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Steve shows a drill to strengthen your butterfly hooks. His partner stands above him and Steve places both hooks behind the knee. His partner steps back with one leg, and Steve uses his hook to pull himself back to his partner.
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Using his body posture concept, Steve shows a drill to practice a continuous movement. With his hooks in place, he pulls himself to his opponent and balls his body up as he rolls back, lifting his opponent off the ground. He extends his legs away, and repeats the drill down the line.Add to Favorites 645 Remove From Favorites 2211 days ago
Guest Instructor Daniel Campos begins in a knee shield guard position with his opponent putting pressure on his knee shield. Daniel opens his knee to the side, creating space and the angle for him to swim his other knee behind his opponent's knee for the first X-guard hook. He grabs the pants and closes his elbow to keep the leg trapped. Next he moves his knee shield to hook behind the far thigh, creating his second X-guard hook, stretches his legs and sits up into his X-guard.Add to Favorites 1668 Remove From Favorites 2827 days ago
Robson starts from the full guard, controlling both sleeve grips, and opens his guard to escape his hips. With his foot in the hip, he pulls the same side arm, making sure his opponent can't make a grip. Robson now brings his other foot inside the legs to make the first butterfly hook, and at the same time, sits up, swimming his arm underneath the armpit. Now he takes the foot off the hip and puts his leg underneath his opponent's legs, as he shoves the sleeve grip arm between the legs, and lifts his opponent with his hook. Now his opponent is off balance, and Robson can start to work his butterfly techniques.Add to Favorites 1440 Remove From Favorites 3838 days ago
Xande teaches in depth how to counter the torreando pass with the modified arm drag. The key to this counter is to shift your hips to the side and redirect your opponent's passing energy. Without moving your hips to the side, the arm drag is nearly impossible because you will be fighting your opponent's entire weight with only your arms.Add to Favorites 1230 Remove From Favorites 3905 days ago
Xande covers a simple but very common mistake that people have when trying to transition from the flattened half guard or butterfly to a more offensive position. By creating base in a proper manner, it will be more difficult for your opponent to disrupt the base.Add to Favorites 1044 Remove From Favorites 3906 days ago
In this lesson Xande stresses the importance of keeping your head under your opponent's chin and having a high grip on their back with the double underhooks to stay glued chest to chest with your opponent. It is beneficial to stay glued to your opponent in this position as you will have more opportunities to off balance and attack your opponent.Add to Favorites 2105 Remove From Favorites 3925 days ago
Rico explains how to control the distance and attack your opponent from the z guard or half guard knee shield position with the rollover sweep or omoplata. Afterwards he explains that he switches between the knee shield, spider guard, butterfly guard, and classic open depending on the distance as well as whether his opponent is standing or on their knees. If your opponent is on both knees, a half spider or butterfly guard may make more sense while a classic open, spider guard, or de la riva guard will work more effectively against a standing opponent.Add to Favorites 1426 Remove From Favorites 3957 days ago
Xande teaches the side to side guard recovery drill movement. This drill is great for learning the proper way to shift your hips and replace your legs to defend against the single under leg pass.Add to Favorites 904 Remove From Favorites 3990 days ago
In this chapter we learn how to pass the butterfly guard and we start with a lesson on how to distribute your weight to neutralize the butterfly hooks when your opponent attempts to sweep you.Add to Favorites 2089 Remove From Favorites 4057 days ago
Jeff Glover teaches an arm drag or rollover sweep combination counter to the torreada pass that he has been using since he was a blue belt. It's important to maintain a firm grip and stiff arm your opponent's sleeve to keep their arm stretched out and create the space to transition into the arm drag or rollover sweep.Add to Favorites 624 Remove From Favorites 4059 days ago
Saulo teaches two ways to pass the flattened butterfly with the sprawl pass and the hip switch pass. We learn to assume the tiger stance to distribute weight and move laterally to neutralize out opponent's hooks and pass the guard.