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Back Trap to Forced RNC

May 14, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Sometimes when you get in the Back Trap, your opponent will wrap around your back leg. It also happens when you do the butterfly arm bar and they swim backwards. Either way, we can really trap that arm and setup a powerful rear naked choke.

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Back Trap to Butterfly Arm Bar

May 13, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Back Side Control is great, but you can make it even better by trapping his near arm. This then puts you in a top crucifix, allowing to really punish this person with strikes. But, we can also catch a sneaky arm bar if he gets lost defending strikes. This is not the highest percentage move out there, but it works well enough, and it will setup other attacks I will cover later.

Back Side Control Rear Naked Choke Follow Up Attacks: Short Choke, Neck Crank, Bull Dog Choke

May 12, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

It’s not always easy to sink in that rear naked choke. Sometimes as you are digging under their neck, you fall short of being able to clasp the shoulder. When you fall short, you go into a short choke, aka the Fedor choke.

The key here is to dig your other arm’s elbow into their back as if you were going to do preacher curls off their back. Your head also pushes behind their head to help create the choking collision of his neck and your forearm.

But even the short choke can fall short if they tuck their chin in. Then we just use the same short choke mechanics for a neck crank. This one is no fun for the partner, so practice caution when using this.

Finally, if this person was so tough that you couldn’t even turn their chin to get across their neck, we rake their chin the opposite way and go into a bull dog choke. This is my best way of setting up a bull dog choke, and it is a devastating choke when done right. Just like with the RNC, keep your hips pointing down as you lift high up on the hands and drop your shoulder behind their neck.

Top Half Guard Kimura Trap Roll

April 20, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

For that person that has impecccable Kimura defense, it can be tempting to abandon the Kimura and look for something else. But don’t you dare! The Kimura roll is a great option that will have you roll out of his half guard into a very strong submission threat.

Depending on the opponent’s reaction to the roll, you might get a triangle, an arm bar, a back take, or a same side Kimura. It’s a very versatile attack. We even saw this used recently in the UFC by Davi Ramos, who scored a submission of this by taking the back.

Top Half Guard Kimura Pass

April 19, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

When your opponent stifles your Kimura attacks by keeping his arm tight to his body, then we can simply divert his attention by passing his guard while pinning his wrist. In MMA, this position is a triple threat: submission, guard pass, and striking. Plus, the longer you hold this position, the more drained your opponent will be as they carry your weight the entire time.

The key to being successful here is to switch to different threats everytime they defend, keeping them constantly guessing where you are going next, and frustrating them as they play pure defense while you get to pour on the pressure.

Top Half Guard Figure Four Arm Lock

April 18, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

This is perhaps my most common way of tapping people from top half guard, as many people try to swim out of the Kimura as an escape – only to succumb to the Figure Four Arm Lock. It’s important to understand the direction to apply force, which is dictated by the direction the opponent’s elbow is pointing, and to establish a proper fulcrum by getting your elbow just behind their elbow (towards the tricep). A final trick here is to do a big bicep contraction, which will raise the fulcrum higher. This is helpful particularly on flexible opponents, as you will need to extend their arm much further.

Top Half Guard Step Over Kimura

April 17, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

If your opponent is making the standard Kimura difficult for you, the power move is to step over. From the Half guard, the step over Kimura is brutal, and is essentially a check mate position.

Top Half Guard Kimura

April 16, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

One of the big submission threats a top player can use against half guard is the Kimura. It isolates the guard players best defender, and the position itself is draining to be in once you go cross body and drop your weight on them.

There are some tweaks that need to be made to get the most out of this Kimura. In particular, we want to focus on bringing the opponent’s elbow to their ear, as we are limited in the amount of rotation we can perform and top pressure in half guard.

Reverse Kimura Trap from Top Half Guard: Darce, Knee Bar, Pass

April 15, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The Reverse Kimura can also be used from Top Half Guard. This is a position most people are used to conventional Kimuras, but not reverse Kimuras. By using the Reverse Kimura to literally trap his top arm, you remove his best attacker out of the equation.

There are some nice options here that I tease in this video, such as setting up a Darce Choke, going for a leg lock, or back stepping and then knee cutting back to the pass. My favorite is the leg lock, as his best defending arm is trapped and he really can’t do anything to prevent the leg lock setup from happening.

Reverse Kimura Arm Drag

April 14, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Another great use of the reverse kimura grip is the sneaky arm drag. It’s probably your shortest arm drag, as the opponents arm is already crossed over, and their back is already halfway exposed. So the amount of distance you have to cover is really small making it easier than a standard arm drag.

What’s also great about this drag is that there’s no counter arm drag, as you are too low to be redragged. For the long limbed people, you can sometimes get a body triangle right off the arm drag. But if you’re shorter and stubbier like me, lol, then you need to do a proper back take by using the same footwork as you would with a technical standup to escape your hips.

Reverse Kimura Flower Sweep

April 13, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

The reverse Kimura is a sneaky tool from the guard that isn’t often used. As a submission, I find it to be somewhat weak. But as a grip, I do enjoy using it quite a lot, especially for sweeps. In particular, the flower sweep with a reverse Kimura grip is very powerful. If you land strong like I did, you’ll have a really powerful mount with all sorts of finishing options.

Guard Cross Wrist Post Escape

March 27, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

I learned this handy escape from a wonderful person, Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis. It’s an easy escape to hit, especially if someone is posting on your stomach. While I only showed the stand up escape, you can easily hit arm bars, jump the back, go into D’Arce chokes, and much more.

Half Guard Reverse Seat Belt

March 26, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

I use the reverse seat belt quite often, as it is an easy scramble to get into if you know how to stay behind your opponent’s arms. From half guard, it comes up regularly as people try to sit out and attack the kimura. So you just have to go over their back at the same time they are trying to turn away from you.

Then, you reach for that far hip, and you can work a hip bump if they stay on their side, or a back take if they come to their fours.

Half Guard Squeeze Pass Escape

March 25, 2022 by Gary Berger Leave a Comment

Someone with a good squeeze pass can ruin your day. Besides getting passed, you can get your neck and chin torqued into oblivion with the right opponent. I have had my share of excellent squeeze passers, which is how I developed my escape. It starts by first getting my opponent’s hips down my body, so that I can get their shoulder line away from my face and onto my chest.

You accomplish this by utilizing the lock down and an assist with your arms to yank down that shoulder. Once you got that, you can then pummel inside on the cross face arm. That will allow you to get your frames back together, and then you can fight for under hooks.

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