so. I take a thumb post on my partner's elbow. The key here is to get a connection of my right ear [01:38:30] to my right shoulder. So I look towards my partner's elbow. And now from here, as I extend my right arm, I take my head to the [01:38:40] center line.

[01:38:41] Right now, my head is way off center. It's on the outside of a rib cage. So I take my head to the center line, and from here, my ear connects to my own [01:38:50] shoulder. So when she goes to lop on tight, I just post, and I use a thumb post to push everything towards the center line, like so. [01:39:00] And now from here, my head can slide out, and now we can go in and either go arm drag or snap my partner's head like so.

[01:39:08] At least they're out of the front [01:39:10] headlock. So you see my partner's in a tight front head. We go from primary, defensive hand. We take the defensive hand off. [01:39:20] after we set our jaw in place. So now from here we can go post to my partner's hip. The, the arm that is [01:39:30] under my arm, her left arm in this case, that's the same side arm I'll post to my partner's hip.

[01:39:35] Then I'm thumb posting her strangle arm, like so. [01:39:40] Now I step a leg up. I have post on my partner's elbow. Now the whole thing from here is to push off the left foot and push everything towards the center [01:39:50] line with the goal of centering my head on my partner's center line. and connecting my right ear to my right shoulder.

[01:39:56] So when she goes to hold on tight, we get the head [01:40:00] free. And now you have a choice of just coming out, sitting to guard, coming out, snapping our partner, coming out, dragging, whatever you want from there. Okay, [01:40:10] if in the event you feel you're 85 to 90 percent of the way out, but you just can't slip the head, use the thumb post to switch off to an arm drag [01:40:20] grip.

[01:40:20] Okay, so when I see I'm in a position position like so, we're here, I feel like I can almost get my head out, but I'm just not there. [01:40:30] When I see this, I use the thumb post to switch to a drag grip. I've reached my partner's far hip and now we're ready to go. Okay, [01:40:40] so in the event that the front headlock is so tight where you feel like I'm almost there, but the head just won't slip out.

[01:40:45] Just convert it to a drag. So we use a thumb post[01:40:50]

[01:40:51] on my partner's hip. We step a leg up and from here we take a thumb post like so as we have a hip and a thumb post on my partner's triangle [01:41:00] arm. If I can free my head on the first shot. Great. Again, I want to go from here to [01:41:10] here. If that's just not possible, I get almost through, but I just can't get all the way through.

[01:41:18] I switch across to a [01:41:20] drag grip. And now, when she gets to hold my head tight like she just was, I just pull everything on by, we get to our partner's far hip, and now we're ready to go in and [01:41:30] attack our partner from top turtle position. So two great options, starting with the thumb post. Either we post the hip, thumb post the elbow, re center the head, and by [01:41:40] connecting the shoulder to the ear, or we start with the thumb post and then convert it to an arm drag.[01:41:50]

[01:41:50] All right, so this time let's say our partner tries to go from right from her front head with the hands on the center line all the way through and feed to a kagatame, the [01:42:00] anaconda. All right, um, the second I see my partner's elbow going towards the center line and the last In the last clip, we looked at how to physically bring our partner's [01:42:10] elbow towards the center line with a thumb post or an arm drag.

[01:42:12] So the elbow and the head are coming towards the center line and then we can eventually get out. If she willingly brings her elbow towards the center line, I [01:42:20] can just immediately arm drag off of that. Okay. So when I see my partner coming in with a front head and I have a primary hand in place, maybe I lose the [01:42:30] primary hand.

[01:42:30] Let's say I go to post to my partner's hip, or whatever the case is, and she shoots the hand through. Whenever I see this, whenever I see the elbow coming towards the center line, I just immediately reach [01:42:40] through, and I catch a drag grip like so. Now, I step my leg up, as we did previously. Now my whole thing from here is to drag everything on [01:42:50] by, and pull my head again to my partner's center line.

[01:42:54] If she goes to hold on tight, she'll tell you she has some great control here. If my head [01:43:00] moves out into this position when she goes to control me now, she feels almost nothing. And now from here it's a pretty easy thing to look down towards the floor, pull everything [01:43:10] through so that my chest faces down towards the floor and I weight over my partner's arm.

[01:43:15] When she goes to posture from here, it's a difficult thing. Now I get to my partner's far hip, [01:43:20] we run behind our partner, And now we're ready to go in and start attacking. So whenever I see my partner makes a mistake i'm trying to feed right to an [01:43:30] anaconda from a front head The second I see this we just reach through we catch a drag grip We step a leg up and from here [01:43:40] We bring everything towards center line as this left arm comes up We chase the hip and we get to a [01:43:50] situation where we can drag our partner through We run to our partner's hips and now We're ready to go in and start all of our offense.

[01:43:57] Okay. So whenever I see my partner's [01:44:00] elbow drifts too far towards the center line, we just go through with a drag grip. We take it towards the center line and then we're ready to go back into our counter offense.[01:44:10]

[01:44:12] Okay. Let's look at a situation now where we're in a front head and we just feel like escaping from the knees is not going to be an option. [01:44:20] Um, And we have no access to our partner's legs. We can't sit to guard. We can't do anything. We can't make anything happen. And this guy just has all the weight on us.

[01:44:28] And we're out of options from [01:44:30] here. Building to a four point is something that's super important. We're not gonna spend a ton of time of it on time, uh, time on it. Um, number one, because now we're getting like Too far into [01:44:40] wrestling moves, um, and number two, because I'm sure that actual Olympic wrestlers, this is a, this is like a, such an area where I have to improve onto, so I'm sure [01:44:50] like actual Olympic wrestlers know far more about mechanics and movements here than I do, um, So, I'm not going to show you guys in depth movements that, or, [01:45:00] that I'm not an expert at.

[01:45:02] Um, but I do have some things that I do from here that I want to show you guys. Um, so let's just talk about building to a four point [01:45:10] from a front headlock. Okay, we're going to come in, she has a front headlock. Again, we're going to take our primary defense's hand off, and we're going to look to start building up to a four [01:45:20] point.

[01:45:20] So, from here, I bring my secondary hand off first, I post, I bring my primary hand off second, and now we just pop up to a four point like so. [01:45:30] Now, she's obviously going to come off of her knees, and she's going to start putting weight onto me like so, alright? Now we're at a four point, and we can start moving around from here.

[01:45:38] Some of the obvious, [01:45:40] uh, some of the obvious moves that we can hit from here is if we can get to our partner's leg, then we can start going in and applying it from there. Most of the time we won't be able to do that. She'll have her legs back and far away, [01:45:50] and she'll be sprawling like so. One thing I can start doing, is I can start coming up, I can start posting my partner's hip, we can start thumb posting, and we can start using movement now to use [01:46:00] the same set of movements we used before, where we can come out and use thumb posts and drags and things like that.

[01:46:06] Okay, the main thing is, we're going to [01:46:10] come in and recognize And we can build to a four point to escape these positions. Where from here, secondary hand comes up, primary hand comes up, and then we just [01:46:20] pop up to two feet like so. And now from here, we're ready to go in and start to work our escape. She's going to be trying to, every time I pose, she's going to be trying to snap my hands back down to the floor.[01:46:30]

[01:46:30] So I have to look to go in and create movement where I can go through, unpose through, and look to start freeing my head from the, from the head and arm. Okay, and again, [01:46:40] we're getting into a lot of wrestling movements here. Um, and this is supposed to be a Jiu Jitsu front headlock instructional. [01:46:50] So I'm trying to give you a sum of each.

[01:46:51] Um, and again, this is an area where I'm not an expert at compared to like Olympic level wrestlers. So I'm not gonna get too, too deep into it. [01:47:00] Uh, escapes from standing four point front head because I'm sure there's some things that I don't know from here But I will show you some, uh, an Udegishi next which, uh, pretty [01:47:10] decent at.

[01:47:10] All right, so we're gonna look at that right now

[01:47:16] All right Let's look at, uh, building to a four point and then coming up [01:47:20] off of our hands and going into an Udegishi Now, um, there's actually some great tapes already on this. I'm pretty sure Gary Tonin had a variation of this Multiple times on [01:47:30] Yuri Samoi's at EBI 6 and like threw him like right onto his face a ton of times You Also, I know for a fact that Gary hit this.

[01:47:38] In, I [01:47:40] forget what tournament it was, it's on YouTube against, he competes against, uh, munchie from Marcelo's. And, uh, he like almost knocks him unconscious by [01:47:50] throwing him onto his face 'cause he holds onto the front headlock. So let's take a look at this. Alright, we build to a four point.

[01:47:59] And now [01:48:00] from here as we build to a four point, we. our feet in slightly, and we walk our hands back, and we get our hands off the floor. Okay, now obviously, if my partner snaps my hands back to the floor, [01:48:10] I won't be able to use this. But if I can walk my hands in, and get to a situation like so, we put our primary defensive hand in.

[01:48:17] If the guillotine, if your partner locks in a [01:48:20] guillotine, and this is tight, Like if she goes high elbow, for example, and I, and I try to hit this move, I'm just going to make the guillotine tighter. And you're going to end in this awkward [01:48:30] position where you get caught here, you land, your partner's holding you in the air.

[01:48:33] She steps over into mount and then you're getting guillotined. So this is not a move that you can use once the [01:48:40] submission is actually locked. It's more from a front head or when like the guillotine is like starting to come in. There's nothing that you can use when there's already a fully locked guillotine.

[01:48:47] You'll just make it tighter. But from a front [01:48:50] headlock, I can move into a situation like, We're going to come in and grab our partner's elbow. Like so. We're going to take a deep bite inside of our partner's [01:49:00] elbow. From this position, we're going to step our left leg slightly out, and then we're going to shoot our right hand all the way through, and just sit to our right [01:49:10] hip as we pull our left elbow behind us.

[01:49:13] So we sit into this position,[01:49:20]

[01:49:21] like so. So now from here your partner has a few choices. If she lets go, she'll be out. [01:49:30] So what will happen if she lets go of the lock is usually you'll pull her down to the floor, she lets go, and as you come out you'll either [01:49:40] be out and most of the time in a position to snap her into her front head off of the, off the jump.

[01:49:49] If she holds on [01:49:50] too long, what will happen, is as I go to sit through, she'll spike her head right into the mat, and that will happen. [01:50:00] And then it'll come out, and you just spike your partner's head into the floor. If she holds on, and she's ready for it, she can potentially roll through, and it will [01:50:10] It'll look beautiful, and you'll end up getting out of the front head.

[01:50:13] So what it'll look like if she holds on to it, and she shoulder rolls, is as I go to sit, [01:50:20] she'll roll through, and now you're out, and you're ready to go to the top position. Okay? But the main mechanics are, we come in, she [01:50:30] goes front head. From here, we have primary hand in place, we grab an elbow. Take a small step and now I just shoot to a hip and I shoot my right hand through as I pull my [01:50:40] left elbow to my hip,

[01:50:44] like so. If I land in this position here, [01:50:50] I shoot through

[01:50:56] and we land like so and we're ready to go. So as [01:51:00] I shoot my legs, my arm through, I shoot my right leg through And now we're ready to go and we look towards our [01:51:10] partner's head and we rotate to our left hip. That's what takes our partner through. So we stand up, we're applying from our front head. [01:51:20] I'm flying with all my escapes and we take our partner through and we're ready to go.

[01:51:26] So we build from a four point, from a [01:51:30] front head internal position.

[01:51:35] We walk our hands in, we're playing around. I'm going to try a thumb post, I can't do it.[01:51:40]

[01:51:43] We take our partner through, and we're out of the front headlock. Okay? So using an Udegeshi, [01:51:50] the counter front headlock. Assuming we can walk our hands in and get our hands off the floor.

[01:51:58] All right, let's take a look at, [01:52:00] we looked at everything so far has been front headlock with our opponent having locked hands. Now let's look at unlocked hands where they have just a chin strap and a grip on my tricep. All right.[01:52:10]

[01:52:12] It's very similar. Just understand that number one, you don't have the ability to put a primary defensive hand in [01:52:20] place. Okay. If my partner locks this grip, don't. Get caught up with trying to fight to get your primary hand in and then your partner just punches through and they're getting guillotined [01:52:30] Okay, so whenever I see My partner has a chin strap.

[01:52:33] The primary hand is gonna be useless from here Instead I just take a grip over my partner's knuckle line the [01:52:40] line that draws her knuckles together and I grab Right over the forefingers like so okay when she has to keep a strong grip We just grab over my partner's knuckle line [01:52:50] We take out my partner's hand off like so.

[01:52:53] Now, when she goes to relock her hands, she can't. I can just pull, I switch to a two on one, I put my primary hand [01:53:00] in, we switch to a two on one, and then we just pop the head right out. Okay. Whenever I see my partner's electing to go with unlocked hands. The main difference is, [01:53:10] you cannot put a primary defensive hand in place.

[01:53:13] If you try to fiddle around with this for too long, your partner, because she can pull the chin up, and now she can shave the wrist underneath. [01:53:20] Alright, so that's the main difference. So you don't have time from here to try to, you think, oh, what am I, what am I supposed to do with my hands from here? If you think about it, the chin's already getting pulled up and you're already [01:53:30] getting guillotined.

[01:53:31] So the second I see this, primary hand does nothing. Secondary hand comes in and I catch. So now she goes to strangle me. The [01:53:40] hand gets caught. We pass off to a one to a primary hand. We switch to a true two on one. And now from here, we just loop the head out. And now we're [01:53:50] ready to go in and start playing with our counteroffense or conservative defense.

[01:53:54] Okay. So whenever I see my partner uses unlocked hands and recognize that the hands are not locked, now you [01:54:00] cannot put a primary defensive hand in place. Use a secondary hand over the knuckle line to strip the hand off, switch to a primary hand, switch to a two on one. And then from there, That can come out easy.[01:54:10]

[01:54:14] All right. So if we made it through a front headlock, my partner has both locked hands [01:54:20] and unlocked hands in various positions, whether it be, uh, feeding to different kind of, uh, kagetames or guitines. Uh, the first and most important thing obviously is [01:54:30] you have to be able to defend the submissions, right?

[01:54:32] If your hands are just out doing nothing and your chin comes up, then you're gonna get, you're gonna get finished and the match is going to be over. [01:54:40] So you either have to have primary hands in place, or you have to be in a position where your jaw is protected, where they can't immediately punch a strangle in, [01:54:50] and you have to be in a position where if you don't have hands on your partner, or if you don't have primary hands in place, you have to be fighting to get your head back to the center line so there's no threat of strangles, okay?[01:55:00]

[01:55:00] So either two primary hands in place, or at least one primary hand in place, or you have to be in a position where you're to get your head from one side of your partner's ribcage. to [01:55:10] center line and then to your opposite side shoulder to actually circle your head out. Okay, so those are your two defensive positions.

[01:55:15] You don't have to always have defensive hands in place, but if you don't, you have to have [01:55:20] your, uh, your head in a position where you're not going to get strangled and always be working towards moving your head out to center line and eventually freeing the head. Um, [01:55:30] once we can establish not getting submitted, we have to stop our partner from going behind us.

[01:55:34] Okay, because the whole idea of front head is either to bait for submissions and use a dilemma between, you know, [01:55:40] the threat of a submission, and when I fight the hands, then using that to go behind, uh, and breaking your partner down from, breaking me down from turtle, and then eventually taking the back.

[01:55:48] So we have to defend [01:55:50] submissions, Once we can not get submitted and not immediately have our partner go behind us, then it's all about facing our partner, either in a standing direction where we [01:56:00] stand up and face our partner, and look to separate hands and use two on ones to clear or pose from the hip and clear the head.

[01:56:06] and face our partner, or face our partner down on the floor [01:56:10] by exposing our back to the ground. Okay, and whether you end up in bottom side control, bottom half guard, bottom close guard, doesn't matter, right? Anything is better than having your partner go behind you, [01:56:20] get to a turtle position, and then potentially insert hooks, where Now they've scored the maximum amount of points and you're halfway to being submitted.

[01:56:28] All right, so whether I can land in a bottom [01:56:30] pin, whether or not, whether I can land in a bottom half guard, bottom closed guard, doesn't make a difference. Anything that exposes my back to the floor without my partner having a front head or threats of submission, is [01:56:40] money in the bank for me, right? That's that's what I'm looking for here.

[01:56:42] Um, now this may change when you're talking about, okay, what are the, what's the rules that I'm competing in? But right now, if we're just talking about pure good [01:56:50] jujitsu and the goal being control that leads to submission, we want to stay the furthest away from getting submitted that we can, um, and not worrying about being scored on and all this and that, right?

[01:56:59] [01:57:00] So anytime we can expose our back to the floor and face our partner, That's going to be an escape for us. Alright, um, and there's ways that obviously there's more conservative escapes and there's more, uh, [01:57:10] there's more forward escapes where I'm using counter offense to go in and then you start getting to the legs and chain wrestling and you kind of get away from the front headlock.

[01:57:18] But there's so many different options we [01:57:20] can look at here. We looked at many of them to at least escape front headlocks. All right, now we're going to look to go into a front chest lock where you have two arms over and look at the differences between a front headlock and a [01:57:30] front chest lock

[01:57:35] All right. So now let's talk about a front chest lock. All right. What is a front chest lock? Front [01:57:40] chest lock is where I have my hands Locked, not in a front head where I control my partner's head, but in a front chest Chest lock, where I have my hands locked in any various [01:57:50] configuration over my partner's chest and up high by my partner's chin.

[01:57:54] Alright, now what are the advantages and disadvantages to this? Whenever I have, [01:58:00] uh, my partner or my partner has me in a front chest lock, understand that there, there aren't any arm drags from [01:58:10] here. There aren't any, uh, thumb posts from here. So if I want to try to use two on ones to clear, like I did with the previous front headlock, if I want to try to post my partner's hip [01:58:20] and post my partner's elbow, it's not available.

[01:58:22] If I want to try to arm drag, it's not available. Okay. So a lot of the previous things that we did aren't available from here. [01:58:30] Now, the good thing about being in a front chest lock is that, uh, my partner has no ability to immediately strangle me from here, which [01:58:40] means I can use both of my hands to move around.

[01:58:42] Okay. So if my partner wants to actually lock a strangle, she has to go back to a front headlock first, and now she can go [01:58:50] into actual attacks. But here, when we're in a front chest lock, she has more control in some ways, but there's a lot, there's less threat of a submission because she can't actually submit me from this [01:59:00] position.

[01:59:00] Number one. And number two, it makes peek outs much easier, where I sit through, and we start going into escapes like so. So, it [01:59:10] offers more control in some ways, where it makes dragging, arm dragging very hard to do. It makes posting on my partner's hip and moving out and away very hard to do. And in a lot of [01:59:20] ways, she can keep my head down a lot easier than she can with a front headlock.

[01:59:27] She can control my head more. [01:59:30] If she moves to a front headlock, like so, and now I start thumb posting, it's pretty easy to take that thumb and move everything towards center line, where now from here I can [01:59:40] start moving my head out and away. Whereas when she goes into with a front chest lock, whenever I go to move my head in a certain direction, she can just take her hips forwards and follow [01:59:50] my head, and it's hard for me a lot of times to move my head out and away.

[01:59:53] Okay, so she can keep my head buried, and provided I am good at using elbow posting and [02:00:00] arm dragging, it takes away my ability to do that. And if you're dealing with someone who's greased, it's much easier to hold on to them because you it's much harder to slide off someone's [02:00:10] shoulders, like past the shoulders, than it is to just lose the head and the arm.

[02:00:14] Okay, so assuming you're dealing with someone who's greased, they're very slippery, switch to a front head, front head. Assuming you're [02:00:20] dealing with someone who's very greased and slippery, like if I had grease on, this might just work. I could just thumb post and just slide right out. With a front chest lock, it's going to be very [02:00:30] difficult, or much more difficult to do, rather, than, uh, than a front headlock if someone's very slippery from here.

[02:00:36] So there are advantages and disadvantages to both, all right? [02:00:40] Advantages, uh, for me, are that, number one, it's going to be much easier to start creating misdirection and using peek outs. Number two, is [02:00:50] that my partner can't strangle me right away. From here, there's no immediate danger of a finish. And number three, if my partner wants to go behind me, she has to switch her grips in some way.

[02:00:59] Whether it be to [02:01:00] her front head, whether it be to, uh, to an arm drag, she has to switch her grips in some way before she can actually go behind me from here, okay? The advantages for [02:01:10] her is that it's much harder for me to clear this grip by using Methods where I just slip out if I did have grease on, which aren't real methods, but they work when the guy's very slippery.[02:01:20]

[02:01:20] Um, and number two, she can keep my head buried a lot easier in some ways, and whenever I go to move, she can drive her hips forward, and it's hard for me to move my head and [02:01:30] to bring my head up like so. And it will take away all of my ability, which is good for her, of posting on my partner's hip, thumb posting, and arm dragging.

[02:01:38] Okay, so there's some [02:01:40] advantages and disadvantages to this. Um, in general, if you want to control someone, this is a great, a great option. Um, whenever I go with very, very high level [02:01:50] wrestlers, um, I find that I have a lot more success in front chest locks controlling guys, um, than I do in, in front headlocks controlling guys.

[02:01:59] I feel like whenever I [02:02:00] put a very good wrestler in a front headlock, It just almost immediately circles the elbow, or post the elbow, circles out, and then you're shooting on my legs. Now obviously there's guillotines and stuff [02:02:10] there, but, um, it's, it's hard a lot of times. A lot of times I just get countered when I go to front head.

[02:02:15] Whereas when I go chest lock, um, even when guys do peek out, there's threats of [02:02:20] guillotines and things there that I can, I can work with, and I can control them a lot better when I have front chest lock. So, I generally prefer front chest lock. when I'm on offense than I do front head against an elite level guy.[02:02:30]

[02:02:35] When you're in front chest lock on your knees, everything is going to start with a peek out, okay? Because I can't [02:02:40] drag, I can't post a hip. The only thing I really have access to, if I don't have access to my partner's legs, which I usually won't, um, is a peek out, all right? Um, so let's look at what [02:02:50] a peek out actually is.

[02:02:52] When we're in this front chest lock, my partner has no danger or no threat of a submission. So knowing that she's not going to bring her legs [02:03:00] towards me because she does bring her legs towards me. I can access the legs and then she can't beat me into a submission. So the legs are always going to be far and away from me.

[02:03:07] Okay. This is what this actually helps the peak [02:03:10] out. So from here, she has a front chest lock, her legs out far and away. We're just gonna look to the basic peak where from here I step a leg up as I go to hit the [02:03:20] peak. My whole thing is to throw my elbow back into my partner's elbow, and I just sit through to my right hip, [02:03:30] like so.

[02:03:31] I get into this position here. Now, once I get into this position, the main danger that you're going to run into when you're doing [02:03:40] Jiu Jitsu and submission grappling, is that if your head just rises, your partner will take the arm out, and you'll end up in a very tight guillotine. Like so. So you hit the [02:03:50] peak, but now as you go to recover, she just sits to guard and you're getting finished.

[02:03:55] This is the main danger associated with the peeking out and the main danger wrestlers run [02:04:00] into when they try to use peek outs against high level, uh, guillotine experts. My whole thing from here is when I go to hit the peak, I don't just raise [02:04:10] the chin. I physically look towards my partner and I put my ear Like so.

[02:04:16] So that is weight over the shoulder. Now when she [02:04:20] goes to guillotine me, I just invert my two toes towards the floor, and I push into my partner to put a hand on the floor. If there's no weight on my partner and I'm looking out in this [02:04:30] direction or towards you guys, there's no reason why she can't posture and sling the arm around.

[02:04:35] So when I look towards my partner and I go ear to back. Like so. And I [02:04:40] put weight on my partner by raising my hips. When she goes to gi to me now, I can always put the hand on the floor, get to my partner's hips, and now we're ready to go [02:04:50] in with attacks from our partner's, or with our partner down in turtle position.

[02:04:55] So we come in, just a basic peek out. We step our leg up like so. Now our [02:05:00] whole thing from here is to throw our elbow behind us. It's not as much movement as I can create. You're looking to create as little movement as possible. If I do this big peak where I come [02:05:10] here, I got out far and away from my partner.

[02:05:11] There's too much space now. My whole thing is I step a leg up. I throw my elbow behind me to [02:05:20] meet my partner's elbow. And the second I go through, I want a connection to my partner here. Now I use my toes [02:05:30] to push my hips off the floor and into my partner so that my ear connects to my partner's scapula.

[02:05:36] So when she goes to guillotine me, we just turn towards [02:05:40] the floor and now we can go into position. So once again, we're playing here. She's a front chest lock. I can't access the legs. We [02:05:50] post the hand. We post the leg. From here, we throw the elbow behind us to meet my partner's elbow, and we just sit right to our hip [02:06:00] like so.

[02:06:02] And now we quickly put weight onto our partner by raising the hips. We go ear to back, and we look at our partner's back [02:06:10] like so. So when she goes to guillotine me, just weight on the hand. I can rotate up, and we're in business. Again, the main danger associated [02:06:20] It's from here. Someone goes, someone goes to peek out.

[02:06:25] And this happens. I go to a high risk position like so. [02:06:30] So we're doing it live. As I peek, she's going to try to guillotine me, and I'm just going to try to get ear to back.[02:06:40]

[02:06:40] And we're out. So the whole time there's weight coming down towards the hands. If I peek quickly, but I don't go ear to back, this is what's going to happen. [02:06:50] As she goes to try to guillotine me, I get the hands to the floor, I hit the first 80 percent of the move, and this happens. When I put [02:07:00] weight over her back, and she goes to try to guillotine me, you know I can always return the hands to the floor.

[02:07:07] Alright. [02:07:10] Again, we go and peek.

[02:07:15] We put our opponent's hands to the floor. And now, there's no threat of a guillotine. [02:07:20] This is an issue you're not going to deal with in wrestling. So when wrestlers show you this, it looks great, but when they go to do it live, and they have a guillotine expert, they get guillotined. [02:07:30] It's super, super important to put your ear on the guy's back, and put weight over the shoulder to return the hand to the floor.

[02:07:37] In wrestling You cannot, [02:07:40] number one, obviously strangle. Number two, when someone goes to peak, you're never expecting a guy to just lock your hands and [02:07:50] sit to their back. This is not a reaction you're ever going to find in wrestling. But in Jiu Jitsu, it's the number one reaction you're going to find. So, you have to be able to accommodate for this, and the way to do it [02:08:00] is by putting your ear on their back and putting weight on the shoulder to return the hands to the floor so there's no threat of a guillotine.[02:08:10]

[02:08:11] Alright, so now let's look at, that was a basic peek out. Now, if you go ahead and basic peek out on anybody good, what's gonna happen? She goes ahead and peek [02:08:20] out. The second I see her step a leg up, I know which direction she's going. So the second I see this, I know that if my partner's head starts to come up, I'm going to get [02:08:30] feet from here.

[02:08:31] So the second I see my partner's leg go up, I just angle towards that side. So now when she goes to peek, she can't bring the head up, and she [02:08:40] can't effectively peek out and score. So from here, what am I going to do? She's front chest lock. If I step my left leg up [02:08:50] and I go in and she just moves in circles and keeps my head down, I can't peek out from here.

[02:08:55] So I hit a misdirectional peek out, where from here I just step up my [02:09:00] opposite side leg. So if I'm going to peek left, I step up my right leg and my right hand. If my partner doesn't react from here and she stays square, [02:09:10] there's no reason why I can't just peek to that side. My partner is always going to do She's always going to overemphasize that side and circle towards that side.

[02:09:19] So now [02:09:20] I can't peek. The second I see this, I just take my hand and my, my elbow and my knees to the floor, and we just quickly step up on the opposite side. And now [02:09:30] we peek out on this side. So what happens is your partner overcommits to stopping you on one side and you just misdirect to the other side.

[02:09:39] So I play a game where I [02:09:40] just step up here. I test my partner. If I see no reaction. And we just peek out. If, however, I see my partner [02:09:50] move to cover my head, then we just go back in the other direction and we can peek with a misdirectional. So I test my partner. [02:10:00] I feign one side. If I see no reaction, there's no reason why I can't just sit through.[02:10:10]

[02:10:13] If I step my leg up on one side, I see my partner circle. Now I know she's committed to my right [02:10:20] side, so I just quickly switch You peek the other side and now we're ready to play Whatever kind of game we want from here where we can go [02:10:30] in and start attacking our partner We're at least out of the front chest lock.

[02:10:33] Okay, so she has a front chest lock. I Step one leg up she moves. I can't peek to this [02:10:40] side. I can even fake a peek So she goes to react she even circles further And then you go to the other side. Right now from here, I'm ready to go in, get to our [02:10:50] partner's second leg, get to our partner's waist, and go in and start to control our partner from here.

[02:10:55] Okay, so we use a misdirectional peak out where we fake one side, if there's no reaction, [02:11:00] we go right to that side. If there's a reaction, we misdirect and go the other way.

[02:11:09] So now let's look at how we [02:11:10] can use an initial peak to one side, uh, uh, Uh, and then misdirect, and instead of misdirecting out to a peek out on the opposite side, just sitting at the half guard and playing from there. [02:11:20] Okay, so, same as before, our initial setup, she's a chest lock, she's her legs sprawled back and away, I go to step one leg up, and I go to hit a [02:11:30] peek on this side.

[02:11:31] She goes to circle to this direction, to come in and keep my head down. I'm immediately going to put everything down, [02:11:40] I'm going to switch. to go to a peek out, but this time, instead of the intention of shooting my right elbow across and peeking to this side, [02:11:50] legs back. From here, I just move my head, instead of going peeking one side, then moving my head to the other side, I go to [02:12:00] peek one side, and now from here, I just slide my right elbow forwards, I step my left leg up, but instead of bringing my head out to this side, towards you guys, I [02:12:10] keep my head where it is.

[02:12:11] And now from here, I just slide my left knee in. And I just hook my partner's leg like so. And now from [02:12:20] here, we're ready to go in and play whatever kind of half guard game we want from there. We go ahead and peek in one direction. Okay, that gets my partner moving. [02:12:30] So we go in, I go ahead and peek like so.

[02:12:33] Now from here, I put my elbow down. I take my leg up like I'm going to peek. Now [02:12:40] normally, my head comes out to this side. But instead, I'm just going to continue to rotate my head to the opposite side. So my partner now thinks I'm going to [02:12:50] peek out in this direction. Instead of peeking, I can even hit a second peek, like so.

[02:12:54] So now she goes to cover me and she walks back this way. Back this, other way. [02:13:00] We just reach towards our partner's legs. And from here, we sit into a half guard, and we're ready to play, okay? So what this will look like is we're moving around, [02:13:10] we're faking peeks to either side, I go in, she's moving, we just sit right to a half guard, and now we're ready to go in and play whatever kind of half guard game we choose to play.[02:13:20]

[02:13:20] Okay, so using this directional peek outs to either side to shoot our leg into a half guard. And again, it's a little bit different head position. Normally when I [02:13:30] get a peek out to my left, left leg goes up. Head goes out to the left. This time, my left leg goes up, head goes to the right. That makes it easy [02:13:40] now for me to pull my partner towards me.

[02:13:42] As my upper body moves in this direction, it drags my partner's legs towards me. Now as I drag my partner's legs towards me, [02:13:50] we hook onto our partner's leg, and now we're ready to go in and start playing from half guard. Okay? So using a misdirectional peak to sit into a half guard and play from there.[02:14:00]

[02:14:04] Alright, so this time, we're going to build to a four point, the same as we did before. And this time [02:14:10] we can place both hands on the floor because there's no threat of a strangle. We're going to build to a four point, and then we're going to look to use peek outs from here. Okay, so this time we're going to be down, she's a front chest lock, [02:14:20] her legs are back, I can't get to the legs, we go in, we build to a four point like so.

[02:14:25] Now we can use peek outs or misdirectional peek outs. Or from here, I take [02:14:30] my hands to one side, I start to create a slight angle, a slight angle out to the side, so that from here we can go in and start to hit a peak. As I [02:14:40] walk to one side, my partner will naturally follow me to keep my head down. And that's when I exactly, I go back in the other direction quickly, and I just hit a misdirectional.

[02:14:49] But from here, I [02:14:50] peak like so, I get my partner's hands to the floor. Now from here, it's going to be impossible to reach your partner's far hip. So from here, we just go in, we catch our partner's leg like so, [02:15:00] and now from here as she goes to start moving, we just come up and we can grab our partner's leg and shelf it and play whatever game you want to play from here.

[02:15:08] If she comes up and builds to a [02:15:10] hand, I recommend going head inside and then going in and playing from here so there's no geeking or crackdown dangers from, from there. So we build to a four point off [02:15:20] of this initial chest lock. Now we start walking our hands to one side to create an angle. If my partner doesn't react, [02:15:30] I just peek to one side.

[02:15:33] My partner will always follow me.

[02:15:38] That second I see her follow, [02:15:40] I misdirect and I go, In the opposite direction. Now from here, we come through. As we come up, we catch. We come around the corner, and we're ready to [02:15:50] go in and start shelving our partner's legs and playing like so. Okay? The one thing I will say, actually just one more time.

[02:15:59] Full [02:16:00] speed. This time, we're playing around. Our hands on the floor. We're gonna walk to one side. And then we come through and we peek. We're gonna walk to one side.[02:16:10]

[02:16:13] And we peek. From here, we catch one. As we come up, [02:16:20] I recommend switching here. When you're working in a jutsu context, I don't recommend switching here. coming up, and as my partner [02:16:30] comes up, I don't recommend staying here. In wrestling, this is a pretty good option. In Jiu Jitsu, if she sits down, switch positions,[02:16:40]

[02:16:43] in Jiu Jitsu, if your opponent sits down to crack down, this is not a good option for [02:16:50] you. You have a crotch lock here, this is not great, because there's no penalty for me exposing my back to the floor. Stay on your knees, no penalty for my back [02:17:00] coming down towards the floor. And when you're, uh, working in a jutsu context, it's a pretty easy thing to scoot around the corner and get your back taken.

[02:17:08] That's what happened with me and Hulk [02:17:10] at two thousand, uh, 1980 cc. Um, in addition, what wrestlers will start to do is they'll start to drop this hip and slide this knee across. So you try to go [02:17:20] crack down, right? Uh, you're in crack down, try to go crotch lock and scoot past your partner's shoulder. And then you feel, ah, a good wrestler puts their hip on the floor.

[02:17:28] But, it's not wrestling. [02:17:30] The second the hip goes to the floor, now you're in Hantai Senkaku. So, there's a lot of things that happen here, that don't happen in wrestling, that will happen in Jujutsu, that will fuck up a lot of wrestlers. [02:17:40] And you have to be cognizant of this, when you're submission grappling, and trying to escape front hip.

[02:17:45] It's very different. Crackdown in Jujutsu, and Crackdown in wrestling, are two completely different things. The [02:17:50] things you can use for wrestling, A lot of things you use in wrestling are not applicable to Jiu Jitsu. That's why I generally recommend that when you come up, and this will be all in the scrimmage wrestling instructional, by the way, [02:18:00] I'm not going to do scrimmage wrestling for a while, but this will all be in the scrimmage wrestling series.

[02:18:05] I'm just going to touch on some of it now. I generally recommend, like, Pete, can I [02:18:10] get the hands to the floor? We catch, okay? As I catch, you come up, we make a switch. We switch. [02:18:20] Or, I come up, and I catch. So now my partner goes to run away, we have a grip above my partner's knee. Where she goes to run away, [02:18:30] we have a grip above our partner's knee.

[02:18:32] And we can shelf it,

[02:18:36] on this side, we can shelf it on this [02:18:40] side. And now from here, we can go in, move to our partner's hips, and play. I recommend staying away from this. Coming up, [02:18:50] my partner quickly builds back up to her hands, staying here. I don't recommend this. If my partner builds to her hands, and [02:19:00] comes up, I recommend switching to a head and side single.

[02:19:03] And now from here, we can start playing. Not a high crotch situation, or now from here, [02:19:10] she can sit through a crackdown. 18s and start exposing my back. So the second I get her hands to the floor[02:19:20]

[02:19:20] We're here I catch now I immediately come up And I switch my head Or if my head stays to the outside [02:19:30] I switch right to a double. So now when she goes to sit to crack down She sits down to her butt now She just lands in a double leg and now [02:19:40] I can start passing. So I genuinely recommend staying away from high crotches because of the fact that crackdown is not the same in Jiu Jitsu as it is in wrestling.[02:19:50]

[02:19:52] Okay. So, um, this is a tricky position. Um, if there's any, High level wrestlers that watch this [02:20:00] that have any answers to this That would be great because uh me and John don't have any actual Escapes to this as of right now. We basically just four point out and wait for the guy to change [02:20:10] grips This is the most controlling assuming the guy's not greased This is the most controlling and most conservative way to control someone from a front [02:20:20] headlock variation type scenario.

[02:20:22] And that's when I have two hands with fall strips over my partner's triceps like so, and short and [02:20:30] pinched elbows. Because now my partner has no ability to arm drag or thumb post or any of that. I can't submit my partner from here. But she has no ability to do any of the front headlock escapes, where I have a head and arm [02:20:40] controlled.

[02:20:40] And, peek outs become impossible now. Because now, she has no access to my elbows like she does here. Here, when she goes to peek out, she can access my elbow with hers, and she [02:20:50] can throw me forward. But when I have short elbows, when she gets to peek out now, she goes to one side and her head gets stuck. And she can't, she can't actually lift the [02:21:00] elbow because of the grips over the back of my partner's arms.

[02:21:03] So whenever I see my partner has grips in my triceps like so, I either stay in turtle and I [02:21:10] wait for her to change grips, and as she goes to arm drag or whatever the case is, I make my adjustments or I four point and I start walking backwards So you're obviously going to come up with me [02:21:20] and I start walking backwards And now as you guys start changing your grips to a front head or whatever the other Grips we're going to make from here.

[02:21:27] Then I start going in and start going into my escapes [02:21:30] but as of right now whenever i've trained with high level wrestlers and we've done this to one another and I put them in Uh front head with this [02:21:40] grip or they've done that to me I pretty much as always have had to wait Until the grips were changed in order to actually hit an escape from here, okay?

[02:21:47] Whenever you go to peek out and she has short [02:21:50] narrow elbows, it's hard for you to peek out from here It's hard for you to misdirect. You can't post you can't access your partner's legs. You can't post on the hip It's very hard for you to do anything from here So [02:22:00] to my knowledge, there's not much you can do on a very high level person if they have a grip on the triceps And, uh, they've very short and [02:22:10] very narrow elbows.

[02:22:11] Um, I basically just stay in turtle or four point, wait for them to change their grips to try to take my back. And then I move from there. If anyone Olympic [02:22:20] level is watching this, um, or sees this clip and has any questions, solid options that I can be using to get out of here. I'd love to, uh, love to see them.[02:22:30]

[02:22:32] We've been through pretty much all the front headlock variations. Um, and again, there are, if you start talking about chaining wrestling moves together and [02:22:40] getting to legs and switching from doubles to singles, you can go way further in depth into these escapes and counter offense with wrestling, but that's getting away from escapes.

[02:22:48] Um, so I'm going to do a lot [02:22:50] more of that stuff, a lot of chain wrestling and scrimmage wrestling, uh, In the scrimmage wrestling instructional when it eventually does come out in a couple of years from now Um, after I finish all [02:23:00] the jiu jitsu stuff But I didn't want to get too off topic today But I gave you guys some options and some of the differences between jiu jitsu and wrestling Alright, the main one being submissions Um, and [02:23:10] the second biggest one being the difference in scoring criteria Um, if we can defend submissions, that's number one obviously Uh, and if we can stop go behinds [02:23:20] that's number two.

[02:23:21] And if at any time we can accept a bottom pin rather than whether it be side control, mount, whatever pin you're going to end up in, [02:23:30] it's better than you're having your partner go behind you and being halfway to your back. When, when he puts you in turtle, he's a few steps away from inserting one hook, inserting two hooks, getting to a body triangle, [02:23:40] and then your back's taken and you're about to get finished.

[02:23:42] Um, so anytime I can accept the bottom pin rather than being a front headlock or, uh, or a turtle position where my [02:23:50] partner goes behind me, that's. That that's what we're looking for. Okay now obviously if you're competing and the scoring criteria may be a little bit different But just in terms of good jiu jitsu We always want to [02:24:00] look to sit to guard when we're in a front headlock, or sit to guard, roll to guard, um, when someone's behind this internal position.

[02:24:08] And depending on scoring criteria or how you [02:24:10] want to play the game, then we can look to stand up and do escapes and start wrestling and go back to neutral, things like that. But we looked at plenty of escapes, um, and looked at a [02:24:20] combination between traditional jiu jitsu escapes, where we set the guard and we go into submission holds and things like that.

[02:24:26] And traditional wrestling escapes where you use thumb posts and arm drags and things to [02:24:30] escape. So I think that you need a mix of the two. I don't think that you can get by. I mean, I don't think you're going to reach your full potential. Uh, the sports can reach its full, its full potential. If you just [02:24:40] use classical Jiu Jitsu moves and I don't think you're going to reach the sport's full potential if you just use classical wrestling moves.

[02:24:45] I think you have to have a combination of the two and you have to take things from wrestling and [02:24:50] implement them as needed into jiu jitsu. And I think that's what the goal for all of us should be. Um, and I think we're going to see the same thing here in turtle position in a minute when we start going into escapes from turtle with [02:25:00] both classical re guards from turtle position as well as standing escapes from wrestling.

[02:25:04] All right, so let's take a look at those now.

[02:25:06] [02:25:10] So now we've covered front headlock, let's go into escaping from turtle position. [02:25:20] Again, main differences here are going to be, uh, between wrestling and jiu jitsu are going to be number one, the threat of submissions, number two, the [02:25:30] difference in scoring criteria. Okay, whenever my opponent has a situation where she has a back head and arm or control over my wrist.[02:25:40]

[02:25:41] Other wrist. here and now she has a hand that can go in and strangle me or she has a back and an arm and she has a hand that can go in and strangle me. You [02:25:50] cannot just be focused on escapes from here. You have to first defend the submission, defend the strangle, and now we can work to actually go into escapes.

[02:25:58] So you have to be [02:26:00] cognizant there are submissions available here and the scoring is very different in Jiu Jitsu than it is in wrestling. The goals are very different. Her goal is to expose her back, [02:26:10] uh, expose my back to her. Okay? If she can do that and she can get two hooks in, she scores. And she, there's no consequences for her exposing her own back to the floor.[02:26:20]

[02:26:20] Whereas in wrestling, the goals are completely different. She's trying to turn me and expose my back to the floor rather than to her. So the scoring criteria and the goals are completely different from wrestling and [02:26:30] jiu jitsu. That's why for our sport, we have to take some of the things from wrestling and use them But we have to adapt them and change them and take what's applicable from wrestling and [02:26:40] put it and use it in our sport.

[02:26:41] All right, so we're gonna look at some of the classical Jiu Jitsu escapes, some classical wrestling escapes. We're gonna look at how to combine them into one [02:26:50] effective series where we can effectively get out against the best guys in the world. We're gonna break this down into certain [02:27:00] positions instead of just doing every different Ah Instead of just doing every different combination, because your partner can have many different hand positions, many different leg positions, many different hip positions.

[02:27:09] Instead of [02:27:10] just breaking it down into every different combination you can possibly do, we're just going to break it down into near side shoulder roll, far side shoulder roll, inside leg, outside leg, stand up. So we're going to do stuff [02:27:20] like that. I'm going to go into that in a minute. Uh, in a minute here, I just wanted to give you a little introduction to escaping from turtle position.

[02:27:26] And then we're going to go into the overview and then start going into [02:27:30] escapes.

[02:27:34] All right, let's look at the overview of what we're going to, how we're going to break these escapes up. Okay. Because there are, [02:27:40] like I said, many combinations you can use, uh, many combinations your partner can use when they're, uh, when they're attacking you, they can go with their rear chest lock, they can go back at an arm, [02:27:50] they can go tight waist.

[02:27:51] Uh, they can use many different combinations of the upper body and many different hip and leg positions of the lower body. So instead of focusing on what their grips are going to [02:28:00] be, we're going to be focusing on breaking our escapes into six main categories. Okay, the first one is going to be [02:28:10] Nearside shoulder rolls.

[02:28:11] Okay, where I come in and I roll over the near shoulder. We looked at this before as my partner was transitioning. We roll over the near [02:28:20] shoulder. And re guard and put our partner back in some form of guard. The second will be a far shoulder [02:28:30] roll. Where we come in, and from here, we hook our partner's leg, for example, and we look to come in, and we hit a far side shoulder roll, where we roll over the far shoulder.[02:28:40]

[02:28:40] And we put our partner down to the floor and we go into some kind of guard position and recover from there. Okay, so we have nearside shoulder roll, farside, uh, farside [02:28:50] shoulder roll. The third will be stand, uh, will be a stand up, where we come in and we go head first. Where we pop up, the [02:29:00] head rises first, the hips rise second, and we use standing escapes to get up and get away.

[02:29:05] Alright. The fourth will be hips [02:29:10] first, where we bring the hips up first, and from here, the hips rise first, we come into a forepoint, and then we go into escapes by forepointing out. Alright, so we have [02:29:20] nearside shoulder roll, farside shoulder roll, standing escapes where we go head first, hips first, and we have a situation where our partner inserts [02:29:30] one hook and we're still in the turtle, Where I have one hook in, my back's not taken yet, and I'm not actually defending the back.

[02:29:37] I'm not escaping the back yet because we're still in a [02:29:40] turtle position. We're technically escaping the back, but there's different ways we can do it from turtle position, um, before we roll down to our back and concede, uh, concede our, [02:29:50] our back coming down towards the floor and our partner going to, to a traditional back attack situation here.

[02:29:58] And then the sixth is [02:30:00] Defending submissions, if my partner gets a garrote and she gets a stranglearm around my neck, for example. Defending submissions from here. And, if my partner locks a [02:30:10] crucifix, And we fall into situations where we fall down like so. My partner has a crucifix. How we can go into [02:30:20] some basic escapes from here.

[02:30:21] We're not going to spend a ton of time on this because it's a different, completely different scenario. But I'll show you some basic escapes on how to escape crucifix as well. Provided your partner enters [02:30:30] into the situation. Uh, from maternal position. Okay? So our six, our six major scenarios, major, uh, ways [02:30:40] that we're going to break down these escapes will be one, nearside shoulder roll.

[02:30:44] Two, farside shoulder roll. Three and four will be get ups. [02:30:50] Standing up with the head first, with the head rises first, then the hips go second. And, where the head stays down, the hips come [02:31:00] first, and then the head follows, or we roll into guard or whatever the case is from there. Then, our partner puts one hook in, maybe breaks us down to a hip and [02:31:10] inserts a hook or throws a hook in right away.

[02:31:12] Defending a hook while we're still in turtle or four point position, and then working on defending submissions. not getting submitted if my partner has a backhanded arm, [02:31:20] and then if my partner locks crucifix, how we can go to some crucifix escapes and work from there. So that's going to be the general overview of how we're going to go to escapes starting from escaping, [02:31:30] uh, with the, uh, nearside shoulder roll and ending with escaping crucifix.

[02:31:38] All right. So we talked about this a lot [02:31:40] in attacking turtle. Now let's talk about, um, opening closed turtle and defending, uh, from turtle position. Um, just for the, you guys who haven't seen the attacking turtle, [02:31:50] that's super important. There are two types, two types of turtle positions. We can play from here.

[02:31:55] We can play with a closed turtle and we can play with an open turtle. Now what are [02:32:00] these? A closed turtle is a situation where I have elbows and knees Very close together, [02:32:10] normally inside my shoulders like so, okay? And it'll look like this. An open turtle is where I have a very wide base with my [02:32:20] knees and elbows like so, with the elbows and knees far out, far out past my shoulder, uh, the width of my shoulders, like so.

[02:32:29] [02:32:30] Here. The advantages of a closed turtle is that it will be very hard if I have a partner behind me [02:32:40] to insert a hook in or to insert any kind of back at an arm. From here. Okay. They can actually connect her hands in any meaningful way, [02:32:50] right? So that's the advantage of this. The disadvantage of a closed turtle is that my partner can easily off balance me and knock me down to a [02:33:00] hip like, so we're now from here, if I stay in this position, she locks the back at an arm and now she can easily put a hook in.

[02:33:08] And start taking my back. [02:33:10] If I go to get up, you can easily insert a hook and she's halfway to my back. Okay. So that's the advantage. If I want to stay in a turtle position, if I have closed turtle, [02:33:20] and my goal is to stay in turtle position, you can't stay here with parts, you should knock you down to a hit.

[02:33:26] If your goal is to fall to a bottom pin, that's fine. You just stay here and your [02:33:30] partner can pull you instead of falling to an elbow. I just fall. And now I just turn and I'm pinned in bottom side control, which in my opinion is better than having [02:33:40] someone. being behind you in turtle position. So your advantages in closed turtle, that's much harder for your partner to insert hooks and much more [02:33:50] difficult for your partner to insert any upper body, meaning meaningful upper body grips.

[02:33:54] Okay. The disadvantages is that you're very unstable side to side and your partner [02:34:00] can easily knock you down to a hip and then to an elbow. Now, this can be a disadvantage if you are talking about, you know, uh, if you're talking about not being scored on, or you just don't want [02:34:10] to end up in bottom side control, you don't want to end up on bottom.

