December 31st, 2009 by jgatienza

sweeps from the guard

grip your opponents gi sleeve and use your knees to bring your opponents arm across both your chest, open guard and get to quarter guard, reach around and grap his lats, your chest should be blocking his trapped arm, with your right hand grab his gi around his leg, turn your head to the direction you are sweeping him, you can also do this sweep by posting up on your right elbow and then shooting your hand thru to under his leg for the sweep.

submissions from the quarter guard. if you can’t get the sweep, fall to your shoulder and shoot your arm under his trapped arm and across his neck, secure both hand and squeeze him into your chest and use your core muscles

if he defends that choke, post up on your right hand and with your left hand grab his label, fall backwards and place your right hand over your left wrist and lock your feet for the choke

December 22nd, 2009 by jgatienza

This is a private that I didn’t get a chance to write down until now.

Basically from the north south position what I learned is that it’s basically a holding position.

• I need to smash my opponents face to be able to turn them to their side.
• with my left hand I have an “underhook” and I’m grabbing my lapel
• I pop quickly and drop my left leg and lay it next to his back and step over with my right leg over his face
• crank his arm back quickly to startle your opponent and squeeze the knees for the armbar

If your opponent defends and grabs something like his gi to defend the armbar

• squeeze your knees tightly on both sides of his head
• establish your kimura grip on his arm
• break his grip by pulling forcefully to the right away from his gi
• and take his arm behind his back

An option that you can do is also to trap his arm and head in a triangle while you are trying to lock down the kimura. This is just another thing for him to think about.