Great mismatch here. Leo Viera dominates his Japanese opponent. He hits the Kouchi Gari to start the match and then does a great job of finishing with the X choke from the mount. Also notice how he pins the guys left arm with his knee to prevent any defense.
Sorry this video doesn’t have a lame sound track. I’ll try harder next time.
This is a great match between Fernando “Margarida” Pontes and Flavio Almedia. Most Jiu Jitsu tape watchers consider this to be one of the best BJJ matches ever. Notice how aggressively Margarida attacks for submissions as Almedia tries to pass. There are also a number of great transitions where Margarida goes from Kimura to Armbar to Oma Plata. Almedia also does a great job of countering Margarida’s second Kimura attempt with an Armbar of his own. The match finishes with a Baseball Bat Choke from Knee on the Belly.
This is a good pass, which opens the guard, passes in a similar style to a double under hooks, and establishes you in side control.
(Start No Gi in your opponents closed guard)
1.- Maintain posture
Keep top of your head pointed up and arch back
2. – Get a throat choke grip with one hand
fingers & thumb around neck
3. – With the other hand grab their hip and press your elbow down firmly on the inside of their thigh on that side.
4. – Stand up
Let them feel their own weight.
5. – Press down on their hips as you squeeze your thighs together on the outside of their thighs. This should pop their guard open. (If it doesn’t try to reach behind you and pop their guard open with the hand you’re not choking with.)
6 – After their guard opens, grab both of their ankles and push them forward over their head. Drop your weight on them behind their hips, applying forward pressure, like you’re stacking them. (Their hips should be over their chest while you do this.)
7 – Drop one knee, either knee, over one of their arms, over the bicep, on the side that you’ve decided to pass to.
8 – Throw their legs to the opposite side and complete the pass as you establish side control.
Side Control Drills
1 - Reacting to a strong bridge
(start in side control, your partner bridges into you and attempts to base on all four)
When they bridge into your flop onto your hip so you are facing their hips.
Grab their belt with your top hand if you can.
Put your far knee in between their thighs (their hips should be facing down)
Get Judo control of their lower arm and lift it as you slide your near knee up under their armpit.
Lift thier arm as you roll them onto their back and slide your lower knee up to establish mount.
2 – Reacting if they try to bring their knee up to their chest
(start in side control, your partner bridges into you and attempts to bring their knees to their chest.)
Step over their legs and mount their knee.
Keep your weight and hips down heavy on their knees.
Grab the back of their lapel with your near arm.
With the other arm reach down and grab their top leg at the pants above the knee. Try to straighten this arm, allowing you to pin their knees down with the structural strength of your extended arm.
River-dance your outside ankle over their ankle (your ankle of the leg which did not step over their legs yet. rotate your ankle behind you so that it lands across their ankles, stapling them down).
Kick that leg over and land behind them.
If they turn away you have the back. If they turn into you you have side control.
Guard Passing Drills
1 - silver back drill (partner on back, knees up)
Outside hand on knee, post inside their knees with your fist. rotate around that posting fist. switch hands, rotate back.
2 – scissor pass drill. (facing partners open guard)
Post on head to left side of their hips. Grip legs with your right arm. post with your left hand. scissor your legs up so your standing on your head. outside leg kicks up first(left leg). Land on other side with legs. Switch head to right side and repeat from other side.
Passing the open guard can be very frustrating. Shortly after starting BJJ, I can remember a class when I was rolling with a short stocky guy (who was much much better than me). Having a wrestling background (high school), I found it very frustrating that I was unable to pass to side control and was kept away at a controlled distance by this guys legs as he effortlessly rotated and pushed me away. Here are a few methods for passing some common forms of the open guard, and not being “that standing frustrated guy.”
Start standing, your opponent is on the ground in front of you in open guard.
Scenario 1 – They have their feet on your hips and are grabbing one of your sleeves:
Grab their pants leg with your free hand.
Push that leg down between your legs, as you kick your leg on that side back, stepping it around out to that side. (You’ll want this leg to land about a half a yard away from them out to the side. make sure you don’t step too close to their arm. You don’t want them to be able to grab your leg.)
