Options for half guard sweeps

By: LSBJJ on Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Here are a couple options for your half guard sweep game.

Technique Description: Starting off in half guard.

Technique Description: Most grapplers will try and move your head away and flatten you out.

Technique Description: By placing your hands on your opponents shoulder and bicep you will make it very difficult for them to flatten you out.

Technique Description: Feeling your opponent trying to move your head away from their center, quickly take the hand on the bicep and dive under their leg grabbing their shin.

Technique Description: As he/she flattens you out pull his shin and go with the movement.

Technique Description: With his/her momentum you will be able to reverse them.

Technique Description: And quickly gain the mount.

Technique Description: If, they do not try to flatten you out after you grab the shin...

Technique Description: ...swim your hand on the should under their arm, to their back.

Technique Description: Using your legs, hand on the shin and arm under hooked to lift them up over your head.

Technique Description: The hand on the back can now grab the toes.

Technique Description: Switch your feet.

Technique Description: The hand on the shin will now pull the knee in towards you.

Technique Description: Sweep...

Technique Description: ...control your grips on his legs...

Technique Description: ...and side control.

Comments

CombatChaz

Very solid technique and great presentation! thank you sir!

LSBJJ

Even with my gimpy left hand

Irish

I'm trying this one next class... but could'nt he just straighten his leg and base as soon as you try to grab his foot?

When in doubt the left hook comes out.

jeremiahblatz

Having your foot grabbed like that is actually really hard to pull out of. The leg is not in a strong position. I use the same foot grab to do a low pass out of a half-butterfly, and I've not had anyone break my grip yet.

Very excited to try these sweeps, they make a nice pair.

kjhinn

When you have the ankle trapped if your driving towards him he can't post with that foot to stop the driving action.

If you are rolling him back over your body your pulling his weight closer to his body to make it easier to roll. You have to note how you are under his hips so he can't really use the legs.

Even if you miss both sweeps; you are so deep under him you can always scramble out to the knees; hence you have still escaped the position.

Tony

Sharks gotta swim or it dies.

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