[02:34:12] This can be a disadvantage, but it can also be an advantage if you think about it from a pure Jiu Jitsu submission standpoint, where you'd [02:34:20] rather be in a bottom pin than have your back being taken. So the disadvantage is that you're not very stable, your partner can knock you down to a hip, [02:34:30] and you end up here.

[02:34:31] Okay? The advantages of an open turtle are that from here, when your partner goes to [02:34:40] knock you down side to side, you are very stable, and it's very hard to off balance you from here. The disadvantages And that's very, relatively easy for your partner to insert a [02:34:50] hook or two, like so. Or, if they can't insert hooks, to go and play with an upper body grips and making [02:35:00] meaningful upper body grips in some way, like so.

[02:35:02] Okay, so there's disadvantages. So, advantages. You're very stable side to side, but your knees and elbows are further apart. So [02:35:10] it's easier for her to insert hooks or upper body grips. So what you want to look to be doing is to be playing somewhere between an open and a closed turtle. You don't want to be so [02:35:20] tight where you can get knocked over, but so open where your partner can insert hooks.

[02:35:23] So in general, I play with a relatively closed turtle. Until I feel my partner go to knock me down to a hip, [02:35:30] and then I open the turtle. Now, when she goes to insert, now when she goes to insert a hook, for example, I tighten everything back up. Then she goes to knock me over, [02:35:40] I open everything up. Now if I stay here, she can insert a hook.

[02:35:44] So when I feel her go to off balance me, Goodbye. I feel like I lost balance, I open my turtle, now she goes [02:35:50] to insert a hook, then I close everything back in. So I play between open and a closed turtle, in this kind of intermediary gray area, where I'm not always open or always closed. [02:36:00] So I keep my base by opening my turtle.

[02:36:02] And then when I see my partner try to insert upper body grips or hooks, I close my turtle. So you have the advantages of both, but the disadvantages [02:36:10] of neither. So you can go back and forth between the two. You don't just play one or the other. Okay, so it's open versus closed turtle.[02:36:20]

[02:36:20] All right, let's talk about what our opponent's goals are. The top man's, the top man's goals. All right. When someone's behind me in turtle position, [02:36:30] They obviously want to remain chest to back. Okay, so they want to have some kind of chest to back connection. If at any point there's no chest to back connection, it means I can just move out and move away.

[02:36:39] So she [02:36:40] wants to remain chest to back, and she wants to look to put me into repeated unathletic positions so that I can't just roll right over my shoulder or [02:36:50] explosively stand up and get away from my partner. Okay? So she wants to remain chest to back almost at all times. And she wants to constantly break me down to unathletic positions [02:37:00] by putting me onto a hip.

[02:37:01] Where now she has pathways of known reactions. Where she knows I have maybe three or four reactions that I [02:37:10] have to cycle through one or the other in order to get back up and recover. And she knows what she has to do for each of those reactions. If I want to [02:37:20] get back up to my eternal position, for example, she knows I have to scissor my legs.

[02:37:24] As I do that, she knows it's coming. She can insert a hook and she can start taking my back. Okay. So she wants to remain [02:37:30] chest to back and she wants to primarily put me on a hip. So now I'm in an unathletic position before I can escape. I have to get back to turtle position [02:37:40] to put myself back and back into an athletic position.

[02:37:43] I'm very unathletic from here. If I try to explode up, there's no way I can do it. If I try to shoulder roll, there's no way I can do it. [02:37:50] So in order to escape, minus turning and facing my partner and accepting a bottom pin, if I don't want to get pinned, The only thing I can do is to come back to an athletic position.

[02:37:57] And now once I'm here again, now I can [02:38:00] start to go into my escapes. So she knows this show. If she can remain chest to back and she can put me consistently and repeatedly down to unathletic positions [02:38:10] where she has a path of known reactions, where she knows what I have to do in order to recover, she can be successful from here.

[02:38:17] Okay. The purpose of putting me down to a [02:38:20] hip. Is to insert a hook. Okay, so that's what brings us to our next goal. Whether she puts me to a hip first, then inserts a hook. Or whether she [02:38:30] threatens putting me to a hip. I open my turtle and now she inserts a hook. Now she's halfway to my back and she can throw her second hook in.

[02:38:39] And [02:38:40] now she can score and go into submissions. Okay. So remain chest to back, put me into unathletic positions repeatedly, repeatedly break me down to a hip. Okay. [02:38:50] By, by unathletic positions, I mean, put me on a hip, put me on an elbow. Um, insert a hook or two obviously is a goal. Look for opportunistic [02:39:00] strangles where if at any point she's chest to back.

[02:39:03] And I don't have a defensive hand, and my chin comes up, she just puts in a strangle, and now, just one hand, [02:39:10] good, and now she can go and grab my wrist with the garotte, and now she can go into various strangulations from here, or, if I make a typical wrestling, or wrestling [02:39:20] mistake here, where I come up to a referee position, I have no defensive hands, and I look to go into a stand up, before the stand up comes in, the strangle comes in, And now I'm worried about my neck and [02:39:30] now two hooks come in and now I'm getting finished from here.

[02:39:32] This is no good. So looking for strangles, whether deliberate or opportunistic, is a good thing for her. Okay. And finally, if [02:39:40] at any point she's chest to back and I start going too far out and away from my body with my hand, She can come in, she can block my [02:39:50] elbow with her, uh, left knee. She can use her right leg to scoop my arm.

[02:39:54] And now she can start going into crucifix situations, where she can, uh, roll me through, she can strangle me, she [02:40:00] can do all kinds of things from here. Okay, so she's looking to isolate an arm to move into a back crucifix. Alright, so her goals, the top person's goals, we're looking to [02:40:10] remain chest to back, we're looking to constantly put the bottom player, Into unathletic positions, breaking them down to a hip, so I have a path of known reactions where I know exactly what the bottom man [02:40:20] has to do in order to recover, and I can react accordingly.

[02:40:23] Looking to insert hooks, either after we break our partner down to a hip, or threaten knocking them to a hip so they open the turtle and then we [02:40:30] can insert hooks. We're looking to put in opportunistic strangles, and we're looking to go in and lock crucifix. Okay, those are her main pathways to victory, and for her [02:40:40] attacks, okay, and to control me.

[02:40:41] Those are very general ideas she's working with, uh, as far as what her goals are from top position. Now let's look at what my goals are from bottom position.[02:40:50]

[02:40:54] Alright, so we looked at some general goals for the top player, let's look at some general goals for the bottom player. Alright, first and foremost, [02:41:00] obviously we have to defend some missions. If we allow a corner to lock a backhand and arm, and our chin comes up and we get strangled, match is over. If we move to a referee position and our chin Chin [02:41:10] comes up, our partner strangles us, match is over.

[02:41:12] So the first thing is we're looking to number one, defend submissions. Number two, defend the score. Okay. [02:41:20] Not just because we're working from a point situation and if my partner gets two hooks or body triangle, they score. But because, if your partner actually puts two hooks in and they score, [02:41:30] you're, now have your back taken and you're very close to being submitted.

[02:41:34] So even if you don't care about points, you still don't want your back to get taken because you don't want to get submitted when your partner actually has your back. There's [02:41:40] nothing offensive you can do when your partner has your back. So number one, most importantly, defend submission. Number two, defend the score.

[02:41:48] Number three, we're looking [02:41:50] to expose our back to the floor in some way. Okay, now this is very different from wrestling, because in wrestling the whole goal of the top player is to turn the guy and expose the back to the floor. With [02:42:00] us, we don't want our back exposed to our partner. We want our back exposed to the floor.

[02:42:04] So anytime we can expose our back to the floor, whether it be in a bottom pin or whether it be reguarding, whatever it is, [02:42:10] anytime we can expose our back to the floor, that's going to be good for us. Okay. And finally, whenever we can face our partner, this is going to be good for us. Now we can do this in a couple of different [02:42:20] ways.

[02:42:20] We can roll to guard for example and expose our back to the floor and we can face our partner, but we can also use standing escapes to face our partner. If my partner is behind me, [02:42:30] I look to use a standing escape where from here I come up and I stand up. Now from here I don't expose my back to the floor, but we can [02:42:40] come through and we can face our partner and now we're out of the position.

[02:42:43] Okay, so we're looking to number one, first and foremost, defend submissions. We can't get submitted right away. Number two, [02:42:50] looking to avoid a score where our partner puts one or two hooks in. Okay, that's no good. Number three, we're looking to expose our back to the floor and along with that, face our partner.

[02:42:59] Either by [02:43:00] exposing our back to the floor and re guarding in some kind of, or getting pinned, whatever the case is, not exposing your back to them, but exposing to the floor and facing our partner. [02:43:10] Whether we face our partner by rolling and exposing the back to the floor or by standing up and turning and facing our partner.

[02:43:16] Okay, so some general, uh, rules of thumb, some [02:43:20] general rules and some goals, uh, we're going to be working with. as the bottom player trying to escape turtle position.[02:43:30]

[02:43:30] All right, so when we're escaping turtle position and many other positions, you have to understand that what is the tech, the best technical answer may not be [02:43:40] always the best tactical answer. Okay, and the onus is on you to decide that, depending upon what environment you're in. Okay, so for example, when someone puts me in a [02:43:50] turtle position, the best technical advice I can give you is always just to expose your back to the floor and give up any kind of bottom position or any kind of bottom pin.

[02:43:59] That's the [02:44:00] best technical advice I can give you, and it's going to get you the furthest away from being submitted, which is of course the end goal of Jiu Jitsu. But when you're working tactically, maybe you're dealing with a [02:44:10] guy, maybe you're a person who doesn't have a good bottom guard, for example, okay, I have a great bottom guard, maybe you don't, maybe you don't want to be in bottom position, so maybe instead of giving up a pin, [02:44:20] maybe you don't want to be in bottom position and expose your back to the floor, maybe you want to tactically stand up and get away from your partner, or maybe you're a better wrestler than them, so maybe if you stand up and get [02:44:30] away, yes, you're risking giving up your back, so it's not maybe always technically the best answer, but if you do get up and get away, and the risk Of exposing your back for longer does [02:44:40] pay off You can take your partner down and get on top of them.

[02:44:42] Or let's say I get taken down in ADCC for example. And instead of getting taken down, I expose my back and I turn to turtle position. [02:44:50] Which I would never do. I would just accept the takedown. But maybe it's 45 seconds left. I'm up by one point. I don't want to give up the two points for the takedown. So instead of, uh, [02:45:00] Instead of falling to my butt and accepting bottom position, I turn to turtle and I don't get scored on.

[02:45:06] Okay? Um, maybe you're doing, uh, Assumption only event [02:45:10] where someone passes your guard and you turn to turtle and you try to start rolling into their legs instead of, uh, And instead of turning to turtle and or stay, you stay in turtle and try to [02:45:20] roll into the legs or stand up versus trying to fall to your back and give up a topside control pin because it looks bad in the judge's eyes.

[02:45:26] So understand that the best technical option, the best [02:45:30] technical advice you're always going to hear from me when you're fighting from a turtle position is to just simply find the quickest way to expose your back to the floor, to face your partner, to [02:45:40] end up in bottom position. But that's just for me, assuming that you have it.

[02:45:44] A good bottom guard, and you have a dangerous guard, and you're not going to just instantly get passed or get held in a pin if you end up in bottom side [02:45:50] control, okay? And that may not be the best answer for you, and it may not be the best answer even for me or for anyone, depending on what tactical situation you're in, whether you're competing, [02:46:00] um, and what environment you're in.

[02:46:02] So the best technical answer may not always be the best tactical answer, okay? And I can't tell you what the best tactical answer is because I don't know what [02:46:10] situation you're going to be finding yourself in. But understand that technically, exposing your back to the floor is always going to be the number one, number one response.

[02:46:18] All right, but [02:46:20] sometimes you can't do that. Perfect example is when, uh, I got taken down my butt to the floor in ADCC 2019 by Lucas Barbosa. Normally, I would just give up a takedown, right? I [02:46:30] would just end up in bottom guard. But I didn't want to accept the score. So I kept exposing my back, going to turtle, and then using standing escapes to get up and, uh, and fight from there.

[02:46:39] Then I eventually ended up [02:46:40] escaping and taking his back. But technically, it's not what I should have done because my back was exposed that whole time. But tactically, I had to do that. Otherwise, I was going to give up the score. and then lose the [02:46:50] match. So you kind of have to weigh these options when you're training or competing.

[02:46:53] Um, and understand that they're not always one in the same. Technically exposure back to the floor work [02:47:00] from pin escapes rather than exposing your back and working from back escapes. All

[02:47:07] right, so now let's look at [02:47:10] what hand positions the upper, the top player can be using and there's many of them and there's many lower body positions as many combinations we can use it starts to get a little tricky here but let's go [02:47:20] through some of the major upper body hand positions we can be in all right the first is the most common you see in our sport is a backheaded arm where i come [02:47:30] through under my partner's forearm over my partner's shoulder We lock in and then go with the back head and arm.

[02:47:36] This is typically what you see in Jiu Jitsu. People chase the head, try to [02:47:40] roll their partner through or break their partner down and then look to put two hooks in. So they chase the head and then go upper body first. Okay. Another position you see is [02:47:50] using, this is pretty common in Jiu Jitsu as well, is using a tight waist where we go either with a far tight waist, like a deep tight waist, like so.

[02:47:58] Or better yet, a shallow [02:48:00] tight waist, like so. And now this hand can be anywhere ranging from

[02:48:07] the bicep, like so. [02:48:10] The tricep, like so. The floor, like so. The near wrist, like so. Half claw on my [02:48:20] partner's, uh, shoulder, like so. Okay, so we can use a tight waist with any combination of hand positions with the other hand. We can [02:48:30] go to a full claw. Like so. With a tight waist. So a tight waist is very versatile.

[02:48:35] It gives you control of your partner's hip and the far side. And then you can use your free hand to do with whatever you [02:48:40] want. On this side. Okay? We can use a thigh pry. Where I take my hand inside my partner's thigh. And we use a thigh pry. [02:48:50] Like so. This is used when my partner tries to go into standing escapes to put weight over my partner's head.

[02:48:57] I don't actually think I covered this in the turtle, in the [02:49:00] attacking turtle, because I didn't know about this, uh, then, because I was terrible. Um, as I was every six month cycle, I think I was terrible six months ago. [02:49:10] Um, but I don't actually think I used thigh prize. I should have used thigh prize, but we can use thigh pride like so.

[02:49:15] So my partner goes to pop up, they can put weight on the hands and the head can come up. We can use [02:49:20] single thigh pries, we can use double, double thigh pries, like so. So now my partner goes to explosively stand up, there's weight on my partner's hands and it's difficult for her to just [02:49:30] pop up to her feet.

[02:49:31] Okay, so you can use single or double thigh pry. In combination with the thigh pry, we can go in and we can use any of the [02:49:40] various grips that we used before with a tight waist. So we can use a tight waist with those initial grips or we can use a thigh pry as [02:49:50] well. Okay, the thigh pry will generally put more weight.

[02:49:54] on your partner's hands and put more weight onto your partner so that you can't explode up. And the [02:50:00] tight waist will generally, is generally better for pulling your partner down to a hip. So I go back and forth between those two. Okay. So we can use thigh pry and double thigh [02:50:10] pry. Okay. We can also use situations where I have my two hands underneath both of my partners like so, and we can control our partner's [02:50:20] wrists.

[02:50:22] We can go into a chest lock. Like so, we're going to go into a high rear chest lock, so my partner goes to explode up, we can start putting weight on the hands like this, [02:50:30] and we can take two hands and we can go underneath our partner's two arms and we can play from there. Okay, so there's many combinations we can use, ranging from [02:50:40] back head and arm, like so, ranging from tight waist combinations, thigh pry combinations, chest locks, [02:50:50] Claw variations.

[02:50:51] There's many different things that we can use, that my partner can use from here. Um, and the goals of [02:51:00] all these positions are to either one, keep weight on my partner's hand and make it hard for the head to come up for her to explode to her feet or knock her [02:51:10] to a hip. Okay, these are the goals of these, these hand positions.

[02:51:13] To keep weight over my partner's hand so she can't come up with the head. first or to knock her to a hip so she [02:51:20] can't raise the head or bring the hips up and start to explode up to an athletic position and get up and get away or shoulder roll. Okay, so those are some of the combinations [02:51:30] of the upper body grips my partner can use, ranging from backhand arm, which is the most common, a tight waist with any variety of different placements with a near hand, which [02:51:40] is also very common, a thigh pry, which is very common in wrestling, but less so in our sport.

[02:51:46] And variations of claws, [02:51:50] near shoulder, far shoulder, in combination with tight waist thigh pry, um, combinations there. And you have, uh, Two hands under, you can get double wrist or chest [02:52:00] lock to put weight on my partner's hand. So there's a lot of things that we can do from here. These are the main grips that our partner's going to be using from top position.

[02:52:05] And we have to know how to deal with a dress and a deal with, um, with [02:52:10] each one of these.

[02:52:15] All right, so now let's look at our opponents, the top player's leg positions, what leg [02:52:20] positions she's going to be playing. Uh, when she's on top attacking me. And now, while I'm saying this, understand that you can do many different leg positions with many different hand positions, [02:52:30] and the hand positions of the upper body have many combinations in and of themselves.

[02:52:34] So now imagine combining the lower body leg positions with the upper body combinations, [02:52:40] and you have lower body and upper body combinations, there's a lot of different combinations that you can, you can, you can form here. Okay, that's why I'm not just doing every single combination going through every single move.

[02:52:49] I'm [02:52:50] just breaking down into nearside versus farside shoulder rolls and yadda yadda, okay, so Corner is gonna be down. Let's look at some of the leg positions. We can be in here [02:53:00] one as I can be in a situation where my One need my one knee is down. My one knee is up. No one's ever gonna have two knees down This is [02:53:10] you're never gonna control anybody from here.

[02:53:11] So if Someone has two knees down, just know it's very easy to escape. You can just easily shoulder roll or easily stand up and get [02:53:20] away. There's nothing holding your partner down from here. So you're always going to have one knee down next to your partner's knee and one knee up. Okay. Now where [02:53:30] this leg will be depends on you.

[02:53:32] All right. You can have a knee down and you can have a leg splitting your partner's legs. But now if you're naive, [02:53:40] uh, your partner can start rolling into your legs, especially if your knee is down. And you split your partner's leg, okay? Now from here, she can just reach through, grab your legs, and roll [02:53:50] through into your legs like so, okay?

[02:53:52] That's why I generally don't put two knees down outside my partner's legs, because she's just going to stand up. And I generally don't [02:54:00] put two knees down inside my partner's legs, because now from here she's just going to roll through and start to expose my legs. So, I generally step, if I [02:54:10] have one knee down, one leg up, and I generally step a knee outside my partner's far hip.

[02:54:15] So I have two legs outside my partner's legs. So now she can't roll through into my [02:54:20] legs, and I have better control over my partner's hips. So when she goes to move around from here, I can have my partner's two hips controlled between my two knees. Okay, we can move into [02:54:30] a situation where we have our back knee down and our front knee up like this.

[02:54:37] You see this a lot in MMA where people are trying to punch each other, [02:54:40] um, great for that but pretty easy to defend so we're going to look at how to defend this as well because this is actually a pretty common position you can find yourself in from here, um, with the rear knee down [02:54:50] and the outside leg just stepped up.

[02:54:55] Another common position is what we're calling now the cowboy rod, [02:55:00] where I have two of my partner's hips pinched between my knees and I play here. So I put weight over my partner. So anytime she goes to explosively stand up, [02:55:10] I can always put weight in the hands and make it difficult, make my partner carry my weight.

[02:55:14] Anytime my partner goes to roll over a shoulder, we can always follow her and knock her down to a hip. [02:55:20] Okay? So we play with two knees off the floor and on my partner, And a pinch of my two knees together. So when she goes to move explosively in any direction, I always follow my [02:55:30] partner and it's a pretty easy thing to track my partner's movement.

[02:55:33] And then, of course, a situation

[02:55:39] where I have one hook in, [02:55:40] okay, where now, obviously, if I have two hooks in, I'm just going into back escapes now, it's not really turtle anymore, I have my back taken. But you're still technically in a turtle here, and there's no score yet, so [02:55:50] we can work on escaping from one hook when we're in a turtle position, um, as we spoke about previously.

[02:55:56] Okay, so, main position you're gonna find yourself in, from [02:56:00] here. Will be, if your partner has two knees down, like this, and they're far away from you, this is never going to happen. Just immediately pop up and stand up and [02:56:10] get away, okay? If your partner has a leg between your legs, whether it be here, like so, or knee down, [02:56:20] my partner can roll into my legs either way.

[02:56:21] It's harder, if the leg is like this, but you can still do it. Okay, if someone's behind me, and she has a leg stepped up in [02:56:30] between, like so, It's going to be hard to access my partner's legs, but I can still do it by folding my body in half and inverting into the legs. So in general, [02:56:40] I don't keep a leg between my partner's legs, but this will happen sometimes.

[02:56:45] More than likely, you'll have a situation where you have one knee down and a knee outside the forehip, [02:56:50] like so. So you have knees and legs inside my partner's leg, like so. You have a knee outside the forehip. My partner's hip like [02:57:00] so you have my rear knee down my outside leg up like so you have a cowboy rod and my two knees are on my [02:57:10] partner and you have one hook in or we have obviously our one hook in and we're fighting to get our second leg in as a hook or body [02:57:20] triangle.

[02:57:20] Okay, so those are the top players like positions. They have to be able to address and, uh, deal with those as they come combined with the upper body [02:57:30] hand, uh, the upper body combinations.

[02:57:36] All right, so we're going to start to go over turtle escapes now. Let's look at, [02:57:40] I'm going to show you, be showing you guys some individual moves and some combinations and things like that. But the missing link to these escapes that you're not going to see as I'm showing it [02:57:50] is Kazushi and misdirection.

[02:57:52] Okay, you need to be constantly off balancing and misdirecting. That's what's going to get you out. If I know, if my partner's behind me, she knows what [02:58:00] my escapes are going to be, or they know where my escapes are going to be. If I just go for a nearside shoulder roll without any movement beforehand, she's just going to go in, lock her back, head on, and [02:58:10] follow me.

[02:58:10] Um, so what really gets you out of these positions is misdirection and off balances. So for example, if she's behind me, [02:58:20] if we're here and there's no movement, And I just immediately come in, and I just go to near side shoulder roll, she just goes in, she locks the back of her arm, and she follows me. So let's say from [02:58:30] here, instead of going for a shoulder roll, from here I just have to move my hips away from my partner.

[02:58:36] So now, she has to put her hand on the floor for base, she's following [02:58:40] my hips, and now from here, we go into a shoulder roll. Or let's say she's behind me, she has a tight weight, she has her hand on the floor, instead of going for a shoulder roll, I [02:58:50] fake like I'm gonna stand up. Like so. And now, to stop me from standing up, she tries to pull me to her hip.

[02:58:57] And as she goes to pull me to her hip, [02:59:00] we go into a shoulder roll. Okay, so it's not just, I'm here, and then I go for my escape. I always start with a slight off balance first, [02:59:10] then I go into my escape, or, and I misdirect into a different escape. Let's say she's a back headed arm, for example. All right, from here, I can't [02:59:20] just go into any of my escapes.

[02:59:23] I have to first create some kind of off balance, where now from here we can come up, we can trap our [02:59:30] partner's leg, we can pop up into four points, and we can start escaping from there. So while we're learning these individual moves, understand that how you chain [02:59:40] these together kizushi, off balancing your partner, and misdirection, where I fake going in one direction and I go back in the other direction.

[02:59:47] Okay, so understand as we're watching this, the [02:59:50] key that's going to connect the dots with all these escapes is going to be always Kazushi misdirection. All[03:00:00]

[03:00:01] right, let's look at a nearside shoulder roll versus a gramby. All right, whenever we nearside shoulder roll on someone, [03:00:10] We're rolling over our nearside shoulder, usually with the intention of putting my partner back in some kind of guard. So when I go nearside shoulder roll, I roll over my shoulder, [03:00:20] like so.

[03:00:21] And now from here we can put our partner back in guard. When I gramby, however, Instead of going near shoulder, I go near shoulder to [03:00:30] far shoulder. So I go over my shoulder blades, usually with the intention of getting back up to my feet and creating distance, okay? So if I go nearside shoulder roll, [03:00:40] I just go in here and then we put our partner back in guard.

[03:00:45] If I go into a ramby, however, Now from here, I go shoulder to [03:00:50] shoulder, and we usually finish on our knees facing our partner. Okay? So understand the difference between a nearside shoulder roll and a [03:01:00] grabby. A nearside shoulder roll, we just roll over our shoulder, will usually put us back in some kind of guard.

[03:01:07] If I roll through here, it's hard to get up to my knees and face my [03:01:10] partner.

[03:01:13] If I grabby, however, now from here, I start on the near shoulder, and from here, I [03:01:20] just roll across my two shoulder blades. We end up facing our partner and some form of classical wrestling position. Okay. So we, [03:01:30] both of these are good. Whether you choose to use one or the other is up to you and depends on the situation, but just understand there is a difference between rolling to guard.

[03:01:38] Someone's behind me. [03:01:40] We come in, we roll to guard

[03:01:48] and we come in [03:01:50] and we gramby out and now we're ready to play. So just understand nearside shoulder roll, usually put you back at some point of guard. And a [03:02:00] Granby will usually get you into some kind of classical wrestling position where you can come up and start wrestling your partner. Now, this isn't always the case, but most of the time, this is what's gonna happen.

[03:02:09] Shoulder roll [03:02:10] versus Granby.

[03:02:15] Okay, so before we start, we just spent the last 10 minutes watching Nat try to Granby. And, um, [03:02:20] I'm like a big fat guy right now, and I somehow managed to do it perfectly. And she just looked like she was 90 years old trying to do it. So that was great. Um, [03:02:30] alright. Um, let's, let's look at, we're going to look at nearside shoulder roll.

[03:02:33] Now again, we're going to split it up into these categories. We're nearside shoulder roll, farside shoulder roll, etc, etc. Let's look at first, [03:02:40] nearside shoulder rolls. Let's look at when not to nearside shoulder roll. Okay? And there's some, some pretty, uh, clear rules of thumb [03:02:50] here. Uh, again, there's many different combinations your partner can use with the upper body and the lower body, but and to go through all those combinations and switch them, this is a very dynamic [03:03:00] position when you're working internal position.

[03:03:01] Um, so to give you these mini adjustments and have you try to memorize, you know, a million different combinations is going to be difficult. But if you can just have general rules of [03:03:10] thumb that you're thinking about when someone's attacking you from internal in a high stress situation, it's It'll be much, much easier to, to understand, um, and then the moves and the techniques will follow.[03:03:20]

[03:03:20] Okay, so let's talk about when not to nearside shoulder roll. Whatever my partner's lower body grips are, or upper body, sorry, lower body leg position is, [03:03:30] it doesn't really make that much of a difference. It's harder and easier to roll some, but you can always roll regardless of what your partner's lower body position is.

[03:03:39] If [03:03:40] your partner has an upper body position where she has a back head and arm, like so, this is not the time to nearside shoulder roll. Anytime you nearside shoulder roll [03:03:50] from here, you will always fall into your partner's lap because your partner can extend and she has upper body grips. Even if your partner has a leg between yours, like [03:04:00] so, or a knee down, Knee down between your legs.

[03:04:03] This is not a time to nearside shoulder roll. Because of the fact that your partner can always use the upper body grips to [03:04:10] extend your upper body and then insert hooks. So even if your partner is beating you to roll for the legs, if I go to roll for the legs from here, she just takes the leg out now, she extends my upper body, [03:04:20] now my hands down my legs and she punches a strangle in and now I'm getting my back taken and getting strangled.

[03:04:25] So whenever my partner has a backhanded arm, this is not the time to nearside shoulder roll. [03:04:30] Whenever she has a farside hand underneath mine, she has a hand up and over my shoulder, this is never the time to nearside shoulder roll. [03:04:40] Okay, you do other things from here. You forepoint out, you look to separate with two on ones and face your partner, you look to farside shoulder roll, perfect.

[03:04:46] Nearside shoulder rolling is out from here. Okay, whether it be [03:04:50] Uh, she has one knee up, she has two knees down, other pieces on top of my hips, whatever the case is, we do not near side shoulder roll from here, okay? [03:05:00] Along with this, anytime my partner can quickly lock a back head and arm as I'm rolling, we don't shoulder roll from here.[03:05:10]

[03:05:10] So for example, she has a tight waist or maybe, maybe she has control over my wrist. Like so, and now from here, if at any point she can lock a backheaded arm before I can hit the [03:05:20] roll, this is no good. So even, even though the backhand arm is not locked, if I get a roll right from here, she just locks it and I fall into her lap and get my back taken.

[03:05:28] If she has a grip on my [03:05:30] bicep, I go and she locks. She's gripping my tricep, I go and she locks. So anytime that she's, she can easily have access to a [03:05:40] backhanded arm, I do not shoulder roll. Okay, if I want to shoulder roll, I have to control my partner's hands, like so. So now she can't lock her hands in the back of her arm, and now I can shoulder roll.

[03:05:48] We'll look at that in a [03:05:50] second, when we should shoulder roll. Okay? Another time I never nearside shoulder roll, is when my partner has access to any kind of claw grips. Whether it be on the shoulder, [03:06:00] here, like so. Or whether it be a full claw. Like so. Because now when I go to nearside shoulder roll, she just follows me at the upper body, she creates that [03:06:10] extension, and now from here, as I go to shoulder roll, I fall into her lap, and I can never get my upper back to the floor.

[03:06:16] Okay? There's an exception to this [03:06:20] where we can trap our partner's elbow, and we'll look at that in a second, but if I don't trap my partner's elbow, whenever my partner has some kind of chest to back contact, where her chest is connected to my [03:06:30] upper back, and she has her hands locked or any control over my shoulders, This is not a time for me to nearside shoulder roll, okay?

[03:06:36] Ultimately what I'm looking to do when I nearside shoulder roll and put [03:06:40] my partner back in guard is to deny my partner access to upper back exposure, okay? So what I want, even if she has to follow me from here, what I want, [03:06:50] uh, gonna follow me like try to fall to your hip and take my back. What I want from here, my lower back is exposed to her.

[03:06:59] I don't care [03:07:00] about that. What I'm trying to do is to create upper back connection to the floor so that my upper back is nowhere near her, nowhere, and is not exposed to [03:07:10] her. If she can keep my upper back exposed to her, she's going to be able to take my back most of the time, okay? When I roll over the [03:07:20] near shoulder with a backhanded arm, she has Chest to upper back connection.

[03:07:25] So when I roll, you see my upper back is still well [03:07:30] exposed to her here. My upper back is nowhere near the floor. So this is why, when your partner can lock the back of an arm, controls you with a claw, or can easily [03:07:40] lock the back of an arm, this is never the time to nearside shoulder roll. Because of the fact that you can never disconnect your upper back from her chest, and deny her the ability to expose your upper [03:07:50] back.

[03:07:50] What we're trying to do with nearside shoulder rolls in regarding is to create a situation where our upper back is connected to the floor. And if your partner has a backhanded arm, it's going to be very, very difficult [03:08:00] to connect your upper back to the floor. And that's when your partner starts getting hooks in, scoring, and strangling you.

[03:08:05] Okay, so those are the times to not nearside shoulder roll. When your partner has a backhanded arm, [03:08:10] when they can easily lock a backhanded arm for any position, if you don't have control of their hands, We're going to have any kind of claw grip, whether it be in the near shoulder or a full claw, where they control your back and they cannot get your [03:08:20] back, your upper back to the floor.

[03:08:26] All right, we looked at when not to nearside shoulder roll. [03:08:30] Let's look at when we can nearside shoulder roll. And again, there's many different combinations, but I'm going to break it down in a very simple, the simplest way I can, uh, for you guys. All right, [03:08:40] first is going to be someone's behind me. with any kind of tight waist, no matter what kind of leg position.

[03:08:48] If I can control [03:08:50] their near side hand from here, they have no ability to lock a backhand and arm. So this means that at any given moment, I can nearside shoulder roll. Okay. When [03:09:00] I look to nearside shoulder roll from this position, I'm just going to grab my partner's either wrist or knuckle line like so, anything that blocks the hands from, from [03:09:10] separating into a backhand and arm.

[03:09:11] All right. Okay. When I nearside shoulder roll, it is preferable that I make some disconnection, or make some separate, I form some [03:09:20] separation between my hips and my opponent's. So I, I want to, if I can, walk away from my partner first, tuck my partner's hand [03:09:30] into my back pocket, shoulder roll on through, and put my partner back in some form of guard.

[03:09:39] Okay. [03:09:40] So, first thing is, she has a tight waist. Any kind of tight waist from here, whether it's a deep tight waist, whether it's a shallow tight waist. Whatever leg position [03:09:50] she wants, she can go, uh, two knees down on the side of me. She can go two knees up on top of my hips. Doesn't make a difference. Okay?

[03:09:59] [03:10:00] As long as I can control my partner's hand, I can nearside shoulder roll from here. Okay, preferably what I want to do is create some disconnect in the hips. I can't always do that. Right now, [03:10:10] I'm between your knees, so it's gonna be hard to do that. But I can still shoulder roll through and recover into some kind of guard.

[03:10:19] Okay, [03:10:20] so that's the first one. We come in, she has a tight waist, I can control my partner's nearside hand. What I want [03:10:30] is to create some kind of disconnect and as I do that I take my partner's hand and I put it in my back pocket. Here. Now when she goes to follow me [03:10:40] it won't be that drastic. So she's trying to follow me, I'm flying around here, and I bump her in one direction, I hit that kizushi, and then as she goes to follow in the other direction [03:10:50] we go in and we roll through.

[03:10:52] I can't always do that. Maybe she's covering my hips. She's doing a great job of covering my hips. So from here, we come in and we just go right [03:11:00] into a shoulder roll. She tries to follow me through, go ahead. We can always create that upper back connection, but from here we can scoot and we can put her back on the floor.

[03:11:09] Okay, [03:11:10] we'll look at that, uh, a little bit later about how to actually escape once we roll through if our partner tries to follow us. Okay, similarly to that, [03:11:20] my partner uses a thigh pry. She goes inside my thigh. Like so. Anytime I can control my partner's near side hand, we can roll just as [03:11:30] easily. Okay. The thigh pry is usually going to leave your partner's hips being a little bit better connected to yours.

[03:11:35] Okay. Cause she's a little bit closer. She has tension now running through the hand. So when I go to move my [03:11:40] hips, she moves with me. But as long as I can shove my partner's hand, it's my back pocket. And she goes to follow me from here. It's a pretty easy thing [03:11:50] to roll through. And they create that disconnection at the upper back and the chest.

[03:11:55] Okay. If my partner has a chest lock, [03:12:00] where from here she locks her hands in. Alright, now this is kind of an exception. I can, I, I can shoulder roll, but you have to do it in a proper way because right [03:12:10] now her upper back and my upper back are connected. So if I just roll and I fall into this position, you notice now there's no disconnect between her chest and my upper back.[03:12:20]

[03:12:20] So yes, my back still exposed from here, but because my partner has no arms over my shoulder, it's a pretty easy thing for me to, as the second I fall to angle my [03:12:30] hips and chest towards the ceiling and walk out in this direction, like so. So now once again, my upper back's connected to the floor, not to her [03:12:40] chest.

[03:12:40] And now we can start to bring elbows inside. I want you guys to follow me from here. It's a difficult thing. Okay. So we can do it with a chest lock, provided we do it the correct way. And we'll look [03:12:50] at how to escape again later after we, after we actually roll. Go ahead. We lock up. My partner has a chest lock like so.

[03:12:57] Now from here, I can't put my partner's hand in my back [03:13:00] pocket. I can't do the traditional rolls. So we're just going to look to roll over our shoulder with the intention of having our partner's hips angled towards us and our [03:13:10] hips and chest angled towards the ceiling. So, flat, along the floor, parallel to the floor, okay?

[03:13:15] If I roll, and we end up here, this is no good. And she [03:13:20] switches to a backhand arm and I get beat. So the second I roll,

[03:13:27] we end up in a situation like so. So [03:13:30] the worst case scenario, is I get to a headlock, my partner goes to start taking my back, I headlock my partner, and now from here we can go in and escape, alright? So the second I roll, [03:13:40] I'm looking to land in this position. My partner's hips are angled towards me, and and my hips and chest point towards the ceiling and are parallel to the floor.[03:13:50]

[03:13:53] Next situation is when my partner has any kind of claw grip where she goes either near shoulder like so and I can trap an [03:14:00] elbow or she goes far shoulder like so and I can trap an elbow. You actually saw this um, against Philip Rowe in my match uh, against him. [03:14:10] I actually rolled uh, into uh, into his legs after I rolled um, After I roll over the near shoulder with control of the elbow.

[03:14:18] So whenever I see my partner [03:14:20] has a claw grip like so, I cannot roll over my shoulder without trapping the elbow. I'll just fall into a lap. But if from here, I connect my elbow to my [03:14:30] partner's elbow, and now when she gets to pull this elbow out, it's a pretty difficult thing from here. And now I can roll over the shoulder.

[03:14:36] Where from here, I roll over my [03:14:40] shoulder like so, and I bring my two knees to my chest. When my partner from here goes to pull the elbow free, It's a very difficult thing. Let's rotate towards the camera.[03:14:50]

[03:14:51] My partner goes to rotate the, uh, pull the elbow out. It's a difficult thing. Now from here, claw grip. Now from here, it's a pretty easy thing for [03:15:00] me to start reaching up, pulling the claw down, and now my partner has no connection to my, uh, to my upper back with her chest. And now from here, when she goes [03:15:10] to start taking my back, it's a pretty easy thing to start monitoring my partner's hands and getting my partner's hands separated.

[03:15:16] Okay, what I can't allow is a claw grip to come into [03:15:20] place. And the second we fall, I fall into her lap. And now from here she goes in and she locks a backhand and arm. And now my [03:15:30] shoulders are controlled. Okay. So the goal with this claw, when I trap the elbow, is the second I roll through, we're [03:15:40] immediately looking to separate my partner's hands and control my partner's hand like so.

[03:15:44] Okay.

[03:15:48] So now, when she [03:15:50] goes to lock her hands from here, I can always pass off, separate my partner's hands, and start to get my back to the floor. [03:16:00] Or, in the Phil Bro match, you saw things like, I came in here, and I use it to backstep into his legs. We can do a bunch of things like that we'll look at as we continue.

[03:16:09] But, [03:16:10] Provided we can trap our partner's nearside elbow, which is a claw grip, whether it be near shoulder or far shoulder, I can roll over the shoulder and separate my partner's hands. And [03:16:20] finally, one of the best times to get a nearside shoulder roll is an opportunistic role. My partner disconnects her hips just enough to be able to pull me [03:16:30] down to a hip.

[03:16:31] So when I'm looking to knock someone down to an unathletic position and I pull my partner down to a hip, that's a great time to nearside shoulder roll, because now [03:16:40] Your partner's far out in a way where it's hard to lock a back head and arm. And when I pull my partner down, I have weight on this hand. So even though she's not controlling my hand, [03:16:50] I can't use this hand to come to a back head and arm 'cause there's weight on it.

[03:16:53] As I'm pulling my partner down, uh, my partner down to a hip. So from here I'm behind my partner. I see she [03:17:00] moves away, she puts weight on the hand, and now she can't lock a back head an arm right away. So I time it. So the second she goes to move away and pull me. That's when we roll [03:17:10] through and we re guard.

[03:17:11] Okay? So she's behind me. I use an opportunistic roll. We're playing from here. I'm defending. We're doing every of the cases. Then I see she goes to move away and pull me down to her hip. [03:17:20] And we just use that to roll through. And now we face our partner and we can re guard easily. Okay? So. When we're breaking this down [03:17:30] into very simple terms.

[03:17:31] When am I looking to nearside shoulder roll? Whether my partner has a tight waist, whether my partner has a thigh pry, it doesn't make a [03:17:40] difference. What her leg position is, doesn't really make a difference. If I can control my partner's nearside hand and stop her hands from locking, I can always roll over my [03:17:50] nearside shoulder.

[03:17:50] Okay? Anything that, uh, that allows me to get my upper back to the floor and, uh, takes away [03:18:00] her ability to create, uh, to connect her chest to my upper back is money in the bag for me. Okay? With chest locks, she has a, uh, a great ability to [03:18:10] connect her upper back to my chest. But when I roll through, if I roll through and immediately angle my hips, I can easily walk my upper back so far up towards her head, and it's hard for her to [03:18:20] actually keep that connection of the chest and the upper back.

[03:18:22] So the chest lock is one exception where she starts with great chest to back contact, but when I roll through, I can immediately walk my shoulders [03:18:30] out and get my upper back to the floor. Okay. If I can control my partner's near side elbow, when she has any kind of claw grip, Then I can roll through [03:18:40] and I can look to separate my partner's hands.

[03:18:42] Okay, whenever my partner's hands are separated, that means it's pretty easy thing usually for me to walk my upper back out to the floor. And finally, when my partner goes to [03:18:50] knock me over to a hip and goes to create a disconnection between the hips with a posted hand on the floor and looks to knock me down to a hip, that's a perfect time for me to shoulder roll because of the fact that there's [03:19:00] weight on the hand.

[03:19:01] That's hard for her to go in and lock a, uh, a backhand and arm, okay? So those are the main scenarios where you're going to be able to nearside shoulder roll. And we looked at previously when to [03:19:10] not nearside shoulder roll. So again, there's many combinations. That your partner can be using with upper body and lower body grips.

[03:19:16] But if you just think to yourself, Okay, I want a nearside shoulder roll. [03:19:20] Does my partner have a backhanded arm? If yes, not the time to nearside shoulder roll. Can my partner lock a backhanded arm [03:19:30] as I'm going into the roll? And create a strong chest to back, chest to upper back connection. If yes, not the near time, not the time to nearside shoulder roll.

[03:19:39] [03:19:40] If you ask yourself, when I nearside shoulder roll, can I create a connection of my upper back to the floor? If the answer is yes, [03:19:50] then yes, you can nearside shoulder roll. Okay? The whole purpose of nearside shoulder rolling is to create a connection of your upper back to the floor and deny your partner the ability to create upper [03:20:00] back exposure.

[03:20:01] Lower back exposure we don't care about. It's upper back exposure that we care about. Okay? So if you ask yourself these simple questions, and you follow these simple rules when you're looking to [03:20:10] nearside shoulder roll, everything will become a lot easier. And regardless of your partner's upper body or lower body position, if you can follow these rules You're going to be able to get out more [03:20:20] times than not.

[03:20:24] Let's look at now ways to be offensive when we nearside shoulder roll, assuming a partner wants to stay on [03:20:30] top of us. All right. Uh, if someone just falls to our hip, falls their hips with us and tries to chase our back and we have to get our back out in a way, we're going to look at how to actually go into [03:20:40] escapes.

[03:20:40] Once we hit the nearside shoulder roll, um, provided our partner wants to follow us. But this time, let's say we go to nearside shoulder roll against a tight waist. Partner tries to keep a tight waist [03:20:50] and stop me from rolling. And they just want to end up, they're worried about ending up on bottom position.

[03:20:55] So instead, they just hold on, try to stop me from rolling, so they can take my back. I roll [03:21:00] through, and I'm like, okay, at least I have top position. How can we deal with this? So we're gonna have someone behind us, like so. The tight waist, we're gonna come through, and from this [03:21:10] position, we're gonna go in and we're gonna grab and control our partner's, uh, near side hand, like so.

[03:21:15] Now again, we're always looking to create some kind of disconnect. If we can, great. If not, oh well. [03:21:20] Now from here, when she goes to lock that back hand and arm, she's always gonna be trying to do that. I just shove everything to my back pocket. She goes to keep a strong tight waist on. I nearside shoulder roll, and from this position she tries to [03:21:30] hold, hold, hold.

[03:21:30] But, I can always bring my hips down below her shoulders. Now from here, she's overextended trying to hold on to the tight waist. So I [03:21:40] just take my leg around in a big circle, and I just throw my hips forward, and we lock in to an initial trap triangle like so. And now from here, you have a variety of different ways that we can [03:21:50] go.

[03:21:50] We can switch to armbars, we can switch to traditional triangles, we can switch to hantai senkaku, we can do a bunch of variations from here, or we can go into attacks on our partner. [03:22:00] So in a situation where our partner over commits to stopping us escaping and doesn't try to follow us. When we see this, your partner will [03:22:10] always be overextended as you land.

[03:22:12] So we come in, we control our partner's nearside arm, okay? Now from here, as we go to start [03:22:20] walking away, we're gonna start shoulder rolling. She goes to chase the backhand arm, but it's too late. We roll through. From here, we take our, uh, shoelaces [03:22:30] inside of our partner's hip. And we're gonna look at this, at why we do this in a second, when we can enter into our partner's legs.

[03:22:36] From here she tries to commit to holding my hip, but she gets [03:22:40] overextended from here We just go through and we lock our two legs and now we're ready to go in and transition into our triangle series from there Okay, so what this [03:22:50] will look like someone's in behind us and from this position we go in we go to look to start Controlling our partner's hand and going into a shoulder roll [03:23:00] from this position as we go to roll We control the hand, we shove our hand into the back pocket, we go to roll through.

[03:23:07] She goes to hold on to the tight waist. [03:23:10] We put our partner in a situation where we have a trapped triangle locked. We control our partner's posture, and now we're ready to go in and start attacking. So now my partner over commits to [03:23:20] the tight waist. The reason she will do this is because if from here, I go to shoulder roll, and my partner can pull my [03:23:30] hips back down, And from here I won't be able to roll, okay?

[03:23:34] But, my, shove my partner's hand in my back pocket. Now she has no ability to lock her hands or do anything, [03:23:40] or chase my back. And from here, when she goes to keep that tight waist, it's just her arm against the entire roll of my body. She has to hold on [03:23:50] strong. She can slow me down, but she can't stop me.

[03:23:55] Now from here, we go in, we lock our legs, and we're ready to go in on the attack. [03:24:00] So instead of just rolling and escaping from turtle position, we roll into an offensive position where we can go in and start attacking our partner's upper body.[03:24:10]

[03:24:11] Okay, so let's look at entering the legs on a relatively naive opponent. So we rolled to the upper body, now let's go into the lower body. Um, [03:24:20] Whenever someone keeps their legs between our legs, you see the basic roll through where you can enter your partner's legs. There's a specific way we have to do this.

[03:24:28] Like I said, if my partner [03:24:30] baits me with a leg between my legs, but has a backhanded arm, not the time to roll. Okay, so I roll only whenever I see my partner can't lock a backhanded arm before I go to hit the roll. All right, [03:24:40] from this position, it's easier, but not impossible, to So it's easier to do it when your partner's knee is down between your legs, but it's not impossible to do when [03:24:50] your partner's foot is stepped up.

[03:24:51] Okay, so let's take a look at both. Right now, if my, uh, if my partner can keep her knee [03:25:00] above my tailbone and covering my hips, it's not going to be, it's not going to be, uh, realistic for me to roll into her legs from here. But if I can create any kind of off balance [03:25:10] where I can get her knee pointing right towards my tailbone, underneath my tailbone, this is going to be the time for me to start rolling now.

[03:25:18] So if I just try to roll from here, [03:25:20] Never gonna be able to do anything. So I start moving around, I start threatening stand ups, I start moving around, I start getting the inside elbow position, I start coming in, I start trying to face my partner. And now somewhere in this [03:25:30] transition, she ends up with her knee below my tailbone.

[03:25:35] Whenever I see this, I reach first with my outside [03:25:40] hand. If I reach with my inside hand first, my partner locks his backhand and arm. This is no good. So first, I reach [03:25:50] with my outside hand like so. Now I have a grip on my partner's leg. From here, once I tuck my head, then I go to the second leg. [03:26:00] What I can't do is have a situation where I let go of my partner's hand, I have control of the leg with my hand, She blocks a backhand arm, and now from here, it's [03:26:10] her leg versus my arm, and as she goes to kick that leg back, I lose the leg, and the backhand arm comes in, and now she knocks me down to a hip.

[03:26:19] [03:26:20] So from here, I control the hand, I get to the leg first, and now as I begin the roll, I step my leg up, as I begin the roll [03:26:30] over the near shoulder, I go to the second leg. Okay, once I have control over both my partner's legs, when she goes to sprawl those legs back and away, it's [03:26:40] a very, very difficult thing from here.

[03:26:42] And now you have a very good choice of how we're going to go from here. The easiest way with my partner's, uh, weight leaning forward is to use a [03:26:50] tornado method where I use a pendulum of my leg to get my partner going forwards, forwards, forwards. And then from here, we go in and we lock up with cross ashi garami and we enter into [03:27:00] our partner's leg.

[03:27:01] Okay, that is the hardest of the two. My partner's leg is stepped up. I have to use some kind of Kazushi in order to get her knee into the correct [03:27:10] position. So right now, she's covering my hips with her knee. It's going to be hard. If I get a roll from here, she just raises her knee above my hips and there's no roll.[03:27:20]

[03:27:20] So from here, I play a game where I look to circle my hips away. I look to sit. The bottom guard. I like to go in, I like to stand up, I like to do all these kinds of things, [03:27:30] and her knee, her foot's still up, but her knee now is in a different position, and now instead of being around my hips and covering my hips with my hips between her two knees, now [03:27:40] her, uh, her knee's pointing directly at my tailbone and it's below my hips, okay?

