Pretzel Foot Pass

This is an open guard pass to use when your opponents has their feet on your hips and a same side collar sleeve grip set.

Start standing. Your opponent is on the on the ground, feet on your hips, gripping your right arm, with their left,  and your collar, with their right.

1. Grab their lapel with you right (trapped) arm.

2. Stuff their foot on your free side between your legs and prepare to smash their knees down.  -grab their foot above their toes -step back with your leg on that side as you push the foot down between your legs. -When their foot’s between your legs, clam them together so it doesn’t pop out.

3. Smash their legs down. grab the top of their knee with your free hand as you drop your right knee down, stapling their left leg. Keeping your lapel grip with your right hand, move yoru elbow so that it is up on top of their knees, pinning their knees down to the side. Next, slide your left knee up behind their knees. Once you’re heavy, on top of their knees, reach around and grab the back of their jacket with your free have.

4. Free your trapped right leg by kicking it back as you keep your other knee, your left knee, up behind their knees.

5. Pretzel time. (This details is awkward, but important and protects you from ending up in half guard or back in guard.) while keeping your left knee behind their knees, rotate your left foot and ankle over and across both their feet so that you ar stapling them down.

6. Finish the Pretzel. Now move your right knee (this was the trapped leg) up and over their legs. Placing your right knee down between their knees and your left knee.

7. Unstaple and roll them back to side control. Keep your lapel grip. kick your feet around. sag heavy on their chest as you roll them back towards you with the lapel grip and establish side control. (the lapel grip stops them from turtling away from you.)