This is one of my favourite attacks when someone attempts to recompose guard.

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We’ve covered early and middle timeline back escapes in our last two videos.

Now, Erkan and I cover a late escape when they’ve locked their seatbelt and pulled you to the choke side.

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Against a standing passer, many guard players will opt to sit up and attack the passer’s lead leg.
Here, I show three options on how to nullify the guard and submit the guard player.

My thoughts on this common topic

Most of the time, we focus on defending and escaping attacks.
But, there may be situations where we have to defend someone else and that means dealing with an attacker from behind.
Here’s a way to control and, if needed, submit the attacker.

You have numerous control points when holding someone in side control.
This is important to understand.
Many people begin to lose side control and abandon the whole process and try to make a big desperation movement to a whole new position. This usually just turns into a scramble which only helps their opponent.
As I said you have multiple control points which means that when i lose one of them I can simply focus on another.
In this case, I control the head. When I lose that I control the elbow. When I lose that I control the leg.
In this scenario, all of these stop my opponent getting off their back and taking my back from the Kesa Gatame.
I’ll be going much more in-depth into these concepts and mechanics in my Pressure & Control DVD

Recently, BJJScout posted a video of a person getting submitted by a forearm choke in an MMA fight (picture in the thumbnail).

They asked if this was a dirty move in training. To be specific, the move is simply where someone who is mounted on you presses down on your neck with their forearm.

What is mind-boggling to me is that anyone in BJJ would think this was a dirty move and wouldn’t allow it in training. There are of course moves I don’t allow during rolling but I still teach how to defend those moves.
Because it would be irresponsible for me not to. But, I’ve met a lot of students who didn’t learn how because their coach just said “don’t do that because it’s dirty.”

I find this instinct amazing for a few reasons:

* First, and foremost, this is absolutely one of the most common attacks an untrained person will do to you. And, if you’re not training how to defend it then you’re basically unprepared to deal with a common real-world attack.
So, if you are not training to defend this, then you really are unprepared for real self defense. This is what I mean when when I say BJJ schools are teaching people how to defend BJJ but not to defend against the real world.
But, this might be why I submit a lot of bjj people (who know how to defend all kinds of esoteric BJJ techniques) with this choke.

* It’s amazing and embarrassing that this guy didn’t know this very basic defense. It’s actually taught in the original Rorion & Royce tapes that many BJJ people say is too basic and outdated. And, yet, I’ve met very few BJJ people who know it.
A lot of much more dangerous techniques are allowed at many academies and are not considered dick moves. A forearm choke is certainly far less dangerous than an inverted heel hook.

* Many BJJ practitioners and schools portray themselves as Spartan/Gorilla/Viking/Sharks but having to deal with someone pressing their arm on your neck is a step too far?

So, here I show how to defend this submission. Again, I’m not teaching an escape (obviously an Upa is an option here). I’m teaching the Defense. First, you have to learn how to defend a move for when you can’t immediately escape.

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I tell my students all the time that your goal is to get to certain positions (I call them “Staging Areas” where you are as safe as possible while knowing all your options.

The goal in self defense is to avoid damage and get to these positions

The modified seatbelt is one such option with numerous takedown opportunities. Here, I transition from the seatbelt to another position which I consider very useful for military or police.

I also cover a couple simple takedowns from this position.

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It can be especially difficult to escape side control when your opponent switches their arm position. You’re also in constant danger of a kimura attack.

This effectively stops the re-guard – and if they’re keeping weight on you, you may not be able to turn over for the single leg escape.

Here, I show an option for when you’re trapped in this position. As with most reversals, it’s important that you practice your timing and getting the feel for when their weight is compromised.

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As my friend Black Belt Seth Shamp told me once, “you don’t pass a Guard, you untangle it.”

This really helped me start to think of breaking down the weaknesses and holes in guards as well as focusing on patience when figuring out how to pass guard.

Here, I deal with a particular tough version of DLR where they’re gripping the arm on the foot post side. This makes a lot of the standard passes difficult.

The usual plan is to break that grip but sometimes that’s difficult. So, I came up with a different way to untangle and pass.

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The Single Leg is one of the Most effective Takedowns for BJJ, MMA and Wrestling.

Here, I cover some basics concepts on what the Dangers are and show two defenses to the takedown.

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This is one of my favourite armlock set ups from the Closed Guard.

For me, it’s much harder to escape or defend because I don’t open my legs as much and he can’t use his other arm to help protect his trapped arm.

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More of my discussion with one of my instructors, Jason Culbreth
He is the founder & Head Instructor of Cary BJJ.

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Here is the first part of my interview with him.

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The Omoplata is one of my favourite Positions.
Many People have trouble finishing the submission so use it as a sweeping position.
Here, I cover how to make it a more effective and powerful submission.