[03:27:47] From here, we reach first with the outside [03:27:50] hand. We want to avoid a backhand arm at all costs. Then we just extend our left leg, our outside leg, and we catch. wrist deep around our partner's hamstring like [03:28:00] so now from here as we go to roll that's when we switch to the second leg i don't want to let go have my partner dive forward and sprawl the leg back [03:28:10] i lose the leg and now the backhand arm comes in so i catch i control my partner's wrist now from here as i go to roll [03:28:20] i roll over the near shoulder with the intention of getting my head underneath my own hips We catch both of our partner's legs [03:28:30] down.

[03:28:30] So when she has to sprawl back and away, it means nothing. And now I just pendulum my leg forwards. One, two, three, until we get situation where we can sit our [03:28:40] partner down and go into cross Ashi Garami. Okay. Now the easier of the two will be when partner is very naive [03:28:50] and just sticks her knee right in the middle and puts her knee on the floor.

[03:28:54] Like so. Okay, this is, this is a good joke. You should be able to roll into your partner's legs pretty easily every time. [03:29:00] Again, what I can't have is a situation where I go to roll and she locks it back at an arm. Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to control those hands from locking, whether it be with [03:29:10] control of my partner's hand, my partner's wrist, whether it be a grip inside my partner's forearm, so when she goes to lock her hands from here she can't do As long as I can control this hand in [03:29:20] some way, I'm golden.

[03:29:21] Okay, or hit a quick off balance where I knock her in one direction to put weight on the hand And now from here, I roll before she can lock a backhanded arm. [03:29:30] Okay Anything that can stop my partner from locking a backhanded arm is what i'm looking for. Okay Now we go in We catch like so [03:29:40] once again It's more this time about Stopping your partner from locking the backhand arm and not, uh, and not about [03:29:50] your partner's knee position.

[03:29:51] Your partner's knee position doesn't have to move. You don't have to get, you don't have to off balance your partner to get her knee in a better position. Her knee's already where it's supposed to be. Just make sure your partner [03:30:00] doesn't lock a backhand arm. From here, we just go in the same thing. We step the left leg up.

[03:30:06] As we go to roll, we access our partner's secondary [03:30:10] leg. And now from here, once she goes to sprawl, we can easily kick our partner through and go in to cross ashigurami. So when our partner has a [03:30:20] knee down, the only battle you're fighting is the back handed arm battle. If I can stop my partner from locking that back handed arm, we can easily roll our partner [03:30:30] through.

[03:30:31] If my partner's knee is up, however, now from here I have to stop her from locking a back handed arm first. Create some kind of off balance where [03:30:40] from here we're moving around. I go to sit towards my partner. She goes to follow me. And now we can roll through and enter cross Ashi Garam. [03:30:50] Okay. Always remember the outside hand goes first.

[03:30:55] I don't go inside hand right into a backhand and arm. [03:31:00] You know, outside hand goes first. And now I don't even go right from here. I tuck the head first. So now, if she goes to lock her [03:31:10] back hand and arm, the hands get thrown to the floor, and the hips come over, and we can send our partner down to a cross [03:31:20] Hachigurami.

[03:31:20] So if our partner's being, Relatively naive, and she has a leg between our legs, the knee between our two knees. It's a pretty easy thing to roll into our partner's legs, [03:31:30] like you've seen a million times if you've been doing jiu jitsu for any amount of time, and then we can go into our partner's legs and start to attack from there.

[03:31:37] But there's a very specific way you have to do it. You can't [03:31:40] just go naively into a roll, let your partner lock a backhand arm, extend you in the opposite direction, in the opposite direction you're trying to go, and then your back's taken instead of you rolling into your partner's [03:31:50] legs. So that's how we do it, uh, safely.

[03:31:57] All right, so we looked at entering the lower body against a relatively [03:32:00] naive opponent. Now let's look at someone who's advanced. We want to enter the legs and we have to use the threat of an upper body submission first to go into attacks on the lower body. [03:32:10] So as we look at with our partner being behind us, we go to create separation in the hips.

[03:32:17] If we can, if not, we just go in [03:32:20] and we roll through. This time we put our shoelaces inside of our partner's hip like so. Okay, this is going to be super, super important now. If my partner tries to [03:32:30] follow me with a tight waist and stop me from. Uh, from rolling through. Nope. Stay up. Just put tension in the tight legs.

[03:32:39] This will stop [03:32:40] me from rolling through. From here, we go in and we scoop our partner's leg like so. Now, what we don't want is for our partner just to drive the knee down to the floor [03:32:50] and we can't enter the legs now. So usually what I recommend is first I come through and I threaten a triangle like so.

[03:32:59] So my [03:33:00] partner now, if she drives his knee to the floor and comes into me, she goes right into the triangle. So she has no choice now, but to posture with the head. And as the head comes out in a way, [03:33:10] now she's not driving in and trying to crush me. The main danger you run into from here is if you just try to enter the legs, your partner puts the knee on the floor, gets heavy with the head, it comes forward and tries to crush you.

[03:33:19] And [03:33:20] now you can run into some issues here. Okay. You still the inside knee position, but it's easier if we have a partner moving back in a way. not coming forwards into us. So I recommend threatening [03:33:30] attacks first at the upper body. This will always elicit a defensive reaction where your partner postures away, and now she's no longer trying to crush you.

[03:33:39] And now from this position, [03:33:40] there's many different ways you can go. You can fire a leg over, you can pull yourself into an outside ashi garami, you can feed your partner's leg across, and you can go into 50, uh, backside 50, and [03:33:50] you can do all these different attacks that we've seen before. Okay. But usually what I recommend is I at least threaten the upper body submission first, [03:34:00] where we come through, I threaten the upper body submission, I scoop the leg.

[03:34:05] Now from here, if she comes into me, She [03:34:10] comes into the triangle, so if she tries to come forward and crush me, she gets triangled. What she has to do is posture up and away, and as she does that, that gives me time now to enter into the legs without a big heavy guy [03:34:20] coming in and crushing me. Now, once I have access to my partner's heel, now when, doesn't matter how strong or how big she is, when she goes to crush me from here, she has no ability to crush me because [03:34:30] I have a straightened leg and now I can go into attacks.

[03:34:32] On my partner right from here, okay, so whenever I feel My partner's leg is not between my legs [03:34:40] And I won't have the opportunity to roll into my partner's legs maybe in knees between my legs, but the foot is on the outside Like so but now she's a shin pin. She's pinning my leg and [03:34:50] it's hard for me from here to roll into my partner's legs Now this is a time where I come through I have to clear My partner's shin if I if I have [03:35:00] a shin pin I can't roll from here because then My leg gets caught, so I have to move myself into a position where I can create some kind of disconnection[03:35:10]

[03:35:11] and then go into a roll. And now from here, we come through, we threaten the triangle. We just reach with our legs like we're going to do. Maybe we don't even want to hit a [03:35:20] triangle. Maybe we just reach the, or reach for our partner's upper body. She has to address this by posturing, and then we just fire her leg over.

[03:35:28] We get to our partner's leg and now [03:35:30] from here we can go in and go into any of the variety of attacks that we want on my partner's lower body. Okay, so threatening the upper body to eventually go into lower body. And again, [03:35:40] if my partner has

[03:35:45] a foot and a knee between my legs, we can roll through pretty easily here. [03:35:50] If she has a knee between my legs, but a foot outside mine. Now this is going to be no good. And this is why it's hard for us to roll without Kazushi and Misdirection. If I just try to roll from [03:36:00] here, my partner just pins my leg, I'm going to get caught in this weird, awkward position.

[03:36:05] So I'm always playing here, she goes to pin my leg, maybe she's good at Leg Pommeler, I'm playing around, I'm looking to [03:36:10] move, looking to go, I'm looking to stand up, looking to move around, and now from here I create some kind of disconnection. We roll through. And we go [03:36:20] into our partner's legs or into the upper body, whatever you want, or just make a recovery.

[03:36:24] You can just roll over the shoulder and recover into some kind of open guard. If that's what you want to do, that's perfectly fine. Okay. But [03:36:30] anytime we can go from a purely defensive cycle into an offensive cycle, we're going to be much better off.

[03:36:39] All right. [03:36:40] So now let's look at we shoulder roll instead of opponent, just trying to tight waist and remain in top position. They make an active attempt to follow us through. Okay. Now [03:36:50] A good opponent will always do this, and as you roll, they'll try to lock a backhand and arm and follow you through.

[03:36:56] Question is, how can we avoid this? Whenever I see someone,[03:37:00]

[03:37:02] whether it be with a tight lace, whether it be the thigh pry, whatever the case is, when I hit a nearside shoulder roll and the opponent comes down with me, it's because they're trying [03:37:10] to create upper back exposure to them, okay? So let's look at what we're trying to accomplish here once we get our upper back to the floor.

[03:37:18] Okay, my [03:37:20] partner will always be trying to pull my hips down next to theirs, pull my shoulders to theirs, and pull my upper [03:37:30] back to their chest. That's the goal. Okay, the two things that will keep you safe from here is your ability to put your upper back on the floor [03:37:40] and your ability to put an elbow between yourself and your partner.

[03:37:44] Okay. If you can do these two things. Your partner will never be able to take your back, never be able to follow you, [03:37:50] okay? So let's look at a few ways, a few ways that we can do this. We roll through, our partner goes to follow us, and we end up in a situation like so. The [03:38:00] first thing I look to do is I'm controlling my partner's near side hand, we go in and we control our partner's far side hand in some way.

[03:38:08] Whether it be [03:38:10] over the knuckle line, whether it be with a V grip inside of our partner's elbow, We control our partner's two hands. Rotate. [03:38:20] Our partner's two hands in some way. So that from here, when she goes to actually pull me back in, she goes to make any grips on my upper body, I can always angle my hips out and [03:38:30] away.

[03:38:30] Okay? Now the danger from here is my partner puts a hook in, either a bottom hook, or she puts a top hook in, and she starts dragging me back into place. So the second I [03:38:40] see I have both my partner's hands controlled, I just pull my two knees into my chest. When she goes to use her legs in any fashion to take my back, it's going to be a very [03:38:50] difficult thing to do from here.

[03:38:51] And now my upper back is on the floor. All I have to do now is take my elbow and place it between myself and my partner. Now whatever happens [03:39:00] from here, it doesn't matter. You're out. When your partner goes to take your, take your back, when your partner goes to recover, it doesn't matter. None of this matters.

[03:39:07] The only things you can do from here is look to come up, come on [03:39:10] top of you And you'll always be able to bring everything back inside and at the bare minimum regard, okay, so well for the tight [03:39:20] waist Or a thigh pry situation wherever the case is matter where my partner's hips are we come in We look to hit a nearside shoulder roll [03:39:30] My partner goes to follow me.

[03:39:31] Okay, when I can't have It's my partner from here to control my hip, and now she pulls my hips down, she starts [03:39:40] inserting legs, this is no good from here. Or she takes her hand up and she goes claw, or she goes nearside shoulder, farside shoulder, and she starts controlling me here. The [03:39:50] second I land, we go and we control our partner's two hands.

[03:39:54] When she goes to move and to use any grips effectively, it's a difficult [03:40:00] thing to do. When she goes to use her legs effectively, I just pull my knees into my chest. When she goes to create any upper back exposure, she can't. And now what gets me out from here [03:40:10] is my ability to take my elbow inside and put it as a wedge between myself and my partner.

[03:40:15] So now wherever she goes from here, we can always bring our legs back inside. [03:40:20] Okay, so what we're going to look at now, situation where I'm going to roll, she's going to legitimately try to take my back, and I'm going to try to escape. [03:40:30] If she can't take my back, she's going to try to come up and mount, get top position.

[03:40:34] and recover from there, okay? As long as you bring everything inside, you're going to [03:40:40] be safe. Upper back to the floor, elbow between yourself and your partner, you're safe, okay? We're playing around here. I'm not letting her loft. We go in, [03:40:50] we shoulder roll,

[03:40:56] and now we can recover, okay? [03:41:00] Just focus on two things, no matter what your partner's grips are. Upper back to the floor, elbow between yourself and your partner. [03:41:10] If you can deny your partner upper back exposure and put a wedge between yourself and your partner, you're going to be safe from here. Okay? The one exception to this, [03:41:20] not, not a, not a true exception across the board, but there are slight exceptions and slight variations, is when your partner has a chest lock.

[03:41:28] Because now, [03:41:30] if I'm going to roll through, I roll over the near side shoulder, like so, and now from here, I can never get. My elbow between myself and my partner. [03:41:40] If my partner at any point unlocks her hands, I use a cross wrist grip to bring the elbow inside. So if my partner at any point ever goes to unlock the hands and [03:41:50] change grips, we bring the elbow inside and now we're free.

[03:41:52] A smart person will keep the hands locked. If I can't bring my elbow between my partner from any of [03:42:00] these scenarios, we headlock our partner, like so. And now from here we can turn up and either rotate inside my partner and turn to guard [03:42:10] or as she goes to get up on top of me from here we can bring legs inside and as she goes to come up we bring legs inside we make space now we can re guard [03:42:20] or if we got a guard pass accepting a bottom pin whatever the case is our back is not being taken.

[03:42:25] So we have a chest lock and we go to roll and we feel [03:42:30] like our partner from here has that upper back exposure. We just from here angle our hips and we walk our upper back to the floor. [03:42:40] If our partner unlocks the hand to change the grips, we bring the elbow inside. If my partner keeps the hands locked, we headlock.

[03:42:48] And now, I want you guys to retake [03:42:50] my back from here.

[03:42:54] The most you can do is get on top and pin me. Okay. So in the event [03:43:00] of a chest lock, of a rear chest lock, elbow slipping becomes difficult, but headlocking becomes easy. All right, so keeping the upper [03:43:10] back on the floor so your partner has no upper back exposure and either putting a wedge between your partner with the elbow or around your partner's head for a headlock.

[03:43:19] And those will [03:43:20] guarantee you'll be safe. Okay. Combine that with taking the knees to the chest so your partner can't extend you and use the legs to start entangling your legs and putting hooks in and then pulling the upper body [03:43:30] back in. Knees to chest, upper back to the floor, good elbow position. You'll be safe from there.

[03:43:39] Alright, so now [03:43:40] let's look at how to be offensive, um, or just escape when, uh, our partner has a claw grip. And we go into a nearside shoulder roll, and we trap our partner's elbow. [03:43:50] Now, this is a little bit different, because when we trap our partner's nearside elbow, it prevents your partner from getting on top and pinning you.

[03:43:57] If we roll out of a tight waist, [03:44:00] and she tries to follow me,

[03:44:05] And now from here, I'm separating my partner's arms. It's a pretty easy [03:44:10] thing. For my partner to pull this arm free, I can hold it for a small amount of time But you're not gonna be able to hold your partner's arm in place for your hand versus them pulling their elbow back [03:44:20] and sitting up when your partner can viciously rip this arm out and sit up and now from here her head comes higher than yours and she can get up and Start pinning [03:44:30] you or rechasing your back if you turn away from her when you have a wedge over your partner's elbow And we roll through.[03:44:40]

[03:44:40] We're in this position. Now from here, when she goes to get up on top of you, she's pinned in place. She can't actually get on top of you anymore. So this gives you more time to work during this exchange. [03:44:50] Okay? Couple of good options from here. Number one, is we can go in. As we can go in, she has a claw. [03:45:00] We can reach up and we can strip the claw pretty easily from here.

[03:45:04] Okay? Okay? Now, I don't have to escape. If I want to escape, I just make a pass off where we go in [03:45:10] one, two, and now we scoot out of the way. But I can strip the claw, I can switch to Kimura, like [03:45:20] so. And from here, I can invert the toes of my right foot, my bottom foot, and I can use this to come up onto my shoulder blades and get my [03:45:30] hips over my partner's torso.

[03:45:33] So now, we can come through, And we can place our foot to the center. Once our foot is between our [03:45:40] partner's legs, we have two good choices. We can either pommel our feet to the outside of our partner's legs. We can hop across to the other side where now we have a top kimura, and we can [03:45:50] go into attacks from here.

[03:45:54] We can use our two feet to push ourselves to a T kimura, [03:46:00] where from here we just slide up and above our partner's shoulder line, And we just hop to a Ki Kimura, and now we work from here. Or, [03:46:10] as you saw in my pretty recent match against Philip Rowe, we can place a leg inside, and now from here as he goes to bring his [03:46:20] knees forward and come in and start to build up to a situation where he tries to heist on top, he can't because of the Kimura, because of the elbow to elbow grip, and from here, We can backstrip our [03:46:30] par's legs and go into a variety of attacks from there.

[03:46:34] So a great way to use your opponent's claw, she goes to break you down. You think she's going to be in a good position. [03:46:40] I catch, I nearfab shoulder roll. We end up in a situation like so. When she goes to use this claw effectively, we separate the grip,[03:46:50]

[03:46:52] we separate the grip, and from here we can lock Kimura. If we don't want to lock Kimura, we just want to separate the grip. We just pass one. [03:47:00] Two. When she goes to take my back, we're out. But if we want to use it as offense, from here, we just invert our toes, we lock [03:47:10] Kimura, and we just build to a situation like so, where our hips are over our partner's torso.

[03:47:17] And now from here, we bring our foot to the inside. [03:47:20] If our partner allows us, we pommel our feet to the same side of our partner's body, and we just hop across the side. [03:47:30] If we feel like that's not a good, that's not possible. From here, our partner's trying to take our back out of the cases. We don't want to stay here too long.

[03:47:36] We just put our two feet, our two shoelaces, outside of our partner's leg like so. [03:47:40] And from here, we just extend our two legs. Just hop to a tiki mora.

[03:47:49] And if we see our [03:47:50] partner's knees coming into the chest, where we can backstep our partner's legs like so, we can go in and we can start backstepping into our partner's legs. The dilemma here is [03:48:00] knees to chest, knees away from chest. Okay. If from here I try to bring my legs across to one side and my [03:48:10] partner's knees are to the chest, I can't do that.

[03:48:15] There's no reason why we can't backstep. If from here we go into a [03:48:20] situation where I go to backstep and my partner's knees are to the chest, I go to backstep and she extends the legs away from me. Your pommel across. And now, [03:48:30] we can go across our partner and play from here. Okay, so we're playing a dilemma game between my partner's being, my knees being to the [03:48:40] chest, where now we can't come across the other side, but we can easily backstep into our partner's legs, or a situation where we try to backstep into the legs, and our partner extends the legs, [03:48:50] making it easier for us to hop across.

[03:48:52] or fall across the tiki mora. Okay, so using our partner's claw as offense, a very pretty [03:49:00] basic way of doing this. Again, we're not really internal anymore. We're more like a crab ride position. So I could spend a lot more time going into escapes and other things we can do [03:49:10] from here, but just basic escaping the claw using your partner's claw to either escape and get your back to the floor or going through some offensive movements where we can go into the [03:49:20] attack After we nearside shoulder roll.

[03:49:21] And again, tons of other things that we can do from there, but these are the core, most basic ones.[03:49:30]

[03:49:30] All right. So let's look at, uh, some more backhanded arm stuff right now and kind of segue into far side shoulder rolls. Let's look at, um, this [03:49:40] segment, the law of the locked hands when it pertains to a backhanded arm. Okay. Now this is super important for you to understand when someone locks a backhanded arm and [03:49:50] you have control of their arm with two of your hands.

[03:49:53] Okay. Your opponent is now forced to stay with locked hands, and if they don't, it's easy for you to escape. [03:50:00] What do I mean by this?

[03:50:04] If my partner's behind me and she has a back handed arm from eternal position, and I have my defensive hand in [03:50:10] place, obviously I have to have a defensive hand in place, because I don't want to get strangled, okay? So I put my primary defensive hand in place, like so, with the thumb inside, and my secondary hand like so.[03:50:20]

[03:50:21] If my partner, at any point, unlocks her hands to change her grips, when I have control over my partner's arm like so, You're [03:50:30] out every single time. Okay, no matter if she's here on her knees if she's behind me and her she's covering my hips It doesn't make a difference from here If from this position [03:50:40] your partner unlocks her hands and goes to change the grips I can always convert it to a two on one and now from here when she goes to follow me in any direction [03:50:50] The two on one the two on one will always get me out.

[03:50:55] Okay, so when my partner locks her [03:51:00] hands understand We're in a backhanded arm, the second my partner locks up a backhanded arm, she is now fully committed to this position. The only way that your partner [03:51:10] can unlock their hands and change position is if first she goes right to the wrist and she strips my grip off.

[03:51:18] So now I have no control over her [03:51:20] hand, I can't form a two on one, now she can go to the floor, she can go behind my leg. behind my arms and she can move around from here, okay? But short of her grabbing her wrist [03:51:30] and stripping the grip, if she naively, at any point, no matter what her hip position is, if she at any point from here unlocks her hands, and goes to change grips, from this [03:51:40] position, I can always move out and away and when she goes to follow me or do whatever she's going to do from here, we can always bring our legs back inside in some fashion and face our partner, okay?[03:51:50]

[03:51:50] So at any point your partner's behind you with a backhanded arm, understand they're fully committed to this, to this hand position now. I put a primary hand in place [03:52:00] and a secondary hand in place. You can go over the forearm or you can go right to a two on one. Both are good, okay? If you go right to a two on one, you're gonna have less base of support and it'll be [03:52:10] easier for her to knock you over to the right shoulder.

[03:52:12] If you go with an outside grip, like your normal secondary hand would be, now when she goes to knock you over the right shoulder, you have a little bit more [03:52:20] base of support with the right elbow. But both are good, okay? Now, if your partner wants to unlock their hands, she has to go to the wrist first. [03:52:30] And now she strips the grip and I can't, I can't escape right away.

[03:52:35] But if she goes to unlock her hands and switch to a chest lock for example, [03:52:40] I'm gone now. Wherever she goes to follow me from here, even if she tries her best to jump across the other side, control my wrist, get, get my wrist now, goes to control my [03:52:50] wrist, it means nothing. When she goes to follow me from here, we can always find ourselves in a situation where we can use this two on one.

[03:52:57] to clear our partner's arm through and now we're [03:53:00] out. Okay. So if your partner locks a backhanded arm, they're fully committed to a backhanded arm. If they unlock their hands at any point, we can easily turn and face our [03:53:10] partner and bring our knees to the inside in some fashion. Okay. Now we're gonna look at some of these escapes where a partner locks their hands in the back at an arm.

[03:53:17] and naively says, Oh, I want to switch my hand position. We have a two on [03:53:20] one. How can we turn and face our partner and, uh, and recover guard? And then we'll segue that into if our partner keeps the hands locked, how can we go into nearside or far side shoulder rolls?[03:53:30]

[03:53:34] All right. So let's look at the demise of our opponent. If they naively unlock their hands and [03:53:40] try to move upper body positioning when we have a two on one. All right. So a couple different ways we can go from here. The easiest and most effective way. [03:53:50] is to just simply turn and face your partner. Okay? So from this position, we have a one on one, she goes to take her hand off, we switch to a two on one.

[03:53:58] Okay? [03:54:00] Once we get to a two on one and our hands are unlocked, just think about facing your partner and putting your back on the floor. All right? If you, if all else fails and you forget what's [03:54:10] going on, just fall to your hip and put your back on the floor. When your partner goes to follow you, I just fall to my hip and I connect my right elbow to my right knee, or sorry, my right elbow to my [03:54:20] right hip, like so.

[03:54:23] Now when she goes to cross face me or lock her hands or do anything, anything like that, she can't. I have all the inside position. [03:54:30] And now all I have to do is I have to bring my right arm to a cross shoulder post and just open up my knees. And now we can put our partner back in [03:54:40] guard. And we can go from knee to hip, or sorry, elbow to hip, to elbow.

[03:54:46] to me. And now we exploit a [03:54:50] very strong structure with the elbow and knee connection, and when my partner goes to pressure into me, we can fully recover into any kind of open guard from here. Okay, so that's the most simple way that we [03:55:00] can do this, is just defending, getting back to a neutral position, whether she has her knees here, whether she has her knees open above my hips, doesn't really make a difference.

[03:55:09] When my partner goes to [03:55:10] unlock her hands, we just switch to a two on one. And now from here we just focus on sitting down to a hip and just going right elbow, near side elbow to near side hip. [03:55:20] I want you guys to follow me or pass me or move around from here. We just open up the knees, we go knee to elbow and now we have a cross shoulder post and we're [03:55:30] ready to work in any kind of open guard.

[03:55:32] So I want you guys to follow me from here. This is what it looks like a little bit more realistically. Choose a backhand arm with any leg position. From here we're playing [03:55:40] around. She has to open up her, uh, her arms. When she opens, she's going to try to follow. I'm just going to sit to guard. And now we can begin this simple [03:55:50] recovery.

[03:55:50] All right. Now if you want to be more offensive, instead of just falling to a Simpline position, my partner goes to open up her hands from here, open up her hands from [03:56:00] here, we convert to a two on one. This time we step, our inside leg up and we put our knee right next to our elbow like so. [03:56:10] Now we look to take our knee to the outside of our partner's hip and convert to an arm drag grip.

[03:56:16] So this time as we fall my partner goes to come towards me and [03:56:20] follow me the weight comes off the hand and now we can use arm drag variations to get our partner off balance with sumigeshis and follow up with attacks from there. Okay so this time [03:56:30] please step the inside leg up. We use part of the inside leg series.

[03:56:35] We go primary hand in place. She unlocks everything. From here we go two on one. And [03:56:40] now, as she goes to move around, we go in like so. From here, if we can, we get the knee to the outside of our partner's hip. And now, we switch up high to the armpit. When she [03:56:50] goes to drive towards me, she comes on to a drag and sumigeshi, and we can get our partner severely off balance from here.

[03:56:58] Absolute worst case scenario [03:57:00] is she's covering my hips sufficiently. From here we unlock. We try to take our knee to the outside of our partner's hip but we get stuck. So now [03:57:10] it's caught between my partner's legs, not on the outside of the far hip like we want it. So I'm the opposite hip now. This is fine too.

[03:57:18] We just go drag as my partner goes to [03:57:20] roll onto me. We're just at yoko sumigeshi options. We can take our partner up, take our partner over, and turn to our partner's legs, a variety of different attacks from here. [03:57:30] So we use a traditional sumigeshi or a yoko sumigeshi option depending on where your partner's hips are.

[03:57:38] So we come in, we go, [03:57:40] she goes to unlock her, her arm, or her, her, her grip, and from here we step a leg up. If we can get it outside the hip, we go regular Tsumogeshi. If we can't, [03:57:50] we feel like we get stuck here, we switch to a drag again. Wherever my partner goes to move from here, it's a pretty easy thing to enter into my partner's legs, [03:58:00] hit Tsumogeshi, get on top, or Rigar, whatever the case is.

[03:58:04] Okay, so your more conservative route[03:58:10]

[03:58:10] is just to simply fall to a hip. The second I see the hands on lock, I switch to a two on one, and we fall to a hip. A more aggressive route, when we go into [03:58:20] attacks, is we switch to a two on one. And now, we just step an inside leg up, and convert to a drag. When my partner goes to follow me [03:58:30] from here, I have the inside leg position.

[03:58:33] But I can get my partner off balance. And go into a variety of counterattacks. Alright. Understand you also have the option of [03:58:40] passing the hand off. So my partner goes to open up the hands from here. We can start to build height. Instead of using a two on one, we can pass it. So we can open our partner's hand up like [03:58:50] so.

[03:58:50] We can shoot our right hand through. And start moving away from our partner. Now if we want to start standing up and moving away. Or we want to start shoulder [03:59:00] rolling and using all of our combination attacks. with the Kazushian misdirectional idea. Now if we want to start, instead of facing our partner, we want to start building up and away [03:59:10] from our partner, we can come in and we can start hitting pass off methods where we go from a two on one to a situation where our partner's hand now is in our back pocket, and now from here we can start going [03:59:20] into a variety of escapes and counterattacks.

[03:59:25] So using a conservative method to face our partner, [03:59:30] my gist. falling to a hip and bringing everything back inside, switching to a dragon facing our partner, or using a pass off to shove the hand to the back pocket and [03:59:40] using either standing, rolling escapes or whatever you want from there.

[03:59:47] All right, let's look at when, so now we're kind [03:59:50] of segueing into far side shoulder rolls. Um, let's look at when we absolutely cannot far side shoulder roll. I can't say, I can't say not far side shoulder roll, but I would recommend against it because of the [04:00:00] fact that it's very easy for your partner to follow you.

[04:00:02] and, uh, to follow up with inserting hooks and taking your back. When your partner's [04:00:10] on the side of you and they're on the near side and you're looking to nearside shoulder roll, the number one thing that you have to consider when we're trying to nearside shoulder [04:00:20] roll is my partner's ability to expose my upper back most of the time by locking it back at an arm.

[04:00:26] This is when we cannot, we cannot nearside shoulder roll. [04:00:30] Okay, or I wouldn't recommend near side shoulder rolling. When my partner, or when the bottom person is trying to far side shoulder roll, the [04:00:40] one thing I'm trying to do to follow her effectively is to keep her hips between my two knees. If I can keep her hips between my [04:00:50] two knees, I can follow her effectively.

[04:00:53] If I can't keep my two knees around her hips, it's gonna be hard for me to follow. [04:01:00] Okay, as she goes to sit to her far hip and roll over the far shoulder, from this position, she's looking to get her hip to the floor, [04:01:10] like so, so that my two knees don't cover the hips anymore.

[04:01:18] From this position, if [04:01:20] she goes to sit to the hip and she goes to roll over that far shoulder, and I put my knee on the floor as a wedge underneath her hip. And now her hips are [04:01:30] between my two knees. Now we fall into a position where I can insert my hooks. So anytime [04:01:40] the hips are sufficiently covered and her, her two hips are in between my knees, I would not recommend [04:01:50] far side, far side shoulder rolls.

[04:01:52] Okay, if we switch, uh, switch positions. And she has a tight waist, for example, [04:02:00] or a back head and arm, whatever position she has. If she's not covering my hips sufficiently, there's no reason[04:02:10]

[04:02:12] why I can't shoulder roll. And now from here, my hips are no longer between her knees.[04:02:20]

[04:02:20] If at any point, I go to roll, and she can get to a position where my hips are between her knees, Now you're [04:02:30] gonna get your back taken. This is no good. Okay? But if I can create misdirection in Kazushi, or maybe she's covering my hips now, but from here, [04:02:40] I move into a position where now I can roll, when she goes to follow me, keep your hands up, when she goes to follow me and hop across, [04:02:50] it's hard for her to get my hips between her two knees, now it's okay and I can go into escapes.

[04:02:56] So, in general, we're looking at [04:03:00] sitting across to the far hip and rolling over the far shoulder with maki komi rolls and things like that. I recommend far side shoulder rolling if you can [04:03:10] get to a situation where your hips aren't sufficiently, aren't sufficiently covered and your partner doesn't have two knees around your hips, [04:03:20] like so, and has no ability No, uh, and it has no ability to keep your hips between or get their hips between your knees as you roll.[04:03:30]

[04:03:30] Even if my hips aren't covered from here, but I feel that if she goes to roll, I can beat her and I can put my two knees around her [04:03:40] hips. That's no good. So she needs to create constant Kazushi and get me moving and get me thinking so that when she goes to roll, I can't follow her and cover the [04:03:50] hips and keep her hips between my two knees.

[04:03:51] Okay, so as she gets a far side shoulder roll, I'm looking to remain chest to upper back. [04:04:00] And very importantly, I'm looking to have her two hips between my two knees. So we're looking to far side shoulder roll. We're focused on [04:04:10] if she has a back head and arm, it's okay, we'll look at that in a minute. But if my hips are sufficiently covered, I recommend not far side shoulder rolling.

[04:04:19] I recommend using [04:04:20] other methods where we separate the head and arm or we four point out. We do something else. It's not far side shoulder roll. If we have a backhand arm, just like we talked about, not [04:04:30] near side shoulder rolling. If I have my hips from bottom position being sufficiently covered and in between my partner's two knees, I don't far side shoulder roll.[04:04:40]

[04:04:40] So just thinking about it like this makes everything much easier and gets the clockwork. Going in your head and you're thinking, okay, are my hips covered? If no, I can roll over [04:04:50] the far shoulder, far hip. If yes, do something else.

[04:04:57] Okay. So let's look at what we can roll [04:05:00] over the far hip, far shoulder, use maki komi rolls, things like that. The first prerequisite prerequisite is to make sure that your hips are not sufficiently covered. If at any point, [04:05:10] your partner is covering your hips and you know, and you can feel if you roll to that far side, your partner can wedge their knee underneath your hip before your hip touches the [04:05:20] floor, I recommend not rolling.

[04:05:22] Okay? The easiest way

[04:05:28] to guarantee this is to [04:05:30] find yourself in situations where you can take your inside leg, my right leg in this case, and trap my partner's leg, her left leg in this case. The easiest way [04:05:40] that you can do this is if your partner, for example, has her rear knee down, Her front leg up, and as in a situation like so, as a backhand arm is playing a game from here, [04:05:50] okay?

[04:05:50] This is the easiest way to ensure that I can trap my partner's near leg. Where from here we have a primary hand in place, and from here we go in and we [04:06:00] step over our partner's leg. Now I physically have her leg trapped between my two legs, and there's no way from here that my partner can ever beat me to the floor with [04:06:10] her knee before my hip gets to the ground.

[04:06:12] And now from here, it's a pretty easy thing to just go in and roll my partner on through. [04:06:20] Okay. So whenever my partner steps the leg up, this is why I recommend not really playing for too long in a position like so. If your partner has a [04:06:30] good inside leg series, she can, or they can easily come in and trap your leg.

[04:06:34] Now, let's say my partner is doing a good job of riding my hips and, uh, she's behind me, maybe not completely on [04:06:40] top, but she's, in a good position here, where now I feel like there's not enough, uh, there's not enough space to roll. I can do things where I hit, again, uh, Kazushi in [04:06:50] a misdirection, and I can just bump my partner forward, and I can just bow my head to the floor and raise my hip slightly to get my partner out of the way, and that is a disconnect between [04:07:00] our two hips.

[04:07:01] Where now from here, I can go either one, where I step over my partner's leg like so, and now I just trap. [04:07:10] My partner's far side, uh, far side arm, and we just roll through the situation like so.[04:07:20]

[04:07:22] We can bump our partner forward like so, and now we can roll before we catch the [04:07:30] leg. So I can roll when my partner goes to step over, because as I go to roll, you know what she's going to try to have to do. She's going to have to jump over and put her knee on the floor and beat [04:07:40] me. So I know exactly where she's gonna go.

[04:07:44] So as I bump her forward, we just put her head on the floor, our hips rise, we get her out and away, [04:07:50] my hips move away, and I turn my left hip down towards the floor. When she goes to chase me and hop over, we just catch our partner's leg, mid sit, [04:08:00] mid roll, and now we go in and we trap our partner's leg.

[04:08:07] So the key here is, regardless of your partner's upper [04:08:10] body position, whether it's a tight waist, hand on the floor, whether it's a chest flop, whatever it is, if I can get a disconnect between my hips and my [04:08:20] partner's, whether it be by bumping my partner forward if she's on top of my hips, like so, whether it be [04:08:30] from just simply circling my hips away from my partner's like so anything that can create a disconnect in my [04:08:40] hips and my partner's hips and make it so that i can trap my partner's leg between my two legs you're going to be able to roll through and sit your partner and sit your partner down [04:08:50] get an elbow wedge between yourself and your partner and get to an escape Okay.

[04:08:54] Now let's talk about roles that we can do where we don't have our partner's leg [04:09:00] trapped. Okay. Where we find, I bump my partner forward, but whatever the case is, I just, I go to trap the leg. It's just not there. [04:09:10] I don't have to have the leg trapped. It's better to have the leg trap, but it's not a necessity.

[04:09:14] If I can create so much of a disconnect between myself and my partner's hips. That [04:09:20] she simply won't have the time to follow me when I sit to my far hip and go over the far shoulder That's okay, too. So right now our hips are so far disconnected [04:09:30] We just go in we catch our partner's forearm. So when she gets to post that arm out It gets stuck underneath Uh, underneath, it gets wedged in between my ribcage and my [04:09:40] elbow.

[04:09:40] And now, when she has to beat me with her knees, she's so far away that it takes time to do that. So in order to get, in order to keep me between her knees, her left knee has to travel a [04:09:50] far distance from here to get over my left hip. So I hit the initial off balance, and now when I go to sit and she goes to follow me, there's just simply not [04:10:00] enough time from here.

[04:10:01] And now, we're halfway out. Okay? So, my first and best option. to go to the near hip or sorry far hip far [04:10:10] shoulder is to find ways to create a disconnect in our hips regardless of the hand position maybe she goes tight waist head on the floor straight some kind of disconnect in the hips where from here [04:10:20] I walk my hips away one great option is I walk my hips away and I just step the inside leg up [04:10:30] okay

[04:10:34] and we trap our partner's leg like so Another great option [04:10:40] is we bump our partner forward here. Maybe she's a tight waist and she has a hand in my tricep, for example, we're playing here. From here [04:10:50] I come in, I go to circle, she goes to follow my hips, I bump my partner forward, and now from here we go in and we trap a leg.

[04:10:57] So anything that we can [04:11:00] use to create misdirection and Kazushi, off balances, whether it be a straightforward circle away, whether it [04:11:10] be a bump forward and a step, whether it be a bump forward or circle away, and then a step, the more advanced your partner is, the more advanced and creative you have to [04:11:20] get.

[04:11:20] But anything that can create a disconnection in my hips and my partner's hips, regardless of what upper body position my partner has, [04:11:30] this is the time. to use far side, uh, far side shoulder rolls and sitting across to the far hip like so, okay? [04:11:40] If, on the other hand, I feel like we're applying from here, I create a disconnect in the hips, and my partner's doing nothing to control, uh, nothing to control the upper [04:11:50] body, I can just nearside shoulder roll.

[04:11:51] There's no reason to far side shoulder roll, okay? So we come in here, I feel like if I can get control over my partner's wrist, she can't lock her [04:12:00] back head and arm, I just nearside shoulder roll. If I feel, that my partner's very good at going and stamping her back head and arm quickly, I can't go to nearside [04:12:10] shoulder roll, I feel like it's gonna be risky, no problem.

[04:12:13] Just step over our partner's leg like so. Now we can go from here. Additionally, anytime [04:12:20] that we can get feet or knees between myself and my partner, let's say from here, I create so much control. Of a distance between myself and my partner [04:12:30] where I step a leg all the way up, like we talked about before.

[04:12:34] From here, I can just simply sit down to this position and play from here. Even if she has a [04:12:40] back, head and arm and she makes a mistake where the head, the head and shoulders are, or the hips are so far away, I can get a foot between myself and my partner and knee between myself and my partner. When she goes to [04:12:50] follow me, now I can interfere with my legs.

[04:12:54] And I can use sumigeshi hooks to take my partner out and over and send her so far [04:13:00] in the direction that we're falling that my hips now are way out far and away from her two knees and we can get our partner into a situation where we can go into an escape. Okay, so again, there are many different [04:13:10] hand, upper body, and lower body combinations your partner can use.

[04:13:15] We're looking to sit over the far shoulder. and sit to the far hip [04:13:20] whenever we can create a disconnect in our hips from our partner's hips. If we can do that, that's the time to go to the far hip. If my partner can keep [04:13:30] my hips between her two knees, that's not the time to sit to the far, to the far hip and go over the far shoulder.

[04:13:36] So create a disconnect in the hips, whether it be circling away, whether it [04:13:40] be bumping our partner forward and circling away, whether it be just bumping our partner forward and stepping over a leg. That's what we're looking for. If we can step over our partner's leg, [04:13:50] we are guaranteed to be able to go far shoulder because of the fact that our partner's leg is physically trapped between ours and she has no ability now to put our hips [04:14:00] between the two knees.

[04:14:02] With that being said, it's best to put your partner's leg between your legs and trap it, but it's not necessary. You can also [04:14:10] create so much of a disconnection with the hips that you can use a speed based method instead of a control based method, and you can use the disconnection of the hips to sit to your far hip, go over the [04:14:20] far shoulder, and she won't have enough time to follow you.

[04:14:22] Okay, so we can use a speed based or a control based method. The speed based method being [04:14:30] Situation where we're moving, I bump her forward, I move away, and now before she has time to follow me, I go through. [04:14:40] Or we can use a more robust. They're both very good, but obviously this one's safer, more conservative, more robust.

[04:14:46] More robust method where we could use a control based method to [04:14:50] control our partner's movement We're now no matter how fast or how athletic she is She'll never be able to get the beat on me and get that those knees outside of my hips once [04:15:00] again Okay, so as far as far side shoulder rolling Maki Komi rolling.

[04:15:06] Okay when I reference Maki Komi I just mean [04:15:10] simply trapping My partner's far elbow like so and rolling over the shoulder. Okay, whenever we're referencing Maki [04:15:20] Komi, we're talking about far side shoulder rolls and hips, uh, sitting to the far side hips. So everything far side always starts with creating some kind of disconnection.[04:15:30]

[04:15:30] between your hips and your partner's hips, so that your partner cannot keep your hips between their two knees. If you just think about that when you're trying to sit and face your partner, [04:15:40] everything will become much easier. No matter what upper body grips, what leg position they have, it doesn't really make a difference, provided you can create some kind of disconnect, disconnect in your, [04:15:50] your, your hips and your partner's hips, and trap your partner's legs when and if possible.

[04:15:59] All right, [04:16:00] so let's look at some basic escapes again. We're not really internal position anymore once we get to this. Once we hit the initial roll through, but it's still important we go over some basic escapes. Uh, there's going to be [04:16:10] two primary ways of making sure that we remain safe, uh, based around your partner's, uh, upper body position.

[04:16:18] Um, if my partner has [04:16:20] a situation where she has one arm over and one arm under, typical backhanded arm, we use one set of escapes. If she has two arms under, uh, my arms width, we [04:16:30] use Uh, either double underhooks or a chest lock, different set of escapes. So let's look at first

[04:16:38] Backhand and arm [04:16:40] where we go in and we create a situation where we can trap Our partner's leg like so we clamp down on our partner's hand and now from here. We just roll over the left shoulder [04:16:50] We end up in a situation like so okay

[04:16:57] The first thing I have to make [04:17:00] sure of, two, two, two primary things. Number one, I want to put a wedge between myself and my partner with my inside elbow. If I can put my left [04:17:10] elbow or my right elbow on the floor, I'm out. My back can no longer be taken. Okay, if my elbow is on top of my partner and from here, [04:17:20] She looks to start taking this leg out and she goes to put a butterfly hook in and she goes to reinsert it.

[04:17:26] She can get the bottom hook in. She can pull me back on top and things can start to go south from here. [04:17:30] If I just put my elbow on the floor, congratulations, you're safe. Your primary hand out doesn't even have to be in if you don't want it to be. If your partner locks a strangle, [04:17:40] it means nothing. The angle is wrong and I can easily turn inside the strangle.

[04:17:43] Okay, so the first thing is I put my elbow on the floor. The second thing is I put my knee on the [04:17:50] floor. So I invert my right knee, and I put my knee on the ground. Once my partner realizes if she's good, and she realizes the back is no longer an option, what she can do [04:18:00] is she can start to, uh, heist up to a situation where she's on top of me, and she can wedge her knee underneath mine.

[04:18:07] And now she can get up. And now she can start [04:18:10] going in and sitting back into my legs. And Congratulations, your back's not getting attacked, but now your leg's getting broken. Okay, so the first line of [04:18:20] defense here, my partner has a backhanded arm. I put my elbow on the floor like so, and I scoop my hips out and I invert my right knee.

[04:18:29] So now when she goes to [04:18:30] enter into my back, impossible. When she goes to enter into my legs, impossible. And now I play a game from here where I look to go into an escape. One of my favorite escapes from this [04:18:40] position is to take an arm drag grab from my partner like so. Now, as my partner goes to move or make any transitions, I just pull my partner's [04:18:50] arm and I lift the elbow.

[04:18:51] I pull it towards me and I lift in this direction. So when she goes to keep control over my head, I just turn towards my partner. I look towards my partner and I [04:19:00] pull the arm drag, pull the arm drag grip, and now the head and arm is free. And now from here, your partner has a couple of choices. If your partner tries to put an underhook in [04:19:10] on this, uh, on this arm, like so.

[04:19:13] It's a pretty easy thing because there's no control for me to just use the drag grip to come up on top of my [04:19:20] partner or into a front hand if she follows me up.

[04:19:25] If my partner tries to get on top by high legging over, [04:19:30] she goes to high step, I have the inside leg position, and now we can go into counter attacks. The main thing is, you're out, you've escaped, and you're [04:19:40] ready at least neutral and ready to go into attacking position. Okay? So first, is a backhand and arm.

[04:19:48] Where we can trap a leg. [04:19:50] So, defensive hand in, I clamp my partner's hand down, I step over her leg. When I go to roll, she goes to follow me, she can't because the leg's trapped. [04:20:00] When she goes to post, her left hand on the floor, she can't because it's wedged between my elbow and my ribcage. The second we land, I invert the right elbow, I invert the [04:20:10] right knee.

[04:20:11] Like so. And now, we just play from here. My favorite, uh, escape from here, is to go arm drag. When she has to do anything from [04:20:20] this position, I just lift the arm up and over my head, and now we're free. She goes to reclaim my back, she can't. When she goes to enter into my legs, she can't. [04:20:30] If from here she scoots her right leg out and goes to get on top, she gives me the inside leg position and now we're ready to go in and attack my farmer's legs.[04:20:40]

[04:20:40] If she tries to punch in an underhook and come up the top, top pins, I can always rotate out and go front headlock and now we're ready to go into our own offense from there, [04:20:50] okay? If we go to fall to a hip using a speed based method, Against the front head or against the back head and arm and I feel like I can't trap my partner's leg [04:21:00] No problem.

[04:21:01] We roll through

[04:21:05] and now there's no danger of your partner entering into your legs So I just simply put my elbow on [04:21:10] the floor I come out I turn towards my partner and I switch to a drag grip and now from here wherever she goes to move We're out. [04:21:20] Okay, if on the other hand, so that one's easier because you're on the the thought of getting your legs into.

[04:21:29] If on the other [04:21:30] hand, from any position, my partner has two hands underneath, usually some kind of chest lock like so. And now from here, I roll through, I trap my partner's [04:21:40] leg, I roll through. From this position now, like we talked about before, we can't elbow [04:21:50] cut down to the floor. So what are we going to do from here?

[04:21:53] We take that initial cross wrist. If my partner at all, at any time separates her hands, We slip the elbow inside [04:22:00] and now we're free. If my partner chooses to stay in this position, I feel like, okay, I'm kind of stalemated. You can't really take my back from here, but I can't really [04:22:10] escape. Whenever I see this, I just start bridging to get my shoulders out to the floor in this direction.

[04:22:17] So my upper back is going to come out and over my [04:22:20] partner's arm to the floor like so. And now from here, we just turn towards our partner. We insert a butterfly hook. If [04:22:30] my partner goes to get on top now because her arm is trapped, you're usually going to win the battle for top position. Like so. Worst case scenario, your partner gets on top of you.[04:22:40]

[04:22:40] She pulls the arm out. And now from here, she goes to get on top. You have the inside leg position. And you can go into all of your counter offense from there. So this time, she has two [04:22:50] arms under. Maybe she has control over a chest lock. Maybe she has two of my wrists controlled, like so. And from here, we [04:23:00] manage to separate the hips.

[04:23:01] We step over the leg, and we roll over the shoulder. So now I can't elbow cut down. In this position, if my partner ever goes to unlock [04:23:10] her hands and move them, we can always Bring the elbow inside. Okay. If my partner stays in this position, stays, uh, control my wrist or stays with locked [04:23:20] hands is more realistic.

[04:23:21] From here, the first thing I'm going to look to do is again, I'm going to invert my knee so she can't enter into my legs. And now from here, we're going to start bridging[04:23:30]

[04:23:32] our shoulders to the floor. And now we just take our knee to our chest. If my partner stays here [04:23:40] until I can turn to this position, you're always going to win the battle for top position. If, as I bridge, my partner goes to start coming on top, we [04:23:50] put a leg inside, and now we're ready to go in and start playing with some kind of butterfly guard.

[04:23:56] In the event that [04:24:00] my partner has a chest lock, I bump my partner forward, we have the cases, I create space, and I roll through, but I miss the leg. I just catch the elbow [04:24:10] and she gets to post the hand. She can't because it's wedged in place. I missed the leg, but she misses my hips from here. Same thing.

[04:24:17] We're just going to put our feet on the floor. We're going to bridge and [04:24:20] walk our shoulders backwards. And now from here, wherever we go, we're safe. Even if our partner turns on top of us, it's a pretty easy thing. Put our feet back [04:24:30] inside and recover from there. So in general,

[04:24:36] If we roll through, our partner has one [04:24:40] arm over the shoulder. We can always bring an elbow wedge inside and escape very easily like that using most of the time an arm drag grip after we slip the [04:24:50] elbow and slip the knee. Number two, if our partner has two ends, two arms underneath our armpits, rear chest lock or double underhooks, whatever the [04:25:00] case is, and we've rolled through, we can't bring the elbow between ourself and our partner because our partner's arm is wedging our elbow in place.

[04:25:07] We bridge our shoulders higher than our partner's to [04:25:10] get our upper back to the floor so there's no upper back exposure. And we use headlock methods to either turn on top or bring feet and knees back inside as our partner rips the arm out and gets up to top position. [04:25:20] Okay, so two great methods of escaping.

