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Back Sweep off the Head Inside Single Leg

February 13, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Foot sweeps are a thing of beauty. They use minimal force and can be devastating. They only require precise timing and foot placement. Off the Head Inside Single Leg though, it is much easier to time, as you control the tempo by simple moving around.

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Barsager off the Head Inside Single Leg

February 12, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Similar to the far side tackle, the Barsager is another way of scoring a finish off the head inside single leg. Think of it like a head inside double leg. We use a similar back step pull like we did with the far side tackle, but this time we are going to hoist up the leg and drive across him. Often times with a good enough pull when you get the far leg you can just sweep them off their feet. If not, you just bull doze them over.

Far Side Tackle off the Head Inside Single Leg

February 11, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

This is a finish that I came up with on my own, as I tend to use the single leg often. This is a simple finish, with the goal being to get your opponent to hop into you and bring his legs close together. The moment he does, that is when we tackle him by slamming or shoulder into his body as we wrap around his knees.

Running the Pipe off the Head Inside Single Leg

February 10, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The go to finish of the head inside single leg is to run the pipe. It’s simple, but people still get it wrong because of the small details.

The main trick here to avoid spinning around in circles is to focus on digging your shoulder over the top of their thigh. Our goal is to drive their hip down, not spin them in circles. Securing the ankle helps to ensure the take down finishes, and it adds a bit of a knee bar pressure as well.

Head Inside Single Leg

February 9, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The Head Inside Single Leg is one of my favorite take downs. It is very versatile, can be used against both bigger and smaller opponents, and can even be used to attack leg locks. To start this series, I’m working with the basic entry from the double bicep tie.

One thing a lot of people struggle with is driving from a head inside single leg. They keep the drive leg to perpendicular to the ground, which results in standing straight up.

Instead, you want your drive leg at a 45 degree angle, so that when you drive, your are pushing your head into your opponent and causing them to step back. This takes the weight off you when standing up and forces the opponent to balance, which is why it can work well with heavyweights.

Guillotine Trap from Top Half Guard and Side Mount

February 8, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Guillotines are usually attacked after giving up top position or allowing yourself to go back to get the finish. However, attacking guillotines from top gives you much more control, and let’s you trap them. We go over a few ways of using the guillotine trap from side control and top half guard.

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Arm Inside Guillotine Follow Up Attacks

February 7, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Arm Inside Guillotines are a great attack that are hard to escape, but sometimes they can be difficult to finish on a smart defender. So what do you do when you have a full guard and a guillotine that is not in?

Sweep, redirect, and submit!

The beauty of a head inside guillotine is that it’s also a front headlock. So you have a strong wrestling position, that means you can control this person. We go over how to hit an elevator sweep, kick over sweep to anaconda, or switch to a strong half guard to get a better angle or hip bump sweep.

Arm Inside Guillotine from Seated Butterfly

February 6, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

One of the options we covered was attacking from the seated guard with a chin strap snap. This is a sneaky setup that works surprisingly well when your opponent gets too comfortable in front of your butterfly guard. While we can do a regular guillotine as well, we covered the differences between the arm inside versus outside.

Sit Up Guillotine

February 5, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

We move to another camp, this time my most recent one in Las Vegas. In this one, I was working with a small group and doing a Q&A session. The question was guillotines, so we explored a few options attacking with it.

The first option we went over was the classic Sit Up Guillotine from closed guard. Much like how you would sit up for a Kimura, this is the same entry, except now we are going for his neck.

One of the main finishing details behind getting a good Guillotine that many people miss is that you do NOT want to fall back. Instead, you want to fall on top of their head. This gives you a much better angle to choke, while making it much harder for them to defend and counter.

Arm Triangle with Cross Stack

February 4, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The Arm Triangle is another move the flows from the Kimura Mouse Trap that most people aren’t aware of. Especially when people defend the Americana, they end up putting themselves in position for a nice and tight arm triangle.

My bonus tip to this classic technique is what I call the cross stack. This is when your stack your wrists on top of each other, thumbs pointing up, with the choking arm on top. This digs the blade of the wrist into the neck, increasing the pressure by double.

Figure Four Arm Lock – Hero Academy Costa Rica

February 3, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Besides the Kimura, my most common finish is the Figure Four Arm Lock. It is simple yet devastating, and I find that the elbow locks out much easier than a regular arm bar, due to the fact that you have much a better brace of the elbow than you do with the classic arm bar.

It also flows naturally from either the Americana or Kimura when people try to escape. Sometimes I just force the position if I’m having a hard time with a Kimura. Once you have it locked out, there isn’t anything the person on bottom can really do except tap.

Americana aka Paint Brush – Hero Academy

February 2, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The Kimura from side mount is just one attack out of a series that go well together. Whenever we isolate the opponent’s arm from side mount, we have a Kimura, an Americana or paint brush, a Straight Arm Lock, and an Arm Triangle choke in a series called the Kimura Mouse Trap.

The Americana is like a Kimura in reverse, literally. We are rotating the shoulder in the opposite direction. So there are a few details that naturally get reversed as well. One of the key ones that most people miss is that instead of bringing their elbow to their ear as we do with the Kimura, we bring their elbow to their ribs. This small detail makes a huge difference. In fact, if you don’t do this, you won’t finish an Americana on anyone, and it’s the detail most responsible for people escaping.

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Kimura from Top Side Control – Hero Academy Costa Rica Camp 2021

February 1, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

My wife and I are getting ready to embark on our honeymoon to the Maldives within the next few days. Of course, I’m excited to get to do more scuba diving and enjoying the beautiful views.

But, a part of me is not looking forward to breaking my routine. Not so much the fitness routine, as I can maintain that over there well enough. I’m talking about my daily posts. It took a year and change for me to get my act back together, and after a few good weeks of building my content up, I’m going to have to cut and run. I won’t have internet access for the first half of the trip, which definitely makes it tricky.

Fortunately, I have a plan. I have a treasure trove of seminar and camp footage that I have not released publicly before that I’m going to share while I’m away. Looking through my content, I’m going to share my last camp in Costa Rica, back from April 2021. This was an encore Kimura Trap System camp, where we focused on everything Kimura.

I start camps with a bang, focusing on the most important aspect of the system – the Kimura from side control. When this technique is fully understood and mastered, you will be a menace to everyone that shares the mats with you.

There are 8 key points to this technique, which most beginners only know 3-4, with experts knowing maybe 5-6. I have yet to encounter someone that knew all 8 points before I met them, so before you dismiss the Kimura from side mount as being “basic,” I urge you to take a close look. The 1 or 2 points you might not know can result in huge gains of efficiency.

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Half Guard Staple Pinning and Kimuras

January 31, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The final position we covered was working staple pins from top half guard. This is one of my favorite ways of nullifying a good half guard player, while giving me ground and pound openings and of course, Kimura attacks.

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