Category: Techniques

I'm going to share some technique with you. Hopefully you'll find something that it is helpful.

How to prevent the stack pass when going for the triangle



A closed guard sequence pieced together from many sources

Coming up through the ranks, one of the things that gave me the most satisfaction was hitting the armbar from the bottom of closed guard. It didn’t happen that much though. Whenever I would grab the wrist and tricep, my opponents would go into hyper defense mode. It wasn’t until I learned the power of …

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Ye shall NOT choke me with that thar ezekiel

Let’s talk about a problem that I experienced often while playing underhook half coming up through the ranks. One of the first lessons I ever learned for half guard was that I had to always fight for the underhook. I was a good student (in this at least), so I paid attention and implemented it …

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Reverse figure four shoulder lock grip variations



Two tweaks for a more vicious triangle choke finish