[04:25:23] Once we roll from paternal position over the far side shoulder and our partner's close to being on our [04:25:30] back, uh, but miles away. As long as we can get our, uh, our elbow, near side elbow to the floor or our upper back to the floor, you're going to be out every single [04:25:40] time.

[04:25:44] We're going to kind of close out, uh, far side shoulder rolls. Uh, with this, but it's very [04:25:50] closely related because it involves stepping over and trapping your partner's leg. So, the same setup, you can use the same setup to hit the maki komi's and the far side rolls like we [04:26:00] just looked at, but we can also use it to sit the half guard.

[04:26:02] Let's look at how we're going to do that. So, same concepts we've been talking about, a disconnection of the hips. We step over our partner's [04:26:10] leg, like so, and my partner has a backhanded arm. Okay, now understand you can only do this if your partner has a back head and arm. If your partner has a rear chest [04:26:20] lock, like so, I can't sit to half guard because I can't get my elbow through and into position.

[04:26:26] But if your partner has a back head and arm, like so, it's [04:26:30] a pretty easy thing now to just take my knee to my partner's knee, take my right elbow to my right hip, and I sit into a [04:26:40] situation like so. Now from here we immediately come up, we go to our partner's, uh, our partner's hips. We take our left hand and we shoot it as a scoop grip [04:26:50] underneath our partner's far, uh, far leg.

[04:26:53] And we perform a lower leg shift where we shoot our leg through and we move into a situation like so. Where now my partner [04:27:00] has a choice. If she puts a strong wizard on, it's a pretty easy thing to start walking in a circle

[04:27:09] underneath our [04:27:10] partner to take her over. If I go to turn the circle and she posts a hand on the floor, it's a pretty easy thing to come up and immediately start going in [04:27:20] for your attacks. on your partner attacking your partner from turtle and taking their back. Okay, so you can use this from a backhand arm only, not from [04:27:30] a rear chest lock or anything where your partner has two hands underneath.

[04:27:34] If she has two hands underneath, you see the issue here, I can't get [04:27:40] my elbow through. So if she has a backhand and arm or a tight waist, the hand on the floor, anything that's not two of her arms [04:27:50] underneath two of your, two of your arms. Okay. Or the near side arm underneath your arm. Anything that allows my elbow to come to my hip will allow me to sit to [04:28:00] half guard.

[04:28:00] Anything where she can block my elbow from coming to my hip, I can't sit to half guard. All right, so most of the time you find yourself here when your partner's in a backhanded arm, this is the most common. [04:28:10] We just go knee to knee and elbow to hip. Like so. Knee to knee. [04:28:20] Elbow to hip. Now as you fall, your partner will always pose the hand.

[04:28:24] Otherwise, you're just going to face plant. And now, we just go scoop grip and hips. [04:28:30] Like so. And now from here, we're into a strong lower leg shift position. We have control of both of our partner's legs. We have control over the waist. And [04:28:40] now we can start working in a half guard, classical half guard situation.

[04:28:43] to go into winning positions from here and at very least recover the position. Okay. So sitting to [04:28:50] half guard you can do with the same exact setup as you would if you're rolling over the far shoulder. But instead of rolling over the far shoulder, you can actually sit to [04:29:00] a half guard provided you can pull your elbow to your hip.

[04:29:04] If your partner is blocking you from pulling the elbow to the hip, you can't sit to half guard, but just roll over the far shoulder and go into [04:29:10] escapes like that. Okay, just throwing that in there, so you guys have it. Standing to half guard, uh, when you initially trap a leg, instead of going to a far shoulder roll.[04:29:20]

[04:29:22] All right, so we're going to, actually going to revisit on shoulder rolling a little bit, uh, later when we start building up to four points, [04:29:30] um, from turtle. But this is the end of nearside shoulder rolls and far side shoulder rolls from a turtle position. Okay. [04:29:40] Now, what do we have here? When you're thinking about nearside shoulder rolls, the one thing, the most, the single most important thing your partner needs [04:29:50] when they're on top of you to stop you from successfully nearside shoulder rolling is upper back exposure.

[04:29:56] If they can keep their chest connected to your upper back, [04:30:00] they can take your back effectively. Okay. So anytime I'm in a back, head and arm, or anytime my partner can quickly lock a back, head and arm. If I try to roll over [04:30:10] the near shoulder, I'm just going to fall right into my partner's lap, and she's going to take my back.

[04:30:15] Okay? When I'm trying to roll over the far side shoulder, my [04:30:20] partner's primary goal, and there are other ones as well, Okay, if I roll over the near side shoulder, my partner's primary goal is to keep a chest to back connection. The secondary goal is to find a way to get me [04:30:30] to stay between her knees. So, the primary goal,

[04:30:36] over here, is to stay chest to back and [04:30:40] now as she goes to roll the secondary goal is to find myself with her hips between my knees. Okay, but because of the [04:30:50] orientation of our upper body grips and the way that she rolled it's a pretty easy thing to do from here. The primary goal is upper back to chest connection.[04:31:00]

[04:31:00] Okay, as we spoke about in our generalized goals we're going into we start a turtle position. The specific goal when your partner tries [04:31:10] to go near or far side shoulder roll. My, the top player's primary goal is to keep the hips between my knees. So from here, she goes to hit the far [04:31:20] side shoulder roll. I keep her hips between my knees.

[04:31:26] Now, once her hips are between my knees, now the secondary [04:31:30] goal is to create a situation where I can get upper back exposure and chest to upper back connection. That's the secondary goal. Okay, but the primary goal is to keep [04:31:40] her hips between my two knees. So nearside, your goals from bottom position are to create a [04:31:50] situation where you can create a distance between the upper back and your partner's chest.

[04:31:56] So she wants to deny me upper back exposure. So if we [04:32:00] switch positions, here I go nearside shoulder, I'm looking to create a situation where I can distance the upper [04:32:10] back from my partner.

[04:32:16] When I go far side shoulder, I'm [04:32:20] looking to distance first the hips from my partner's hips. So I'm looking to go into near side shoulder rolls. My primary [04:32:30] goal is creating a disconnection between her upper, between my upper back and her chest and denying her upper back exposure by putting my upper back on the [04:32:40] floor.

[04:32:40] When I'm looking to go far side shoulder rolls, my primary goal is to create a disconnection in the hips at the lower body, roll through, and then [04:32:50] put my, uh, put my back, put my back on the floor. My upper back on the floor. Okay, so everything kind of comes full circle here. We go in [04:33:00] She's I don't want to go near side shoulder roll from here.

[04:33:04] First thing is I create disconnection with the upper back. I deny her ability to [04:33:10] go upper back exposure. She falls, she goes to follow me. Now that there's no upper back exposure, this is perfect, but I'm still in between her knees. [04:33:20] Okay, so Once the upper back is denied, now I move to a situation where I'm no longer between her knees, like so.[04:33:30]

[04:33:30] On the other side, the first thing you're looking for is a disconnection of the hips first, [04:33:40] so now I'm not, no longer between her knees, but if you notice, my upper back is still exposed. So now from here I have to create a disconnection [04:33:50] second at the upper back, By bringing elbow inside and creating a situation now where there's no upper back exposure.

[04:33:58] Whether it be through turning [04:34:00] away from my partner or facing my partner. Where now there's no upper back exposure and we're face to face. So you see the goals here for each [04:34:10] player, the primary and secondary goals are inverted. For the nearside shoulder roll, it's about upper back and chest connection first.

[04:34:18] hip and knees second. [04:34:20] The far side shoulder roll is about hip and knees first, upper back connection second. Okay. If you can think about it in these simple, [04:34:30] with these simple goals in mind of if you're trying to near side shoulder roll, create a disconnection in the upper back and the chest first, worry about [04:34:40] the hips second, everything is going to be so much easier.

[04:34:44] And if you can't create a disconnection at the upper back first, if your partner has a back and an arm [04:34:50] and the chest is glued to the back, create a disconnection in the hips first, roll over the far side shoulder, and then create a disconnection in the upper back and the chest second. [04:35:00] Okay, so for each side, your goals are inverted, primary and secondary, whether it's hips or upper back first.

[04:35:07] And my goals are inverted, [04:35:10] her goals are inverted, and thinking about it like this, no matter what combination of upper body and lower body grips is going to make your path to victory so much easier when you're thinking about a couple of [04:35:20] simple things that will keep you safe. Don't worry about the hand positions as much as the leg positions, the combinations, as much as these two things.

[04:35:27] Couple simple ideas. Nearside, [04:35:30] upper back disconnection first, hip second. Farside, hip disconnection first, upper back second.

[04:35:36] [04:35:40] Okay, so now we're getting into our more classical wrestling [04:35:50] type stand ups, uh, escapes, rather. Um, instead of rolling into guard or doing, uh, you know, situations where we end up with our back on the floor, [04:36:00] now we're going to be looking at a combination of standing up to the feet and rolling back into guard, and then we're going to kind of connect the dots with all these escapes.

[04:36:07] So, let's look at what kind of [04:36:10] stand ups there are when we're going head first. So what I mean by head first is I mean our head rises first before our hips. So our head comes up before our knees come off the ground. [04:36:20] Okay. There are a couple of ways. So if I'm talking about head first, I'm talking about situations where I either build to a referee position and my head rises or [04:36:30] from here I step up and now as I'm going to come up, my head rises and then my hips rise.

[04:36:38] If I'm talking about hips [04:36:40] first, I'm talking about situations where I build like so, and before my hands come off the floor, my knees come off the floor. So my hips come up first, [04:36:50] and then my head comes up second. Okay? So let's look at first head first stand ups and escapes, and then, um, hips [04:37:00] first. So let's go into head first to begin with.

[04:37:03] So we're behind our partner. There are a couple of ways we can stand up from here. We can use [04:37:10] tripod methods, and we can use referee methods. We can use inside leg and outside leg methods. Okay, so there are four possible situations here. [04:37:20] Number one, just go over chest lock, number one is from here, we use a referee method.

[04:37:26] When we come up like so, we go [04:37:30] inside leg first, Like so, and then we pop up to our feet.[04:37:40]

[04:37:40] We can use a referee method, where we come up, we go outside leg first, and we stand up, and we go. [04:37:50] We can use tripod methods, where instead of building to referee position first, we focus not on building height with the hands, but [04:38:00] addressing our partner's hands with our hands. For now, from here, we can go inside leg first, and now as we come up, [04:38:10] we can build away from our partner,

[04:38:16] or, we can go outside leg first, [04:38:20] where we come in, and move out and away from our partner. Okay? Okay? So. A couple main methods of standing up [04:38:30] with our head coming up first before our knees and our hips. The head first method, we go referee position, we stand up inside [04:38:40] leg first, like so, and now from here we come up.

[04:38:48] We go head [04:38:50] first, outside leg, and we come up. Or, we use a tripod method. Where from here, we [04:39:00] come in, we can either address our partner's hands, we can have hands on the floor, we turn, and we go inside leg first. So [04:39:10] now, we start coming up, inside leg goes first, before we referee position. We go from almost a tripod, where [04:39:20] our head's on the floor, we step a leg up, And then we go.[04:39:30]

[04:39:31] Or, we come in, outside leg goes in, and we stand and we go. Okay? So we have [04:39:40] referee methods and tripod methods using inside and outside leg stand ups.

[04:39:49] All right, so we're going to talk [04:39:50] about inside leg versus outside leg, what the differences are between the two. First, we're going to look at using a tripod method to go up first, versus using a, uh, [04:40:00] a referee method. Um, so when would I use one or the other? Usually, if I can monitor my partner's hands, because the big, the big issue associated with attacking [04:40:10] turtle when we're dealing with, uh, uh, Submissions is we can't come right to a referee position and have our head up and not have our hands monitoring our partner's hands.

[04:40:18] And then someone just goes in, punched [04:40:20] a strangle in, puts two hooks in and you're getting, you're getting finished. You're getting scored on. Okay. So in general, what I recommend is if you can separate your [04:40:30] partner's hands, I use tripod methods to stand up first. If you can't separate your partner's hands and your partner's insisting on keeping the hands locked, [04:40:40] Then I use referee methods to stand up.

[04:40:42] Now, there's exceptions to these rules, but in general, this is what I recommend. So what do I mean by this? If my partner has a [04:40:50] tight waist, for example, like so, and from here, I can control my partner's wrists. If I can control a wrist, I generally, I, uh, I [04:41:00] generally like to use a method where I come in, I step a leg up, and now from here, I come up, Like so.[04:41:10]

[04:41:10] So now I build to a foot from a tripod. So instead of going hand first, leg second, I stay [04:41:20] close like so, making it hard for my partner to insert hooks. I go in, I go outside leg first, or inside leg first, and I stand, [04:41:30] and I'm ready to go out and away. Okay? If my partner's hands are locked, I'm For example, if I feel like I'm trying to separate the hands and [04:41:40] I can't do it, then I generally build up to a referee position first, and then we go.

[04:41:46] Okay, if at any point [04:41:50] I go in to stand up, and my partner unlocks the hands and she shoots to a backhand and arm, this is no good now. Now I can't come up. Because now, as [04:42:00] my head rises, she can punch a strangle in place, follow me up, and I'm getting beat from here. This is no good. So if I start going up first, instead of [04:42:10] stepping legs up first, I go hands first to referee position, and my partner goes to switch to a backhand and arm.

[04:42:15] Whenever I see a backhand and arm, the strangle is the primary concern. So now from [04:42:20] here, I have to go back down. I can start going in. Now I can, and now as I address the strangle, now from here, I go in, I start going with my escape, my partner goes to switch to hand [04:42:30] position, and now we can start building up and going up into position.

[04:42:35] Okay, so whenever I see my partner has a backhand arm, [04:42:40] I cannot be hanging out in a referee position like so. Okay, I have to address this and go back down and use different escapes from here. Okay, [04:42:50] so that's a couple of things we have to speak on there. Another thing to talk about is base of support and [04:43:00] athletic potential from each of these positions.

[04:43:04] When you're in a referee position, you have a very wide base of support. So it's hard for your [04:43:10] partner to break you down to a hip or to a shoulder. You have a great ability to explode up to your feet very athletically. Okay? The [04:43:20] drawbacks of a referee position in our sport are that your partner, number one, has can easily insert one or two hooks because [04:43:30] of the lack of connection of your elbows to your hips and your elbows to your knees.

[04:43:33] Whether it be here or here. So I pop up to a referee position and my partner goes to knock me [04:43:40] down, it's very hard to do. When my partner goes to get a hand around my neck, it's a very easy thing to do. When my partner goes to insert hooks, [04:43:50] it's a very easy thing to do. Okay, so while more stable and much more athletic from here, I can move much better, much more stable.

[04:43:58] I can pop up much [04:44:00] faster. The drawbacks are I have no defensive hands because they're on the floor. My neck's exposed and my waist is exposed. My partner [04:44:10] brings two hooks in. So when I move to a referee position, the onus is on me to not hang out in a referee position. The second I decide I'm going to stand up, I pop up to [04:44:20] a referee position.

[04:44:22] And then I go. And then I go. Now I'm working from a tripod, [04:44:30] like so. And from here, I step a leg up first, and then right from here, I gotta move up and away. [04:44:40] The advantages are that I have defensive hands. I can fight my partner's defensive hands, I can look to put hands in my back pocket, I can [04:44:50] look to separate my partner's hands.

[04:44:51] And I'm defensively sound from here. Another one of the great advantages is that I have a strong elbow and knee [04:45:00] connection, or elbow and hip connection from here. So if my partner tries to insert hooks, it's a difficult thing. If she's behind me,[04:45:10]

[04:45:10] just on the side, she tries to insert hooks from here, she can't do it. Okay, now from here I can step a leg up. When [04:45:20] she's trying to insert hooks this whole time, it's a difficult thing to do. And now when I'm ready to go, instead of building to a referee, exposing myself to hooks, instead I just [04:45:30] build to a leg, I move out in a way.

[04:45:35] I build to a leg,[04:45:40]

[04:45:41] and now as I come up, I don't even go to my hands. I don't come here and sit in a referee position. I just [04:45:50] come up, I'm fighting with the hands, I step a leg up, and I come right out, and I stand up. The great [04:46:00] disadvantages of starring in a tripod and using inside or outside leg standups is that you're in a much less athletic position.

[04:46:09] So [04:46:10] your potential for movement to explode up to your feet is drastically decreased because of the fact that I'm not very athletic from here. [04:46:20] Here, I'm very athletic. I can immediately just spring up and I'm gone. Whereas from here, it's more slow and labored, but more defensively sound [04:46:30] for scoring and for strangles.

[04:46:33] In addition, because My hands and my knees are not nearly as wide. [04:46:40] It's much harder for my partner to insert hooks, but my base of support is compromised from here. So if I'm fighting from here, my partner can't insert hooks as well. If I [04:46:50] step a leg up, and she just pulls on my hip, I'm gonna get knocked over.

[04:46:56] Okay? So you have to weigh these two, [04:47:00] against each other, depending on what your, what your partner is good at and what you feel during the match, during the situation. When you're using a referee style stand ups, [04:47:10] where my hands come to the floor first and I build up to my hands before a leg comes up. [04:47:20] I'm very stable.

[04:47:23] It's hard for me to get knocked side to side and my ability to to move quickly [04:47:30] into the standing position, my athletic potential is increased from this position. Okay? I'm very athletic from here. Main [04:47:40] disadvantages are that one, my neck is exposed. I have no defensive hands. My waist is exposed. My partner can easily throw one hook in, two hooks in, a [04:47:50] long hook for a body triangle.

[04:47:51] She's pretty easy for her to score from here. Okay? Okay. When I'm in a situation where I play with a [04:48:00] tripod, where I'm fighting defensive hands, and I play from here. And now I step either an outside leg,

[04:48:09] or an [04:48:10] inside leg up. When I go to stand from here, I'm not nearly as athletic as I would be if I was from here. [04:48:20] So the response time, and the time it actually takes me to get up and get away, is much slower relative to a referee position. [04:48:30] But, it's much harder for my partner to strangle me, and much harder for my partner to insert hooks.

[04:48:39] So when [04:48:40] I go to stand up, it's hard for her to actually score or submit me from this position. But because of the fact that it's harder for her to score and submit me, because everything is in [04:48:50] tighter, makes it so that my base of support is not nearly as strong, and it's a relatively easy thing to return me to my hip.

[04:48:58] Okay? So you have to weigh these options [04:49:00] together based on where you are in the match and what situation you're in. In general, if I feel my partner has a death grip and [04:49:10] she's behind my arms like so, she has her hands locked and I can't separate the hands, in general, I move to a referee position like so.[04:49:20]

[04:49:20] And now from here, if he switches to a backhanded arm, I have to go back down to a turtle and use different methods. If he stays with the hands locked, it's a [04:49:30] pretty easy thing for me to start building up and climbing from here. If, however, my partner has a tight waist, for example, okay, and [04:49:40] the hands aren't locked, and I can use my hands to monitor my hands.

[04:49:43] I can use referee position. style stand up to stand up. There's nothing wrong with that. But just understand as you come [04:49:50] up, your opponent now will have the ability to lock their hands. And that returns become much easier from here. So this is the drawback. But you will stand up faster. [04:50:00] But if I can control my partner's like, so now from here, When she goes to start scoring on me, throwing a hook in, if I come up to [04:50:10] a referee position, you can do this.

[04:50:11] I can use a method where I build to a referee position first, with control over my partner's hand. But if she quickly pops up to her feet, and just throws a hook in, [04:50:20] this involves some problems from here. So in general, when I can control my partner's hand from not locking, I come up like this. [04:50:30] Now, when she goes to throw a hook in, there's no hook to be had.

[04:50:34] When she goes to follow me up from here, it's pretty easy to separate my partner's [04:50:40] hands, and now the chances of being mat returned are less likely. So, there's pluses and minuses to both, pros and cons to referee position, [04:50:50] coming up to the hands first, then building to the feet, and there's pros and cons to tripoding using defensive hands.

[04:50:57] Building to the feet first and then the [04:51:00] head rising.

[04:51:04] All right. So we looked at referee standups versus tripod standups. [04:51:10] Now let's look at inside leg versus outside leg standups. All right. Um, both are very good. Um, both have their pluses and minuses, just like referee versus tripod. Um, [04:51:20] let's take a look first at inside leg standups. When you use inside leg standups, the first thing I'm looking for, It's some kind of [04:51:30] angle, right?

[04:51:31] If there's weight over my right leg, and she's pulling weight down onto my, uh, onto my right knee and onto my right hip, I can't step my right leg up. So [04:51:40] the first thing I'm going to look to do is to hit a circling motion where I just circle, and I blade my hips, and I face my partner. Just like we were doing when we were trying to step [04:51:50] over our partner's leg.

[04:51:51] And do the same thing. So I create some kind of disconnect like so, and from here, I step an inside leg up. If I step [04:52:00] an inside leg up, whether I go referee, like so,

[04:52:07] or tripod, [04:52:10] like so, I go knee to elbow, like, uh, like so. So now my partner goes to insert a near side hook, there's no hook that [04:52:20] can come into place. Okay? Even if she puts her foot through that hole that she just did, there's no hook. Her hook has to above my knee in order to really be a hook, okay? [04:52:30] When I go inside leg, I create some kind of disconnect from the hips, I create a slight angle, and I step the leg up like so.[04:52:40]

[04:52:40] Now from here, when she goes to insert a hook, she can't insert a nearside hook, okay? So this is the advantage. When you go with an inside leg stand up, [04:52:50] it's going to be harder for your partner to insert a hook. Now the issue with this, a couple issues associated with this. When I use an inside leg stand up, [04:53:00] the problem is my partner's goal from this position is to always be knocking me down to a hip.

[04:53:05] She's going to be pulling on my hip constantly to put weight on my right leg. So [04:53:10] the chances of me being able to step up an inside leg are not nearly as high as being able to step an outside leg up. When she pulls on my hip, my left leg becomes [04:53:20] light, so the outside leg stand up is easy. Once he pulls on my hip, the right leg becomes weighted, so the inside leg stand up is harder.

[04:53:29] So if you have a good [04:53:30] opponent behind you, and they're constantly pulling on the hip and putting weight over you, there's weight on the inside leg. So it's actually harder to set the inside leg up a lot of times, and a lot less [04:53:40] space and time to set the inside leg up. Okay, so the advantages The great drawback of using an inside leg stand up is that [04:53:50] it makes it almost impossible for your partner to insert a nearside hook, okay?

[04:53:55] The great, great drawback of the inside leg stand up [04:54:00] is your partner will almost always be putting weight on that near leg and will be crowding your near leg. So it's either like running into your partner's knee like it is [04:54:10] now, or there's weight over the knee, it's hard to set the inside leg up. And when you step up the near side leg, understand there's always a risk your partner can run around to the other side and punch in a far [04:54:20] side hook, okay?

[04:54:21] That's always, always a danger, alright? So the drawbacks are, it's much harder most of the time to step up an inside leg on a [04:54:30] talented opponent because there's not enough room, there's weight in the leg, and it's much harder to step the inside leg up, okay? The great advantage is that it's much harder for your [04:54:40] partner to insert hooks on you because of the knee and elbow connection.

[04:54:43] When you're stepping up an outside leg, the great advantage is that there's weight on the near leg, so there's [04:54:50] almost never any weight on the far leg. So it's a pretty easy thing, my partner's behind me, to come in and from here step up an outside [04:55:00] leg,

[04:55:05] like so. The disadvantage is when I step [04:55:10] the outside leg up, especially from referee position, There's a huge gap, which allows my partner to throw the nearside hook in. And [04:55:20] now, if she Don't even pull me out, just insert the hook and get on top of it. If she comes up with me, she inserts a hook, she covers my hip with her left knee, and now this is [04:55:30] bad news for me.

[04:55:31] Okay? There's less issue here, if I'm in a, if I'm in a turtle position, and I use a tripodting method, where [04:55:40] now she goes in, I go outside leg. Again, it's a little bit more awkward and a lot less athletic. I go here. Now when she goes to [04:55:50] insert the hook, she can't insert the hook, but she can knock me to a hip pretty easily.

[04:55:56] Okay? So the advantages [04:56:00] of the outside leg stand up is that it's easier to do most of the time because you have a weightless leg,

[04:56:08] like so, [04:56:10] and we can quickly pop up. The second we get the leg up. The disadvantages, however, are that when you go to step the leg up, [04:56:20] especially if you're in a referee position, it gives you, your opponent, more of an opportunity to put a nearside hook in. Like so. And, [04:56:30] regardless of whether you're in a referee position, or, uh, a tripodting position, um, Because your outside leg is up, [04:56:40] your base of support is compromised.

[04:56:42] If she pulls me over the right hip, I can always get knocked down pretty easily like so. Whereas if I have an inside leg up,[04:56:50]

[04:56:53] and she goes to knock me down, I have a strong base of support here. And from here, we [04:57:00] can build to the feet. Okay, so that's inside leg versus outside leg. When you're working inside leg, It makes it harder for your partner to put a hook in, but it's also harder for you to step your [04:57:10] leg up. The hook is harder to insert, and it's harder for your partner to pull you and knock you down to a hip.

[04:57:15] But, your partner should be pulling you to a hip the whole time, so there's going to be weight on the leg, there's [04:57:20] going to be less space, it's going to be hard to get the leg up. Okay? And your good partner will run around and put a far side hook in as you go to build up. With the far side, or with the outside leg stand [04:57:30] up, especially when you're in a referee position, it gives your partner a greater opportunity to insert a near side hook, which is the easier hook to insert, and your base of support is compromised because [04:57:40] of the fact that they can knock you to a hip.

[04:57:42] But, the outside, or the outside leg is much easier to step up because there's usually no weight on it. And the second you stand up [04:57:50] with the outside leg, you have a greater ability to pop quickly and athletically up to your feet in the shortest amount of time possible.[04:58:00]

[04:58:02] All right, let's look at the actual mechanics now of using inside and outside leg stand ups from both tripod and referee position situations. [04:58:10] So we're going to be down. Our partner is going to be behind us. We're just looking at standard tight weights for each one. We're going to look at the mechanics of the actual stand up.

[04:58:18] Okay. [04:58:20] Now, whether or not, um, I'm using my hands to monitor my partner's hands, doesn't really make a difference. The whole thing is that I'm looking for inside leg stand ups. I [04:58:30] look to angle my hips slightly away from my partner. So I create a slight turn out and away. I angle my hips towards my partners.

[04:58:38] If you just try to step the [04:58:40] inside leg up, you're going to run into your partner's body. We'll be able to do it. So I move away. I create some disconnection. I just step a leg up like so, [04:58:50] okay? So now from here, I have a knee and elbow connection, and I have my foot flat on the floor. I lean my weight to my left, so if my partner tries to pull me down to my right [04:59:00] hip, it's a difficult thing.

[04:59:02] So we're side on to our partner. Now from here, when I go to build up, we have a choice of either 1, [04:59:10] building to a referee position, if, or, We're not going to try to monitor our partner's hands as we come up, or if we have hands [04:59:20] on our partner, for example, if we're here, and we're here, we go from a tripod right to a situation where our head comes up, and as our head comes up, we [04:59:30] just step forward with the left leg, like so.

[04:59:35] So we go right leg, left leg, and end up in a staggered stance, where from here we can look to come in [04:59:40] and start facing our partner. Okay? So, she has hands in, let's say we can create a situation where we separate our partner's hands. From here we [04:59:50] come through, we create an angle, and we go in with the inside leg.

[04:59:55] From this position, inside leg comes up here. [05:00:00] Like so. So now, my partner goes to connect the hands, that's difficult. The second the leg comes up, [05:00:10] we stand. I never put myself in a position where I step a leg up and I stay there for any extended amount of time, okay? I'm [05:00:20] too off balance from here and too exposed.

[05:00:22] So I don't ever step a leg up and just sit right here. So I'm going to [05:00:30] come in. I monitor my partner's hands, or I have my hands down, leg comes up, and now from here we build [05:00:40] to a situation like so. And then we walk away and we start using our escapes. So we're in like so, partner's behind us, [05:00:50] and we can control our partner's hands.

[05:00:54] We make space, and from here we just immediately step a leg up, and the second the leg comes up,[05:01:00]

[05:01:03] We're out of the way. Okay? So those are our mechanics for an inside leg standup [05:01:10] working from a tripod. We move away, we blade our hips towards our partners to create a weightless leg.[05:01:20]

[05:01:20] Leg comes up, then we build to a standing position. Alright,

[05:01:29] so that's an inside [05:01:30] leg standup. Let's look at an outside leg standup now. Okay, we usually use inside leg stand ups when we can create some kind of disconnection between our hips and our partner's hips. And we [05:01:40] usually use outside leg stand ups when we can't disconnect our hips and there's weight on the inside leg.

[05:01:45] Okay, so whenever my partner does a good job of gluing your hips to mine, [05:01:50] like so, and I can't move my hips away from my partner, and there's weight on my right leg, I can't step it up, that's when we go outside leg. Okay, so as we have our hands on the floor like so. [05:02:00] And we go outside leg, we step up, here.

[05:02:05] So that now, the second we stand up, the [05:02:10] head can rise, and this time we step our right leg forward, into a situation like so. Okay? We have our partner's hands monitored, [05:02:20] she's trying to lock her hands, we're in a situation like so, and from here we come in,[05:02:30]

[05:02:33] and we're out of the way.

[05:02:39] [05:02:40] Come in. We're wary of our partner switching to a backhand and arm maybe. We don't want to come up to a referee position and expose our neck. So we're here, so at any point our partner goes to switch, [05:02:50] we have a defensive hand. We're playing around and moving our partner, and we're out. Okay, so now we have inside leg and [05:03:00] outside leg.

[05:03:01] If we want to go inside leg, we create some kind of disconnect from myself and my partner's hips. And from [05:03:10] here, that disconnect gives us the ability to turn our hips towards our partner and step that leg up like so.[05:03:20]

[05:03:25] And we're up. If there's weight on that leg, [05:03:30] however,

[05:03:33] I feel like as I go to step the leg up, she keeps the weight on the leg and I can't find a way to create an angle.[05:03:40]

[05:03:42] the angular hips in the opposite direction, away from our partner. And we go. Okay, [05:03:50] so use tripod methods inside and outside like stand up. In general, if we can create a disconnection in our hips from our partners, [05:04:00] that's when we use inside like stand ups. If, in general, there's weight on the near side leg and I feel like I can't disconnect my hips from my partners, then we [05:04:10] have a weightless outside leg.

[05:04:11] And we use outside leg standups instead. Alright, now let's look at, instead of building up [05:04:20] from a tripod, where we have our hands actively monitoring our partner's hands, let's look at a situation where we build to a referee position first, and then we quickly come up to our feet. [05:04:30] Now, again, you don't have any defensive hands if you move to a referee position.

[05:04:34] The purpose of a referee position is to put you in a more athletic position, so you can quickly [05:04:40] explode to your feet and come up in a more athletic position. with a more athletic demeanor. Okay, I don't move to a referee position and hang out there. We never hang out there when we're doing [05:04:50] submission grappling.

[05:04:50] There's too much threat of scores coming in, two hooks coming in, and even a bigger danger of a hand coming around their neck because we have no defensive hands. So if I choose to move to a referee [05:05:00] position, I pop up and then I'm right up to my feet. Okay, so let's take a look at this. This time, we're going to come in.

[05:05:09] [05:05:10] And again, we use that same, uh, use any methods to disconnect our hips from our partners and create that separation. Like, so this time, [05:05:20] instead of stepping the inside leg up first, we're going to create that disconnection and we're going to build to our hands. This will give us more space. [05:05:30] to comfortably step the inside leg up like so.

[05:05:33] It's a little bit awkward when you're trying to do it from this position. Get a little bit closer. It's a little awkward here when you're trying to do it from [05:05:40] this position because your head's on the floor and your head has to rise and the leg just barely fits in. But, if your partner tries to strangle you, you have hands [05:05:50] inside.

[05:05:50] Whereas now, you have more space, like so, and the leg can easily come up. But if your partner, if your head comes up and your partner puts a hand around your neck, this is [05:06:00] an issue now. Okay? So the second I go inside leg, standing up from here, My partner, most of the time, will always lock her hands from here because I'm not monitoring her hands behind me.[05:06:10]

[05:06:11] We'll lock her hands from here. And now from here, the second I come in, I step up with my right foot flat, my inside leg flat, knee and elbow [05:06:20] connection, and strong athletic posture. And now from here, I just get up and I start walking away from my partner and fighting the hands once I'm up. [05:06:30] Okay, so we come in, we create separation with my hips and my partner's hips, we [05:06:40] build to the hands, And now from here, inside leg goes up.

[05:06:43] The second I come up to my hands, I'm ready to go. I come up to my hands, up to my foot, and [05:06:50] up to standing position. So what this will look like is she's behind me,

[05:06:57] we're playing around here, I'm [05:07:00] moving around, moving around, I create a disconnection, and we're up and away. She's behind me,[05:07:10]

[05:07:10] I'm moving around from here, we're playing, And we're up and away. Okay? So this time, we build to a referee position first, hands on the floor, [05:07:20] more base support, more room for the leg to come up. We go inside leg, then we pop up right to our feet, right from there.[05:07:30]

[05:07:31] Alright, let's look at using an outside leg stand up from a referee position this time. Again, if my partner goes to put weight on my near side leg, uh, that's a [05:07:40] great time for, uh, an outside leg stand up. So whenever I see my partner's, they go in, I can't separate my hips, and my partner's trying to knock me [05:07:50] down, like so.

[05:07:51] Again, we go in, we pop up, as the hands come up, the leg comes up, and we end up in a situation like so. [05:08:00] Here. And now the second we come up, we just immediately come up to a full athletic posture, and we just shoot [05:08:10] up to our feet, and we just walk away. Let me fight the hands.

[05:08:17] So we're here. As the [05:08:20] outside leg comes up, the hands come up.

[05:08:26] And we're out of the way. Okay. Again, the [05:08:30] purpose of using a referee position is to have athletic posture. So the second we come up to the hands, we have no defensive hands now. So you can't just come here and hang out. It's once my hands come up, [05:08:40] I'm up to my feet. So we're playing around here and out and away.

[05:08:45] Okay? Using outside leg stand ups and referee position, stepping [05:08:50] up quickly and exploding right up to the feet in a very quick and athletic fashion. All [05:09:00] right, so we've learned the mechanics. Let's look at, um, okay, when, number one, why would I want to use these, these escapes, these moves? [05:09:10] And then we'll look at, after that, when should I be using these moves and when should I not be using these moves?

[05:09:16] Okay, so we have the basic mechanics down. Um, now let's [05:09:20] look at, okay, why would I want to use inside or outside leg stand ups? Um, Number one, this could be a technical decision, or it could be a tactical decision. [05:09:30] Me personally, I want to do jiu jitsu. I want to end up, I am very confident in my guard, and I want to be in positions that will lead me to submission.[05:09:40]

[05:09:40] The place you can spend the most time without any threats of submission is a standing position. So, If given the choice, I will usually tend to avoid the standing [05:09:50] position and play on the ground because the ground is going to lead me to submissions much more, I mean, I'll have submissions much more readily available on the ground than I will in the standing position.

[05:09:59] [05:10:00] But not everybody thinks like that. Let's say, I don't know who you are watching the instructional, maybe you're a former Division I college wrestler who's looking to go out and win his first Jiu Jitsu tournament, [05:10:10] and He's never gonna be, if someone actually gets behind him and takes him down or sweeps him and gets to his back, he's not gonna be rolling to guard.

[05:10:17] Maybe you're gonna be standing up and trying to get away from your partner. So [05:10:20] you can be standing up and, and, uh, and trying to get away from your partner and reset to a neutral standing position and maybe you're more confident. standing than you are in bottom guard. [05:10:30] Maybe you want to stand up and get away from your partner, okay?

[05:10:32] Or maybe you're a jiu jitsu guy and you just want to get better at standing escapes and moving out and away. Or maybe you're good at jiu [05:10:40] jitsu and you have good wrestling, you don't know really how to combine the two. You're either using your wrestling moves that you learned in school or you're using your jiu jitsu moves that you learned in school.

[05:10:49] [05:10:50] Later on in life or before that whatever the case is the the main Takeaway from standing escapes are not that [05:11:00] okay We're just gonna use standing escapes to get up and get away and face our partner the combination of standing and rolling escapes to guard It's what's going to get you [05:11:10] out of a very high level player's, uh, internal control.

[05:11:15] So what I mean by that is, if you just try to, uh, if you try to just roll to guard, [05:11:20] and someone's really sticky, they're doing a great job of covering your hips. They're doing a great job of staying chest to back. And you feel like every time you roll, you're just getting your back taken. You got to start changing it up.

[05:11:29] You got to fake [05:11:30] a stand up and then as the guy goes to chase you and changes directions, then you go into a rolling escape where you have to get up. And then as the guy goes to start taking me down, you go into a Granby [05:11:40] and you separate, uh, in that fashion, there are many different ways that you can end up in guard through faking standing escapes or going all the way up to your [05:11:50] feet and then using different methods to roll back to guard.

[05:11:53] So it's a combination of standing escapes, whether it be hips first or head first, And traditional classical [05:12:00] shoulder roll escapes, which will move you into escapes that are much more effective than just standing escapes by themselves or just rolling escapes by themselves. [05:12:10] So from a technical standpoint, you're looking to use a combination of the two, whether it be forepointing and wrestling quad potting out, and then using those to start your escapes, whether it [05:12:20] be standing up headfirst.

[05:12:22] Or whether it be using an initial roll, far shoulder or near shoulder first to start your escapes. And then you can maybe follow it up with another rolling escape or follow it up [05:12:30] with a standing escape. And you can play all these together with one another. Okay, so you can't just use one or the other against a very high level guy.

[05:12:36] Okay, and from a tactical standpoint, None of [05:12:40] you are me. Maybe you have, you know, different things in mind that you're trying to work on. Maybe you're trying to get better at stand ups. Um, maybe you're from a wrestling background and you'd rather stand up and get back to neutral, take the [05:12:50] guy down, play in top position, rather than just falling over to your hip and putting the guy back in guard.

[05:12:55] Um, so this can be a technical choice. Um, or it could be a tactical choice, depending on who you [05:13:00] are and what situation you're in.

[05:13:05] Alright, let's look at when we're not gonna pop up head [05:13:10] first. When this, there's two main, uh, scenarios where you wouldn't come up head first. One is very obvious because you physically won't be able to take your head up first. [05:13:20] Um, and the other is not so obvious. Whenever my partner has so much weight going towards my hands that I physically can't build my head up, and [05:13:30] get to a position where I can get from this position and get my hands off the floor.

[05:13:35] So for example, if my partner has a chest lock behind me [05:13:40] and she runs out to the side, there's so much weight on my hands that I physically can't come up. first [05:13:50] with my, with my, and take my hands off the floor. I'd have to go hips first from here and build up to a four point quad pod for wrestlers. Okay.

[05:13:58] If I'm in a referee position, I [05:14:00] want to go head first. I physically have to be able to take my hands off the mat. If there's so much weight on my hands that I physically can't take my hands off the mat to stand up, then I'm [05:14:10] never going to go head first from here. Okay. This just doesn't make sense. So what will end up happening is I go to go head first stand up.

[05:14:16] She goes to put weight on my hands What will [05:14:20] end up happening is I'll have to go into a four point first and then work from there and go hips first Okay, so my hips will rise first and my head will rise second Okay, so whenever there's so [05:14:30] much weight over my hands, I physically just cannot raise my hands off the floor Obviously, we're gonna, uh, we're gonna go hips first, so you do something else.

[05:14:39] Um, another [05:14:40] one is where, and this goes hand in hand with too much weight on my hands. If my partner has a back, head, and arm, like so, now there's weight on my hand, but I can potentially [05:14:50] come up, like so. But, whenever I see there's, uh, a back, head, and arm from this position, You're much better going hips first, [05:15:00] than you are going head first.

[05:15:01] Okay? If I come in here, even if I have a defensive hand in place, and I go to stand up from this position, like so, my [05:15:10] partner can easily put, uh, hooks in place. If I go inside, like stand up, she just runs around to the other side, and she has weight over my hand, there's weight on my [05:15:20] hand, so I can't pop up explosively, and it just turns into a disaster from here.

[05:15:24] Okay? So whenever my partner has a back handed arm, Um, that goes hand in hand with having, [05:15:30] uh, weight on my hands. But specifically, if my partner has a backhanded arm, I cannot go into a referee position. Because now, there's nothing defending a strangle. She throws a [05:15:40] strangle and hooks come in and now, your back's taken and you're getting strangled at the same time.

[05:15:44] And it should turn into a disaster from there. So, when my partner has so much weight on my hands that I physically cannot [05:15:50] build up to a situation where I can get my hands off the floor. And more specifically, I can't use a referee position My partner has a back head and arm. I never do that. [05:16:00] Okay, you don't even attempt to do that I can attempt to come up head first if my partner has a rear chest lock There's too much weight on my hands I can go head first and then ask my head gets taken down I can [05:16:10] pop my hips up I can go hips first instead But if a partner if you're someone that starts with a back head and arm never attempt to build to a referee position Okay, so that's the first obvious one is if [05:16:20] there's too much weight on your hands for your head to come up Now, the second one, which isn't as obvious, is you don't stand up, uh, [05:16:30] uh, head first from a cowboy ride.

[05:16:32] My partner has her, uh, her knees off the floor, and she has her two knees pinched around my [05:16:40] hips. Okay? Now, why is this? Simple. Because my partner from here is more mobile than I am. If her knees are on the floor, [05:16:50] like so, there's no weight on me. So I have, uh, uh, much better, it's much easier for me to athletically and quickly pop up to my feet.

[05:16:59] And, [05:17:00] my partner is less mobile than me once I get one leg up. I'm in a more athletic stance than she is now. So I can move, I can, uh, move more readily [05:17:10] than she can. If her knees are on the floor, she only has the choice from here to throw one hook in, and that's the [05:17:20] nearside hook. Unless she runs around to the other side, if I go nearside leg, if I go inside leg stand up, she has to run all the way around to the other side and put a hook in before I get up.

[05:17:29] Okay? [05:17:30] So there's no weight on me, and I move to a more athletic position than her, I have a more athletic posture than her, because I'm bringing knees off the floor, [05:17:40] she has knees on the floor, and she can only insert one hook quickly. on one side, the near side. Because she's a cowboy ride. She has weight over [05:17:50] my hips, which means that I'm gonna be less athletic than I usually would be now.

[05:17:55] My knees are on the floor, and her knees are off the floor, which means she's just inherently more athletic [05:18:00] than I am. And, whichever side I step a leg up to, she's relatively centered. So she can just throw the opposite side hook in very quickly. So whether I, [05:18:10] she, whether I go here, she's a cowboy ride.

[05:18:14] Let's say, she's a cowboy. She always has to pick one side. She's got to be more to one side than the other. So let's say she's more to this side than the other. [05:18:20] That's fine. She's more to the right side than she is to the left side. Let's say I go outside leg stand up. She just quickly inserts her right side hook and now.[05:18:30]

[05:18:31] Let's say I go inside leg stand up. She's more to the right side. I go inside leg stand up. She's still more athletic and more mobile than I am. So even if I go inside leg [05:18:40] stand up, she just hops to the other side, quickly inserts the hook, and now this is no good for me. The power halves are coming in, and it's just a disaster from here.

[05:18:48] Okay? So I want to [05:18:50] avoid hooks coming in. So the less obvious one is I don't go into referee position and try to stand up if my partner has a cowboy ride because she can easily run to either [05:19:00] side and always insert the hook on the downed leg side, okay? So when there's too much weight on my hands, either with a chest lock or backhand arm, whatever grip your partner puts, even [05:19:10] A tight waist, a thigh, probably like so.

[05:19:13] When she tries to stand on the pad first, she won't be able to do it. Okay, but going here, she has to stand on the pad first. She won't be able to do it. She has to go [05:19:20] hips first. So that's the obvious one. Or when my partner's in a cowboy ride and both of her knees are off the floor with my hips between her knees, because then she's much [05:19:30] more mobile.

[05:19:30] Much more athletic, and it's easy for it to insert a hook on either side, opposite the side I step a leg up on.[05:19:40]

[05:19:40] Okay, so we touched a little bit on this before, technical versus tactical. Um, let's look at now, from a technical standpoint, [05:19:50] when I would actually want to use, uh, these, these standups, these headfirst standups. Um, most of the time, I prefer [05:20:00] to use headfirst standups when I find, number one, obviously, when there's not tons of weight on my hands, it's making it impossible for my head to come up.

[05:20:07] But most of the time, these are [05:20:10] applicable when you find someone who's very good at following your back. And when you're doing classical jiu jitsu roll throughs, you're trying to roll over the near [05:20:20] shoulder and re guard. And you just feel like every time you fall, your partner, you almost escape, but your partner does a very good job of, uh, creating the upper back exposure, keeping you between their knees, [05:20:30] and you feel like you're rolling, rolling, rolling, and you're almost getting out, but they just find a way to keep recovering and forcing you back to turtle, and you just cannot escape.

[05:20:36] Okay? So when you see someone's very good at following classical jiu jitsu [05:20:40] escapes, using standing escapes might be a great way to get out, get away, and face your partner. Okay? Ultimately, the The goal from standing escapes [05:20:50] is either stand completely up and face your partner or use standing escapes to use rolling methods, create motion, create rolling methods and exposure back to the floor, whether you're gonna [05:21:00] stand up and face your partner or exposure back to the floor and face your partner.

[05:21:03] You're gonna end up face to face. Okay? Um, so what do I mean by this? Let's say, for example, Yeah. [05:21:10] She goes to roll out of she goes into a nearside shoulder roll for example, and she monitors my head She does everything good She goes nearside shoulder roll and I fall down and I end up in a situation like [05:21:20] so And now from here we're grip fighting i'm using my legs.

[05:21:22] She's trying to get her elbow between myself and her She does such a good job but I find ways to always pull my partner back in and create some kind of [05:21:30] situation where She's almost free, but I can always recover to a position where I can either take her back, maybe get your back taken a few times, or I almost get the back, but [05:21:40] she manages to get out in the way, and she goes back to eternal, and she finds herself in a situation where I'm back internal position.

[05:21:45] Okay, and now from here, she creates separation in the hips, and she goes to hit a [05:21:50] maki komi roll, and she almost gets me, but I just manage to get my knee between her, and from here, I go and I start retaking her back from here. So now she tries to [05:22:00] bring her back to the floor, but she can't create any disconnect between the chest and the upper back.

[05:22:05] And she doesn't want to get dragged back in, so she turtles again. And you find yourself in a situation where you're trying to [05:22:10] roll, you're trying to get out, you're almost there, but you find yourself in a position where you just can't get this guy off your back. He's so sticky, he's so used to the classical jiu jitsu escapes, [05:22:20] that you just can't, he can't get out of the way.

[05:22:22] This is the time to use standing escapes, okay? So whenever I see I'm in a situation where I'm down in bottom [05:22:30] position and I'm dealing with someone. They're covering my hips. They're doing such a great job. I can't move. I'm trying to roll. She rolls with me. She follows me. I move out of the way. And now from here, I'm ready to go in and I [05:22:40] stand up.

[05:22:40] So you can chain these together with your classical nearside or far side shoulder rolls. And this gives you another Another thing for them to think about most [05:22:50] people are worried about you either just standing up or just rolling to guard But when you have the misdirection of standing up and rolling back to guard and you use them in [05:23:00] unison It becomes so much harder to control someone.

[05:23:02] So this is a, this is a time technically when I would use the standups or the threat of standups to then go either into [05:23:10] full standups and get away, or use the threat of standups to go back into a role. So maybe I got a bill to a bill to a standing position. Maybe, maybe, maybe my partner's here. [05:23:20] I go here, and now, the second I go up, she goes to come up, she goes to come up to her feet, her knees come off the floor, she goes to lock her rear body lock, and from here, then I go right back into a [05:23:30] roll, and she's not ready for that.

[05:23:31] Alright, so we're playing around, and as I go to come up, she goes to follow me, we're playing around, I'm playing here, she can't put hooks in, I'm controlling my partner's hand, I [05:23:40] go to build up, she goes to follow, and I go right back into a roll, and we're out, and we've recovered. Okay, so, using the misdirection of the Kazushi, And the threat of standing up will [05:23:50] give you a much, will make it much easier for you to inevitably nearside or farside shoulder roll.[05:24:00]

[05:24:00] Okay, so now we're going to look at hips first, standing up. So instead of my head coming up, my hips and my hips are going to rise and my knees will come off the floor. All right. There are a couple of [05:24:10] ways to do this. Let's first look at the mechanics of a inside leg four point and outside leg four point.

[05:24:17] And I don't have a name for this. [05:24:20] So if you ask John, he might not even know what you're talking about. Um, and I do it all the time, so I'm going to give it a name right now. Uh, I call it the tripod pop. Where I go from a tripod and I just pop it right up [05:24:30] to two feet simultaneously with an initial kazoo shi towards the head and shoulders.

[05:24:33] Okay? So, let's just say my partner has locked hands, she's behind me, she's a chest lock, and I [05:24:40] want to look to start moving to a four point. Okay? We can use inside methods, inside leg methods, where I create some kind of disconnection, I [05:24:50] step the inside leg up, And then from here, as I step the inside leg up, I use my right foot as a drive leg to just raise my hips, [05:25:00] and as I drive, I just pop up to my hands, 1, 2, and I just pop up to my left foot.