Kick the other leg back and swing it around to land with that knee on their belly.
Scenario 2 – They have the Delariva Guard with one leg(their foot is grapviend around one of your legs pushing against the front of the thigh of your other leg), their other foot is on the other hip.
Grab their lapel on the delariva side.
Sit into Horse stance and lean heavy into the delariva leg. This will be very uncomfortable for them.
Kick the other leg back, the one not in the delariva, stepping it around out to that side.
Kick the delariva leg back and swing it around to land with that knee on their belly.
Scenario 3 – They have a butterfly hook inside one knee, the other leg is on the other hip.
River dance – press your knee down on top of their hook. When your knee is lower than their hook, windshield wiper your ankle toward your butt as you step, landing with your foot between their legs.
Kick the other leg back, the one which wasn’t hooked, stepping it around out to that side.
Kick the hooked leg back and swing it around to land with that knee on their belly.
IF they connect their near elbow to their knee and you are having trouble establiching knee on belly
THEN step behind their butt with your far leg and drop that knee in between the back of their knees. This will staple their bottom leg and have them facing away from you. Continue to lean down heavily on their hips as you grab their far lapel with your bottom hand. Lean back, pulling them toward you with this grip as you roll them towards you to establish side control.
The Arm Triangle(aka Head and Arm Choke) is a great example of a technique that has evolved in recent years. Fighters like BJ Penn, and Thales Leites have successfully used this new version of the Arm Triangle a number of times in MMA matches to finish their opponents.
The major difference is that to finish the choke they use a gable grip as opposed to a rear naked choke grip. Another improvement is that they post the inside knee against the opponents hip. Check out BJ Penn, and Thales Leites applying the technique from a number of different set ups in the videos below.
Turtle is a weak position and often a precursor to getting your back
taken. Here are two defenses from turtle.How close your opponent is and how much pressure they are leaning into you will determine which to use.
Start in Turtle wth your opponent to your side in wrestling “top position” their back arm is wrapped around your waist and the are gripping your lapel.
1. reach back with your near arm and grab their near knee
IF your opponent is not too close and you have some space:
2. post with your far arm, pushing yourself up, as you kick your near leg back and post on it. (your are still facing forward at this point).
(steps 3 -6 are fast)
3. kick your far leg under you as you rotate into them. As you face them, hook this leg in between their legs to establish half guard.
4. Let go of the knee and move this arm up to an underhook.
5. Move your posting arm to and underhook under their far leg (the one you don’t have the half guard on).
6. From here you can roll them either way and sweep them.
*It is a good idea to try to get an underhook, under their other leg, the trapped leg, with your far arm, since this arm is vunerable to attack in this position.
IF your opponent is leaning hard on you and you don’t have much space:
2. Roll into them, forward at a diagonal, on the near shoulder, the one your grabbing their knee with.
3. As you roll, keep pressure against them with your near calf. You want to be pulling them towards you. windmill your legs around so that you spin around to face them and your other leg lands around them on the other side, putting them in your guard.
* If you are leggy or they are leaning into you hard, you may also come to rest with them in a loose triangle, which you can finish.
Start out:
They’re in turtle
You’re on top on thier left side
Your chest is against their back.
You’re on your toes.
1. Wrap your back arm around their stomach, like the top starting position in wrestling
2. grab the lower lapel of their gi, this will limit their mobility and prevent them from rolling away from you quickly.
3. with your front arm, push thier tricep forward, moving their arm up away from their chest (giving your some room to slide your knee in.)
IF they do nothing:
4. slide your front knee in the space you’re created as you flop onto that hip and pull with your gi grip rolling them into your lap.
5. kick your left foot through and get the left hook first. You must get this hook first in order to avoid being put into half guard.
6. hook the back of their other leg with your other leg and elevate their right leg.
7. This will make them uncomfortable. release the hook. They will try to lower their leg, and when they do, take the other hook.
8. Now with reach over their shoulder with your left arm and clasp your left wrist with your right hand.
You now have the back.
IF they roll away from you:
Hop over them and drop your right knee beneath them.
Take the left hook first. (Do this with your left leg which will be top leg.)
then roll them to the left and pick up from step 6 above.
