Guard retention study. About the worst position you can be in when in outside ashi Garami. Note- this is NOT a leg drag. Don’t be an idiot and confuse a leg drag, where your legs are safe, and outside ashi garami, where you can get your leg broken, 2 completely different positions. Here, yuri has a full body lock with his knee on the floor. His goal is to control the upper body, sprawl to separate my legs, then pass by flanking my right side. My goal is to keep his leg entangled (by locking a figure 4 with my legs), and use a series of pumping motions with my legs to create space for my legs to come back inside and start facing him, all while maintaining upper body inside position. Notice my hands In perfect position, never allowing him to make a cranial shift (moving to control of the head and shoulders), followed by a subtle pumping of the legs, then a spin to cross ashi, which I opted for since heel hooks were illegal in ibjjf. Normally I’d recover to outside ashi and attack heel hooks, but in this case, sweeping from cross ashi made much more sense.