[05:25:07] So I lean to one side, and we go 1, [05:25:10] 2, and this all happens almost simultaneously. And we stand up, and we move to a four point position like so, okay? We go inside leg stand up. So the inside [05:25:20] leg comes up first, like so, and now I use this as a drive leg. The drive leg is to raise my hips to get my left leg [05:25:30] up.

[05:25:30] So as my left leg comes up, my hands come up, and we're up. So we go inside leg tripod. [05:25:40] One, two, three. So without a partner, one, [05:25:50] two, hands come out. As my elbows rise, my leg steps up, and I use this drive leg to raise my hips. Like so. We can [05:26:00] move to a four point quad pod for wrestlers. Okay? An outside leg four point.

[05:26:06] My partner's behind me. From here, again, this is when I can't [05:26:10] create disconnection of the hips. And, there's weight on the near leg. So I can't step the inside leg up. One.[05:26:20]

[05:26:22] This time, I push off my right knee to lean weight onto my left foot. So, as I lean weight onto my [05:26:30] left foot, I use that. To raise my hips. So I drive off my right knee, I drive off my left foot, and the right knee comes [05:26:40] up so there's no more weightless leg. Or so there's no more weighted right leg.[05:26:50]

[05:26:50] And we pop up. Now we play from here. So without her, we come in, we stand up. If I just try to step my [05:27:00] right knee up, it's gonna be hard. So we go one, and then Two, three. So you lean the weight to the left foot. [05:27:10] Left foot pushes the hip off the floor.[05:27:20]

[05:27:20] And we're up. And we're up.

[05:27:28] And we're up. Okay. [05:27:30] Finally. Actually, one more time with her behind me. Whether she has a chest lock, whether she has a hand on the [05:27:40] floor. And we're up. Whether she has any of various grips, I can pop up to a four point. And finally, [05:27:50] this one is what I call tripod pop, okay? Where my partner is leaning on my hips, she has a connection of her hips to mine, [05:28:00] like so.

[05:28:01] She has a backhand arm, she has a chest lock, whatever the case is, I bump my partner forwards, okay? I find that this is best done [05:28:10] When your partner has any grip besides a rear chest lock, but it can work with a rear chest lock. Okay? She goes rear chest lock. I bump [05:28:20] my partner out and away from my hips.

[05:28:23] And then I raise my hips up slightly to get her going forward towards my shoulders. Beck?[05:28:30]

[05:28:30] So I go slightly towards my partner and then forwards towards my shoulders. As my hands As [05:28:40] my knees pop up, my two hands hit the floor. Keep your hands up. As my partner moves forward towards my [05:28:50] shoulders, the momentum will pull my elbows off the floor.

[05:28:57] And now, we're up and ready to go. [05:29:00] Even easier, is if she has a back head and arm. I bring my partner forwards, And now, [05:29:10] I tuck my jaw. inside the strangle arm. So I don't have to worry about the strangle anymore. Because she's so far forward, there's no threat of a strangle. That's why I can take my primary [05:29:20] defensive hand off now.

[05:29:21] So she's in here. If she's out this far, then I can just tripod, then I can just four point up. But she's behind me. [05:29:30] From here, I go towards my partner, like so. I bump her forwards. And we pop [05:29:40] up to a four point, like so, and then we're ready to work. If she's out this far, there's no reason why I want, I can't just reach over and [05:29:50] use the inside leg series.

[05:29:51] Or, when she gets a strong old beat from here,

[05:29:59] her hand [05:30:00] always comes to the floor. So, the backhand and arm, if she's out that far, it's a pretty easy thing to just come forwards and pop [05:30:10] up like so. Okay, so that's one, it's the one that I, I actually use the most. And it's just a matter of bumping, let's go tight weights this time, tight hand on [05:30:20] the floor.

[05:30:21] Just a matter of bumping my partner slightly to the side, and then my hips rise to get our weight going [05:30:30] forward. And as my, the second my hips come forward, my hands go to the floor.

[05:30:37] And we're up. And now from here, [05:30:40] we can start. Playing around and working for escapes. So, three ways to go into a four point. Uh, inside leg, outside leg, and just bumping your partner forward [05:30:50] from a situation where you're in a turtle position, and you go from a tripod right up to a four point.[05:31:00]

[05:31:00] Alright, so there's really only one scenario where you just shouldn't be four pointing. Um, and that's when your partner has you in a cowboy run and has your hips covered. Why is [05:31:10] this? You can four point in any other position Besides when your partner has [05:31:20] your hips covered Now when you do four point understand there are crucifix dangers whether your partner's whatever leg position your partner has whether she has two knees on the floor And a chest lock [05:31:30] for example Let's say when I go in and I four point no matter where you four point from your partner you can always hook your arm, you can [05:31:40] start to run into problems here.

[05:31:42] Whether she has her rear knee down and her top leg up, I can always forepoint from these positions, right? [05:31:50] But, there's always a chance that my arm is gonna get compromised, or my partner's gonna go and throw hooks in, but you can [05:32:00] forepoint without immediately getting scored on. There's one position I don't recommend forepointing from, right?

[05:32:04] I'm not going to say you can't do it, but I don't recommend it because against a good guy, they're going to immediately throw hooks in and [05:32:10] immediately get a score. That's when your hips are covered in a cowboy rod. And why is that? When your partner's behind you and you're in a turtle position, [05:32:20] they're covering the hips.

[05:32:21] You have no ability to really monitor your partner's hands from here. The second my hips come forward and I go to pop up to, uh, pop up to my [05:32:30] feet and to my hands, my partner's immediately going to throw two hooks in. The second one leg comes up, if I go one leg at a time, [05:32:40] then she just puts a hook in, and now there's one hook in already.

[05:32:42] That's no good. So, the only way that I can do this is by bumping her forwards and by popping [05:32:50] her up to two feet. But the second I do that, she just throws two hooks in and she puts double underhooks in and locks a chest lock, and you get a score on every single time. Okay, [05:33:00] even me being so much bigger and stronger.

[05:33:02] than her. If she covers my hips sufficiently, the second I try to bump her off, if she just gets two arms locked under my shoulders, the two [05:33:10] hooks are going to come in. It's, there's just no way. So, the one time I don't recommend you four point is when your hips are sufficiently covered and your [05:33:20] partner can immediately just throw two hooks in on either side.

[05:33:22] I don't ever recommend building to a four point under our rules when your partner can just put two hooks in and score and then. [05:33:30] you're down three or four points and your partner's on your back attacking your neck.

[05:33:38] All right, let's look at now [05:33:40] when to forepoint. You can forepoint basically in any single other position than your partner being in a cowboy rod, okay? If your partner's knees are on the floor, [05:33:50] if your partner has a back head and arm, partner has a chest lock, any position besides your partner covering your hips completely and having their two knees off the floor [05:34:00] with your hips between their knees, you can four point it.

[05:34:02] Okay, you can also four point if your partner has one hook in to escape having them having one hook. Um, and we're gonna look at that a little [05:34:10] bit later, but just want to make sure that when you're thinking about this escape wise, you're thinking, okay, am I okay to four point here? If your hips are covered in a cowboy rod, [05:34:20] don't four point.

[05:34:21] In any other scenario, you can, sure, you're gonna open yourself up because you're naturally bringing your knees and your elbows away from each other, but you also [05:34:30] increase your chances. You give yourself more potential for movement and more chance to escape. So any other position than your partner having a cowboy rod [05:34:40] with your hips covered and between their knees, it's okay to four point from, and you won't immediately get scored on.

[05:34:45] All right, so just thinking about it like this. If I find a cowboy ride, partners [05:34:50] covering my hips, don't forepoint. With any other hand position, leg position, any combination you can think of, it's okay to forepoint out.[05:35:00]

[05:35:01] All right, um, this is gonna be a favorite, my favorite clip of the, favorite clip of the day because, uh, I'll get to make fun of how bad Kynan sucks again, like I always do. [05:35:10] Um, I actually escaped, uh, Kynan's back head norm from Turtle with this exact move, so I'm gonna show it to you right now. Um, He was too dumb to [05:35:20] realize that if his hips were on top of mine, he had a backhand arm, he was gonna fall off the top.

[05:35:23] But, we'll look at what actually happened. So, Kainan was [05:35:30] behind me, and he had a back headed arm, and he had his, his, uh, his left knee, or in this case, if it, I don't know if it was this, I'm pretty sure it was this side, his left knee on top of my [05:35:40] back, like over my back, like so, okay? Whenever you're in this position, I have to have a primary defensive hand, assuming we're in this position, but if I bump my partner forward, [05:35:50] and I get her moving towards my shoulders, like so, Now, you're in a position, I'm just gonna stay on my back.

[05:35:58] Now you're in a position, where if she [05:36:00] unlocks her hands to try to strangle me, she's gonna fall off the top. So she's committed now to keeping the back of her arm, because of the fact that she'll fall off the top. The only [05:36:10] thing she can do from there, Right. If she can post her hand on the floor and not fall, and now there's no threat of a strangle.

[05:36:18] So when I bump my partner this far [05:36:20] forward, this is one of the exceptions to the rule, where I don't have to have a primary defensive hand in place now. Okay? So from this position, we actually ended up, it was during a scramble, [05:36:30] kinda ended here, and from here, I bumped him forward, and you see I use a very, uh, narrow base with my hand.

[05:36:37] And I used this, what I call, tripod bump, to [05:36:40] pop up to a four point, and then walk backwards. Okay? So from here, he tried to stay too high, with the backhand arm, huge mistake by him, I just bumped him [05:36:50] forwards, he tried his best to hold on,

[05:36:55] and he fell off the top. What actually ended up happening, as he realized he was going [05:37:00] over, he tried to stand up, so you're gonna post your hand this time, and try to stay up, I went to a scoop grip on his near leg, and I actually ran him down to the floor. What happened was, we were here. I [05:37:10] bumped him forward.

[05:37:11] He felt he was going off. He was here. I built up to my hands. I backed away and I caught a scoop grip and I ran him down to [05:37:20] the floor and then passed his guard, mounted him, took his back and finished it. Um, but, uh, this is the escape that, that we did there. So he's got a [05:37:30] back and an arm like, so, and he's way too high in the hips.

[05:37:34] This is, you should never be pulling here. Okay. From here, I had two hands on the floor, [05:37:40] I just bumped him forward, and I used that bump to take me forwards and take my elbows off the ground.

[05:37:49] And [05:37:50] then you just back away, back away, back away. And in my case, I backed away enough to where he fell off, I scooped the leg, and I ran him forward. So anytime your partner has a [05:38:00] backhanded arm, using a tripod bump to bring him forward is a great option because of the fact that there's one exception to the rule, and your partner is so far forward in this position, particular [05:38:10] position, you don't have to have a primary defensive hand in place or any defensive hands.

[05:38:14] Because if your partner at any point, let's go of the back head and arm and tries to strangle you, they're [05:38:20] guaranteed to fall off sooner than later. Okay? So you bump your partner forward. And as they're coming forward, you use that momentum to take you weight from your hips [05:38:30] onto your elbows, onto your hands, and then off your elbows and off your knees and onto your feet.

[05:38:36] We bump our partner forward, [05:38:40] and we back away, and your partner will always fall off the top. All

[05:38:48] right, so now we're in a [05:38:50] four point quad pod. I'm not gonna go crazy here. There are tons of options. Uh, we're not in a turtle position anymore, so I'm not gonna get too in depth here. This is [05:39:00] more scrimmage wrestling than it is escaping turtle, but I'll give you some basic options. Once I build to a four point, a lot of the principles remain the [05:39:10] same.

[05:39:10] I can't do nearside shoulder rolls or gramby if my opponent has a strong connection. Uh, to my upper back with their chest through a [05:39:20] claw grip, um, and things like that. Uh, actually you saw a clear example of this, uh, Philip Rowe four pointed against me [05:39:30] and I had a thigh pry and a claw and he tried to do a nearside shoulder roll and I just followed him because of the upper back, uh, uh, of the upper back and chest connection.[05:39:40]

[05:39:40] Um, so a lot of the principles remain the same. Some are different because you're in a slightly different position from here. So let's see what some of our options are. When we're in a four point, and [05:39:50] our partner's out to the side of us, like so, our first and most basic is just to walk our hands to our [05:40:00] feet and stand up.

[05:40:01] So she's probably going to be somewhere out here, or behind me, or she's going to be plying from here, most of the time more up to the side. Okay, and from here, I can just [05:40:10] walk my hands into my feet, and I can shoot a leg forward and stand up. Now there are many ways to stand up, we're not going to get into those, but [05:40:20] our first basic option is just to stand up from here.

[05:40:22] Okay, so I walk my hands in, she, uh, she follows me most likely, walk with me, and now from here I [05:40:30] just shoot the leg forward and I stand straight up on my feet and start fighting hands. Another great option is we come through [05:40:40] and we can look to shoulder roll. So I look, start building up, I build to a four point, I create motion, and then from here I just take a cross step, With my [05:40:50] leg, I shoot my arm across, and we hit a Granby across our shoulders, and we end up facing our partner.

[05:40:59] So we can go nearside [05:41:00] shoulder roll options.

[05:41:04] So I look to create motion from here. As I look to create some motion,[05:41:10]

[05:41:11] we hit Granby, and now we're ready to go in and attack our partner. If my partner has a claw, for example, we can do nearside [05:41:20] shoulder rolls, just as we did before, but this time, we again, trap our partner's, uh, our partner's elbow. So we come in, she goes to keep [05:41:30] base, we roll through, and now we end up in the same position we were in before.

[05:41:36] We have Kimura, and we're ready to go. [05:41:40] If at any point, we see that

[05:41:46] Go up, lock in. At any point, we can go in [05:41:50] and we can trap our partner's leg, like so. We can catch, and we can spin, and we can use the same inside leg series. [05:42:00] So we can use many of the same things we used in the grounded turtle position as we can in the form point. And again, this is not turtle anymore.

[05:42:09] This is more scrimmage, [05:42:10] wrestling, wrestling. There's tons of things I can show you from here, but we're getting kind of off topic. Those are some basic ones. Standing up, shoulder rolling, near side, far [05:42:20] side. You can roll into your partner's legs. You can do a ton of other things from there. All right, but your basic idea is standing to, getting to a four point and using your four point as a means to [05:42:30] create more motion for your partner.

[05:42:31] towards an escape.

[05:42:36] All right, so we looked at head first stand ups and [05:42:40] we looked at hip first stand ups. All right, these are meant to either get us completely up to the feet or used to generate motion so that our [05:42:50] partner chases us in one direction and we can create kizushi and misdirection to then then use our classical jitsu rolling escapes near side or far side shoulder.

[05:42:59] Okay. [05:43:00] If you're in, um, a ruleset, for example, like, uh, IBJJF, and you get taken down. If you get taken down and your [05:43:10] butt's on the floor, two points. If you get taken down and you're a turtle, two points. If you get taken down and you're on your one knee, it's two points. The only way there's no score is if you get [05:43:20] taken down, and before the three seconds, you immediately lose your score.

[05:43:24] Turn belly down and forepoint and move out and away. So these are very important positions in [05:43:30] both wrestling, in fighting, and in specific rulesets in the sport of Jiu Jitsu. IBJJF and ADCC [05:43:40] particularly are very important being able to fight out of forepoint and fight out of, uh, fight out of turtle position and front headlock, obviously.

[05:43:47] Um, so the standing escapes, [05:43:50] We can go either head first, where our head pops up first and we athletically pop up to our feet right away. Or we can go hips first, where our hips come up first and our head stays low. And then we later build [05:44:00] to vertical posture with the head. Or we go into rolling escapes.

[05:44:03] Okay? And we looked at ways to use inside and outside leg stand ups. To use referee position, to use tripod stand [05:44:10] ups, um, to use four points. And pretty much everything, every different kind of stand up you can use, we used. Okay? Um, so. Now [05:44:20] we're going to go into, we're going to connect all the dots for these, uh, all these escapes, nearside shoulder rolls, farside, farside shoulder rolls, head [05:44:30] first standups, and hips first standups.

[05:44:32] Then we're going to look at what happens if our partner gets one hook and we're in a turtle position. What can we do?[05:44:40]

[05:44:41] All right. So before we go into one hook, one hook, one hook being inserted, what do we have here? We essentially have [05:44:50] Escapes ranging from nearside shoulder rolls to far side shoulder rolls, which are your typical classical jiu jitsu escapes. Okay. [05:45:00] Once we get those down, then we build into your classical wrestling standups.

[05:45:07] Okay. Now these are a little bit different because [05:45:10] obviously there's threats to missions, but we can use classical wrestling escapes to stand up, whether we go head first, or whether we go head first. hips first. [05:45:20] Now, the onus is on you, and myself as well, as students of the sport, to be able to use each of these escapes in the appropriate time, [05:45:30] okay?

[05:45:30] What's going to get you out of a high level player who's very good at attacking and controlling turtle position is not going to be [05:45:40] single handedly relying on classical jiu jitsu escapes, Or, relying solely on the ability [05:45:50] to stand up and get away from your partner using classical wrestling escapes. You have to be able to integrate the two.

[05:45:56] You have to understand that there are no points for back [05:46:00] exposure in the sport of Jiu Jitsu. So it doesn't matter if your back gets held on the floor for two seconds. It doesn't matter if you get pinned briefly without getting scored on. It doesn't matter. [05:46:10] It doesn't even matter most of the time if you actually end up in your back and you end up mounted.

[05:46:14] What matters is the guy gets two hooks in, now your back's taken, now you're getting strangled. So anytime you can expose your back [05:46:20] to the floor in whatever fashion, whether it be accepting a bottom pin or whether it be briefly to then keep the motion going and work towards an escape, it doesn't matter if your back's [05:46:30] exposed to the floor.

[05:46:30] In most cases, if you're talking about just technical good jiu jitsu, not talking about points, rule sets, or anything like that. and [05:46:40] you have to be able to go up and down, side to side, back and forth in order to off balance and misdirect. I'm not going to be able [05:46:50] to just go in if I'm behind her. She's not gonna be able to just go in and start expecting to roll over her shoulder with one motion.

[05:46:59] There's no [05:47:00] feints, there's no nothing, there's no off balances. She can't just expect to roll over the near side shoulder and not get scored on. She can't just expect to roll over the far side [05:47:10] shoulder and not get beat from here. And when you start combining things, like we're here, she's behind me, she has a tight waist.[05:47:20]

[05:47:21] I go to fake the near side shoulder. She goes to move out of the way. Now I go to stand up. I go in, we're playing here. I [05:47:30] go to stand up, she goes to follow me. She goes to raise her body up in a way to beat me. And then we go in and we start rolling through. You have to be able to go [05:47:40] up and down, side to side, back and forth.

[05:47:44] You can't just expect to go side to side, rolling side to side, and expect to be a high level player [05:47:50] there. You're never going to escape. They're going to stick to you like glue. You have to be able to go hips first, Head first, near side, far side shoulder. You have to be able to use these in [05:48:00] unison if you expect to escape anybody high level.

[05:48:02] You can't just do classical standing escapes. If I know you're going to get up every time, I can keep you down. If I know you're going to roll every time, I can say chest to [05:48:10] back. But if I don't know whether or not you're going to go up or down, or whether you're going to roll to this side or that side, or whether you're going to bring your hips up first, your head up first, I don't know, it's so much to follow, it's so [05:48:20] hard to keep up with.

[05:48:20] So you have to be good at all of these, at least competent at all of these, to give the top guy a threat of all of them, and that will make escaping much more easy.

[05:48:29] [05:48:30] All right. So now that we've covered [05:48:40] our escapes, let's get into, let's go a little bit deeper into this rabbit hole and talk about what happens if my partner gets one hook in from turtle position. Okay. [05:48:50] Understand that you can just simply fall to one side and you can fight to escape your partner having a single hook like you wouldn't [05:49:00] any other traditional back escape.

[05:49:02] All right. I taught eight or nine hours of escapes, uh, uh, in my backstack instructional, you can fall to a side and do any one of those [05:49:10] escapes. But you can also do escapes where you turtle, you stay in turtle position, and you use typical turtle escapes to shuck your partner off and away. Um, and [05:49:20] we can, we can look at those.

[05:49:21] Now you may be asking yourself, okay, what are the two, or what are the main ways my partner can get a hook in from turtle position? There are two [05:49:30] very simple and, uh, effective ways my partner can do this. She'll be playing a simple dilemma between an open and a closed turtle, okay? [05:49:40] If my turtle is closed, it's very hard for her to insert hooks.

[05:49:44] and back of an arm or hands, etc, etc. If my turtle, if my turtle is open, it is [05:49:50] incredibly hard for her, uh, to knock me side to side, but incredibly easy for her to insert hooks. Okay, so if she's a closed turtle, [05:50:00] it's impossible to put hooks in here. but embarrassingly easy to knock her to a hip. Whereas if she's in an open turtle, it's embarrassingly easy to insert [05:50:10] hooks, but almost impossible to knock her to a side.

[05:50:14] Okay? So if I try to knock my partner down to a hip, and she's in a closed turtle, [05:50:20] and she falls to a hip, I know from here, and I'm not going to go into detail. This is my turtle, attacking turtle instructional. I'm not going to go into detail. [05:50:30] I know from here that if I put weight over my partner's hip, The only way that she can physically stand or physically get back to turtle position is from here, [05:50:40] she has to scissor her legs, her bottom leg has to shoot away, her top leg has to scissor, and from here she can get up.

[05:50:49] If she doesn't do [05:50:50] that, and she tries to get up like this, it is physically impossible for her to get up. When she tries to go the opposite direction, she scissors the legs the other way. [05:51:00] Now, it's very difficult for her to get up, and it's not impossible. But, the knee comes so far away from the chest and the elbow, that I can always, from here, [05:51:10] insert a hook, and now we have one hook in.

[05:51:14] Okay, if I knock my partner to a hip, and she stays in this [05:51:20] position, and she doesn't try to get up, now, she's susceptible to a backhand and arm, and now, my top hook comes in, so now I have one hook in. All right, and now we can play from here. [05:51:30] So I have either the bottom hook or the top hook comes in. If she gets up, the bottom hook comes in.

[05:51:34] If she doesn't, the top hook comes in. Another way [05:51:40] that I can easily insert a hook, the one is knocking my partner to a hip. The other is threatening, uh, the uh, the [05:51:50] threatening to knock my partner down to a hip. And if she doesn't, if she falls to a hip, we insert a hook. If she doesn't fall to a hip, the only way she can avoid falling to a hip is to open up her turtle.[05:52:00]

[05:52:02] Where now, we can cast a far side hook in, or,[05:52:10]

[05:52:10] we can cast a near side hook in. And now from here we have one hook in place. So we've played Dilemma Game between open and closed turtle. If she's a closed turtle, [05:52:20] we knock it to a hip and we go from there. If she opens the turtle, we just throw a hook right in. The question is for us, being the bottom player, how can we avoid getting scored on [05:52:30] and getting strangled with two hooks in?

[05:52:33] And that is the golden question. We'll be looking at that.[05:52:40]

[05:52:41] My partner's inserting one hook. She's looking to take my back. Let's talk about what she actually needs to secure the position and stay connected to me. [05:52:50] Many of you have heard this before. My partner is looking for diagonal control. For those of you who don't know, what is diagonal control? Diagonal control is exactly what it sounds like.[05:53:00]

[05:53:00] Diagonal control ranging from one hip to the opposite side shoulder. So right hip to left shoulder, left hip to right shoulder. If I have my [05:53:10] partner's back, and I have one hook in from any given position, The only way I can effectively control my partner, if I have control over her [05:53:20] left hip with my left leg, is to effectively control her right shoulder in some way.

[05:53:24] Whether it be a variety of grips, whether it be here, whether it be here, [05:53:30] whether it be here, I have to do something to control my partner's opposite side shoulder. So this way, if she tries to explosively turn away from me, the shoulders are controlled. I can keep that [05:53:40] upper back to chest connection. If there's no diagonal control, there's no reason why my partner can't just turn away, and now she's free, okay?[05:53:50]

[05:53:50] So whenever I have a hook in with one hook, I need some form of diagonal control, okay? In this case, I have a bottom hook, and I have the topside shoulder [05:54:00] controlled, so I have diagonal control. If I were to switch this, and I have a topside hook in, which is not as preferable, now from here, I need to have some kind of [05:54:10] control over the bottom shoulder.

[05:54:11] I need to have control of the right hip with my hook, and the left shoulder with some kind of [05:54:20] wedging in place. If I didn't have anything in place here, she just walks the far shoulder away from me, and now she can easily turn towards me and I'm beat from here. So I have to control the [05:54:30] far side shoulder, so when she goes to walk away from me I still can control her in some fashion, and then I can use any various follow ups to go in and take her back and get two hooks in.[05:54:40]

[05:54:40] So understand that the whole thing you're trying to avoid when your partner puts one hook in is them getting diagonal control and [05:54:50] controlling you from the side of the hook, there have, whatever side hook there have, the hook, the hip, the, the hook, the hip on the side the hook is inserted [05:55:00] diagonally across to the opposite side shoulder.

[05:55:03] Okay, left hip or left shoulder right hip Left hip right [05:55:10] shoulder if your partner cannot achieve diagonal control the hook is useless

[05:55:18] All right, so let's say a partner inserts [05:55:20] their first hook whatever side near side or far side How can we initially avoid this if someone just throws a hook in and you're not worried about exposing your back to the floor for? whatever rule set you're [05:55:30] competing in. You just, you don't want to get your back taken.

[05:55:31] That's the main priority. Just fall to a hip without allowing your partner to have any control over the far side shoulder. So if my partner [05:55:40] knocks me to a hip,

[05:55:44] I go to get up. She inserts a hook and she has a hook in like so. What [05:55:50] I can't have is a situation where she builds to a position where she gets her left knee on top of my hips and either controls my shoulder or controls my wrist on this [05:56:00] side. So what I'm going to do is as I come up, come back, as I come up, she has a tight waist, as I come up, she inserts her hook.

[05:56:09] [05:56:10] The second she inserts her hook, instead of coming back to turtle position, I'm just going to tuck my hand. to my own chest like so. So that when she goes to fish for my wrist, it's not impossible to get [05:56:20] to, but it's going to take her a little bit longer than if it was just sitting right here. Okay. I tuck my hand to my chest and I just quickly roll with the intention of connecting my right elbow [05:56:30] and my right hip.

[05:56:31] So when she goes to come back to the turtle position and control me diagonally, we just turn inside my partner. We have a right knee and right, or sorry, right [05:56:40] elbow and right hip connected. So now my partner goes to take my back from here. If she tries to continue to roll towards you guys, I have a wedge between myself and my partner with [05:56:50] this forearm across my partner's hips.

[05:56:54] If she tries to pin me,

[05:56:59] I [05:57:00] have the inside bicep, inside hand, and inside, uh, elbow position. So if she tries to pass my guard and pin me from here, I can bring [05:57:10] everything back inside and easily recover. Okay? So. Let's say, for example, she knocks me to a hip, her internal position, she knocks me to a hip, [05:57:20] puts in a strong tight waist.

[05:57:21] I have to scissor my legs. As I do so, she inserts a hook like so. The second [05:57:30] that hook comes in, I immediately take my hand and I just tuck it to my own chest. So when she goes to control my shoulder, it's not impossible, but it's going to take longer, it's going to be more [05:57:40] difficult. I just quickly sit to my hip.

[05:57:42] I bring my knee to my own knee. I sit to my hip. I just tuck my own elbow to my hip. [05:57:50] Like so. Now she continues to try to take my back. It falls apart.[05:58:00]

[05:58:00] If she goes to pass my guard and pin me, that falls apart. We can easily recover. What does this look like? She knocks me down.[05:58:10]

[05:58:15] As you're gonna get up, she puts a hook in, I'm just gonna roll, she's gonna try to follow.[05:58:20]

[05:58:22] And that's what it'll look like. Everything comes back in soft. Conversely, let's say from here, [05:58:30] she goes to throw in a nearside hook, open turtle, same thing. I just sit as she goes to follow. Same, same idea. [05:58:40] She goes farside hook. Go back. She goes to knock me down. She goes far side hook. The second [05:58:50] she goes far side hook, I just immediately sit to this position.

[05:58:55] Where from here, my left elbow connects to my left hip [05:59:00] and then my hands come back inside. So she goes near side hook.[05:59:10]

[05:59:11] We sit. She goes far side hook.

[05:59:17] We hide the upside shoulder. [05:59:20] And we sit. And now, we're safe from here. Okay? This is not a move that you dilly dally [05:59:30] around on, and not a move you dilly dally around on, and you wait for your partner to get control over the far shoulder. The second the hook comes [05:59:40] in, you immediately sit. This is a move that you have to do quickly.

[05:59:43] The second she knocks me down, the second I feel that hook coming in, [05:59:50] We immediately come through and we go now she tries to follow me. It won't be that easy She tries to make a legitimate attempt to follow me. [06:00:00] And we're back inside, ready to go into power puffers. Okay, so before she can get the agile control, we tuck the hand in as best we can, making it [06:00:10] hard to get to the shoulder or to the wrist, and then we just sit to the hip and bring everything back inside.

[06:00:18] So when your partner has one hook [06:00:20] in, you can four point out of the position. Let's look at when not four point out, and then we'll look at positions we can forepoint out. Whenever I feel my partner has one hook in, and [06:00:30] she has two hands behind and underneath my armpits, I cannot forepoint out, okay?

[06:00:36] Whenever I feel my partner has a power half, I [06:00:40] cannot forepoint out, okay? So two positions where forepointing out is just not going to work from here. One[06:00:50]

[06:00:51] is when My partner has a hook in, and she has two hands underneath mine. So she has, just lock your ankles. [06:01:00] Good. Put your knee over my hip. Other hip. Left hip. Left hip. [06:01:10] Okay. Whenever I feel my partner has two hands underneath my arms, most of the time she'll lock her hands from here. This is not a time to four point out from here.

[06:01:19] It's gonna be very hard for me [06:01:20] to four point because my partner will never fall off the top. Because she'll never slide past my shoulders. If I can four point to all I want, My partner is never going to fall off from [06:01:30] here. If my partner has a power half, This is not a time to four point. My partner is never going to fall off from here.

[06:01:38] Okay, unless the mechanics and the [06:01:40] power half are wrong. I'm going to start to build up, And even if I do get to a four point, which is very unlikely if the power half is locked, Even if I do get to a four point, When she digs her elbow [06:01:50] into the back of my head, And I try to shake my partner off. It's a very robust position.

[06:01:56] And I'm just using a ton of energy from here. And eventually, [06:02:00] my chin's gonna get crunched to the chest, and I'm gonna get broken down, and it's not gonna be great. So, whenever I see my partner has one hook in, and she has two hands [06:02:10] behind and underneath my arms, Don't try to four point. You're just wasting your time.

[06:02:15] Whenever I see my partner has a power half in, don't [06:02:20] four point. You're just wasting your time, okay? I'm not gonna say it's impossible to escape when your partner has double underhooks. You can use some things in [06:02:30] clear hooks and stuff like that, and if the power half slips off, you can, you can work your way out, but I In general, if a guy is good and he's got double [06:02:40] underhooks or power half, I'm not going to four point.

[06:02:42] I'm going to, I'm going to do something else that's going to cost me way less energy, be way more efficient, um, and take up way less time to [06:02:50] escape. I'm not going to four point and work for 30 seconds trying to shut the guy off when underhooks and having no success or maybe having success [06:03:00] after a minute when I could just fall to my side and just do other escapes.

[06:03:03] Um, so. In general, I'm not gonna say it's impossible to escape when someone puts a power half in and has one hook in, or [06:03:10] when they have double underhooks, um, but I would, I would avoid it. Um, I, I personally would not move up to a four point if I was in those two positions. Um, it can work, [06:03:20] but there's a lot better things you can be doing from there.

[06:03:22] So

[06:03:26] now let's look at when to four point out, okay? [06:03:30] Whenever we're looking to four point out of eternal position with my partner having one hook in, we can four point whenever my partner's [06:03:40] Either one of my, one or two of my partner's hands are on the floor above me, or any time at least one of my partner's arms is above my [06:03:50] shoulders minus a power half.

[06:03:52] Because a power half, one's under the arm and one's over the back of the head. Okay, so technically in front of the shoulders, but it's a, it's, you're locked [06:04:00] into the shoulder, so it's, it's one of the exceptions. Okay, but any time my partner has open hands and one hand's on the floor posting, [06:04:10] or whether my partner has a back, head and arm.

[06:04:12] I can four point out and I can shake my partner off the top. Okay. So whenever you see your partner has one hook in from a turtle position and they go with a backhand and arm, [06:04:20] or they just don't have their hands locked at all. And you bump them forward. You put a hand in the floor. That's a perfect time to four point out and start walking backwards.

[06:04:27] Okay. Now, when you four point, it's [06:04:30] going to be a staggered four point, because if you four point square, your partner can just insert another hook and they're going to score points at least, and maybe get out, but then you're down points. And. Or maybe you don't get out [06:04:40] and then you get broken down and your back gets taken and you get finished.

[06:04:42] So when I, when I build to a four point, it's always gonna be a staggered four point, okay? So she has one hook in,[06:04:50]

[06:04:54] she's covering my hip, she has her legs locked, and now from here she puts a [06:05:00] backhanded arm in, for example, like so, okay? From this position, first thing I'm gonna look to do, is I always have my defensive hands in place. Okay, [06:05:10] I can't address, I can't do anything from here if I'm getting strangled. So the first thing is, my defensive hands are in place.

[06:05:18] Now, I'm [06:05:20] always from here going to use an outside leg stand up. Right now she's on my right side. So I have to use an outside leg stand up. Why? If I use an inside leg stand up, [06:05:30] you will expose your left hip and your partner can easily throw a long hook, two hooks in. Or even worse, a long hook across, by the way, a long hook [06:05:40] cross and now you're getting body triangled.

[06:05:42] Okay, so I always, from this position, go back,[06:05:50]

[06:05:51] I always use an outside leg stand up. So I have a defensive hand in place. I step up with an outside leg from here. Okay, so now [06:06:00] when she goes to insert a body triangle or insert a second hook, she can't do it. Now from here I build up and the second I build up. [06:06:10] When I take my right knee off the floor, it will bump my partner too far forward to strangle me.

[06:06:15] So when my right knee leaves the ground, my left hand can now come off as a primary hand and go to [06:06:20] the floor. I just lean forward and as I lean forward, now if my partner tries to strangle me from here, [06:06:30] there's no, there's no strangle because of the fact that my ear and jaw are connected to my shoulder.

[06:06:37] So when she goes to punch a strangle hand in, [06:06:40] She can't actually get past the jaw and up and over the shoulder, so there's no strangle from here. Now, if I'm square, [06:06:50] she just inserts the second hook and I run into some problems here. So I always first connect my jaw to my shoulder [06:07:00] and then I bring my left knee forwards, like so.

[06:07:03] So when she goes to insert a hook, It's a very difficult thing to do. And now from here, I just walk [06:07:10] backwards and I take my right hand towards my center line. My partner will always fall off the top. So we come in, she has a hook in, [06:07:20] she covers the hip, she's doing everything she could, everything she's supposed to.

[06:07:25] We go in, one, defensive hand in place, two, [06:07:30] outside leg stand up, three, she tries to insert a hook. There's no hook that's going to come into place. The second my right [06:07:40] knee and right elbow leave the floor, my partner will come too far forward to actually strangle me. So now, the second I unlock [06:07:50] my hands, she goes to shoot a strangle in.

[06:07:54] There's no strangle available. And now I just walk my knee and elbow together. [06:08:00] When she goes to strangle me from here, she can't. When she goes to insert a second hook, she can't. And now, my hand [06:08:10] comes in, and now I just walk and I shake. You really trying to hold on? I'm fine.[06:08:20]

[06:08:22] Defensive hand, outside leg stand up, I build, like so. [06:08:30] When she goes to strangle me, you can't. I want you guys to hold on from here.[06:08:40]

[06:08:42] You can always take our partner out and over to the side, and Bale will always fall off the top. So from here, [06:08:50] we use a staggered four point. Standard four point. Staggered 4 point. Like [06:09:00] so. So now, everything is falling over in this direction, and I'm very robust and stable on this side, and there's no chance of me getting scored on.

[06:09:08] We use a staggered 4 point [06:09:10] to take our partner off when she inserts one hook. If we move to a 4 point, and she switches to a power half, or switches her hands as we're coming up to [06:09:20] double underhooks, like I said, I recommend falling back down and doing something else. But if she stays with the top head and arm, or her hand ends up on the floor, then I [06:09:30] recommend using a staggered four point, walking backwards, and shucking my partner off.

[06:09:39] All right, so now let's look [06:09:40] at, um, just before we go into crucifix stuff, where I close out, um, our opponent having one hook in place. Um, When our [06:09:50] opponent has one hook, the first thing we're trying to do is to stop them from obtaining diagonal control. So if they have one hook in and they don't have control over the opposite [06:10:00] side shoulder, it means nothing.

[06:10:02] If we can quickly rotate and put our back on the floor, we can bring everything back inside and easily re guard. Assuming our partner has [06:10:10] one hook in, some form of control over the far shoulder, we'd look at what position they're in. If they have two arms underneath and, [06:10:20] uh, and behind my shoulders and underneath my armpits with double wrist control, with, uh, two, uh, two shoulders, or [06:10:30] locked hands and a rear chest lock, I don't recommend forepointing.

[06:10:33] It's not impossible to escape from there, but there are far better things you can do. If your partner puts in a power half, [06:10:40] Again, not impossible to escape from there, but there are far better things you can do. Those are the two positions I don't recommend for pointing it. Anytime your partner's hands are unlocked or [06:10:50] your partner has a backhanded arm, you can easily four point out into a staggered four point, and you can shuck your partner off the top.

[06:10:57] Okay, remember when you stand up, don't go to a [06:11:00] standard square four point. It's a staggered four point with a knee and elbow connected on one side, so they can't insert a second hook, and then I walk the hand towards the center line to hide the [06:11:10] shoulder, so your partner slides off as you walk backwards, and you end up in top position, usually in a top half guard.

[06:11:15] So it's actually a pretty good position you end up in when your partner falls off of you. Okay, um, [06:11:20] So if your partner has one hook in, you can easily four point out, assuming their hands are unlocked or they have a backhand and arm. If not, I generally recommend picking a [06:11:30] side you want to escape from, falling towards the side of the hook, or falling away, and then putting your back on the floor and going into your standard back escapes with one hook in and working from there.

[06:11:39] Okay, [06:11:40] now let's go into some crucifix stuff where your partner enters into a back crucifix from a turtle position.[06:11:50]

[06:11:50] All right, let's look at a back crucifix. Um, first of all, how would my partner, first of all, what is a back crucifix? A back crucifix is a situation where my partner uses her legs to trap [06:12:00] my near side arm, And she usually uses her hands in some configuration to trap either my far side arm or my head and arm, my head and my far side arm.

[06:12:08] Okay? She can use this [06:12:10] to stop me from standing up, and she can use this to go into attacks on my back, she can use this to go into other various submissions. This is a very versatile position, so it's good for her to enter into. [06:12:20] Okay? How can she enter into a back crucifix from this position? Couple, couple of ways.

[06:12:29] Number one, if [06:12:30] we're in a turtle position, and she's behind me. And from here, if at any point my hand comes too far out, like so, [06:12:40] she can reach with her front leg, and she can trap my hand like so. Okay? If at any point, [06:12:50] usually what she's going to do if she's looking to set a crucifix up, is she's going to put her rear knee down behind my elbow, rear knee down behind my elbow, [06:13:00] front leg up, and she's going to work from here.

[06:13:02] And she's gonna try to put my hand between her two legs and trap like so, okay? So anytime [06:13:10] my arm is too far extended Out and away she can just reach forward quickly and catch Anytime she's trying to force [06:13:20] me into a crucifix, she will use her rear knee to wedge between my elbow, to bow my elbow out, to grab my inside wrist, and [06:13:30] from here, drag the wrist out and hook, like so.

[06:13:33] Okay, so there's a couple different scenarios my partner can use from turtle position to set it up. And she can also [06:13:40] use it from various other positions, like a referee position, where she has her rear chest locked, for example. And from here, she reaches through, and she catches. Or she reaches through with the rear [06:13:50] leg, and she catches.

[06:13:52] Same thing from a forepoint. She can go through, she can pull the arm out, and now she can drive me down to my right shoulder, [06:14:00] and I have no base support, and I fall back down, she can return me to the, return me to the mat, okay? So this is a very versatile position, and She can use it for [06:14:10] many different reasons.

[06:14:11] Okay, to keep me down, to switch to other positions, to switch to submissions, there's tons of things she can do from here. There's just basic setups, how she can [06:14:20] enter into a crucifix, either my arm's too far extended, I'm reaching too much, or she can physically wedges my elbow in place and then traps it, um, with her, with her [06:14:30] opposing leg.

[06:14:31] Or if I'm trying to build up into a standing position, whether it be with head first or hips first in a four point, she can drag the arm, she can, uh, capture [06:14:40] the arm, drag it out, or turn me back to the floor and keep me down so I can't build, build up back to my feet and use standing escapes. Okay. So back crucifix is always going to be a situation where my [06:14:50] partner has control over my nearside arm in some way, and either my head and arm, like so, my head and arm with the figure four back head and arm, [06:15:00] like so, or, grab my wrist, other hand, like so, or [06:15:10] just control over my farside arm, like so, Like so, okay.

[06:15:14] So a couple of different things that my partner can be doing from this position. And my partner can [06:15:20] use the front leg to trap my arm or the rear leg to trap my arm. Okay. So she can use both. And then she can [06:15:30] work from here in various ways. Okay. She can also take her right hand behind my armpit, right hand, behind my [06:15:40] armpit.

[06:15:40] And from here, she can go in and she can play with her rear chest lock from here, where now she has control of my arm and she has good control over my shoulders as well. So when I got to move from [06:15:50] here, she keeps the arm trapped and I feel like I can't move from here. I got to roll. I got to stand up. I can't do that.

[06:15:54] I got to roll through. She follows me through and it just turned into a very controlling position from there. [06:16:00] Okay, so she has many options on how she can play, but the main thing is she traps my near arm in some way with her legs and then she has control over my head and shoulders and my forearm. [06:16:10] She controls the entire width of my shoulders.

[06:16:15] And usually both of my arms wind up in a back crucifix, especially when we're facing [06:16:20] belly up. So we'll look at some of those attacks and defenses right now.

[06:16:27] All right, so let's look at how to escape a [06:16:30] crucifix. If my partner traps my arm, and she uses her front leg to trap my arm. Okay, um, we can always hit the maki komi roll through and roll our partner through, [06:16:40] like I'm about to show you in the next sequence, but this is a great alternative if you don't want to do that.

[06:16:45] Okay, so she goes in, [06:16:50] she traps with the near side, the front leg like so, and she has either a backhanded arm, or maybe a kimura on the far side, or whatever the case is from here, [06:17:00] usually a backhanded arm is more robust from here. And we're playing in a situation like so from here I go in and I take a drag grip on my partner's Arm like so [06:17:10] now you're thinking well, you don't have a primary defensive hand then why because from here My partner's arm is controlled above the elbow And my [06:17:20] jaw and ear are connected to my shoulder on this side on the left side of my body here.

[06:17:27] So this means when my partner tries to actually shoot a [06:17:30] strangle in, she physically cannot pull her elbow back far enough to free her hand enough to shoot across my neck. [06:17:40] And even if she did, it would be hard to put a strangle in place. And the time allowed because of the fact that she can't get through and underneath my jaw and in between my jaw and my [06:17:50] shoulder on the left side here, okay?

[06:17:52] So from here, we grab our partner's arm like so. When she goes to retract that, that uh, that arm, [06:18:00] it's difficult. When she goes to take the hand up high and put the strangle in, it's wedged in place. It physically can't get past my armpit. And from here, she actually does free it. [06:18:10] It's a difficult thing to actually go in and get through.

[06:18:13] If I feel, for whatever reason, my partner's so good that she pulls the arm out, and she's [06:18:20] gonna get underneath my jaw, because if there's time allowed, she can get underneath my jaw, and she can go underneath, and she can lift the jaw. If I feel like my partner is so good, and I'm not creating enough movement, I just look towards my [06:18:30] partner, and I connect my chin and my jaw to the other shoulder.

[06:18:34] So now when she goes to strangle me, there's just not enough time allowed, and she can get around my neck, but the [06:18:40] angles all along is not ever going to strangle me from here. Okay? So from this position, we first go in and we catch a drag grip, like so, and we just look [06:18:50] towards our left shoulder, and we connect our partner's bicep to our neck on this side.

[06:18:57] So there's extra friction, there's a wedge in the bicep and the triceps. When she goes [06:19:00] to pull that arm out, it's a very difficult thing to do. I don't initially look to my right shoulder, because now there's less friction between my partner's arm and my, uh, [06:19:10] uh, my partner's arm and my body. So with sweat, it's an easier thing for her to slip the arm out.

[06:19:17] Whereas here, [06:19:20] when she goes to pull that arm out now, it's really wedged in place. Okay, and worst case scenario, if she pulls it out, it's hard to strangle me from here. If I feel like she has a perfect insertion [06:19:30] point, I just turn towards my partner and it's difficult for her to strangle me. Okay, but this is um, this is something that's pretty unlikely to happen in the time that she has, that she has here.[06:19:40]

[06:19:40] Now I'm going to take my right hand and catch a grip over my partner's knee like so. Now all I'm going to look to do is put my forehead on the floor and I'm going to pull my [06:19:50] partner down to a hip.

[06:19:53] Like so. When she goes to heist from this position, she cannot pull her right [06:20:00] elbow out to post on her hand, and she can't pull her right knee out to get up to her knee. So when she goes to get up from here and recover, she can't. Her best bet [06:20:10] now is to keep her hands locked and to try to control the back of the arm.

[06:20:15] When she goes to keep her hands locked from here, I just start moving to a position [06:20:20] where I can take my head to center. And now from here, I just lift and I pull my partner towards me. Now you got to land in side control perfectly every time though. Probably not. [06:20:30] But you're going to get out of the position.

[06:20:31] Now you're gonna be crucifixed and you're gonna be on top of your partner. Okay. So she goes in,[06:20:40]

[06:20:41] she used the front leg trap and she has a back head and arm. She has a, she has a back head and arm. We'll use that for now. We come in, we'll use a drag grip. I mean, work into a [06:20:50] situation like so. We bow forward to put the forehead down and we return, and we put our partner to a hip by pulling the knee towards us like so [06:21:00] when she goes to heist and recover.

[06:21:02] She can't. If she unlocks her hands, she dooms herself to failure right away. Her best bet is to keep the [06:21:10] hands locked. And as she does that, look, tight, tight, tight.

[06:21:17] I just center the head, and from here, we're ready to [06:21:20] recover and potentially pass. Okay, if she locks a Kimura from there, it's actually much easier. She goes in here, and she locks a Kimura, [06:21:30] Now she has no control over my head. So from here, I just, again, put the forehead on the floor. I pull the knee and I put my partner's hip [06:21:40] on the ground.

[06:21:41] Now from here, we just reach through and just physically strip the Kimura grip off. When she goes to hold on tight, I [06:21:50] physically strip the Kimura grip off. I post a hand. I build height. And now we're out once again. Okay. Your partner's best. [06:22:00] Best line of defense from here, is she has a kimura, so when I go to pull her hip to the floor, I pull the hip to the floor, but she posts the hand on the floor to [06:22:10] not fall completely down to her shoulder.

[06:22:13] Whenever I see this, from here, it's a pretty easy thing to start walking my legs out and away, and from [06:22:20] here, as she gets to follow me, My head can pop out and now I'm ready to go ahead and chase my partner's back. So this time I pull my partner's knee in. [06:22:30] Instead of falling to her shoulder, she falls to her shoulder, she's doomed.

[06:22:34] Instead of falling to her shoulder, she falls to a hip and a hand. And now as she goes to follow [06:22:40] me, the head comes out. This time, as she falls down, she's going to legitimately try to heist. I'm going to legitimately try to free my head.[06:22:50]

[06:22:53] And we just keep moving in a circle

[06:22:59] [06:23:00] until the head can come free. This is the most difficult one to deal with because your partner can still remain with her head higher than yours, but [06:23:10] as she goes to continue to cut the corner, my whole thing is to connect my head to my partner's hip.

[06:23:18] And we're out. When [06:23:20] she goes to start, when she goes to stay glued to me.

[06:23:26] And we're out and ready to go. So three scenarios. [06:23:30] One is she goes back, head and arm. We use a drag grip. And we're out. [06:23:40] Two, she goes Kimura.[06:23:50]

[06:23:50] Three, she goes false to a hand.

[06:23:59] And we're [06:24:00] out. And finally, four, is she locks a chest lock?

[06:24:07] Where now, this move will [06:24:10] not work anymore. She'll be able to stay up with a chest lock, and I have to go into Maki Komi, which is what we're going to do right now.[06:24:20]

[06:24:21] Alright, so when will we use a far side shoulder roll versus a crucifix? We just saw one example right now, when there's a chest lock, both hands behind, and [06:24:30] she has control, uh, with her, her, uh, her front leg. There we go. Anytime you can't get your partner's hip to the floor, just go [06:24:40] far side shoulder.

