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Category: Sweeps

BJJ Sweeps

On the ground a sweep is a move that takes you from a guard position to top control. While from a standing position a sweep is a move uses your legs to ‘sweep’ your opponents legs and take them down.

  • Scissor Sweep From Spider Guard to Triangle Choke

    Scissor Sweep From Spider Guard to Triangle Choke

    Hit this Scissor Sweep from Spider Guard. If they post Triangle Choke them.

    Starting from spider guard. On your back. With a sleeve grip (your right hand on your opponent’s left hand). Your right foot pushing into your opponent’s left bicep (just above the elbow). Your left arm gripping their right sleeve. Lasso their right arm by putting your left leg over the arm then back under the armpit (without releasing the sleeve grip). Use the foot of your left leg as a hook on their upper back.

    Then keeping shin pressure against their side, shift you hips and bring your left foot down. Breaking their posture and bending them forward. Switch your left hand from the sleeve grip to a collar grip. This gives you control of their posture. Pulling down with your left arm fully extend your right leg. This will be unpleasant for your opponent. It creates a lot of pressure on the bicep. Most opponents will drop to their right knee at this stage and look to use their left knee to break your sleeve grip. Once they are on their knee you no longer need your left leg to control them. Take this free leg and swing it back towards your head. Then pivoting on to your left hip push up hard with your right foot in the bicep (this makes your opponent light) as you simultaneously swing your left leg through in a scissor sweep.

    Sweep or Choke

    One of two things will happen at this point. Either you will get the scissor sweep and can move to top position. Or if they are quick, they’ll post their right arm. Avoiding being swept. But in position for your Triangle.

    As soon as they post use your left leg to reverse shrimp. pulling your hips towards them. Switch you hips back to a level position, and the shoot your right leg over their shoulder locking the ankle under your left knee for the Triangle. Push the trapped arm across to the opposite side and pull the head as your squeeze to finish the choke.

  • 3 Hook Sweep Variations

    3 Hook Sweep Variations

    3 Variations on The Hook Sweep Including a Straight Armbar.

    Steve Campbell first explains how to do a classic hook sweep. If your opponent manages to post an arm stopping the sweep. Then Steve teaches how to transition smoothly into a straight armbar. Should your opponent be aware of the threat of the armbar and turn their hand palm up avoiding the armbar. Then Steve has a third variation that flows from the failed armbar back into a hook sweep.

     

     

     

  • Classic Hook Sweep of Standing Opponent

    Classic Hook Sweep of Standing Opponent

    This Hook Sweep Is Great in a Street Fight.

    Ryron and Rener Gracie explain how to do a classic hook sweep from open guard against a standing opponent. This video may have been filmed with a potato but the content is gold. This is a great basic sweep that comes up a lot for lower belts (or in a street fight apparently.)

     

     

  • What to Do With Your Legs in a Hook Sweep

    What to Do With Your Legs in a Hook Sweep

    Perfect your Hook Sweep With These Simple Tips.

    John Danaher explains the role of each leg in a hooking sweep. The power is in the bottom leg not the lifting/hooking leg. Great solo drill and a drill with a partner where you pause at the top, forcing you to use technique and not momentum to make the sweep. Follow this and your hook sweep will get you out of guard and into top position more often than not.

     

  • Understanding Open Guard

    Understanding Open Guard

    Everything You Need to Know About BJJ Open Guard & 4 Open Guard Sweeps.

    John Danaher explains every detail of open guard and teaches 4 sweeps from open guard.

    • 6:51 hook sweep// sumi gaeshi
    • 11:12 Basic scissor sweep
    • 12:52 Spider guard sweep
    • 15:13 Sasae tsurikomi from butterfly

    Watching John Danaher always shows me how much I don’t know. There’s so many fine details to each large movement. I take a sleeve grip, John takes a sleeve grip then twists the sleeve under the jacket creating a line of tension up the sleeve massively increasing the control. John ability to explain a move, why it works and all of the fine details required to make it work against a skilled opponent is unparalleled in the world of online instructional Jiu Jitsu videos.