From top turtle or sprawl with the far side kimura grip, rotate one's inner calf under one's center line to effectively sit backwards on one's butt. (The other leg should be up on one's foot and providing a solid post.) While sitting, pull the opponent such that they rotate backwards with their head trapped on one's chest. This will leave them on ( Read more... )

When the opponent has one in the half guard and one cannot get the underhook, one can (may even have to) backstep to prevent the sweep. A standard approach is to acquire the opposite crossface while or before backstepping and use one's leg/hip weight to pin the opponent flat with the backstepped foot/leg providing stability as a post. During this ( Read more... )

Keep confusing the actual definition with the common misconception. Probably because I don't intuititvely fully understand confidence intervals but that's a topic to dive into in more detail later. In any event, the misconception is that the population parameter falls within a given interval X% of the time. This is false because the parameter is ( Read more... )

When the opponent has a tight z-guard (half-guard / knee shield), do not push forward nor try to go through their knee. Thread the opponent's legs in a leg weave and secure a cross grip on the opponent's bottom knee. Press down with that arm in the weave and posture up. Open up one's hips and rise from kneeling on the untrapped leg. Simultaneously ( Read more... )

Use a CROSS grip on opponent's wrist on the same side as the leg one is attacking. Push it away from one's body and through their center-line to the ground. Use it as a post with one's outside leg to come up and lighten one's hips and inside leg. Hook the opponent's foot deep inside one's inside leg's crook of the knee (NOT low on one's calf, or ( Read more... )

Step just a little bit to the dangerous side while pressing down with the trapped arm thereby rolling one's opponent's hips to their side. One will need to rotate one's trapped arm's elbow outward in order to press one's bottom forearm against the opponent's thigh. Once in position, use the free arm to push the opponent's foot and ankle off one's ( Read more... )

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In order to break the hand on ankle grip, use a deep lunge at an outward angle to pop the hook out. Once it's out, continue pressing to pressure their thigh down on top of their wrist thereby trapping the opponent's arm/wrist/hand. Reach down past one's hip/thigh and simply pull their wrist to break their grip. Move directly into an X-pass or knee ( Read more... )

* Against a flat opponent without ankle grips, one can use the standard chest/hip pressure plus donkey kick X-pass with great effectiveness.
* Against a sitting up opponent either in motion or without a well-established postural structure, initiating the X-pass works well since the opponent has no solid base and can be pushed backwards and spun

* Breaking the opponent's posture is critical since it's what enables one to establish control of their center of gravity. For example, during a knee slice pass, if one has no grips on the opponent's upper body, they can maintain posture and keep their center of gravity lower on one's body and centered over their own hips. They can position their ( Read more... )