[06:24:41] Anytime your partner's trapping your arm with their rear leg, go far side shoulder. If you can't put their hip on the floor, you gotta go into a far side shoulder roll, [06:24:50] okay? So anytime I can't return their hip to the floor when my arm is trapped in front, I gotta step over a leg. Anytime my leg is trapped or my arm is trapped [06:25:00] with their rear leg, like so, or a backhanded arm, From here, from this position, I gotta go into a far side [06:25:10] shoulder roll, okay?

[06:25:11] And usually, when someone has

[06:25:18] this leg trapped like [06:25:20] so, she either goes near side, like so, and she blades the hips, or she goes, or sorry, sorry, she goes front leg, or she goes rear leg, and she blades the hips, and from [06:25:30] here scissors the legs. So when she goes to free that arm, The arm is trapped. When she goes to take it back to the front leg and tries to grab my knee, [06:25:40] it's a difficult thing to do.

[06:25:42] Okay? And now from here, you have to start sitting and stepping over your partner's leg and rolling to bottom position. Okay? So, [06:25:50] whenever I feel my leg's trapped, usually a backhanded arm happens, I try to take my arm to the front and start to trap her. Her front knee, [06:26:00] it's not going to happen. All right.

[06:26:01] Whenever I see this, I'm going to roll to bottom position. So I put a defensive hand in place like so, and now I'm just going to roll to [06:26:10] bottom position by either one. If I can, I trap my partner's leg. Usually if the rear leg is trapping my arm, it's going to be difficult. If the front [06:26:20] leg is trapping my arm, it'll be a little bit easier to trap my partner's, uh, near leg, okay?

[06:26:26] Regardless, we're gonna roll through and we're gonna sit [06:26:30] down to our hips and down to our back. If I feel like I can trap my partner's leg, great. If I feel like I can't, then we have to just roll through, okay? [06:26:40] First thing we're gonna look to do is roll our partner through by either sitting, if I walk towards my partner's hips, My knee comes to my knee, [06:26:50] I just roll over the far shoulder like so, okay?

[06:26:54] This is number one.

[06:26:58] Number two,[06:27:00]

[06:27:04] is from here. We can actually get a hold of our partner's leg, however it may be. Whether it's [06:27:10] like so, or usually, like so.

[06:27:18] We roll through and we [06:27:20] trap our partner's leg. Okay, we're going to look at a bunch of escapes From this position where I don't have my partner's arm or I don't have my partner's leg trapped [06:27:30] And a position where we can trap our partner's leg. Okay, so this is going to be our starting position We're going to look at escapes from crucifix once we actually uh get [06:27:40] our partner rolled through into a position of not relative safety, but a situation where we're not in turtle.

[06:27:46] We're still in a lot of danger from here. Okay. Again, we're not really in [06:27:50] turtle anymore. So I'm just gonna run through a couple of quick escape options from crucifix. I can spend hours teaching escape options from here, but I'm just gonna do a quick few ones to give you guys the [06:28:00] basis basics. If you guys get caught in crucifix from turtle position.

[06:28:07] Okay. So let's take a look at a situation where my partner has a [06:28:10] backhand and arm and she rolls me through and From here, the front leg is trapping. Okay, so if we [06:28:20] inverted this, she comes up, we come in, the front leg has me trapped, and from here, I can't, or I, [06:28:30] I can get a hold of my partner's leg. So I roll through,

[06:28:36] and from here, we're in a [06:28:40] situation like so.[06:28:50]

[06:28:50] If I can trap my partner's leg like so, It's going to be a pretty easy, pretty easy when I say easy, easier, uh, it's pretty easy to [06:29:00] actually free my arm. Okay. When she goes to keep my arm trapped from this position, it's difficult thing to actually move your arm out in a way. But if I have control over my partner's leg, I can always split my [06:29:10] partner's knees.

[06:29:11] Okay. So whenever I can split my partner's knees, I just take my knee sweeping towards my other knee. And from this position, when she goes to hold on, [06:29:20] I just turn my elbow down. And I just walk my hips towards my partner's and now from here we just slip the elbow free and now we're out. Now it's just a matter of [06:29:30] taking the elbow to the inside and we're free, okay?

[06:29:33] What controls me is the arm being trapped. Once the arm is trapped you're out, okay? Whenever I can control the leg, like so, and [06:29:40] she goes to keep strong control of me, if my hips are angled out in a way this is what makes it hard for me to take my, to slip the elbow. So from here I just control my partner's [06:29:50] legs.

[06:29:50] I sweep the knee towards my own knee, so I separate the knees and I just walk my hips towards my partner's. Now, if I stay with my thumb pointing towards the [06:30:00] ceiling, I get stuck. So I turn my thumb down. My partner goes to keep my arm trapped from here. I just turn my thumb down and I just work the elbow [06:30:10] free with small kipping movements and from here the thumb turns down and then it's just a matter of time when she goes to hold on, I just walk, walk, walk, and I pull the elbow free.[06:30:20]

[06:30:20] The key is the turning of the thumb down. If I keep my hand here and it's thumb up, when she goes to control me from here, it's going to be a difficult thing for me to escape. [06:30:30] So I control the space between the knees with the control of my legs, and then I just shovel my hips towards and underneath hers, like so, and this will help me raise my right shoulder.

[06:30:39] If [06:30:40] my right shoulder is parallel with the floor, you'll never be able to turn your thumb all the way down. So I shovel my hips underneath my partner's like so. And [06:30:50] now, as my shoulder comes up, my thumb can turn all the way down, and from here, I can pull my arm free and take my elbow to the inside position.

[06:30:59] Okay? [06:31:00] So that's assuming I can trap my partner's leg, and the front leg has my, uh, my arm trapped. Now let's assume that, for whatever [06:31:10] reason, we cannot trap our partner's leg as we roll. So we just fall to our head. We roll our partner through and we're in a crucifix position like so. Whenever I see this, I just [06:31:20] walk my partner's knees to the floor.

[06:31:23] She wants to keep her knees pointing out towards you guys, out towards the camera. So from here, [06:31:30] I just catch my partner's knee like so. She goes to really keep her knees pointing towards the ceiling. All I'm going to look to do is I'm going to stroll to walk and pull my elbow down [06:31:40] towards my partner.

[06:31:40] Strong, strong, strong. She wants to keep her, uh, her knees here. She goes to strongly keep her knees in the center. I just walk. I just pull the knees [06:31:50] down. All I need is enough space to be able to get my knee inside my partner's knee. And now from here, when she goes to keep me in the, keep my [06:32:00] arm trapped, I just use a knee wedge to physically pull my elbow free.

[06:32:05] And now I'm out. Okay. So we have what is the rear leg. [06:32:10] Now the far like Trapped in my arm. I feel like I can't free the arm from here. Okay from this position She [06:32:20] has a good control over the crucifix. I can't free the arm She goes to keep her knees pointing towards the ceiling the best she can. I just walk I cup the knee I pulled the knee towards me [06:32:30] again, strong body Like so and now from here we just insert a knee You go knee to elbow.

[06:32:39] She goes to hold on [06:32:40] tight. We use a shearing motion to take the elbow free and now we're ready to go in with all of our various escapes from here. Okay. [06:32:50] Let's say she switches now to the other leg. Now she has control over my arm in this fashion. Again, from here I just pull my [06:33:00] own thumb to my chest and she goes to keep her legs pointing towards the ceiling.

[06:33:04] I just walk. Everything down and away. Okay, I feel like I'm dealing with someone who's uber strong from [06:33:10] here. I can put my own Hand inside my thigh. I Just walk down the best I can and now from here We just put a leg on [06:33:20] top of our partner's knee and we use that same shearing motion Go in and free our hand So very basic options to free our hands [06:33:30] if my partner's trapping with the other leg From here, I pull the leg down towards me.

[06:33:35] This is the hardest to do, uh, with this leg trap in your arm. [06:33:40] So if I have to, I can go in and I can reach the inside of my own leg and I can physically walk my partner's legs down towards me. From this position, we can go in and we can use that [06:33:50] same knee wedge to clear our elbow from the inside. Like so.

[06:33:57] Hold on tight. Push your legs. [06:34:00] We go in, we use that same knee wedge. We can use a combination of top knee and bottom knee to free our elbow however we see fit [06:34:10] when depending on our partner's leg positions. Okay, and again, These are very basic escapes. There are tons of different upper body positions, tons of different [06:34:20] lower body positions.

[06:34:20] You can have triangled legs, you can have unlocked legs, scissored legs. There's a ton of different positions we can spend here. I could spend hours teaching crucifix escapes, but these are the main [06:34:30] escapes and the most basic escapes we can look at from crucifix. Okay, we roll through and we can either trap our partner's leg on the roll through or we roll through.

[06:34:38] We can't trap our partner's leg in the [06:34:40] roll through and as our partner rolls through she traps with either the front or the back leg. And then from there, we're looking to use a combination of our legs and our [06:34:50] hands. You have to turn the thumb in different directions and use knee wedging in order to pull the elbow free.

[06:34:55] Once the elbow is free, it's a pretty easy thing to get your elbow to the floor and go to an escape. [06:35:00] Okay, so those are very, very, very basic escapes, um, to a back crucifix. that you can use to free your, free your arm and start to go into your escapes. Again, not turtle position, so I'm not [06:35:10] going deep into it.

[06:35:11] I will teach crucifix escapes in a different instructional at some point in the future. Um, and I can, again, teach those for hours. There's tons of different escapes you can do from there, [06:35:20] but that's not the focus of this one, so we're gonna end it with the basic escapes there. Okay, now we're gonna go into a closing, uh, statement and outro.

[06:35:27] I'm pretty sure we don't have anything [06:35:30] else to do on Crucifix, uh, right now, so I think we're gonna go into an outro, and then we'll be done.

[06:35:39] Alright guys, so, [06:35:40] little closing statement here. Um, We have about seven hours of footage plus the roll of technique plus the rolling footage So a lot of a lot of in depth stuff on [06:35:50] on front headlock and turtle escapes Two very undertaught positions in the sport And two positions that you see most of the time [06:36:00] when they're being taught you either see classical jiu jitsu or classical wrestling you never see the Unification of the two sports being used [06:36:10] When the highest level guys are teaching, uh, or anyone teaching for that matter, usually you'll see either, okay, here's how we roll to guard.

[06:36:16] Here's how we sit to half guard. Here's how we do this or [06:36:20] do that. Um, and then here's how we stand up and we get away and we break hands apart. Usually taught by guys who, who wrestle. [06:36:30] What most people do in jiu jitsu is when it's time for like an 80cc camp, for example, we do what is called the bolt on method where guys hire some [06:36:40] random wrestler or D1 guy or a good wrestler, whatever the case is, they hire a wrestler, he comes in, he teaches pure wrestling moves, and they kind of take those wrestling [06:36:50] moves that they learn, they bolt them on to whatever jiu jitsu they already have, and then they kind of just try to put everything together on the game day, and and that's it.

[06:36:58] Um Um, whereas [06:37:00] our approach is instead of just bolting on the wrestling moves, um, we actually take the wrestling moves and we, we see which ones first are applicable to our sport. And then [06:37:10] after which ones are applicable, we say, okay, how can we modify these and make them better for the rules that we're playing with?

[06:37:15] Okay. Cause the rules are very different. The scoring criteria is very different. Um, and the moves [06:37:20] have to be different in some cases. Um, so. I think that's the challenge for not just me, uh, not just for you guys, but for me as well, um, is to, is to unify [06:37:30] wrestling and jiu jitsu as one whole submission grappling sport.

[06:37:33] Um, so I, I wanted to go over both traditional wrestling escapes and [06:37:40] classical jiu jitsu escapes and show the differences in position between the two sports and how we have to modify the position slightly, um, from one sport to the other. Um, [06:37:50] We went over front headlock escapes with sitting to guard, entering into our partner's legs, and basic standing wrestling escapes.

[06:37:57] Then we went into defending go behinds, defending some submissions, [06:38:00] and then of course turtle escapes were broken down into a couple of main categories with the near side shoulder rolls, far side shoulder rolls, inside leg, outside leg stand up, things like that, [06:38:10] where we used a combination of the threat of standing up or the threat of rolling to guard.

[06:38:16] to find a way to eventually face our partner or go into some kind of counter [06:38:20] offense and submit them. Um, and then we went to some, uh, some obscure things that can happen from, uh, from maternal position or a front [06:38:30] headlock where you get crucifixed and you have to, you know, crawl your partner through and escape from there.

[06:38:35] Or they put one hook in and what can we do from there? Um, so it, you get pretty deep into a rabbit hole when you start [06:38:40] getting into, okay, now there's, you can escape and you can go into wrestling moves where you can start chain wrestling and. Maybe you go from a front headlock to a single leg and then you switch to a double and then [06:38:50] You're into body locks and you're standing up and you're wrestling.

[06:38:52] So it gets pretty fun and pretty interesting and Once the scrimmage wrestling program eventually comes out in a couple of years [06:39:00] whenever it is ready to come out You'll a lot of stuff that you see today Or when you're watching this instructional will make a lot more sense because it'll it'll mesh together really well with all the [06:39:10] scrimmage wrestling stuff and um A lot of the stuff you've already seen, you see, I referenced match with Kainé, match with Philip Rowe.

[06:39:18] Um, there's a lot of stuff from [06:39:20] here in the, um, The match with Hulk at ADCC. So, um, it's very applicable stuff, especially to fighting and to ADCC IBGJF rules. So, um, hopefully you guys [06:39:30] enjoyed it and, uh, let me know what you think. And thank you to Sunny, uh, BGJ for that accent. This is a rough one for Sunny.

[06:39:35] Um, she doesn't really do turtle too much and it's her 16th instructional. So [06:39:40] she's getting, uh, getting beat up and worn out, right? That was a rough one. I did some, some mistakes. I didn't know what to do and you never let me know what to do. [06:39:50] So it was rough. I got yelled at by behind the cameras. So it was not good.

[06:39:55] Blue belts. No. Sorry guys. I tried. It's [06:40:00] hard. It's not easy. I never know what we're going to do. I never know the moves. So it's complicated. And besides that, we have 110 pounds different size. So it's really [06:40:10] complicated. To lock a triangle, to lock a body triangle. 90 pounds. How can you lock a body triangle?

[06:40:16] That's the max I can lock it. Did I ask you to lock a body triangle [06:40:20] at all? You did one time. A body triangle? Yeah, you did. When did I ask you to lock a body triangle? From one hook in. I didn't ask you to lock a body triangle. What did you ask me to do? I asked you to shoot your hook [06:40:30] across as though you were trying to lock a body triangle.

[06:40:31] Oh my gosh. And the other one was, lock my feet. That's how you lock your feet, right? With Gordon, I lock my [06:40:40] toes, because you can't. He's too fat right now. So it was a little rough, but I hope you guys enjoy. I did my best. Uh. You see that? If you have big muscles, [06:40:50] you're impervious to move. Anyways, thank you guys.

[06:40:54] This is how a normal person lock a body triangle, right? They just put it here, and they just lock a body [06:41:00] triangle. On you, I have to purposely shoot. My leg as far as I can hold. I'm not gonna let you. And I have to adjust, and it is [06:41:10] barely. Now, there's one here.

[06:41:15] Barely. So it's hard, it's not an easy thing. [06:41:20] It's not easy. Okay, enough. Enough is enough. Bye guys!

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[07:06:15] [07:06:20] Alright guys, so now let's look at, we've looked

[07:06:26] our more

[07:06:27] get

[07:06:27] go behinds,

[07:06:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: another

[07:06:28] Gordon Ryan: go a little bit deeper into this

[07:06:29] uh, [07:06:30] escapes,

[07:06:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Headlocks and Turtle

[07:06:31] Gordon Ryan: let's look

[07:06:32] what happens if

[07:06:32] guard

[07:06:33] into guard or doing,

[07:06:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: uh,

[07:06:35] Gordon Ryan: Alright, we're going to look at first sitting to

[07:06:36] where we end up with our

[07:06:37] Now whether my partner

[07:06:38] now we're going to be looking at a combination

[07:06:39] [07:06:40] one side

[07:06:40] up to

[07:06:40] front head,

[07:06:41] rolling back into guard,

[07:06:43] her hands on my center line, whether she has her hands fed

[07:06:45] you wouldn't any other

[07:06:46] So, let's

[07:06:47] or whether she has hands fed

[07:06:48] of stand ups there

[07:06:49] opposite shoulder,[07:06:50]

[07:06:50] eight or nine hours of

[07:06:51] So,

[07:06:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Anyways, uh, outfit of the day, this is brand

[07:06:54] Gordon Ryan: fall to a side and do any one of those escapes.

[07:06:56] So our head

[07:06:56] I'm gonna have,

[07:06:57] our

[07:06:57] can also do

[07:06:58] wrestling, you're

[07:06:58] gonna have again my primary

[07:06:59] [07:07:00] There are a couple of ways. So if I'm talking about head

[07:07:02] gonna be playing from

[07:07:03] talking about situations where

[07:07:04] if my

[07:07:05] build to a

[07:07:05] can, we can look

[07:07:06] And, uh,

[07:07:07] with her chest heavy and her legs back and away

[07:07:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: some[07:07:10]

[07:07:10] Gordon Ryan: what are the two, or what are the main ways my partner can get a hook in from

[07:07:13] now there's weight on me It's hard for me to

[07:07:15] two very simple and,

[07:07:17] I'm talking about hips

[07:07:18] my partner can do this.

[07:07:19] Okay

[07:07:19] talking about[07:07:20]

[07:07:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I never wore

[07:07:20] Gordon Ryan: She'll be playing a simple dilemma

[07:07:23] I find and my partner's legs are out and away from

[07:07:25] Actually, uh,

[07:07:26] We're gonna look to go into different escapes from here Usually going in building the [07:07:30] four point or looking to go in and thumb post my partner's elbow We'll

[07:07:33] let's look at first head first

[07:07:35] my partner's knees are in towards me Okay Usually because we have a good submission [07:07:40] specialist who's

[07:07:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now that's out of the way. That's more or

[07:07:42] Gordon Ryan: we're behind our

[07:07:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: part of the instructional, by the way.

[07:07:43] Gordon Ryan: There are a couple of ways we can

[07:07:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now that's out of the way. Um, we're gonna be

[07:07:46] Gordon Ryan: go for straggles,

[07:07:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and, turtle and front

[07:07:48] Gordon Ryan: I see my partner's knees [07:07:50] are on the floor and her legs are in towards

[07:07:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: areas that are

[07:07:52] Gordon Ryan: if she's in an open

[07:07:52] leg

[07:07:53] out to an angle like so

[07:07:54] front head from

[07:07:55] gonna step a leg

[07:07:56] there are four

[07:07:56] around and they just try to quickly jump to a situation where they're behind[07:08:00]

[07:08:00] my partner's

[07:08:00] be here,

[07:08:01] if I try to knock my

[07:08:02] and they'll just try to jump

[07:08:03] Now from this position my partner has

[07:08:06] this can work if the guy's terrible,

[07:08:08] we go inside leg

[07:08:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: down,

[07:08:09] Gordon Ryan: will give [07:08:10] me space to come

[07:08:10] I'm not going to

[07:08:11] you have to understand

[07:08:11] If my partner doesn't unlock her

[07:08:13] attacking turtle

[07:08:14] there's no reason why I can't switch from the primary

[07:08:17] if I put

[07:08:17] being in

[07:08:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: see there's a lot in MMA

[07:08:19] Gordon Ryan: We can use a

[07:08:19] [07:08:20] try to circle behind

[07:08:20] can

[07:08:21] where we come

[07:08:21] on my partner's

[07:08:22] get back

[07:08:23] go outside

[07:08:24] And now, all I have to do is go back down to the floor,

[07:08:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: normally what

[07:08:28] Gordon Ryan: my partner, my elbow behind me, and I [07:08:30] post to my partner's hip.

[07:08:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: escapes

[07:08:31] Gordon Ryan: Once she goes to pull that left

[07:08:32] of building to referee position first, we focus not

[07:08:35] here, a knee lever

[07:08:36] height

[07:08:37] next

[07:08:37] to get up like

[07:08:38] comes very easy over

[07:08:38] use any kind of

[07:08:39] with [07:08:40] our hands.

[07:08:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: front

[07:08:41] Gordon Ryan: we land,

[07:08:41] to go the

[07:08:42] of situations where I use my

[07:08:44] unlocks the

[07:08:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: wrestling

[07:08:45] Gordon Ryan: leg

[07:08:45] elbow

[07:08:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: stand

[07:08:46] Gordon Ryan: recover

[07:08:46] difficult for her to get up, and it's not

[07:08:48] If my partner keeps the hands

[07:08:49] But, the [07:08:50] knee comes so far away from the chest and the elbow,

[07:08:52] to the

[07:08:52] knee,

[07:08:53] [07:09:00] [07:09:10] [07:09:20] Um,

[07:09:21] Wait on me, I'm not gonna shoot the half guard from here.

[07:09:24] But assuming my partner's legs are in towards

[07:09:25] that I can

[07:09:26] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we're going to dive

[07:09:26] Gordon Ryan: are on the

[07:09:27] We

[07:09:27] block

[07:09:28] the one is

[07:09:28] hands in place. From here, [07:09:30] we come in, we step a leg up, then we just slide into a half guard

[07:09:33] the

[07:09:34] physical

[07:09:34] Now if she releases, great. If she

[07:09:36] from here,

[07:09:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of segue from

[07:09:37] Gordon Ryan: And

[07:09:38] right out to a knee lever, where we can [07:09:40] easily

[07:09:40] hands,

[07:09:40] our partner

[07:09:41] From here, we switch our head

[07:09:43] way she can avoid falling to a hip is to

[07:09:45] my partner has a standard front

[07:09:46] now

[07:09:47] sitting into half

[07:09:48] now, we can cast a far side [07:09:50] hook in,

[07:09:50] or access my legs in any way, I can put weight on my

[07:09:53] leg goes

[07:09:53] in wrestling,

[07:09:54] before we referee

[07:09:56] a near

[07:09:56] legs

[07:09:57] go from almost a tripod,

[07:09:58] here we have

[07:09:58] on the

[07:09:59] My preferred [07:10:00] position is

[07:10:00] So we've played Dilemma Game between

[07:10:02] on my

[07:10:02] bait people going for my legs,

[07:10:04] I run around

[07:10:05] turtle, we knock

[07:10:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: behind me and gets to a turtle position, me bellying out and going down

[07:10:09] Gordon Ryan: a hook right

[07:10:09] [07:10:10] Or, we come

[07:10:10] question is for

[07:10:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: not be a good thing for me to

[07:10:12] Gordon Ryan: outside leg

[07:10:13] whether we're in turtle, whether we're in referee, whether we're in four point, it doesn't make a

[07:10:16] half

[07:10:16] So we have

[07:10:17] From here, I circle in one [07:10:20] direction. And I can do this in multiple different hand

[07:10:22] leg

[07:10:22] look at now

[07:10:23] in one direction,

[07:10:24] starts with

[07:10:25] and then I throw by

[07:10:26] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of

[07:10:27] Gordon Ryan: opens her hands

[07:10:28] we're going to talk about inside

[07:10:29] about what [07:10:30] she actually

[07:10:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: something down

[07:10:31] Gordon Ryan: I start pulling on my partner's head, I circle, I walk, walk, walk, and as she goes to follow me, if she doesn't

[07:10:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: no point

[07:10:36] Gordon Ryan: heard this before.

[07:10:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: has hands on my hands, I can always [07:10:40] come through, and I can start feeding guillotines into

[07:10:42] Gordon Ryan: Usually,

[07:10:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I can start coming through, and I can start feeding guillotines into place.

[07:10:45] Strangles into place, kagatames into place, various kinds of

[07:10:48] Gordon Ryan: secondary hand

[07:10:49] [07:10:50] the

[07:10:50] You can do this from four points as

[07:10:51] defensive secondary hand to an offensive

[07:10:53] I'm circling in one direction, and I use a misdirection. As she goes to

[07:10:56] I have a two on one on my partner's

[07:10:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going to get strangled

[07:10:58] Gordon Ryan: she has knees towards [07:11:00] me whether or not she's

[07:11:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: whereas in wrestling your partner doesn't have to

[07:11:02] Gordon Ryan: effectively control my partner,

[07:11:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: there's no

[07:11:04] Gordon Ryan: I have control over her left hip with my left

[07:11:06] at any point

[07:11:07] to effectively control her

[07:11:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: you'll see you'll see things in [07:11:10] jiu jitsu that you don't normally see in wrestling

[07:11:12] Gordon Ryan: whether it

[07:11:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: where from here Instead of sprawling, being in a situation like so, where

[07:11:16] Gordon Ryan: my head to the outside,

[07:11:17] something

[07:11:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I actually come in, in some cases, [07:11:20] and I bait my leg and I give my

[07:11:22] Gordon Ryan: turn away

[07:11:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my leg like

[07:11:23] Gordon Ryan: go behind or

[07:11:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that now from here, we can go through, we can bait the

[07:11:26] Gordon Ryan: now we can go in and

[07:11:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: her defensive

[07:11:28] Gordon Ryan: there's no diagonal control, there's [07:11:30] no reason why my partner can't just

[07:11:31] can go

[07:11:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she goes to grab my leg, she exposes

[07:11:33] Gordon Ryan: immediately we can move

[07:11:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: go in and sit

[07:11:34] Gordon Ryan: and we can go

[07:11:35] If I can control a

[07:11:36] So whenever I have a hook

[07:11:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: you almost never see a situation where your partner [07:11:40] baits the leg, where now she can start going into

[07:11:41] Gordon Ryan: take a drag grip on our

[07:11:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: But in Jiu Jitsu, I don't always have to

[07:11:44] Gordon Ryan: ways that

[07:11:44] I have the topside shoulder controlled,

[07:11:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my legs back and away from my partner because of the fact that if she does, [07:11:50] right now she has defensive

[07:11:50] Gordon Ryan: a foot

[07:11:51] we're both on our

[07:11:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if I bring my leg towards my partner and she goes to lock on, now

[07:11:55] Gordon Ryan: kind of control over the

[07:11:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going in and we can start passing and feeding

[07:11:58] Gordon Ryan: have control of

[07:11:59] close like [07:12:00] so, making it hard for my partner to insert

[07:12:01] the left

[07:12:02] to get our head out whenever you see your partner's hands are

[07:12:04] kind of wedging in

[07:12:06] inside leg

[07:12:07] If I didn't have anything in place

[07:12:08] open her hands to

[07:12:08] just walks the

[07:12:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: One of [07:12:10] the main differences that we look at from

[07:12:11] Gordon Ryan: now she can easily turn

[07:12:13] If my partner's hands are

[07:12:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: talking about a

[07:12:14] Gordon Ryan: control the

[07:12:15] the far side shoulder, so

[07:12:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: looking to

[07:12:17] Gordon Ryan: I feel like I'm trying to separate the hands and I can't

[07:12:18] still can control her in

[07:12:19] then I [07:12:20] generally

[07:12:21] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: roll over the near shoulder for

[07:12:22] Gordon Ryan: follow ups to go in and take her back and get

[07:12:24] then we

[07:12:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and she'll put me back into a guard.

[07:12:26] Gordon Ryan: So understand that the whole thing you're trying to avoid

[07:12:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:12:30] partner's back to the floor, or you can't,

[07:12:31] Gordon Ryan: your partner puts

[07:12:32] hands and she shoots to a backhand and

[07:12:33] getting diagonal

[07:12:34] front headlock,

[07:12:35] hand

[07:12:35] no good

[07:12:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: so in jiu jitsu she's obviously looking

[07:12:37] Gordon Ryan: legs off the

[07:12:38] as my head rises, she can punch [07:12:40] a strangle in place,

[07:12:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my hands across and lock a submission, I'm going to submit

[07:12:43] Gordon Ryan: All we have to do

[07:12:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: again, she has to have defensive hands in

[07:12:45] Gordon Ryan: is I just walk in a circle with my

[07:12:46] going up

[07:12:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to start shoulder rolling either over the near shoulder or the

[07:12:49] Gordon Ryan: [07:12:50] I go hands first to referee position, and my partner goes to switch to a backhand and arm.

[07:12:54] Whenever I see a backhand and arm, the strangle is the primary

[07:12:57] walk towards my

[07:12:58] So now from here, I have to go back down.

[07:12:59] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:13:00] either one

[07:13:00] Gordon Ryan: can start going in. Now I

[07:13:02] behind me

[07:13:02] and now as I address

[07:13:04] so let's say a partner

[07:13:05] from here, I go in, I start going with my escape, my partner

[07:13:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: or more

[07:13:08] Gordon Ryan: hand

[07:13:08] How can we initially

[07:13:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:13:10] hands

[07:13:10] Gordon Ryan: we can start building up

[07:13:11] move my

[07:13:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and looking to get away

[07:13:12] Gordon Ryan: about

[07:13:12] up

[07:13:13] your back to the floor for? whatever rule

[07:13:15] whenever I see

[07:13:16] you

[07:13:16] from here She's going to be in she has a tight front headlock on

[07:13:18] cannot

[07:13:19] actually blocking your [07:13:20] arm or

[07:13:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: wrestling defensively don't work for Jiu Jitsu and

[07:13:22] Gordon Ryan: now

[07:13:23] and go back down

[07:13:25] that when you take your primary hand off There is a threat of a

[07:13:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: job that we

[07:13:28] Gordon Ryan: that's

[07:13:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Um,

[07:13:29] Gordon Ryan: so I can't just take [07:13:30] my hand off and

[07:13:30] of

[07:13:30] go to get up. She inserts a

[07:13:32] me right

[07:13:32] Another thing

[07:13:33] going to

[07:13:33] she has a

[07:13:34] before I take my primary hand

[07:13:35] I can't

[07:13:36] base

[07:13:36] turn again my

[07:13:37] builds to

[07:13:38] athletic

[07:13:39] arm

[07:13:39] has a [07:13:40] front head,

[07:13:40] of

[07:13:40] knee on top

[07:13:41] jumps around and she has to start

[07:13:42] either

[07:13:43] you're in a

[07:13:43] my jaw

[07:13:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: jiu

[07:13:44] Gordon Ryan: controls

[07:13:45] have a very

[07:13:45] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: up and get away

[07:13:46] Gordon Ryan: So what I'm going to

[07:13:47] I play

[07:13:47] as I come up, come

[07:13:48] break you down

[07:13:49] I[07:13:50]

[07:13:50] walk towards

[07:13:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: major differences

[07:13:51] Gordon Ryan: as I come up, she has a tight

[07:13:52] have a great ability to

[07:13:53] I come up, she inserts her hook.

[07:13:55] The second she inserts her hook, instead of coming back to turtle

[07:13:59] double underhooks, whatever

[07:13:59] [07:14:00] my

[07:14:00] of a referee position in our sport

[07:14:02] as your partner

[07:14:03] goes to fish for my wrist, it's not impossible to

[07:14:05] my right

[07:14:06] insert

[07:14:06] a little bit

[07:14:07] So I look towards my partner's elbow. [07:14:10] And now from here, as I extend my right arm,

[07:14:12] it be here

[07:14:13] roll

[07:14:13] And there are many

[07:14:14] I take my head to

[07:14:15] right elbow and my

[07:14:16] a

[07:14:16] a referee

[07:14:16] Right now, my head is way off

[07:14:18] leg on the far

[07:14:18] control me [07:14:20] diagonally,

[07:14:20] hard to do.

[07:14:21] I take my head to the

[07:14:21] my partner goes to get a hand around

[07:14:23] from here, my ear connects to my own

[07:14:25] sorry, right elbow and right

[07:14:26] When my partner goes

[07:14:27] to lop on tight,

[07:14:28] now my partner goes

[07:14:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: our,

[07:14:29] Gordon Ryan: take my back[07:14:30]

[07:14:30] use

[07:14:30] feel like the double leg is not going to do that, I feel like I can't

[07:14:32] while more stable and much more athletic from here, I can move much

[07:14:36] forearm

[07:14:36] knee. So now when she goes to sprawl,

[07:14:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: wrestling,

[07:14:39] Gordon Ryan: I can pull that

[07:14:39] [07:14:40] drawbacks are I have no

[07:14:41] And now from here, we have many

[07:14:42] on the floor. My neck's

[07:14:44] At least they're out

[07:14:44] over our partner's

[07:14:45] I have the inside bicep,

[07:14:47] waist is exposed. My partner brings two hooks

[07:14:49] and [07:14:50] inside,

[07:14:50] We

[07:14:50] when I move to a referee position,

[07:14:52] if she tries to pass my guard and pin me from

[07:14:53] hand off.

[07:14:54] out in a

[07:14:55] a

[07:14:55] after we set our jaw in

[07:14:57] recover.

[07:14:57] I pop

[07:14:58] ankle underneath our partner's shin and [07:15:00] ankle.

[07:15:00] for

[07:15:00] to my

[07:15:01] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Um, you have to understand there are two

[07:15:02] Gordon Ryan: The, the arm that is under

[07:15:05] a hip, puts in a

[07:15:06] her left arm in

[07:15:07] a

[07:15:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: very

[07:15:07] Gordon Ryan: I have

[07:15:08] same side arm I'll post

[07:15:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: be very effective, [07:15:10] uh,

[07:15:10] Gordon Ryan: I do so,

[07:15:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: the two

[07:15:12] Gordon Ryan: We can

[07:15:12] a leg up first, and then right

[07:15:14] The second

[07:15:15] Now I

[07:15:15] start

[07:15:16] that hook comes in,

[07:15:17] start jousting for knee position.

[07:15:18] my hand and I

[07:15:19] pinch [07:15:20] headlock.

[07:15:20] We can do

[07:15:20] my own

[07:15:20] from here is to

[07:15:21] when she goes to control my

[07:15:22] have

[07:15:23] getting to our partner's leg

[07:15:24] can fight my partner's

[07:15:25] us a chance now to start

[07:15:26] my head on my partner's center

[07:15:27] to my hip.

[07:15:28] I bring my

[07:15:28] Whether it be[07:15:30]

[07:15:30] my right

[07:15:30] I sit to my hip.

[07:15:31] when she goes to hold on

[07:15:32] my own elbow

[07:15:33] one of the great advantages is that I have a

[07:15:36] you have a choice of

[07:15:38] knee connection, or

[07:15:39] coming

[07:15:39] my

[07:15:39] I [07:15:40] can get to a leg,

[07:15:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going to

[07:15:40] Gordon Ryan: coming out,

[07:15:41] So if my partner tries to insert

[07:15:43] you want

[07:15:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: front of headlock, the first thing we're going to

[07:15:44] Gordon Ryan: with a

[07:15:45] behind me,

[07:15:46] If she goes to pass my guard and pin

[07:15:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: How to place

[07:15:49] Gordon Ryan: 90 [07:15:50] percent of the way out,

[07:15:51] to insert hooks from here, she can't do

[07:15:53] the thumb post

[07:15:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: then we're going to go

[07:15:54] Gordon Ryan: off to

[07:15:54] knocks me down.

[07:15:55] from here I can step a leg

[07:15:57] I'm in a position position like

[07:15:58] When she's trying to insert hooks this whole

[07:15:59] [07:16:00] we're here,

[07:16:00] thing to do.

[07:16:01] and I happen to

[07:16:01] you're gonna get up, she

[07:16:03] out, but I'm just

[07:16:03] going to be ready for me to start

[07:16:05] When I see this, I use the thumb

[07:16:06] that he normally looks at.

[07:16:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: very

[07:16:08] Gordon Ryan: to switch

[07:16:08] to a leg,

[07:16:09] [07:16:10] comes back in

[07:16:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: uh, with,

[07:16:11] Gordon Ryan: I've

[07:16:11] I move out in a

[07:16:12] up

[07:16:12] and now we're

[07:16:13] to a situation where I can get to

[07:16:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that,

[07:16:14] Gordon Ryan: to

[07:16:14] say from here, she goes to throw

[07:16:16] He's going to be ready for all of that. What he's not going to be ready

[07:16:19] there,

[07:16:19] open [07:16:20] turtle,

[07:16:20] slip out.

[07:16:20] I come up, I don't even go

[07:16:22] use a thumb

[07:16:23] will be me. Something that he has no idea how to defend, he has no idea what's going

[07:16:27] my partner's hip. We

[07:16:28] just come up, I'm fighting with the [07:16:30] hands, I step a leg up,

[07:16:31] a

[07:16:31] goes to knock me

[07:16:32] now, we're in

[07:16:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can

[07:16:33] Gordon Ryan: different territory,

[07:16:34] far side hook. The second she

[07:16:35] If I can free my

[07:16:36] it with a Jitsu guy, maybe he's good at defending leg locks, [07:16:40] maybe he's good at defending half guard,

[07:16:41] Where from here, my left

[07:16:43] single,

[07:16:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: escapes.

[07:16:44] Gordon Ryan: and start moving into a waist, and putting a thigh pry on

[07:16:46] my hands come back inside.

[07:16:47] So now

[07:16:48] So your

[07:16:49] lot more helpless and[07:16:50]

[07:16:50] for movement

[07:16:50] she goes near side

[07:16:52] get all the way through.

[07:16:53] I switch across to a drag grip.

[07:16:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: pulling

[07:16:56] Gordon Ryan: start moving

[07:16:56] now, when she gets to hold my head tight like she just was, I

[07:16:59] goes far [07:17:00] side hook.

[07:17:00] everything on by, we get to our partner's far hip, and now we're ready to

[07:17:03] the upside

[07:17:04] Whereas from here, it's more slow and labored, but more

[07:17:07] two great

[07:17:08] sound for scoring and for [07:17:10] strangles.

[07:17:10] Either we post

[07:17:10] a leg There's plenty of

[07:17:11] not a move

[07:17:12] because

[07:17:13] center the head,

[07:17:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Then we're gonna start

[07:17:14] Gordon Ryan: by connecting

[07:17:15] dally around on,

[07:17:16] shoulder

[07:17:16] knees are not nearly as

[07:17:18] or we

[07:17:18] much harder for my partner

[07:17:19] a move you [07:17:20] dilly dally around

[07:17:20] it to an

[07:17:20] but my base of

[07:17:21] you wait for your

[07:17:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: then we're going

[07:17:22] Gordon Ryan: is

[07:17:22] around and you can access a

[07:17:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: build to

[07:17:24] Gordon Ryan: if I'm fighting from here, my partner

[07:17:26] this time let's

[07:17:26] insert hooks as

[07:17:27] have to do

[07:17:28] from right

[07:17:28] I step a leg up, and [07:17:30] she just pulls on my hip,

[07:17:31] more of a jiu

[07:17:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: first with

[07:17:32] Gordon Ryan: I feel that hook coming

[07:17:33] gonna get

[07:17:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: not getting our back taken by having our partner

[07:17:35] Gordon Ryan: We immediately come through

[07:17:37] second I see

[07:17:38] we go now she tries to [07:17:40] follow me. It won't be that

[07:17:41] what your, what your partner is good at

[07:17:42] She tries to make a legitimate attempt to follow me.

[07:17:44] now we're gonna look at

[07:17:45] the center line

[07:17:46] you're using a referee style stand

[07:17:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: then we're gonna go

[07:17:48] Gordon Ryan: ready to go into power [07:17:50] puffers.

[07:17:50] access a

[07:17:50] and then

[07:17:50] my hands

[07:17:51] she can get the agile

[07:17:53] brings

[07:17:53] build up to my hands

[07:17:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: gonna break that down

[07:17:55] Gordon Ryan: to get to the shoulder or to the wrist,

[07:17:57] a leg

[07:17:58] my partner

[07:17:58] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: get there.

[07:17:59] Gordon Ryan: back [07:18:00] inside.

[07:18:00] in with a front

[07:18:00] very stable.

[07:18:01] partner is

[07:18:02] and I have a primary hand in place, maybe I lose the

[07:18:04] partner has one

[07:18:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: many

[07:18:05] Gordon Ryan: my

[07:18:06] I go to post to my partner's hip, or whatever the case is, and

[07:18:08] [07:18:10] [07:18:20] [07:18:30] Um,

[07:18:38] goes

[07:18:38] a tripod,

[07:18:39] partner has a hook [07:18:40] in,

[07:18:40] defensive hands,

[07:18:41] to look down towards the

[07:18:42] I step

[07:18:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just

[07:18:43] Gordon Ryan: as

[07:18:43] either an outside leg,

[07:18:44] here, I just fall

[07:18:45] so that my chest faces down towards the floor and I weight over my partner's arm.[07:18:50]

[07:18:50] me to

[07:18:50] When I go to stand from

[07:18:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we start,

[07:18:52] Gordon Ryan: I can easily re

[07:18:53] Now I get to my

[07:18:54] not nearly as

[07:18:55] where I'm

[07:18:55] run behind our

[07:18:56] Whenever I feel

[07:18:57] now we're ready to go

[07:18:58] hands

[07:18:58] second I see my

[07:18:59] the response[07:19:00]

[07:19:00] whenever I see

[07:19:00] it actually takes me to get up and get

[07:19:02] fall

[07:19:02] This is not a time

[07:19:03] do is fall

[07:19:04] right to an anaconda from a front

[07:19:05] four

[07:19:06] relative to a

[07:19:06] I fall right and connect my

[07:19:08] second I

[07:19:08] Because she'll never slide past my

[07:19:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:19:10] where we have

[07:19:10] Gordon Ryan: partner and my

[07:19:11] point to all I want,

[07:19:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Front head and arm

[07:19:12] Gordon Ryan: a leg up

[07:19:13] I always fall facing

[07:19:14] partner is never

[07:19:15] me, and much harder for my partner to insert hooks.

[07:19:17] And I look

[07:19:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: there are various

[07:19:18] Gordon Ryan: I go to stand up, it's [07:19:20] hard for

[07:19:20] left arm comes up We chase

[07:19:21] submit me from this

[07:19:22] here, she goes

[07:19:23] never going to fall off

[07:19:24] of the fact that it's harder for her to score and submit me, because everything is

[07:19:28] big mistake everyone

[07:19:29] get to a four point, [07:19:30] which is very unlikely if the power

[07:19:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: arm like

[07:19:31] Gordon Ryan: is not nearly

[07:19:32] I

[07:19:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: start going

[07:19:33] Gordon Ryan: whenever I see my

[07:19:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: locking up our

[07:19:35] Gordon Ryan: her elbow

[07:19:35] up, they lose all the inside position.

[07:19:37] What I can't

[07:19:38] these options

[07:19:38] shake my

[07:19:39] going to

[07:19:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: shoot our hands in the [07:19:40] opposite direction,

[07:19:40] Gordon Ryan: robust

[07:19:41] goes to come in, and now I'm trying to bridge my partner over, now I've lost all the inside position.

[07:19:45] I feel my partner has a

[07:19:46] gonna get

[07:19:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: have a front head,

[07:19:47] Gordon Ryan: gonna get broken down,

[07:19:48] look at a situation now

[07:19:49] my

[07:19:49] be

[07:19:49] falling [07:19:50] to a hip, and

[07:19:50] so, she has her

[07:19:51] I see

[07:19:52] there's no wedging, there's no way

[07:19:53] going to be an

[07:19:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: breaking our

[07:19:54] Gordon Ryan: in general,

[07:19:55] the

[07:19:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Alright, I have

[07:19:56] Gordon Ryan: move

[07:19:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of my partner's

[07:19:57] Gordon Ryan: we have no access to our

[07:19:58] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and my partner's arm, the [07:20:00] whole time, I'm

[07:20:00] Gordon Ryan: a backhanded

[07:20:01] I see

[07:20:02] guy

[07:20:02] have to go back down to a turtle and use different

[07:20:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: head like so, where my hands are relatively

[07:20:07] Gordon Ryan: stays with the hands locked, it's a pretty easy

[07:20:08] goes to just jump behind [07:20:10] you,

[07:20:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I can shoot my hands through in either direction.

[07:20:12] Gordon Ryan: your knees and

[07:20:12] Um, number

[07:20:13] your partner has

[07:20:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: towards my partner's

[07:20:14] Gordon Ryan: far into

[07:20:15] my partner has a tight waist,

[07:20:16] like that,

[07:20:16] number two,

[07:20:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: towards my partner's

[07:20:18] Gordon Ryan: and the hands aren't

[07:20:19] [07:20:20] actual

[07:20:20] use my hands to monitor

[07:20:21] this is a, this is

[07:20:22] can use referee

[07:20:23] where I have

[07:20:23] if a guy is good and he's got double underhooks or power

[07:20:26] just understand as you come up, your opponent now will have [07:20:30] the ability to lock their

[07:20:31] energy, be way more

[07:20:32] And that returns

[07:20:33] no actual solid connection

[07:20:34] is the

[07:20:34] less time to escape.

[07:20:35] when she actually gets behind you you can just roll over the near side

[07:20:38] do have some things that

[07:20:39] I can [07:20:40] control my partner's like, so

[07:20:42] just talk about building

[07:20:43] now from

[07:20:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: on my tricep,

[07:20:44] Gordon Ryan: or maybe having success

[07:20:45] goes to start scoring on me, throwing a hook in, if I come up to a referee

[07:20:49] Again, we're going to take

[07:20:49] And[07:20:50]

[07:20:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: gives us readily available

[07:20:52] Gordon Ryan: has no control

[07:20:52] first,

[07:20:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can start moving our

[07:20:53] Gordon Ryan: start building up to

[07:20:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can start switching into arm drags. We can do all kinds of things from

[07:20:56] Gordon Ryan: and just throws a hook in,

[07:20:58] hand

[07:20:58] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: front headlock locked

[07:20:59] Gordon Ryan: the neophyte's

[07:20:59] [07:21:00] problems

[07:21:00] bring my primary hand off second, and now we just

[07:21:02] So in general,

[07:21:03] impossible

[07:21:04] partner's hand from not locking,

[07:21:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: where we have a chin strap,

[07:21:07] Gordon Ryan: like

[07:21:07] for

[07:21:07] she's going to start putting

[07:21:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of our

[07:21:09] Gordon Ryan: when she goes to throw a hook

[07:21:09] [07:21:10] go in, and

[07:21:10] we're at a four point,

[07:21:11] hook to

[07:21:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now if she

[07:21:12] Gordon Ryan: the drag,

[07:21:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to reach for my leg,

[07:21:14] Gordon Ryan: the obvious,

[07:21:15] So if she goes to sit to guard

[07:21:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she goes to put her primary defensive hand in,

[07:21:18] Gordon Ryan: and her elbow because of

[07:21:19] chances of being mat [07:21:20] returned are

[07:21:20] So when she goes to actually recover to a guard,

[07:21:22] of the time we won't be able to do that. She'll have

[07:21:23] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: when she has

[07:21:24] Gordon Ryan: my partner's body,

[07:21:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from

[07:21:25] Gordon Ryan: and minuses to

[07:21:26] Either one of my,

[07:21:27] and cons

[07:21:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: an underhook,

[07:21:28] Gordon Ryan: I can start

[07:21:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a lot more

[07:21:29] Gordon Ryan: or I can insert [07:21:30] my knee, go ahead, I can insert my knee like so, I can get to my partner's

[07:21:34] tripoding

[07:21:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a situation where we have a chest lock on our

[07:21:36] Gordon Ryan: we used

[07:21:37] minus a

[07:21:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Where we go over

[07:21:38] Gordon Ryan: over the far shoulder, or the [07:21:40] near

[07:21:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: like so,

[07:21:41] Gordon Ryan: over the back of

[07:21:41] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of having control of one of my partner's arms

[07:21:43] Gordon Ryan: But when I have, when there's

[07:21:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: over both of our

[07:21:45] Gordon Ryan: to come in

[07:21:45] into the

[07:21:45] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from here and we lock our hands

[07:21:48] Gordon Ryan: can build to a

[07:21:48] thing in the world, where Ashley just

[07:21:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:21:50] my partner goes

[07:21:50] Gordon Ryan: partner

[07:21:51] secondary

[07:21:51] just roll over my shoulder,

[07:21:53] primary hand

[07:21:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: thing to go in and lock a chest lock.

[07:21:55] Gordon Ryan: a simple thing,

[07:21:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: were to shoot a double leg for example,

[07:21:58] Gordon Ryan: front of me.

[07:21:58] to go in and start

[07:21:59] a

[07:21:59] [07:22:00] just tuck my hand across my hip, I look away from my partner, and I just simply roll

[07:22:05] leg

[07:22:05] and arm,

[07:22:06] in and

[07:22:06] first thing I'm

[07:22:07] don't have their hands locked at all. And you bump them forward. You put a

[07:22:09] in the [07:22:10] event of my

[07:22:10] there's weight over my right leg, and she's pulling weight down onto my, uh, onto my

[07:22:15] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: over a partner's

[07:22:16] Gordon Ryan: right

[07:22:16] here,

[07:22:17] of

[07:22:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just as with the front head we can go locked or unlocked, [07:22:20] we can unlock our hands

[07:22:22] Gordon Ryan: maybe get out,

[07:22:23] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: double triceps like

[07:22:24] Gordon Ryan: my hips, and

[07:22:25] maybe you

[07:22:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from here my partner goes to move around, I can control my

[07:22:27] Gordon Ryan: behind,

[07:22:28] area

[07:22:28] over our

[07:22:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: goes to peek out in [07:22:30] either direction she goes to sit through,

[07:22:31] Gordon Ryan: So I create some kind of disconnect like

[07:22:33] hook in,

[07:22:33] too

[07:22:34] no wedging

[07:22:35] Uh, escapes from standing four point

[07:22:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: chest lock, I have control of the locked hand, so [07:22:40] when my

[07:22:40] Gordon Ryan: Transcription Outsourcing, [07:22:50] LLC.

