How to Escape The Lockdown Without Damaging Your ACL. Three excellent techniques for safely escaping from the lockdown and passing half guard.
Category: Half Guard Passes
Passing Half Guard
Half guard is essentially a neutral position. Sweeps, Passes and Submissions are available to both top and bottom position. So if you find yourself caught in somebody’s half guard it’s no time to relax. You’ll want to pin them on their back; don’t let them stay up on their elbow. Once you’ve flattened them out you’ll need to stop them burrowing underneath you ideally with a underhook. From here you can start to pass.
How to do the Tightest D’arce Choke Edwin Najmi teaches us how to move from top position in half guard to lock up a terrifyingly tight D’arce Choke. The big tip here is, once your in position, clench your elbows together to tighten up your D’arce. This one tip will save you a huge amount […]
See How Marcelo Garcia Passes Half Guard & Attacks With a Triangle Widely considered to be one of the best to ever do it. Marcelo Garcia takes us through the half guard pass to triangle choke combo that helped him win the ADCC World Championship in 2011. Before Marcelo even starts to pass he first […]
Turn Defence into Attack Why settle for simply passing half guard when you can grab a sneaky kimura as well? Tom breaks it down in an easy to understand video. How to use a Kimura to pass half guard. Start by bring your free leg in close to his cutting out his space to […]
Half Guard Pass Variations John Danaher explains how to pass a strong half guard in incredible detail with several variations. 7:25 Crossface pass to 3/4 mount when underhooked 10:05 3/4 mount crossface pass 12:15 Crossface pass to 3/4 mount repeat 14:25 Back up to failed 3/4 mount pass 19:05 Crossface lateral movement importance
Use The Lockdown & Take the Back While Passing Half Guard We’ve all been stuck trying to pass a strong half guard, struggling to free that leg. How about don’t? Joe Rogan shows off his favorite half guard pass. Instead of struggling to free the leg, Joe uses the lock down to, then rolls to […]
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5 Half Guard Passes
Tripod Passes From Half Guard Gustavo Gasperin shows us 5 great tripod passes from Half Guard.