[07:22:53] my

[07:22:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hands aren't

[07:22:54] Gordon Ryan: insert a near

[07:22:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: but once you get to peek out from here,

[07:22:57] Gordon Ryan: address, I can't do anything from [07:23:00] here if I'm

[07:23:00] partner's

[07:23:00] pretty

[07:23:01] through

[07:23:01] first thing is, my defensive hands are

[07:23:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: locked our hands,

[07:23:03] Gordon Ryan: no hook. Her hook has

[07:23:04] Now,

[07:23:05] elbow

[07:23:05] always from here going to use an outside leg stand up. Right now she's on

[07:23:09] When I [07:23:10] go inside

[07:23:10] Also, I know for a fact

[07:23:11] stand

[07:23:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: move into situations, this is pretty

[07:23:13] Gordon Ryan: use an inside leg stand up,

[07:23:15] what

[07:23:15] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a

[07:23:16] Gordon Ryan: you will expose your

[07:23:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hands under our partner, our partner's arms like

[07:23:19] Gordon Ryan: two [07:23:20] hooks

[07:23:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we have double

[07:23:20] Gordon Ryan: goes to

[07:23:21] my partner goes to circle

[07:23:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she has to access either one of my legs,

[07:23:23] Gordon Ryan: difficult thing because I physically have

[07:23:25] long hook cross and now you're getting body

[07:23:26] with an inside leg stand

[07:23:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: in ADCC,

[07:23:28] Gordon Ryan: so I

[07:23:29] going to be harder for your [07:23:30] partner to

[07:23:30] from here we're going to start

[07:23:31] the issue with this, a couple issues associated

[07:23:34] briefly like

[07:23:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: both your partner's

[07:23:35] Gordon Ryan: as we build

[07:23:36] When I use an inside leg stand

[07:23:37] feet in slightly, and we walk

[07:23:39] problem is [07:23:40] my partner's goal from this position is to always be knocking me down to

[07:23:43] back to

[07:23:44] She's going to be pulling on my

[07:23:45] I'm going to

[07:23:45] when she goes to insert a body

[07:23:46] my left knee and

[07:23:48] So the

[07:23:49] my partner's knee [07:23:50] like

[07:23:50] being

[07:23:50] Now from here I build

[07:23:52] leg are not nearly as high as being

[07:23:54] second I build up.

[07:23:55] our partner's

[07:23:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of

[07:23:56] Gordon Ryan: pulls on my hip, my left leg becomes

[07:23:58] from here is that [07:24:00] now my

[07:24:01] when my right

[07:24:01] he pulls on my hip,

[07:24:03] my partner trying to lock

[07:24:03] going to end in this awkward

[07:24:05] hand and go

[07:24:05] you get caught here, you land,

[07:24:07] lean

[07:24:07] holding

[07:24:08] if you have a good

[07:24:08] I lean forward,

[07:24:09] mount[07:24:10]

[07:24:10] they're constantly pulling on the hip and putting weight

[07:24:11] now if my partner tries

[07:24:12] a game where

[07:24:13] is not a move that you

[07:24:14] actually harder

[07:24:15] submission is

[07:24:15] set

[07:24:15] there's no, there's no

[07:24:16] start

[07:24:16] a lot of times, and a lot less

[07:24:18] We can play a

[07:24:19] and time

[07:24:19] [07:24:20] ear and jaw

[07:24:21] use when there's already a

[07:24:22] so the advantages

[07:24:23] So when she goes to punch

[07:24:24] an inside leg stand up is that

[07:24:26] She can't actually

[07:24:27] I can move into a situation like,

[07:24:29] and [07:24:30] getting behind

[07:24:30] for your partner to insert

[07:24:31] we step a leg

[07:24:32] there's no strangle from

[07:24:32] in tight, tight,

[07:24:33] bite inside of

[07:24:34] if I'm square,

[07:24:35] on top of our partner's thigh, and we pull

[07:24:37] and I run into some

[07:24:38] this elbow free,

[07:24:39] [07:24:40] your partner

[07:24:40] I always

[07:24:41] partner's ankle like

[07:24:42] all the way

[07:24:43] connect my jaw

[07:24:44] and will be crowding

[07:24:45] as we

[07:24:46] So

[07:24:46] many different

[07:24:47] left elbow

[07:24:47] knee

[07:24:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if she gets to my legs,

[07:24:49] Gordon Ryan: there's weight [07:24:50] over the knee, it's hard to set the inside leg up.

[07:24:51] It's a very difficult

[07:24:52] to Ashi

[07:24:52] the near side

[07:24:53] now from

[07:24:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to play a kind of game

[07:24:54] Gordon Ryan: walk

[07:24:55] always

[07:24:55] we're ready to go in

[07:24:56] my right hand towards my center

[07:24:57] punch in a

[07:24:58] from here your partner has a few

[07:24:59] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:25:00] and I can look to

[07:25:00] Gordon Ryan: will always

[07:25:00] she

[07:25:00] one great way

[07:25:02] alright?

[07:25:02] can do that

[07:25:03] come in,

[07:25:03] she'll be

[07:25:04] the drawbacks

[07:25:04] has a hook in,

[07:25:05] what will happen if

[07:25:06] knee block go behind

[07:25:07] inside leg

[07:25:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: this will

[07:25:08] Gordon Ryan: doing everything she

[07:25:09] you'll pull her down to [07:25:10] the

[07:25:10] up like so

[07:25:11] there's weight in

[07:25:11] go

[07:25:11] are run behind me from here

[07:25:12] defensive

[07:25:13] as you come out

[07:25:14] a hard

[07:25:14] you'll either

[07:25:15] two, outside

[07:25:16] advantage

[07:25:17] her into her front

[07:25:18] for your

[07:25:18] Can take

[07:25:18] three, she tries to [07:25:20] insert a

[07:25:20] stays on her

[07:25:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I want my

[07:25:21] Gordon Ryan: There's no hook that's going to

[07:25:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: start coming in and

[07:25:24] Gordon Ryan: The second

[07:25:24] on too

[07:25:25] my right

[07:25:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my legs in various positions, which will allow my partner to actually access my

[07:25:29] Gordon Ryan: far [07:25:30] forward

[07:25:30] spike

[07:25:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my legs in,

[07:25:31] Gordon Ryan: easy

[07:25:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I start playing on my knees

[07:25:32] Gordon Ryan: and that will

[07:25:33] approach. We

[07:25:34] now, the second I unlock

[07:25:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hands off and switch to a double

[07:25:36] Gordon Ryan: shoot a strangle in.

[07:25:37] head

[07:25:38] an outside

[07:25:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now she goes to drive me down,

[07:25:39] Gordon Ryan: [07:25:40] If she holds on,

[07:25:41] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: but her defensive hands come off

[07:25:42] Gordon Ryan: And now I just

[07:25:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we can start falling into guillotines or other

[07:25:45] Gordon Ryan: our partner goes to

[07:25:45] beautiful,

[07:25:46] she goes to strangle me from here,

[07:25:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: goes

[07:25:48] Gordon Ryan: elbow like

[07:25:49] leg up, [07:25:50] especially from

[07:25:50] goes to insert a second

[07:25:51] from here,

[07:25:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I bring one

[07:25:52] Gordon Ryan: can wedge and we

[07:25:53] now,

[07:25:53] our forearm

[07:25:54] my partner to throw the

[07:25:55] our partner's hips

[07:25:56] she'll roll through, and now you're out, and you're ready

[07:25:59] Once we have the hand across [07:26:00] our partner's hips like so,

[07:26:01] But the main mechanics

[07:26:02] left

[07:26:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: general,

[07:26:03] Gordon Ryan: up with me, she inserts

[07:26:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: is looking

[07:26:05] Gordon Ryan: it through,

[07:26:06] my hip with her left

[07:26:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner,

[07:26:07] Gordon Ryan: lock a closed

[07:26:08] Defensive hand,

[07:26:09] [07:26:10] Now if she has to do anything from here,

[07:26:11] build,

[07:26:12] less issue

[07:26:13] my right hand through as I pull my left

[07:26:15] I'm

[07:26:15] hands locked that long, she's just

[07:26:16] and I use a tripodting method, where now she goes

[07:26:19] another great option from [07:26:20] here

[07:26:20] I go outside

[07:26:21] on from here.

[07:26:22] bit more awkward and a lot less athletic.

[07:26:25] from this position. We step a leg

[07:26:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So for

[07:26:28] Gordon Ryan: when she goes to

[07:26:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if my

[07:26:28] Gordon Ryan: she gets to run behind me from here.[07:26:30]

[07:26:30] she can't insert the

[07:26:30] the

[07:26:30] an easy thing.

[07:26:31] but she can knock me to a

[07:26:32] blocked the knee.

[07:26:34] We put a wedge across

[07:26:34] from here,

[07:26:35] and now

[07:26:36] use a staggered

[07:26:37] the advantages

[07:26:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from here, my partner locks a double [07:26:40] leg,

[07:26:40] Gordon Ryan: guard

[07:26:40] is that it's easier to do most

[07:26:42] to work once

[07:26:42] you have a weightless

[07:26:43] from a neutral

[07:26:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to run into

[07:26:44] Gordon Ryan: towards our partner's head

[07:26:46] the main thing is

[07:26:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a chest to back connection. Like so to [07:26:50] put weight on my partner. I'm looking to keep my partner's head

[07:26:52] Gordon Ryan: the

[07:26:52] I blocked my partner's

[07:26:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: anytime she goes to raise the

[07:26:55] Gordon Ryan: flying with all my

[07:26:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: always looking to go

[07:26:56] Gordon Ryan: when you go to step

[07:26:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: head down. She locks into my

[07:26:58] Gordon Ryan: where I replace

[07:26:59] [07:27:00] especially if you're in a

[07:27:00] we move to a

[07:27:01] we're ready to

[07:27:01] and I step a leg

[07:27:02] opponent, more of an opportunity

[07:27:04] her

[07:27:04] put

[07:27:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: bring that head up. I'm always looking to keep my partner's head down

[07:27:07] Gordon Ryan: I

[07:27:07] I'm genuinely

[07:27:08] down and doing something

[07:27:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my two[07:27:10]

[07:27:10] Gordon Ryan: regardless of whether you're in a

[07:27:11] head and

[07:27:11] playing around.

[07:27:12] Immediately a leg comes

[07:27:14] post, I

[07:27:14] on the

[07:27:14] Now, it's a hard thing for me to start running behind my

[07:27:18] is up, your

[07:27:19] Sure, you can go into [07:27:20] cradles and stuff like that and start putting your partner

[07:27:23] I can always get

[07:27:23] So using an Udegeshi,

[07:27:24] headlock anymore. My partner can

[07:27:26] Whereas if I have an inside leg

[07:27:27] arms out, recover guard, and play

[07:27:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So if we're [07:27:30] an offense, looking to go into various

[07:27:32] Gordon Ryan: goes to knock me down,

[07:27:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: where from here we

[07:27:34] Gordon Ryan: a look at, we looked at everything

[07:27:35] has

[07:27:36] a leg up, my partner goes over the leg and

[07:27:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: our partner down, we can go into[07:27:40]

[07:27:40] Gordon Ryan: Anything that's

[07:27:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can hit various

[07:27:41] Gordon Ryan: inside leg versus outside leg. When you're working inside

[07:27:43] she has to play around and move around, eventually, her

[07:27:45] for your partner to put a hook

[07:27:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my legs.

[07:27:47] Gordon Ryan: very similar.

[07:27:48] re guard.

[07:27:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: submissions

[07:27:49] Gordon Ryan: [07:27:50] back on

[07:27:50] hook is harder to

[07:27:51] just looking

[07:27:51] back

[07:27:51] for your

[07:27:52] don't have the ability to put

[07:27:53] want to get our back exposed, it doesn't matter

[07:27:55] be pulling you to a hip

[07:27:56] my partner locks

[07:27:57] some

[07:27:57] going to be weight on the leg, there's going to be

[07:27:58] caught up with trying to

[07:27:59] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to [07:28:00] use

[07:28:00] Gordon Ryan: guard than have someone

[07:28:01] hand

[07:28:01] And your good partner will run around and put a far

[07:28:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: the back to go behind your

[07:28:05] Gordon Ryan: when your partner wedges your elbow in place, to free

[07:28:07] or with the

[07:28:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: go in,

[07:28:08] Gordon Ryan: get back to a situation where

[07:28:09] hand is

[07:28:09] [07:28:10] when you're in a referee position, it gives your partner a

[07:28:12] I

[07:28:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: go behind my

[07:28:13] Gordon Ryan: over

[07:28:13] near side hook, which is the easier hook

[07:28:15] that draws

[07:28:15] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I use the threat of submission, she's fighting the hands, we go in,

[07:28:19] Gordon Ryan: knock

[07:28:19] not [07:28:20] impossible

[07:28:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we start going behind our

[07:28:21] Gordon Ryan: grip We just grab over my partner's

[07:28:23] easier to step up

[07:28:24] in a

[07:28:25] usually no

[07:28:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of our

[07:28:25] Gordon Ryan: on it. And the second you stand

[07:28:28] Now, when

[07:28:28] cross knee in or [07:28:30] two.

[07:28:30] have a

[07:28:30] I don't recommend

[07:28:31] I can just pull, I switch to a two on one, I put my primary hand

[07:28:35] the shortest amount

[07:28:35] to a two on one, and then we just pop the head right

[07:28:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: look to go and pin our partner. She

[07:28:39] Gordon Ryan: out

[07:28:39] [07:28:40] Whenever I see my partner's electing to go with unlocked hands.

[07:28:43] remember when you

[07:28:43] The main difference

[07:28:44] don't go

[07:28:45] cannot put a primary defensive hand in

[07:28:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: your opponent

[07:28:48] Gordon Ryan: four

[07:28:48] you try to fiddle around with this for [07:28:50] too long, your partner,

[07:28:50] can't insert a

[07:28:51] rear

[07:28:51] the chin up,

[07:28:53] I

[07:28:53] and now she can shave the wrist

[07:28:54] to hide

[07:28:55] Alright, so that's the main

[07:28:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: head down,

[07:28:57] Gordon Ryan: off

[07:28:57] So you don't have time from

[07:28:58] easily accessible

[07:28:59] whether [07:29:00] or not,

[07:29:00] oh, what am I, what

[07:29:01] good news

[07:29:01] with my

[07:29:01] using my hands to

[07:29:02] that your partner

[07:29:03] it, the chin's already getting pulled up and you're already getting guillotined.

[07:29:05] whole thing is that I'm

[07:29:06] So the second I see this, primary hand does

[07:29:09] my hips

[07:29:09] [07:29:10] cross

[07:29:10] Secondary hand comes in and I catch. So now she goes to

[07:29:13] be extremely hard now for

[07:29:15] hand

[07:29:15] hit any circling or do anything

[07:29:16] pass off

[07:29:17] you just try to

[07:29:18] I'm so far gone. I can't even [07:29:20] access my partner's leg from here. Whereas if it's here,

[07:29:22] just

[07:29:22] move away. I create some disconnection.

[07:29:25] we're ready to

[07:29:25] here, I can at least access my partner's thigh

[07:29:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: wherever we may act to enter.

[07:29:29] Gordon Ryan: [07:29:30] now from

[07:29:30] and go

[07:29:30] I see my

[07:29:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: In a front headlock, my partner shoots in a

[07:29:32] Gordon Ryan: But

[07:29:32] have my foot flat on the

[07:29:33] are

[07:29:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: locks

[07:29:34] Gordon Ryan: wedged all the way on the outside of the far knee, you can't even

[07:29:36] let's look at

[07:29:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: tap and the match is

[07:29:37] Gordon Ryan: me down to my right

[07:29:38] I see

[07:29:39] of all, how would my

[07:29:39] [07:29:40] from this position, I just simply wait. I know that my partner from here is gonna have to eventually step the leg up

[07:29:47] she

[07:29:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that, then we have to stop our partner

[07:29:49] Gordon Ryan: trap

[07:29:49] [07:29:50] building to a referee

[07:29:50] we

[07:29:51] now she's gonna have to transition

[07:29:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she's using the front

[07:29:53] Gordon Ryan: We're not

[07:29:53] left

[07:29:54] monitor our partner's hands as we come

[07:29:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: us,

[07:29:56] Gordon Ryan: stop

[07:29:56] hand somewhere on

[07:29:58] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: stop, go behind[07:30:00]

[07:30:00] Gordon Ryan: back,

[07:30:00] we're here,

[07:30:01] this

[07:30:01] on my bicep, or a backhand arm

[07:30:03] important

[07:30:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to have

[07:30:04] Gordon Ryan: to a situation where our head

[07:30:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: or at the front head

[07:30:06] Gordon Ryan: So in a time

[07:30:07] head comes up,

[07:30:08] can she enter into a back [07:30:10] crucifix

[07:30:10] forward with the left

[07:30:11] then

[07:30:12] Couple, couple of

[07:30:13] and a grip where my partner

[07:30:15] Number one, if we're in a turtle

[07:30:16] primary

[07:30:16] waist, the second I see the hands unlock,

[07:30:18] have to be

[07:30:19] I circle [07:30:20] away from my partner.

[07:30:21] if at any point

[07:30:22] she has

[07:30:23] my hand comes too far

[07:30:24] we

[07:30:24] I just tuck my hand all the way through. And when she goes

[07:30:26] our partner's

[07:30:27] don't

[07:30:27] my shoulder,

[07:30:28] here we come through, we create an

[07:30:29] just [07:30:30] roll through,

[07:30:30] she can

[07:30:31] walk our hips back and away, and now

[07:30:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a GA team comes in and out, I'm

[07:30:34] Gordon Ryan: this position,

[07:30:34] at any

[07:30:35] play guard once

[07:30:36] primary

[07:30:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: any

[07:30:36] Gordon Ryan: usually what she's going to do if

[07:30:39] or you have[07:30:40]

[07:30:40] the cross knee through.

[07:30:41] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: team available.

[07:30:42] Gordon Ryan: knee down

[07:30:42] my back's going to get taken here. Leg

[07:30:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: legs.

[07:30:44] Gordon Ryan: rear

[07:30:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: either one,

[07:30:45] Gordon Ryan: Like my back's gonna get

[07:30:46] leg up,

[07:30:46] Okay, there's no circling from here. The second I go to circle, she immediately just [07:30:50] grabs my hips and she follows

[07:30:51] have to always

[07:30:52] never put myself in a

[07:30:53] where I can circle all the way away from

[07:30:54] you

[07:30:54] where I step a leg

[07:30:55] anytime my

[07:30:55] do is I can move a few inches away

[07:30:57] where you're not

[07:30:57] Out and away

[07:30:58] off

[07:30:58] always be

[07:30:59] forward [07:31:00] quickly

[07:31:00] So the second I see her go to access

[07:31:01] I don't ever step

[07:31:03] we walk away slightly.

[07:31:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: That's good for

[07:31:05] Gordon Ryan: to

[07:31:05] leg up

[07:31:05] goes to grab my hip. Now as she goes to follow,

[07:31:08] going to

[07:31:08] has to switch her other

[07:31:09] my[07:31:10]

[07:31:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: assuming there's no threat of a submission, this is going to be

[07:31:13] Gordon Ryan: my inside wrist,

[07:31:14] leg comes

[07:31:15] of

[07:31:15] just tuck my hand through, I roll over my shoulders, and now we're ready to [07:31:20] go in and put our

[07:31:20] different scenarios my partner can use from

[07:31:23] So, if I

[07:31:24] it up.

[07:31:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: be good for us.

[07:31:25] Gordon Ryan: can also use

[07:31:26] come straight forward with

[07:31:27] other positions, like a referee position, where she has her rear chest [07:31:30] locked, for example.

[07:31:30] it's all about

[07:31:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Once

[07:31:32] Gordon Ryan: can control our partner's

[07:31:32] my elbow between like

[07:31:33] make

[07:31:34] I have some

[07:31:34] she reaches through with the rear leg,

[07:31:36] immediately step a leg up, and the second the leg comes up,

[07:31:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: If we can [07:31:40] expose our back to the floor,

[07:31:41] Gordon Ryan: I take

[07:31:41] can pull the arm out, and now she can drive

[07:31:43] If I see my partner's rear leg is covering my

[07:31:46] no base support, and I fall

[07:31:47] in a cross knee

[07:31:48] from a tripod. We

[07:31:49] [07:31:50] side control, bottom

[07:31:50] blade our hips towards our partners

[07:31:52] a very versatile

[07:31:52] Anything is better than having your partner go behind you,

[07:31:55] From this position,

[07:31:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: head if

[07:31:56] Gordon Ryan: and then potentially insert

[07:31:57] she's going to have to make a change in grips from her front [07:32:00] head to her back head and arm, or at least a tight waist

[07:32:02] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: back to the floor, for

[07:32:03] Gordon Ryan: whether I can land

[07:32:04] setups, how she

[07:32:05] whether or

[07:32:06] the second I see this hand

[07:32:07] my

[07:32:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a situation here, if I can expose my

[07:32:09] Gordon Ryan: I just [07:32:10] walk away

[07:32:10] my

[07:32:11] wedges my

[07:32:11] now there's no

[07:32:12] usually use

[07:32:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to a half guard.

[07:32:14] Gordon Ryan: So as she goes to circle and actually solidify the go behind,

[07:32:17] hips and our

[07:32:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: much better shape than I just was

[07:32:19] Gordon Ryan: I

[07:32:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: being [07:32:20] purely defensive from my partner's body weight on

[07:32:21] Gordon Ryan: hips and there's weight

[07:32:22] here she goes in, she opens my elbow, she goes to hit a quick go behind,

[07:32:26] job of gluing your

[07:32:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that you can do in Jiu Jitsu, which is good.

[07:32:28] Gordon Ryan: and keep me

[07:32:29] want to

[07:32:29] roll through, [07:32:30] we put our partner back in

[07:32:31] and there's weight on my right leg, I can't step

[07:32:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: falling to our

[07:32:33] Gordon Ryan: go

[07:32:33] we go

[07:32:34] is always going to

[07:32:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: up in an

[07:32:36] Gordon Ryan: our back to the

[07:32:36] control over my nearside arm in some way,

[07:32:38] we go outside leg, [07:32:40] we

[07:32:40] Rolling to

[07:32:40] and either my head and arm, like

[07:32:43] can forepoint and

[07:32:44] head and arm with the figure four back head and

[07:32:45] you're dealing with

[07:32:46] now, the second we stand

[07:32:48] and stuff, and your partner has an elbow [07:32:50] trapped between your legs, whether it's here, whether it's here,

[07:32:52] and you kind of get away

[07:32:52] here, or here If I start forepointing from

[07:32:55] just control over

[07:32:56] step up

[07:32:57] our partner's hands monitored,

[07:32:58] farside arm,

[07:32:59] going to

[07:32:59] she can start [07:33:00] trapping my

[07:33:00] to lock her hands, we're

[07:33:01] couple of

[07:33:01] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: no chest to back contact

[07:33:03] Gordon Ryan: here we come

[07:33:03] Pulling the hand out and

[07:33:04] And my partner

[07:33:05] here there's crucifix danger.

[07:33:06] the front

[07:33:07] generally recommend, when you're dealing with[07:33:10]

[07:33:10] All right. So now let's talk about

[07:33:11] the rear

[07:33:12] your elbow gets trapped, your elbow gets blocked, just roll

[07:33:14] can use both. And then she can work from here in various

[07:33:17] be in a situation where I trap a leg here,

[07:33:19] where I[07:33:20]

[07:33:20] of our partner switching to a backhand and

[07:33:21] if someone four points,

[07:33:22] Chest lock, where I have my hands locked in

[07:33:24] have a front headlock and I try to get the arm down and now from here you end up in situations

[07:33:28] play with her

[07:33:28] Kimuras and now you're getting [07:33:30] rolled

[07:33:30] she has control

[07:33:31] your back taken, you're getting triangled, there's all kinds of

[07:33:32] over my shoulders as well. So when I got to move from here, she keeps the arm trapped

[07:33:37] you're doing Jiu

[07:33:38] here. I got to roll.

[07:33:39] the arm between the,[07:33:40]

[07:33:40] up. I can't do that.

[07:33:40] I got to roll through. She follows me through

[07:33:42] use more of a Jiu

[07:33:42] just turned into a

[07:33:43] there aren't any arm drags from

[07:33:45] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner is

[07:33:45] Gordon Ryan: There aren't any, uh, thumb posts from

[07:33:48] And from here,

[07:33:48] I want to try to [07:33:50] use two on ones to

[07:33:50] way

[07:33:51] the ability

[07:33:51] and then she has control

[07:33:52] headlock, if

[07:33:53] towards our partner and

[07:33:54] a

[07:33:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if we can access the

[07:33:56] Gordon Ryan: post my partner's elbow, it's not available.

[07:33:57] If I want to try to arm drag, it's

[07:33:59] of my [07:34:00] shoulders.

[07:34:00] Okay.

[07:34:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we can expose our

[07:34:01] Gordon Ryan: a lot of the previous things that we did aren't available

[07:34:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: counter offense or at least

[07:34:05] Gordon Ryan: from there

[07:34:06] we'll look at

[07:34:06] Now, the good thing about being in a front chest

[07:34:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:34:10] grounded

[07:34:10] Gordon Ryan: is that, uh, my partner has no

[07:34:12] I go to step the leg up, she keeps the weight on the leg

[07:34:15] means I can use both of my

[07:34:16] find a way to create an

[07:34:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: general goals for you guys to work

[07:34:18] Gordon Ryan: uses her front

[07:34:19] my partner [07:34:20] wants to actually lock a strangle, she

[07:34:21] the angular hips in the opposite

[07:34:22] we can always hit the maki komi

[07:34:23] away from our

[07:34:24] and now she can go into actual

[07:34:25] like I'm about to show

[07:34:26] here, when we're in a front chest lock, she has

[07:34:29] use tripod [07:34:30] methods inside

[07:34:31] there's a lot, there's less threat of a submission because she can't

[07:34:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Right away, go

[07:34:35] Gordon Ryan: we can create a disconnection in our

[07:34:36] And number two,

[07:34:37] our partners,

[07:34:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going to be very

[07:34:39] Gordon Ryan: that's

[07:34:39] I sit

[07:34:39] [07:34:40] either a backhanded arm, or maybe a kimura on the far

[07:34:42] in general, there's weight

[07:34:44] it offers

[07:34:45] a naive

[07:34:45] usually a backhanded arm is more

[07:34:47] my hips from my

[07:34:47] it makes

[07:34:48] we have a weightless outside

[07:34:49] very [07:34:50] hard to do.

[07:34:50] here I go in

[07:34:51] hip and moving out and away very hard to

[07:34:53] partner's

[07:34:54] And in a lot of

[07:34:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: inside my

[07:34:55] Gordon Ryan: you're thinking well, you don't have a primary defensive hand then why

[07:34:58] from a

[07:34:59] on my right [07:35:00] side

[07:35:00] actively

[07:35:01] here she goes into drag without moving the

[07:35:03] my

[07:35:03] the elbow

[07:35:04] drag.

[07:35:05] If

[07:35:05] will look like

[07:35:06] a front headlock,

[07:35:07] my shoulder on this side

[07:35:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of the work,

[07:35:09] Gordon Ryan: now I [07:35:10] start thumb posting, it's pretty

[07:35:11] my body

[07:35:11] thumb and move everything towards center line,

[07:35:13] when my partner tries to actually shoot a strangle in,

[07:35:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: easy thing to go

[07:35:17] Gordon Ryan: Whereas when

[07:35:17] physically cannot

[07:35:19] more

[07:35:19] [07:35:20] whenever I go to move my

[07:35:20] elbow back far

[07:35:22] uh, do everything, where she

[07:35:23] her

[07:35:23] take her hips forwards and follow my head, and it's

[07:35:26] even if she

[07:35:26] lot of times to move my head out

[07:35:27] a strangle in place.

[07:35:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: like

[07:35:29] Gordon Ryan: so she

[07:35:29] And the [07:35:30] time allowed because of the

[07:35:31] opposite leg up, instead of stepping this

[07:35:33] and underneath

[07:35:33] good at using elbow posting

[07:35:35] my jaw and my

[07:35:35] we have

[07:35:36] the

[07:35:36] takes away my ability to do

[07:35:37] if I choose to move to a

[07:35:38] So from

[07:35:38] if you're dealing with someone who's

[07:35:39] [07:35:40] we grab our partner's arm

[07:35:41] to them because

[07:35:41] and now

[07:35:42] goes to

[07:35:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: have a

[07:35:43] Gordon Ryan: harder to slide off someone's

[07:35:45] Or now from here,

[07:35:46] the

[07:35:46] This time,

[07:35:46] than it

[07:35:47] we're

[07:35:47] goes to take the hand up high and put the

[07:35:49] again, we [07:35:50] use that

[07:35:50] place. It physically can't get

[07:35:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to guillotine me

[07:35:52] Gordon Ryan: use any methods to disconnect our

[07:35:54] actually does

[07:35:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my partner goes to lock her

[07:35:56] Gordon Ryan: thing to actually go in

[07:35:57] if I had grease on,

[07:35:58] stepping the inside

[07:35:59] partner to

[07:35:59] [07:36:00] I feel, for whatever

[07:36:01] up, I drag

[07:36:02] create that disconnection

[07:36:03] With a front chest lock, it's going to be very difficult, or much more

[07:36:06] underneath my

[07:36:06] will give us more space.

[07:36:08] allowed, she can get underneath my jaw,

[07:36:09] during the [07:36:10] drag,

[07:36:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: this primary hand,

[07:36:11] Gordon Ryan: So there are advantages

[07:36:12] my partner is

[07:36:12] a little bit awkward

[07:36:13] not creating enough movement, I just look towards my

[07:36:15] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: center

[07:36:16] Gordon Ryan: uh, for

[07:36:16] connect

[07:36:17] a little awkward here when you're trying to do it from this position because

[07:36:19] now from [07:36:20] here. I just

[07:36:20] when she goes to strangle

[07:36:21] misdirection and using

[07:36:22] the

[07:36:22] enough time allowed,

[07:36:23] Number

[07:36:24] and she can get around my

[07:36:25] your

[07:36:25] wrestling

[07:36:25] angles all

[07:36:26] right away.

[07:36:27] up my outside leg,

[07:36:28] inside.

[07:36:29] Whereas

[07:36:29] And [07:36:30] number three, if my

[07:36:30] you have more

[07:36:31] my

[07:36:31] go in and we catch a drag grip, like

[07:36:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: strangle me from here,

[07:36:34] Gordon Ryan: up.

[07:36:35] to her front

[07:36:35] if

[07:36:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: have defensive hands in

[07:36:36] Gordon Ryan: head comes

[07:36:36] towards our left

[07:36:37] do

[07:36:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to

[07:36:37] Gordon Ryan: your neck, this is an

[07:36:38] an arm

[07:36:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my

[07:36:39] Gordon Ryan: connect [07:36:40] our partner's bicep to our neck on this side.

[07:36:42] goes to drag, we step our

[07:36:44] most of the time, will always lock

[07:36:45] goes to pull that arm

[07:36:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now if the primary

[07:36:47] Gordon Ryan: our inside leg up,

[07:36:48] by using

[07:36:49] don't [07:36:50] initially

[07:36:50] I just slip out

[07:36:51] my right shoulder, because

[07:36:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I

[07:36:52] Gordon Ryan: less friction between my partner's

[07:36:54] guy's

[07:36:54] partner over to Tsubagishi,

[07:36:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: away from my partner's elbow,

[07:36:57] Gordon Ryan: partner's arm and my

[07:36:58] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: will always be able to

[07:36:59] Gordon Ryan: a lot easier in [07:37:00] some ways,

[07:37:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: between my jaw and my collarbone with her

[07:37:03] Gordon Ryan: forward, and it's hard for me to

[07:37:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: be able to slide through

[07:37:05] Gordon Ryan: my head

[07:37:05] goes to pull that arm out

[07:37:06] the guard

[07:37:07] And it will take away all of my ability, which is good [07:37:10] for her,

[07:37:10] so

[07:37:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my partner's

[07:37:11] Gordon Ryan: it out, it's hard to strangle me from

[07:37:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I connect

[07:37:13] Gordon Ryan: I feel like she has a

[07:37:15] with my hips and my

[07:37:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and my own shoulder.

[07:37:17] Gordon Ryan: partner

[07:37:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: even

[07:37:17] Gordon Ryan: difficult for

[07:37:18] general, if you

[07:37:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: when she goes to strangle me from [07:37:20] here, I'm

[07:37:20] Gordon Ryan: is

[07:37:20] is a

[07:37:20] from here, inside leg

[07:37:22] pretty unlikely to

[07:37:23] I come up to my hands, I'm

[07:37:24] very, very high

[07:37:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and my collarbone,

[07:37:26] Gordon Ryan: Now I'm going to take my right hand and

[07:37:28] goes

[07:37:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can expose that space and give me [07:37:30] problems.

[07:37:30] Gordon Ryan: knee like

[07:37:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So I always have a primary hand in,

[07:37:33] Gordon Ryan: put my forehead on the floor and I'm going to pull my partner

[07:37:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I

[07:37:36] Gordon Ryan: playing around

[07:37:37] she goes to do

[07:37:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my partner's

[07:37:38] Gordon Ryan: around, moving around, I

[07:37:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and now I have [07:37:40] a secondary hand

[07:37:41] Gordon Ryan: When she goes to heist from this position,

[07:37:43] legs.

[07:37:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So if at

[07:37:44] Gordon Ryan: cannot pull her right elbow out to post on her

[07:37:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hand reaches up and

[07:37:48] Gordon Ryan: moving around

[07:37:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner's thumb [07:37:50] line, so now when she goes to strangle

[07:37:51] Gordon Ryan: to get up from here and recover,

[07:37:53] and as I'm gonna redrag,

[07:37:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and

[07:37:55] Gordon Ryan: bet now is to

[07:37:56] to a referee position first, hands on

[07:37:58] So, whenever

[07:37:58] try to

[07:37:59] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: you're being very

[07:37:59] Gordon Ryan: [07:38:00] more room for the leg to come up. We

[07:38:01] When she goes to keep her hands locked from

[07:38:02] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hand in

[07:38:03] Gordon Ryan: we pop

[07:38:03] I just start moving to a position

[07:38:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: dealing with a guillotine

[07:38:06] Gordon Ryan: I can take my head

[07:38:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from here, kagatame

[07:38:08] Gordon Ryan: a far

[07:38:08] from here, I just

[07:38:09] [07:38:10] Because her hand is over my shoulder already, When I go to shoulder roll

[07:38:13] land in side control perfectly

[07:38:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: out

[07:38:15] Gordon Ryan: goes to drag,

[07:38:16] But you're going to get out

[07:38:16] only thing

[07:38:17] I go to shoulder roll, she just locks a

[07:38:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: me to go in, and now as I [07:38:20] go in,

[07:38:20] Gordon Ryan: an

[07:38:20] and I just fall right into her

[07:38:21] she goes in,

[07:38:22] now I'm getting

[07:38:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: very good servant here, looking at what our partner is going to do, primary hand in

[07:38:26] Gordon Ryan: separate

[07:38:26] to arm

[07:38:26] she used the front leg trap and she has a back

[07:38:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: look towards [07:38:30] our partner's strangle arm, and now she has to strangle me in either direction,

[07:38:33] Gordon Ryan: in, we'll use a drag grip.

[07:38:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hands to one side to go either anaconda, darts, or

[07:38:36] Gordon Ryan: We bow forward

[07:38:37] she had no control over my

[07:38:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: on my center line.[07:38:40]

[07:38:40] Gordon Ryan: to a hip by

[07:38:41] my hip, before she switched her, switched her

[07:38:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: uh, her hand

[07:38:44] Gordon Ryan: the shoulder roll was available.

[07:38:46] to heist and recover.

[07:38:47] lock, her

[07:38:47] this time, with a drag grip,

[07:38:49] just gonna look

[07:38:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: everything back [07:38:50] down,

[07:38:50] Gordon Ryan: unlocks her

[07:38:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: replace, and then we go back in and

[07:38:52] Gordon Ryan: a leg

[07:38:52] failure

[07:38:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: play right from here.

[07:38:53] Gordon Ryan: So now from here, the second I go to roll, she just locks her hands, and

[07:38:57] as

[07:38:57] fall into her lap and I'm

[07:38:58] the outside leg comes up,

[07:38:59] do a [07:39:00] shoulder

[07:39:00] sit through to my right hip,

[07:39:02] partner going to drag,

[07:39:04] here, we're ready to recover and potentially

[07:39:06] this

[07:39:07] Again, the purpose

[07:39:08] she locks a Kimura from

[07:39:09] [07:39:10] down

[07:39:10] once I get into this

[07:39:11] I'm going to connect my left

[07:39:12] She goes in

[07:39:12] up to the hands, we have no defensive

[07:39:14] you're doing Jiu Jitsu and submission grappling,

[07:39:16] and hang

[07:39:16] Now she has no control over my

[07:39:18] up, I'm

[07:39:18] will always

[07:39:19] I [07:39:20] just, again, put

[07:39:20] may, in

[07:39:21] on the

[07:39:21] and side control, you may very well do that, but you're not going to get your

[07:39:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we're going to look

[07:39:24] Gordon Ryan: hit the

[07:39:25] my partner's hip on the

[07:39:25] you go to recover, she

[07:39:27] and

[07:39:27] Now from here, we just reach through

[07:39:29] splits my

[07:39:29] you're[07:39:30]

[07:39:30] strip the Kimura grip

[07:39:31] main danger

[07:39:32] goes to hold on tight,

[07:39:33] and

[07:39:33] out and the main danger wrestlers

[07:39:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: of front headlock. We're going

[07:39:35] Gordon Ryan: As I talked about before, it's

[07:39:37] post a hand.

[07:39:38] connect both of your knees and elbows [07:39:40] because of the fact that your partner has a

[07:39:41] thing from

[07:39:41] out once

[07:39:42] is when I go to hit the

[07:39:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: may be asking yourself,

[07:39:43] Gordon Ryan: ultimately, what's going to put me back in guard isn't the connection of my

[07:39:47] line of

[07:39:47] my partner and

[07:39:48] the connection of my left knee [07:39:50] and my left elbow,

[07:39:50] I go to pull her hip

[07:39:51] when

[07:39:52] I go to

[07:39:52] is weight over the

[07:39:53] theoretically wants to come in and

[07:39:55] goes

[07:39:55] floor to not

[07:39:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: lock my hands

[07:39:57] Gordon Ryan: two toes towards the floor, and I push [07:40:00] into my partner to put a hand on the

[07:40:01] or outside

[07:40:02] easy thing to start

[07:40:02] there's no weight on my partner

[07:40:03] what

[07:40:04] Number one, this

[07:40:04] out in this direction or towards you

[07:40:05] fall and my left knee and elbow connect,

[07:40:08] can pop out

[07:40:09] sling the arm [07:40:10] around.

[07:40:10] to go ahead

[07:40:10] Now from here, wherever

[07:40:11] when I look towards my partner and I go ear

[07:40:13] time I pull my partner's knee in.

[07:40:15] partner by raising

[07:40:16] falling to her shoulder, she falls to her shoulder, she's

[07:40:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: arm

[07:40:19] Gordon Ryan: [07:40:20] place

[07:40:20] of falling to her shoulder, she falls to a hip and a

[07:40:22] get to my partner's

[07:40:23] her head's in the

[07:40:23] now we're ready to

[07:40:24] And now as she goes to follow

[07:40:25] shoulder roll, there's no re drag. What can I do

[07:40:28] with our partner down in turtle position.

[07:40:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:40:30] As part of the

[07:40:30] Gordon Ryan: as she falls down, she's going to legitimately try to

[07:40:33] my

[07:40:33] our leg

[07:40:33] connect my

[07:40:34] to legitimately try to

[07:40:35] our whole thing from here is to throw our elbow behind us.

[07:40:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: it's

[07:40:38] Gordon Ryan: not as much movement as I

[07:40:39] [07:40:40] she goes to, uh,

[07:40:40] a circle

[07:40:41] back, or as she goes to pin me in side control,

[07:40:43] big peak

[07:40:44] former

[07:40:44] where I come here, I got out

[07:40:46] can come free.

[07:40:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: not

[07:40:47] Gordon Ryan: to go out and win his

[07:40:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: it's not a guillotine,

[07:40:48] Gordon Ryan: This is [07:40:50] the

[07:40:50] whole thing is

[07:40:50] with because your partner can still remain with her head

[07:40:53] you're

[07:40:53] throw my elbow behind me to meet my

[07:40:55] as she goes to continue to cut the corner, my whole thing is to connect my head

[07:40:59] I [07:41:00] want a connection to my partner here.

[07:41:01] away

[07:41:02] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: much the

[07:41:02] Gordon Ryan: I split the legs

[07:41:04] I use my toes to push

[07:41:05] she goes to start, when she goes to stay glued to me.

[07:41:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my partner

[07:41:08] Gordon Ryan: she's connecting me in the [07:41:10] elbow and even though it's connected I still have my feet inside

[07:41:12] goes to

[07:41:12] jitsu

[07:41:12] start going in and pinning and playing

[07:41:15] moving out

[07:41:16] is she goes back, head and arm.

[07:41:17] I'm a daylight and a dollar short and I get pinned in [07:41:20] side control and my

[07:41:20] use a drag

[07:41:21] She's a front chest lock. I

[07:41:22] don't know really how to combine the two. You're either

[07:41:24] And we're

[07:41:24] post the

[07:41:25] you learned in school

[07:41:26] Two, she goes Kimura.

[07:41:27] anything that can return your back

[07:41:28] here, we throw the [07:41:30] elbow behind us to meet my partner's elbow, and we just

[07:41:32] the the main

[07:41:33] do we have so far? We have a situation where our partner

[07:41:37] And now we quickly

[07:41:38] that

[07:41:38] false to a

[07:41:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: let's go

[07:41:39] Gordon Ryan: weight [07:41:40] onto our partner by raising the hips. We go ear to back, and we look at our partner's back

[07:41:45] the back

[07:41:45] we're

[07:41:45] rolling

[07:41:46] when she goes to guillotine

[07:41:47] four,

[07:41:48] get you

[07:41:48] weight

[07:41:48] she locks a chest lock?[07:41:50]

[07:41:50] guard with the

[07:41:50] high level

[07:41:51] in business.

[07:41:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: The second I

[07:41:52] Gordon Ryan: the main

[07:41:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner is looking

[07:41:54] Gordon Ryan: what I mean by that

[07:41:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to, at the

[07:41:55] Gordon Ryan: will not

[07:41:55] from here. Someone goes, someone goes

[07:41:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my body,

[07:41:58] Gordon Ryan: someone's

[07:41:59] and now from here [07:42:00] we

[07:42:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: over my body,

[07:42:00] Gordon Ryan: knee forward,

[07:42:01] job of

[07:42:01] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: kind of connection

[07:42:02] Gordon Ryan: I go to a high risk

[07:42:03] feel like every time you roll,

[07:42:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from here she can crunch my chin to my

[07:42:06] Gordon Ryan: got to start

[07:42:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and she can

[07:42:07] Gordon Ryan: So we're doing it

[07:42:08] will we

[07:42:08] a stand

[07:42:09] As

[07:42:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I want to create a [07:42:10] disconnect at the

[07:42:10] Gordon Ryan: you and changes

[07:42:11] finally, my partner goes to drag,

[07:42:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going to take a post to my partner's knee, and I'm going to fall over to

[07:42:17] Gordon Ryan: here, I can immediately pop up to a four

[07:42:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: is going to

[07:42:19] Gordon Ryan: [07:42:20] I peek quickly,

[07:42:21] Anytime

[07:42:22] there are

[07:42:22] So when

[07:42:22] but I don't go ear to back,

[07:42:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: as she goes to follow me, I

[07:42:25] Gordon Ryan: goes to

[07:42:25] circle, circle, circle from a four point and now it's going to be a situation

[07:42:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: We [07:42:30] just roll to bottom position.

[07:42:31] Gordon Ryan: back to guard.

[07:42:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And now from here, there's no threat of a

[07:42:33] Gordon Ryan: start circling from the

[07:42:34] When I put weight over her

[07:42:35] then from here I start

[07:42:36] goes to try to guillotine me,

[07:42:38] bringing my

[07:42:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to happen is she's going to roll through on the

[07:42:39] Gordon Ryan: [07:42:40] going into

[07:42:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: As she does that, we reset our

[07:42:42] Gordon Ryan: over a

[07:42:42] some kind of

[07:42:43] Anytime

[07:42:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we're back into a

[07:42:45] Gordon Ryan: or my arm is trapped with their rear

[07:42:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: on, back on the, uh, on the defensive and there's no more

[07:42:49] Gordon Ryan: wrestling [07:42:50] situation

[07:42:50] looking to use a combination of the two,

[07:42:52] And now, there's no threat

[07:42:53] everything off if I want

[07:42:54] into a far

[07:42:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: post

[07:42:55] Gordon Ryan: is an issue you're not going to deal with

[07:42:56] drag I feel like I'm not gonna hit any previous

[07:42:59] up

[07:42:59] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: the arm by,[07:43:00]

[07:43:00] Gordon Ryan: start to start pulling up and now from

[07:43:01] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I go to the knee

[07:43:02] Gordon Ryan: to do it live,

[07:43:02] and coming

[07:43:03] shoulder or

[07:43:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: as I lean, and right now I can't expose

[07:43:05] Gordon Ryan: various takedowns or

[07:43:06] it up

[07:43:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: As I lean,

[07:43:08] Gordon Ryan: ear on the guy's back,

[07:43:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can always expose my[07:43:10]

[07:43:10] Gordon Ryan: play all these together with

[07:43:11] the

[07:43:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: me now,

[07:43:12] Gordon Ryan: Okay, so

[07:43:12] she goes rear

[07:43:13] one or the other against a very high

[07:43:14] the

[07:43:15] number one,

[07:43:15] from here scissors the legs. So when she goes to free that arm,

[07:43:18] you are

[07:43:18] when someone goes

[07:43:19] the

[07:43:19] you have,[07:43:20]

[07:43:20] is trapped.

[07:43:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: same

[07:43:21] Gordon Ryan: she goes

[07:43:21] things in mind

[07:43:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: the high elbow

[07:43:22] Gordon Ryan: it back to the front

[07:43:23] lock your

[07:43:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: She goes high elbow, she goes low

[07:43:25] Gordon Ryan: back. This is not a reaction you're ever going to find in

[07:43:27] the drag,

[07:43:28] And now

[07:43:29] But in Jiu Jitsu, it's the [07:43:30] number one

[07:43:30] sitting

[07:43:30] just falling

[07:43:31] partner's

[07:43:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to our side,

[07:43:32] Gordon Ryan: back

[07:43:32] able

[07:43:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: move our head back to center

[07:43:34] Gordon Ryan: way to do it is

[07:43:35] your

[07:43:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: whole thing we're trying to

[07:43:36] Gordon Ryan: ear on their

[07:43:37] I feel

[07:43:37] weight

[07:43:38] they're

[07:43:38] you

[07:43:38] my leg's trapped, usually a [07:43:40] backhanded arm

[07:43:40] floor so there's no

[07:43:41] try to take my arm

[07:43:42] more

[07:43:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I can do that, I'm

[07:43:43] Gordon Ryan: jiu

[07:43:43] Her front knee, it's not going to happen.

[07:43:46] Alright, so now let's look at, that was a basic

[07:43:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I go to roll, she goes to [07:43:50] follow.

[07:43:50] Gordon Ryan: if you go ahead and

[07:43:51] So I put a defensive hand in place like so, and now I'm just going to roll to bottom position by either one. If I

[07:43:58] I know which

[07:43:58] the other is

[07:43:59] in one and then

[07:43:59] trap my [07:44:00] partner's

[07:44:00] the second I see

[07:44:01] Usually if the rear leg is trapping my arm,

[07:44:03] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: goes

[07:44:03] Gordon Ryan: is actually a very

[07:44:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: time I can't

[07:44:05] Gordon Ryan: If the front

[07:44:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hip. This is why this

[07:44:06] Gordon Ryan: the second I see my partner's leg

[07:44:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: here I have to focus on the legs.

[07:44:09] Gordon Ryan: where

[07:44:09] just

[07:44:09] [07:44:10] my partner's,

[07:44:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: as I'm going to post to my partner's hip, it's impossible. I post on the knee, she throws the leg over.

[07:44:15] Gordon Ryan: if my partner has

[07:44:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I just walk

[07:44:17] Gordon Ryan: to our hips and down to our back. If I feel like I can trap

[07:44:19] [07:44:20] here, what am I

[07:44:20] great.

[07:44:20] she runs out to

[07:44:21] like I can't,

[07:44:22] much weight

[07:44:23] we have to just

[07:44:23] If I step my left leg up

[07:44:25] that I physically

[07:44:26] look to do is

[07:44:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: two hands on my partner's hips. And

[07:44:29] Gordon Ryan: roll our partner [07:44:30] through by

[07:44:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we can take our partner

[07:44:31] Gordon Ryan: I hit a

[07:44:31] if I walk towards my partner's

[07:44:32] four

[07:44:33] where from here I just step up my opposite side leg. So if I'm going to peek left,

[07:44:37] referee

[07:44:37] step up my right

[07:44:38] to go head first. I [07:44:40] physically have to

[07:44:40] is number one.

[07:44:41] my partner doesn't

[07:44:42] so much weight

[07:44:42] and she stays square,

[07:44:44] starts to

[07:44:44] that I physically

[07:44:45] there's no reason why

[07:44:46] take my hands off the mat to stand up, then I'm never going to go head

[07:44:49] locked

[07:44:49] partner is [07:44:50] always going to do

[07:44:50] doesn't make sense.

[07:44:51] in one

[07:44:51] always going to

[07:44:52] actually

[07:44:52] as she goes to do that, I follow, follow, follow,

[07:44:55] goes to put weight on my

[07:44:56] by

[07:44:56] second I

[07:44:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: recenter my

[07:44:58] Gordon Ryan: What will end up happening is I'll have

[07:44:59] like [07:45:00] so.

[07:45:00] and my knees to the floor, and we just quickly step up on the opposite side. And now

[07:45:04] We roll through

[07:45:05] if I'm ready

[07:45:06] out on this

[07:45:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: you're doing very,

[07:45:07] Gordon Ryan: my partner

[07:45:08] what happens is your partner

[07:45:09] [07:45:10] goes to throw,

[07:45:11] to stopping you on one side and you just misdirect to the other

[07:45:13] quickly just shoot our

[07:45:14] a game where I just step up

[07:45:15] right to our partner's hip, and we

[07:45:17] If I see no

[07:45:18] one

[07:45:18] lock our

[07:45:19] where, and this [07:45:20] goes

[07:45:20] this is going to be our

[07:45:20] And now from

[07:45:21] And we just peek

[07:45:21] drive across for a double.

[07:45:23] arm,

[07:45:23] If, however, I see my partner move

[07:45:25] now there's weight on my hand, but I can potentially

[07:45:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: any

[07:45:28] Gordon Ryan: not

[07:45:29] then we just go back in

[07:45:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:45:30] post my partner's hip, as she goes to really try to

[07:45:32] Gordon Ryan: I see there's,

[07:45:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I stay here, just back

[07:45:34] Gordon Ryan: goes to circle

[07:45:34] Again, we're not really in

[07:45:35] goes to throw you by.

[07:45:36] one side.

[07:45:37] hips

[07:45:38] If I see no

[07:45:39] than

[07:45:39] right in here and I [07:45:40] shoot right to a

[07:45:40] reason why I

[07:45:41] If I come in here, even if I have a defensive hand in place,

[07:45:44] you

[07:45:45] I go to

[07:45:45] give you guys

[07:45:45] up from this position, like

[07:45:47] guys get

[07:45:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: touch on that.

[07:45:48] Gordon Ryan: If I step my leg up on one [07:45:50] side,

[07:45:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Primordial Hand

[07:45:50] Gordon Ryan: easily

[07:45:50] various

[07:45:51] I see my partner circle. Now I know she's committed to my right

[07:45:55] just runs around to the

[07:45:55] Now let's say

[07:45:56] and she has weight over my hand, there's weight on my hand,

[07:45:58] like you have no

[07:45:59] the other

[07:45:59] [07:46:00] rolls me through

[07:46:00] and it just

[07:46:01] ready to play

[07:46:02] here,

[07:46:02] Whatever kind of game we want from

[07:46:04] So whenever my partner has a

[07:46:05] throw by. And as she does,

[07:46:07] that goes hand in

[07:46:07] I see this, again,

[07:46:08] uh, weight on

[07:46:09] no [07:46:10] control over me right now. Just,

[07:46:11] if my partner has a backhanded

[07:46:12] I Step one leg up

[07:46:13] into a

[07:46:13] she goes to circle behind me, I just look

[07:46:15] or

[07:46:15] Because now, there's

[07:46:16] a hold of my

[07:46:17] to react she even circles

[07:46:18] roll

[07:46:18] and hooks

[07:46:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: do that,

[07:46:19] Gordon Ryan: [07:46:20] Okay?

[07:46:20] taken

[07:46:20] from here

[07:46:21] side. Right now from here,

[07:46:23] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to at

[07:46:23] Gordon Ryan: turn into a

[07:46:23] I'm ready to go in,

[07:46:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hand back

[07:46:25] Gordon Ryan: have defensive hands in place, she goes to start pulling on the head, circle, circle, circle.

[07:46:29] and start to control our

[07:46:29] [07:46:30] up to

[07:46:30] we just roll into guard

[07:46:31] a misdirectional peak out where we fake one side, if there's no reaction,

[07:46:35] great methods.

[07:46:36] go right

[07:46:36] partner

[07:46:36] I

[07:46:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: locks

[07:46:37] Gordon Ryan: and

[07:46:37] a reaction, we

[07:46:38] goes to misdirect.

[07:46:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a hip, and that's

[07:46:39] Gordon Ryan: so,[07:46:40]

[07:46:40] I can attempt to come up head first if my partner has a rear chest

[07:46:42] say easy, easier,

[07:46:44] too

[07:46:44] now let's look at how we

[07:46:45] easy

[07:46:45] go

[07:46:45] actually free my

[07:46:46] and then ask my head

[07:46:47] she goes to

[07:46:48] I

[07:46:48] goes to keep my arm trapped

[07:46:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: those of

[07:46:49] Gordon Ryan: second she [07:46:50] does, I just tuck my arm,

[07:46:51] to actually move your arm out

[07:46:52] head and arm never attempt

[07:46:54] my partner's leg, I can always split my partner's

[07:46:56] same as before,

[07:46:57] the first

[07:46:57] whenever I can split my

[07:46:58] threatening guillotine [07:47:00] strangles, and we

[07:47:01] her legs sprawled back and away,

[07:47:02] second one, which isn't as

[07:47:04] and I go

[07:47:04] to hold on,

[07:47:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: kind of

[07:47:05] Gordon Ryan: play

[07:47:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Touch on

[07:47:06] Gordon Ryan: goes

[07:47:07] my elbow down. And I just walk

[07:47:09] head first

[07:47:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:47:10] locks

[07:47:10] Gordon Ryan: come in

[07:47:10] cowboy ride.

[07:47:11] My partner

[07:47:12] here we just slip

[07:47:13] I'm immediately going to put everything down,

[07:47:15] Now it's just a matter of taking the

[07:47:16] go to a

[07:47:17] her two knees pinched around my hips.

[07:47:19] controls me is the arm [07:47:20] being trapped.

[07:47:20] right elbow across

[07:47:22] Whenever

[07:47:22] Because my partner from here is more mobile than I am. If her knees are on the floor,

[07:47:27] me,

[07:47:28] From here, I just move my

[07:47:29] there's [07:47:30] no weight on

[07:47:30] of going

[07:47:31] So I have,

[07:47:31] one side, then moving my head to the other

[07:47:33] So from here I just control my

[07:47:35] one side,

[07:47:36] up to my

[07:47:36] I sweep the knee

[07:47:37] I just slide my right elbow

[07:47:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: right

[07:47:39] Gordon Ryan: the

[07:47:39] is [07:47:40] less mobile than me once I get one

[07:47:42] bringing my head out to

[07:47:43] I'm in a more

[07:47:44] stay with my

[07:47:44] I keep my head

[07:47:45] ceiling, I

[07:47:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: be in a front headlock,

[07:47:47] Gordon Ryan: now from

[07:47:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: her

[07:47:47] Gordon Ryan: my

[07:47:48] more readily than

[07:47:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: from

[07:47:48] Gordon Ryan: partner goes to keep my[07:47:50]

[07:47:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a hand all the way through,

[07:47:51] Gordon Ryan: her knees are on the floor,

[07:47:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: lock the kagetame.

[07:47:53] Gordon Ryan: so.

[07:47:53] only has the choice

[07:47:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: gets the, the kagetame

[07:47:57] Gordon Ryan: hook

[07:47:57] kind of

[07:47:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: what I'm looking

[07:47:58] Gordon Ryan: and from here

[07:47:59] Unless she [07:48:00] runs around to the other side, if

[07:48:01] a matter of time when she goes to hold on,

[07:48:02] Okay, that gets

[07:48:03] she has to run all the way around to the other side and put a hook in

[07:48:06] we go

[07:48:06] is the turning of the thumb down.

[07:48:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and disrupts

[07:48:09] Gordon Ryan: I[07:48:10]

[07:48:10] there's no weight on

[07:48:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: bicep

[07:48:11] Gordon Ryan: to control me

[07:48:12] and I move

[07:48:13] my leg up like I'm going to

[07:48:14] than her, I have a more athletic

[07:48:15] So I control the space between the

[07:48:17] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: for

[07:48:17] Gordon Ryan: But instead,

[07:48:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: her elbow and

[07:48:19] Gordon Ryan: to [07:48:20] rotate

[07:48:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: elbow across

[07:48:20] Gordon Ryan: only insert

[07:48:21] hers, like so,

[07:48:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: post in like so, and we tuck our jaw inside of our own

[07:48:25] Gordon Ryan: right shoulder

[07:48:27] I can even hit a

[07:48:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: strangle from

[07:48:28] Gordon Ryan: with the floor,

[07:48:29] like so.

[07:48:29] [07:48:30] So now she goes to cover me and she walks back this

[07:48:32] So I shovel my hips underneath my partner's like

[07:48:34] knees are on

[07:48:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: do is just

[07:48:36] Gordon Ryan: as my shoulder

[07:48:37] towards our partner's legs.

[07:48:37] more

[07:48:38] can turn all

[07:48:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: our right elbow to [07:48:40] separate our partner's fingertips from the

[07:48:41] Gordon Ryan: side I step

[07:48:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: is very

[07:48:42] Gordon Ryan: take

[07:48:42] this will look like is we're moving

[07:48:43] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to dive deep into this, but this

[07:48:45] Gordon Ryan: we're faking peeks to either side, I go in,

[07:48:47] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: As she goes to

[07:48:48] Gordon Ryan: I, she, whether I go here,

[07:48:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:48:50] right elbow and just

[07:48:51] Gordon Ryan: my, uh, my

[07:48:52] Let's say, she's

[07:48:53] whatever kind of half

[07:48:53] always has to pick one side. She's got to be more to one side than the other.

[07:48:56] this directional peek outs to either

[07:48:58] our partner's leg

[07:48:58] fine. She's more to the [07:49:00] right side than she is to

[07:49:00] roll our

[07:49:01] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: your elbow

[07:49:02] Gordon Ryan: Let's say I go outside leg stand up. She just quickly

[07:49:04] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: yourself to a high elbow

[07:49:05] Gordon Ryan: my left, left leg goes

[07:49:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now,

[07:49:08] Gordon Ryan: Head goes out to the left.

[07:49:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if

[07:49:09] Gordon Ryan: say [07:49:10] I go

[07:49:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: elbow is in

[07:49:10] Gordon Ryan: my left leg goes up,

[07:49:12] more to the

[07:49:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my shoulder and my chin are connected

[07:49:14] Gordon Ryan: That makes it easy

[07:49:15] still more athletic and

[07:49:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: into a high elbow.

[07:49:17] Gordon Ryan: As my upper body moves in this direction, it

[07:49:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:49:20] actually gets disrupted

[07:49:21] Gordon Ryan: just

[07:49:21] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: fact that my elbow or my shoulder and my

[07:49:23] Gordon Ryan: now

[07:49:23] my elbow

[07:49:24] The

[07:49:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: But when my elbow

[07:49:25] Gordon Ryan: hook onto our partner's leg,

[07:49:26] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I open up space now

[07:49:28] Gordon Ryan: to avoid hooks coming in.

[07:49:29] uh, [07:49:30] her knees

[07:49:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So I'll be ready to do a

[07:49:31] Gordon Ryan: a misdirectional

[07:49:32] her knees

[07:49:32] don't go into referee

[07:49:33] just walk.

[07:49:34] stand up

[07:49:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hand in defensively.

[07:49:36] Gordon Ryan: ride

[07:49:36] All I

[07:49:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: when she goes to strangle

[07:49:38] Gordon Ryan: enough space to

[07:49:39] and

[07:49:39] able to get my [07:49:40] knee inside

[07:49:40] downed leg

[07:49:41] build to a four

[07:49:42] And now from

[07:49:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: one,

[07:49:43] Gordon Ryan: too much weight on my

[07:49:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: separate my partner's elbow. The second I see my partner's hands become separated, I take my secondary

[07:49:49] Gordon Ryan: pull my [07:49:50] elbow

[07:49:50] use

[07:49:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: and I trake,

[07:49:51] Gordon Ryan: probably like so.

[07:49:52] When she tries to stand on the pad first, she won't be able to do

[07:49:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she goes

[07:49:54] Gordon Ryan: what is the rear leg. Now the far

[07:49:56] to stand on the pad

[07:49:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that hand up there and put the high elbow in place, I [07:50:00] pull that hand down, I replace my primary hand,

[07:50:02] Gordon Ryan: when my partner's in a cowboy ride and both of

[07:50:05] my hands to

[07:50:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: either lock our hands or change grips and now we're ready to

[07:50:08] Gordon Ryan: much more

[07:50:08] goes to

[07:50:09] a slight

[07:50:09] [07:50:10] towards the ceiling the best

[07:50:10] for it

[07:50:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: her hands through.

[07:50:12] Gordon Ryan: can go in and start to hit a peak. As I walk to one side, my

[07:50:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: We go and we put a defensive hand in place. She goes to strangle[07:50:20]

[07:50:20] Gordon Ryan: a little

[07:50:20] exactly, I go back in the other

[07:50:21] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we go one, two,

[07:50:22] Gordon Ryan: and I just hit a misdirectional.

[07:50:24] But

[07:50:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: this, again, this is as your partner's locking,

[07:50:27] Gordon Ryan: use a

[07:50:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: when she has like a fully

[07:50:28] Gordon Ryan: Now from

[07:50:28] I would

[07:50:29] it's going to be [07:50:30] impossible

[07:50:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hard, much harder to do.

[07:50:31] We'll cover that later

[07:50:32] Gordon Ryan: from here, we

[07:50:32] all of our various

[07:50:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner's initially locking and setting everything in place,

[07:50:36] Gordon Ryan: as she goes

[07:50:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: bring the elbow down to our hips and we track our [07:50:40] partner's elbow.

[07:50:40] Gordon Ryan: she has control over

[07:50:41] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: can't just pull my elbow randomly back. I have to connect my elbow to my partner's

[07:50:45] Gordon Ryan: recommend going

[07:50:46] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: pull my right elbow down.

[07:50:48] Gordon Ryan: these are

[07:50:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to my hips, and I [07:50:50] expose my partner's elbow.

[07:50:51] Gordon Ryan: who's very good at following your

[07:50:53] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: What this does

[07:50:54] Gordon Ryan: to a four point off

[07:50:55] strong from

[07:50:56] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: is my elbow is in this position. If I just pull back, I'm pulling into the short end of the

[07:50:59] Gordon Ryan: our hands [07:51:00] to one

[07:51:00] feel like

[07:51:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I pull my elbow down to my hips to track my partner's elbow, and I expose the elbow,

[07:51:05] Gordon Ryan: a leg on top

[07:51:06] creating the upper back

[07:51:06] knee and we use

[07:51:07] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: as her hands come

[07:51:09] Gordon Ryan: My partner will always[07:51:10]

[07:51:10] Go

[07:51:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a thumb post in place.

[07:51:11] Gordon Ryan: our

[07:51:11] a way

[07:51:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hide our jaw like

[07:51:13] Gordon Ryan: very basic

[07:51:14] second I

[07:51:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: the elbow back, and now I go 1,

[07:51:16] Gordon Ryan: very good at following classical

[07:51:18] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: separate my partner's hands.

[07:51:19] Gordon Ryan: from [07:51:20] here,

[07:51:20] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: exposed for a high elbow guillotine,

[07:51:21] Gordon Ryan: is the hardest to

[07:51:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: it in.

[07:51:23] Gordon Ryan: We come around the corner, and we're ready to go in and start shelving our partner's

[07:51:27] go in and I

[07:51:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: We replace.

[07:51:28] Gordon Ryan: my own leg and

[07:51:29] stand completely[07:51:30]

[07:51:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: hand back

[07:51:30] Gordon Ryan: one thing I will say,

[07:51:31] use

[07:51:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: we're ready to

[07:51:32] Gordon Ryan: one more time.

[07:51:32] to

[07:51:33] From this

[07:51:33] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: our partner actually shoots an anaconda into

[07:51:35] Gordon Ryan: and we can use that same knee

[07:51:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: First thing we're going to look to

[07:51:37] Gordon Ryan: playing around.

[07:51:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: thumb post in and hide

[07:51:39] Gordon Ryan: to [07:51:40] one side.

[07:51:40] our elbow from the

[07:51:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: side of our neck

[07:51:41] Gordon Ryan: You're gonna end up face to

[07:51:43] Like so.

[07:51:43] We're gonna walk to one

[07:51:44] Um, so what do I mean

[07:51:45] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: it. I go 1, 2,

[07:51:47] Gordon Ryan: example, Yeah.

[07:51:48] We can use a combination

[07:51:49] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: myself for the high [07:51:50] elbow on the other

[07:51:50] Gordon Ryan: here,

[07:51:51] a nearside

[07:51:51] we catch one.

[07:51:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: that hand

[07:51:53] Gordon Ryan: our

[07:51:53] As we come

[07:51:54] however we

[07:51:54] everything good She goes nearside shoulder roll and I fall down and I end up in a situation like so

[07:51:58] When you're working

[07:51:59] here we're [07:52:00] grip fighting i'm using my legs.

[07:52:01] She's trying to get her elbow between myself and

[07:52:03] tons of different upper body

[07:52:04] my partner

[07:52:05] find ways to always pull my partner back in and create some kind

[07:52:08] In wrestling, this is a [07:52:10] pretty good

[07:52:10] different

[07:52:10] free, but I can always recover

[07:52:12] she sits down,

[07:52:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: looked

[07:52:13] Gordon Ryan: I can either take her

[07:52:14] these are the main

[07:52:15] get your back taken a few times, or I almost get the back, but she manages to get out in the way, and she goes [07:52:20] back to eternal, and she finds herself in a situation where I'm back internal position.

[07:52:24] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: this time

[07:52:24] Gordon Ryan: and now from here, she creates separation in the

[07:52:27] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: in from an initial

[07:52:28] Gordon Ryan: she goes to hit a maki komi roll, and she [07:52:30] almost gets me,

[07:52:30] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to this

[07:52:30] Gordon Ryan: just manage

[07:52:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: going to shoot her hands

[07:52:32] Gordon Ryan: we're looking

[07:52:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to the opposite

[07:52:33] Gordon Ryan: no penalty for my

[07:52:34] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: now she's going to take a forearm on top of my head, and lock her hands like so. We'll have to walk to an

[07:52:39] Gordon Ryan: uh, [07:52:40] working in a jutsu

[07:52:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: out on this side like

[07:52:41] Gordon Ryan: the elbow

[07:52:41] thing to scoot around

[07:52:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: second I

[07:52:43] Gordon Ryan: your back

[07:52:43] And she doesn't want to get dragged

[07:52:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: before the strangle is actually locked,

[07:52:46] Gordon Ryan: very, very

[07:52:47] a situation where you're trying to roll, you're trying to get out, you're [07:52:50] almost

[07:52:50] you

[07:52:50] will start to

[07:52:50] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: partner's goal from

[07:52:51] Gordon Ryan: find yourself in a position

[07:52:52] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my chin down to my chest

[07:52:54] Gordon Ryan: So you try to go

[07:52:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my right shoulder

[07:52:56] Gordon Ryan: he's so used

[07:52:56] crack down, try to go crotch lock and scoot past your partner's shoulder.

[07:52:59] he [07:53:00] can't get out

[07:53:00] then you feel,

[07:53:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I want, the second she locks up, to just build to my hands, and instead of

[07:53:04] Gordon Ryan: whenever I

[07:53:05] second the hip

[07:53:05] in a

[07:53:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I just look in the

[07:53:07] Gordon Ryan: down in bottom position and I'm dealing with someone. [07:53:10] They're covering my

[07:53:11] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just gonna look slightly left.

[07:53:12] Gordon Ryan: happen in

[07:53:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And now from here, as she

[07:53:14] Gordon Ryan: follows me. I move out of

[07:53:15] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just gonna look directly between my

[07:53:17] Gordon Ryan: I'm ready to go in and I stand up.

[07:53:19] So you

[07:53:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And then do a [07:53:20] forward roll

[07:53:21] Gordon Ryan: Crackdown in Jujutsu, and Crackdown in wrestling, are

[07:53:23] side shoulder rolls. And this gives

[07:53:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: always disrupt your partner's ability to lock a full triangle with her

[07:53:28] Gordon Ryan: people are worried about

[07:53:29] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if she follows [07:53:30] me through,

[07:53:30] Gordon Ryan: either just standing

[07:53:31] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: end up in no position to

[07:53:32] Gordon Ryan: rolling to

[07:53:32] and this will be all

[07:53:33] when you have the misdirection of standing

[07:53:35] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: her hands

[07:53:36] Gordon Ryan: rolling

[07:53:36] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she actually locks

[07:53:37] Gordon Ryan: but

[07:53:38] them in

[07:53:38] be in the

[07:53:38] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she actually locks her[07:53:40]

[07:53:40] Gordon Ryan: Two very

[07:53:40] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just come up to my two hands like so.

[07:53:42] Gordon Ryan: is a time

[07:53:42] I

[07:53:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I don't want is my elbow

[07:53:44] Gordon Ryan: use the

[07:53:44] Pete, can I get

[07:53:45] of the time

[07:53:45] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: across the center

[07:53:46] Gordon Ryan: standups to then go

[07:53:48] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my elbows by coming up to

[07:53:49] Gordon Ryan: As I [07:53:50] catch,

[07:53:50] or use the threat

[07:53:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: to knock me down to my hip now, it's difficult.

[07:53:53] Gordon Ryan: bill to a

[07:53:54] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: Now, she

[07:53:55] Gordon Ryan: to a standing position. Maybe,

[07:53:57] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: So I look slightly to my left in the opposite

[07:53:59] Gordon Ryan: go

[07:53:59] away,

[07:53:59] [07:54:00] you'll

[07:54:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And when I'm ready, I just roll directly over my head over two

[07:54:04] Gordon Ryan: her knees come off the floor, she

[07:54:05] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: goes to follow me from here again,

[07:54:06] Gordon Ryan: here, then I go right back into a roll, and she's not ready for

[07:54:09] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: [07:54:10] puts her in a

[07:54:10] Gordon Ryan: so we're playing around,

[07:54:11] on this side,

[07:54:12] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: no ability to lock her

[07:54:13] Gordon Ryan: up, she goes to follow me, we're

[07:54:14] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: here, she actually ends up in bottom

[07:54:15] Gordon Ryan: playing

[07:54:15] most people do

[07:54:16] in, I'm controlling my partner's hand, I go to build up, she goes to follow, [07:54:20] and I go right back into a roll, and we're out, and we've

[07:54:22] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: come through,

[07:54:23] Gordon Ryan: Okay, so, using the misdirection of the

[07:54:26] back up to

[07:54:26] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: goes to roll through

[07:54:27] Gordon Ryan: standing up will give you a much, will [07:54:30] make it much easier

[07:54:30] my partner builds

[07:54:31] to

[07:54:32] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: We're now from here.

[07:54:32] It's a pretty easy thing, even if I went to go lock up if she turns up to her knees,

[07:54:37] Gordon Ryan: bolt them

[07:54:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: course, I can still lock

[07:54:38] Gordon Ryan: now

[07:54:38] whatever

[07:54:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: But from [07:54:40] here, she can shoot her arm across my body.

[07:54:42] Gordon Ryan: game

[07:54:42] a high

[07:54:43] instead of my head coming up,

[07:54:44] or

[07:54:44] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And now from here, turn on top.

[07:54:45] Gordon Ryan: approach

[07:54:46] my knees will

[07:54:46] of just bolting on

[07:54:47] start

[07:54:48] are a couple of ways to do

[07:54:48] So the second I get her hands to [07:54:50] the floor

[07:54:50] the wrestling

[07:54:51] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: And now from here, she's out.

[07:54:52] Gordon Ryan: ones first are applicable to our sport.

[07:54:54] and outside

[07:54:55] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: if at any point I try to go re lock, she just quickly shoots the arm across,

[07:54:59] Gordon Ryan: he might [07:55:00] not even know what you're talking

[07:55:00] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: there's no Darce anymore,

[07:55:02] Gordon Ryan: it all

[07:55:02] Or if my head stays to the outside

[07:55:04] Um, and

[07:55:05] switch right to a double.

[07:55:06] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I see someone lock

[07:55:07] Gordon Ryan: goes to sit to crack down

[07:55:08] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: just come

[07:55:09] Gordon Ryan: simultaneously[07:55:10]

[07:55:10] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: She goes to go in. If she unlocks her hands,

[07:55:12] Gordon Ryan: guys, but for me as

[07:55:13] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: she does it and she tries to follow me,

[07:55:14] Gordon Ryan: and now

[07:55:15] partner has locked

[07:55:16] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: second I get here, I can't

[07:55:17] Gordon Ryan: recommend staying away from high

[07:55:19] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: I [07:55:20] immediately take my arm up and over.

[07:55:22] Gordon Ryan: as it is in wrestling.

[07:55:23] traditional

[07:55:23] use inside methods, inside leg methods,

[07:55:25] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: unlocks

[07:55:26] Gordon Ryan: kind of disconnection,

[07:55:27] Okay.

[07:55:28] the differences in

[07:55:28] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: in perfect position now [07:55:30] to start going

[07:55:31] Gordon Ryan: here, as I step the inside leg up, I use my right foot as a drive leg to just raise my

[07:55:37] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: very basic. Thank

[07:55:38] Gordon Ryan: with

[07:55:38] and as I

[07:55:39] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: my partner locks the [07:55:40] darts, as she gets to shoot her hands through,

[07:55:41] Gordon Ryan: 1,

[07:55:42] TheFoundationofOffenseTurtleFrontHeadLockEscapesbyGordonRyan1.mp4: a wedge over the top of my

[07:55:43] Gordon Ryan: and I just pop up to my left foot.

[07:55:45] So I lean to one side, and we go 1, 2, and this all happens almost [07:55:50] simultaneously.

[07:55:50] with the near side

[07:55:52] And we stand up, and we move to a four point position like

[07:55:54] up, things like

[07:55:55] okay? We go inside leg stand up. So the inside leg comes up first,[07:56:00]

[07:56:00] two hands with fall strips over my

[07:56:02] I use this as a drive leg. The drive leg is to raise my hips

[07:56:06] and submit

[07:56:06] Because now my partner has no ability to arm drag or thumb post

[07:56:09] as

[07:56:09] [07:56:10] that. I can't

[07:56:10] comes up, my hands come up,

[07:56:11] she has no ability to do any of the front headlock escapes, where I have a head and arm controlled.

[07:56:15] And,

[07:56:16] go inside leg

[07:56:17] impossible now. Because now, she has no access to my [07:56:20] elbows like she does here. Here, when she goes to peek out, she can access my elbow with hers,

[07:56:24] a rabbit

[07:56:25] throw me forward.

[07:56:26] one,

[07:56:27] short elbows,

[07:56:28] you can escape

[07:56:28] two, hands come out.[07:56:30]

[07:56:30] she goes to one side and her

[07:56:32] rise, my

[07:56:32] headlock to

[07:56:33] up, and I use this drive leg to

[07:56:35] the elbow because of the grips over the back of my partner's

[07:56:37] up and you're wrestling.

[07:56:38] So whenever I

[07:56:38] pretty fun and pretty

[07:56:39] a [07:56:40] four point

[07:56:40] my partner

[07:56:41] pod for wrestlers.

[07:56:42] in my triceps like so,

[07:56:43] An outside

[07:56:44] stay in turtle and I wait for her

[07:56:45] partner's behind me.

[07:56:46] and as she goes

[07:56:47] here, again, this is when I can't create disconnection of the [07:56:50] hips. And, there's weight on the near leg. So I can't step the inside leg up.

[07:56:54] going to come up with me and I start walking backwards And now as you guys start changing your grips to a front head or [07:57:00] whatever the other Grips we're going

[07:57:01] This time, I push off my right knee to lean weight onto my left

[07:57:05] of

[07:57:05] but as of right now whenever i've

[07:57:07] as I lean weight onto my left foot, I use [07:57:10] that.

[07:57:10] we've done this to one another and I

[07:57:11] To raise my hips. So I drive off my right

[07:57:15] hopefully you guys

[07:57:15] they've done that

[07:57:16] drive off my left

[07:57:16] pretty much as always

[07:57:17] right knee comes up so there's no more weightless [07:57:20] leg.

[07:57:20] in order to actually hit an

[07:57:21] Or so there's no more weighted right

[07:57:23] you go to peek out and she has short narrow elbows, it's hard for you to peek out from here It's hard for you to misdirect. You can't post you [07:57:30] can't access your partner's legs. You can't post on the hip It's very hard for you to do anything from

[07:57:33] I didn't know

[07:57:33] So without her, we come in,

[07:57:35] to my knowledge, there's not much

[07:57:37] just try to step my right knee up, it's gonna be hard.

[07:57:39] if [07:57:40] they have a grip on the triceps And, uh, they've very

[07:57:44] Two, three.

[07:57:45] very narrow elbows.

[07:57:46] So you lean the weight to the left

[07:57:47] stay in turtle

[07:57:48] I never

[07:57:48] Left foot pushes

[07:57:49] [07:57:50] change their grips to try to

[07:57:50] the hip off the floor.

[07:57:52] that, we have 110 pounds

[07:57:54] anyone Olympic level is watching this, um, or sees this clip and has

[07:57:58] to lock a body triangle.

[07:57:59] solid

[07:57:59] [07:58:00] How can you lock

[07:58:00] using to get out of here. I'd love

[07:58:02] That's the max I can lock it. Did I ask you to lock a body triangle at all? You did one time.

[07:58:07] We've been through pretty much all the front headlock

[07:58:09] I ask you to [07:58:10] lock a body

[07:58:10] Um, and again, there are, if you start talking about

[07:58:13] one more time with her behind me. Whether she has a chest lock, whether she has a hand on the floor. And we're up.

[07:58:19] And the other one[07:58:20]

[07:58:20] Whether she has

[07:58:21] lock

[07:58:21] getting away

[07:58:22] That's how you

[07:58:23] of various

[07:58:24] so I'm going to do a lot more of that stuff, a lot of chain wrestling

[07:58:27] He's too

[07:58:27] And finally, this

[07:58:29] was a little

[07:58:29] is what [07:58:30] I call tripod pop, okay? Where my partner

[07:58:33] Uh. You see that?

[07:58:34] leaning on my hips, she has a connection of her hips

[07:58:37] I didn't want to get too off topic today But I gave you guys some

[07:58:39] you guys.

[07:58:39] [07:58:40] She has

[07:58:40] This is how a

[07:58:41] arm, she has a chest lock, whatever the case is, I bump my partner forwards, okay? I find that this is best done

[07:58:48] if we

[07:58:49] When your partner has [07:58:50] any grip besides a rear chest lock, but it can work with a rear chest

[07:58:53] And I

[07:58:53] stop go behinds

[07:58:54] She goes rear chest lock.

[07:58:56] And if at any time we can accept

[07:58:58] my partner [07:59:00] out and away from my hips.

[07:59:01] And then I raise my hips up slightly to get her going forward towards my

[07:59:05] better than you're having your partner go behind you and being halfway to your

[07:59:08] Enough

[07:59:09] [07:59:10] slightly towards my partner and then

[07:59:12] Bye guys!

[07:59:13] my shoulders.

[07:59:14] to a body triangle, and then your back's taken

[07:59:16] As my hands As my knees pop up, [07:59:20] my two hands hit the floor.

[07:59:21] or, uh, or a turtle position where my partner goes behind me,

[07:59:26] As my partner moves forward towards my shoulders, the [07:59:30] momentum will pull my elbows off the floor.

[07:59:32] just in terms of good jiu jitsu We always want to look to

[07:59:35] And now, we're up and ready to go.

[07:59:37] in a front headlock, or sit to guard, roll to guard,[07:59:40]

[07:59:40] Even easier, is if she has a back head and arm.

[07:59:42] position.

[07:59:43] And depending on scoring

[07:59:44] I bring my partner forwards,

[07:59:46] we can look to stand up and do

[07:59:47] And now, I tuck my jaw. [07:59:50] inside the strangle arm.

[07:59:51] But we looked at

[07:59:51] So I don't have to worry about the strangle anymore.

[07:59:53] and looked at a

[07:59:55] Because she's so far forward, there's no threat of a strangle. That's why I can take my primary defensive hand off

[07:59:59] the guard and we [08:00:00] go

[08:00:00] So she's in here.

[08:00:01] that.

[08:00:01] And traditional

[08:00:02] If she's out this far, then I can just tripod, then I can just four point up. But she's behind

[08:00:06] a mix of the two. I don't think that you can get by.

[08:00:09] here,[08:00:10]

[08:00:10] I

[08:00:10] go towards my partner, like so. I bump her forwards.

[08:00:15] classical Jiu Jitsu moves and I don't think you're going to reach the sport's full potential if you just use[08:00:20]

[08:00:20] like so, and then we're ready to

[08:00:21] you have to have a combination

[08:00:22] If she's out this far,

[08:00:23] take things from wrestling and implement

[08:00:25] there's no reason why I want, I can't just reach over

[08:00:27] I think that's what

[08:00:28] and use the inside leg series.[08:00:30]

[08:00:30] Or,

[08:00:31] going to see the same thing here in turtle position in a minute when we start

[08:00:33] when she gets a strong old beat from here,

[08:00:34] both classical re guards from turtle position as well as

[08:00:38] her hand always comes to the

[08:00:39] wrestling.

[08:00:39] [08:00:40] So, the backhand and arm, if she's out that far, it's a pretty easy thing to just come forwards and pop up like so. [08:00:50] Okay, so that's one, it's the one that I, I actually use the most. And it's just a matter of bumping, let's go tight weights this time, tight hand on the floor.[08:01:00]

[08:01:00] Just a matter of bumping my partner slightly to the side, and then my hips rise to get our weight going forward. And as my, [08:01:10] the second my hips come forward, my hands go to the floor.

[08:01:15] And we're up. And now from here, we can start. [08:01:20] Playing around and working for escapes. So, three ways to go into a four point. Uh, inside leg, outside leg, and just bumping your partner forward from a [08:01:30] situation where you're in a turtle position, and you go from a tripod right up to a four point.

[08:01:38] Alright, so there's really only [08:01:40] one scenario where you just shouldn't be four pointing. Um, and that's when your partner has you in a cowboy run and has your hips covered. Why is this? You [08:01:50] can four point in any other position Besides when your partner has your hips covered [08:02:00] Now when you do four point understand there are crucifix dangers whether your partner's whatever leg position your partner has whether she has two knees on the floor And a chest lock for example [08:02:10] Let's say when I go in and I four point no matter where you four point from your partner you can always hook your arm, you can start to run into problems here.[08:02:20]

[08:02:20] Whether she has her rear knee down and her top leg up, I can always forepoint from these positions, right? But, [08:02:30] there's always a chance that my arm is gonna get compromised, or my partner's gonna go and throw hooks in, but you can forepoint without immediately getting scored [08:02:40] on. There's one position I don't recommend forepointing from, right?

[08:02:43] I'm not going to say you can't do it, but I don't recommend it because against a good guy, they're going to immediately throw hooks in and immediately get a score. [08:02:50] That's when your hips are covered in a cowboy rod. And why is that? When your partner's behind you and you're in a turtle position, they're covering the [08:03:00] hips.

[08:03:00] You have no ability to really monitor your partner's hands from here. The second my hips come forward and I go to pop up to, uh, pop up to my feet and to my hands, [08:03:10] my partner's immediately going to throw two hooks in. The second one leg comes up, if I go one leg at a time, then she just puts a hook in, [08:03:20] and now there's one hook in already.

[08:03:21] That's no good. So, the only way that I can do this is by bumping her forwards and by popping her up to two feet. But [08:03:30] the second I do that, she just throws two hooks in and she puts double underhooks in and locks a chest lock, and you get a score on every single time. Okay, even me being so much bigger [08:03:40] and stronger.

[08:03:41] than her. If she covers my hips sufficiently, the second I try to bump her off, if she just gets two arms locked under my shoulders, the two hooks are going to come in. [08:03:50] It's, there's just no way. So, the one time I don't recommend you four point is when your hips are sufficiently covered and your partner can immediately just throw two [08:04:00] hooks in on either side.

[08:04:01] I don't ever recommend building to a four point under our rules when your partner can just put two hooks in and score and then. you're down [08:04:10] three or four points and your partner's on your back attacking your neck.

[08:04:17] All right, let's look at now when to forepoint. [08:04:20] You can forepoint basically in any single other position than your partner being in a cowboy rod, okay? If your partner's knees are on the floor, if your partner has a [08:04:30] back head and arm, partner has a chest lock, any position besides your partner covering your hips completely and having their two knees off the floor with your hips between their knees, [08:04:40] you can four point it.

[08:04:41] Okay, you can also four point if your partner has one hook in to escape having them having one hook. Um, and we're gonna look at that a little bit later, but just want [08:04:50] to make sure that when you're thinking about this escape wise, you're thinking, okay, am I okay to four point here? If your hips are covered in a cowboy rod, don't four point.

[08:04:59] In [08:05:00] any other scenario, you can, sure, you're gonna open yourself up because you're naturally bringing your knees and your elbows away from each other, but you also increase your chances. You give yourself [08:05:10] more potential for movement and more chance to escape. So any other position than your partner having a cowboy rod with your hips covered and [08:05:20] between their knees, it's okay to four point from, and you won't immediately get scored on.

[08:05:24] All right, so just thinking about it like this. If I find a cowboy ride, partners covering my hips, don't [08:05:30] forepoint. With any other hand position, leg position, any combination you can think of, it's okay to forepoint out.

[08:05:39] All [08:05:40] right, um, this is gonna be a favorite, my favorite clip of the, favorite clip of the day because, uh, I'll get to make fun of how bad Kynan sucks again, like I always do. Um, I [08:05:50] actually escaped, uh, Kynan's back head norm from Turtle with this exact move, so I'm gonna show it to you right now. Um, He was too dumb to realize that if his hips [08:06:00] were on top of mine, he had a backhand arm, he was gonna fall off the top.

[08:06:02] But, we'll look at what actually happened. So, Kainan was behind me, and he had a back [08:06:10] headed arm, and he had his, his, uh, his left knee, or in this case, if it, I don't know if it was this, I'm pretty sure it was this side, his left knee on top of my back, like over my back, [08:06:20] like so, okay? Whenever you're in this position, I have to have a primary defensive hand, assuming we're in this position, but if I bump my partner forward, and I get her moving towards [08:06:30] my shoulders, like so, Now, you're in a position, I'm just gonna stay on my back.

[08:06:36] Now you're in a position, where if she unlocks her hands to try to [08:06:40] strangle me, she's gonna fall off the top. So she's committed now to keeping the back of her arm, because of the fact that she'll fall off the top. The only thing [08:06:50] she can do from there, Right. If she can post her hand on the floor and not fall, and now there's no threat of a strangle.

[08:06:57] So when I bump my partner this far forward, [08:07:00] this is one of the exceptions to the rule, where I don't have to have a primary defensive hand in place now. Okay? So from this position, we actually ended up, it was during a scramble, kinda ended here, [08:07:10] and from here, I bumped him forward, and you see I use a very, uh, narrow base with my hand.

[08:07:16] And I used this, what I call, tripod bump, to pop up to a four point, [08:07:20] and then walk backwards. Okay? So from here, he tried to stay too high, with the backhand arm, huge mistake by him, I just bumped him forwards, he tried his [08:07:30] best to hold on,

[08:07:34] and he fell off the top. What actually ended up happening, as he realized he was going over, he tried to stand [08:07:40] up, so you're gonna post your hand this time, and try to stay up, I went to a scoop grip on his near leg, and I actually ran him down to the floor. What happened was, we were here. I bumped him forward.

[08:07:49] He [08:07:50] felt he was going off. He was here. I built up to my hands. I backed away and I caught a scoop grip and I ran him down to the floor [08:08:00] and then passed his guard, mounted him, took his back and finished it. Um, but, uh, this is the escape that, that we did there. So he's got a back and an arm [08:08:10] like, so, and he's way too high in the hips.

[08:08:13] This is, you should never be pulling here. Okay. From here, I had two hands on the floor, I just bumped him forward, [08:08:20] and I used that bump to take me forwards and take my elbows off the ground.

[08:08:28] And then you just back away, back away, back [08:08:30] away. And in my case, I backed away enough to where he fell off, I scooped the leg, and I ran him forward. So anytime your partner has a backhanded arm, using a [08:08:40] tripod bump to bring him forward is a great option because of the fact that there's one exception to the rule, and your partner is so far forward in this position, particular position, you don't [08:08:50] have to have a primary defensive hand in place or any defensive hands.

[08:08:53] Because if your partner at any point, let's go of the back head and arm and tries to strangle you, they're guaranteed to fall off sooner than [08:09:00] later. Okay? So you bump your partner forward. And as they're coming forward, you use that momentum to take you weight from your hips onto your elbows, [08:09:10] onto your hands, and then off your elbows and off your knees and onto your feet.

[08:09:15] We bump our partner forward, and we back away, and [08:09:20] your partner will always fall off the top. All

[08:09:27] right, so now we're in a four point quad pod. [08:09:30] I'm not gonna go crazy here. There are tons of options. Uh, we're not in a turtle position anymore, so I'm not gonna get too in depth here. This is more scrimmage wrestling than it is [08:09:40] escaping turtle, but I'll give you some basic options. Once I build to a four point, a lot of the principles remain the same.

[08:09:48] I can't do [08:09:50] nearside shoulder rolls or gramby if my opponent has a strong connection. Uh, to my upper back with their chest through a claw grip, um, [08:10:00] and things like that. Uh, actually you saw a clear example of this, uh, Philip Rowe four pointed against me and I had a [08:10:10] thigh pry and a claw and he tried to do a nearside shoulder roll and I just followed him because of the upper back, uh, uh, of the upper back and chest connection.

[08:10:18] Um, so a lot of [08:10:20] the principles remain the same. Some are different because you're in a slightly different position from here. So let's see what some of our options are. When we're in a four point, and our [08:10:30] partner's out to the side of us, like so, our first and most basic is just to walk our hands to our feet and stand up.

[08:10:39] So she's [08:10:40] probably going to be somewhere out here, or behind me, or she's going to be plying from here, most of the time more up to the side. Okay, and from here, I can just walk my hands [08:10:50] into my feet, and I can shoot a leg forward and stand up. Now there are many ways to stand up, we're not going to get into those, but our first basic option [08:11:00] is just to stand up from here.

[08:11:01] Okay, so I walk my hands in, she, uh, she follows me most likely, walk with me, and now from here I just shoot the [08:11:10] leg forward and I stand straight up on my feet and start fighting hands. Another great option is we come through and we can look to [08:11:20] shoulder roll. So I look, start building up, I build to a four point, I create motion, and then from here I just take a cross step, With my leg, I shoot my arm across, [08:11:30] and we hit a Granby across our shoulders, and we end up facing our partner.

[08:11:37] So we can go nearside shoulder roll options.[08:11:40]

[08:11:42] So I look to create motion from here. As I look to create some motion,[08:11:50]

[08:11:50] we hit Granby, and now we're ready to go in and attack our partner. If my partner has a claw, for example, we can do nearside shoulder rolls, [08:12:00] just as we did before, but this time, we again, trap our partner's, uh, our partner's elbow. So we come in, she goes to keep base, [08:12:10] we roll through, and now we end up in the same position we were in before.

[08:12:15] We have Kimura, and we're ready to go. If at any [08:12:20] point, we see that

[08:12:25] Go up, lock in. At any point, we can go in and we can trap [08:12:30] our partner's leg, like so. We can catch, and we can spin, and we can use the same inside leg series. So we can use many of the same things [08:12:40] we used in the grounded turtle position as we can in the form point. And again, this is not turtle anymore.

[08:12:47] This is more scrimmage, wrestling, wrestling. [08:12:50] There's tons of things I can show you from here, but we're getting kind of off topic. Those are some basic ones. Standing up, shoulder rolling, near side, far side. You can roll into your partner's [08:13:00] legs. You can do a ton of other things from there. All right, but your basic idea is standing to, getting to a four point and using your four point as a means to create more motion for your partner.

[08:13:09] [08:13:10] towards an escape.

[08:13:15] All right, so we looked at head first stand ups and we looked at hip first [08:13:20] stand ups. All right, these are meant to either get us completely up to the feet or used to generate motion so that our partner chases us in [08:13:30] one direction and we can create kizushi and misdirection to then then use our classical jitsu rolling escapes near side or far side shoulder.

[08:13:37] Okay. If you're in, [08:13:40] um, a ruleset, for example, like, uh, IBJJF, and you get taken down. If you get taken down and your butt's on the floor, two [08:13:50] points. If you get taken down and you're a turtle, two points. If you get taken down and you're on your one knee, it's two points. The only way there's no score is if you get taken down, and [08:14:00] before the three seconds, you immediately lose your score.

[08:14:03] Turn belly down and forepoint and move out and away. So these are very important positions in both [08:14:10] wrestling, in fighting, and in specific rulesets in the sport of Jiu Jitsu. IBJJF and ADCC particularly are very important [08:14:20] being able to fight out of forepoint and fight out of, uh, fight out of turtle position and front headlock, obviously.

[08:14:25] Um, so the standing escapes, We can go either head [08:14:30] first, where our head pops up first and we athletically pop up to our feet right away. Or we can go hips first, where our hips come up first and our head stays low. And then we later build to vertical posture with the head. [08:14:40] Or we go into rolling escapes.

[08:14:41] Okay? And we looked at ways to use inside and outside leg stand ups. To use referee position, to use tripod stand ups, um, to use [08:14:50] four points. And pretty much everything, every different kind of stand up you can use, we used. Okay? Um, so. Now we're going to go into, we're going to [08:15:00] connect all the dots for these, uh, all these escapes, nearside shoulder rolls, farside, farside shoulder rolls, head first standups, and hips [08:15:10] first standups.

[08:15:10] Then we're going to look at what happens if our partner gets one hook and we're in a turtle position. What can we do?[08:15:20]

[08:15:20] All right. So before we go into one hook, one hook, one hook being inserted, what do we have here? We essentially have Escapes ranging [08:15:30] from nearside shoulder rolls to far side shoulder rolls, which are your typical classical jiu jitsu escapes. Okay. Once we get those down, [08:15:40] then we build into your classical wrestling standups.

[08:15:46] Okay. Now these are a little bit different because obviously there's threats to missions, [08:15:50] but we can use classical wrestling escapes to stand up, whether we go head first, or whether we go head first. hips first. Now, the onus [08:16:00] is on you, and myself as well, as students of the sport, to be able to use each of these escapes in the appropriate time, okay?

[08:16:09] What's [08:16:10] going to get you out of a high level player who's very good at attacking and controlling turtle position is not going to be single [08:16:20] handedly relying on classical jiu jitsu escapes, Or, relying solely on the ability to stand up and get away from [08:16:30] your partner using classical wrestling escapes. You have to be able to integrate the two.

[08:16:35] You have to understand that there are no points for back exposure in the sport of [08:16:40] Jiu Jitsu. So it doesn't matter if your back gets held on the floor for two seconds. It doesn't matter if you get pinned briefly without getting scored on. It doesn't matter. It doesn't even [08:16:50] matter most of the time if you actually end up in your back and you end up mounted.

[08:16:53] What matters is the guy gets two hooks in, now your back's taken, now you're getting strangled. So anytime you can expose your back to the floor in whatever [08:17:00] fashion, whether it be accepting a bottom pin or whether it be briefly to then keep the motion going and work towards an escape, it doesn't matter if your back's exposed to the floor.

[08:17:09] In most [08:17:10] cases, if you're talking about just technical good jiu jitsu, not talking about points, rule sets, or anything like that. and you have to be able [08:17:20] to go up and down, side to side, back and forth in order to off balance and misdirect. I'm not going to be able to just go [08:17:30] in if I'm behind her. She's not gonna be able to just go in and start expecting to roll over her shoulder with one motion.

[08:17:38] There's no feints, there's no nothing, there's no off [08:17:40] balances. She can't just expect to roll over the near side shoulder and not get scored on. She can't just expect to roll over the far side shoulder [08:17:50] and not get beat from here. And when you start combining things, like we're here, she's behind me, she has a tight waist.

[08:17:59] [08:18:00] I go to fake the near side shoulder. She goes to move out of the way. Now I go to stand up. I go in, we're playing here. I go to stand up, she goes to follow me. [08:18:10] She goes to raise her body up in a way to beat me. And then we go in and we start rolling through. You have to be able to go up and [08:18:20] down, side to side, back and forth.

[08:18:23] You can't just expect to go side to side, rolling side to side, and expect to be a high level player there. You're never going to escape. They're going to [08:18:30] stick to you like glue. You have to be able to go hips first, Head first, near side, far side shoulder. You have to be able to use these in unison if you expect to [08:18:40] escape anybody high level.

[08:18:41] You can't just do classical standing escapes. If I know you're going to get up every time, I can keep you down. If I know you're going to roll every time, I can say chest to back. But if I don't know whether or not [08:18:50] you're going to go up or down, or whether you're going to roll to this side or that side, or whether you're going to bring your hips up first, your head up first, I don't know, it's so much to follow, it's so hard to keep up with.

[08:18:59] So you have to [08:19:00] be good at all of these, at least competent at all of these, to give the top guy a threat of all of them, and that will make escaping much more easy.