class notes: bottom control (guard) masterclass

Takedown drill warm up: double leg to side bag clinch to single leg.

Key learning points are the hips; keep them pinned to him if you want the takedown, keep them away if you don't want it and want to avoid him getting it. Throughout each phase of movement in this drill they should feel head pressure.
On the outside of the ribs on the double leg.
On their shoulder blades on the side back clinch.
On their front ribs on the single leg.

This image below illustrates the depth and commitment of the double leg.

In essence you are moving around him whilst in contact. For example, shoot in on the right leg, move around his back and capture the leg leg for the single.

Bottom control 1:

Submit or pass. Person on their back has to look for creative and a variety of submissions or submission attempts. Top person has to avoid the submission and pass the legs to side control. When passed, start again. The one thing I noticed was when going for the shoulder rotation (omoplata) they might defend by sitting up and pulling away. From here you can slide the near side leg under his chin to set up the shin choke (gogplata). The angle is far from perfect so you need grap your foot by reaching around his head. You might not even get the finish but having the shin across their neck will generate movement from them so you can explore other positions.

My partner got some nice elbow extension on me. The type when the pressure is applied to the tricep and my hand is on his shoulder.

Submit or reverse: Similar to above except the person on top is not trying to pass. They are preventing the submission and keeping their base to avoid being swept.

Inversion from open spider guard

inversion dexterity from the bottom: side control to north south - 'roll' out

These are complicated motions to describe in words, hopefully these images will give some clearer ideas of what we were doing.

dexterity against the wall



This is an example of the dexterity drill we dill.



This video, start at 1.48 gives an idea of the motion. We were not using the inversion as an entry but from contact range already.



Again, this video is not what we were doing but is a creative way to get the triangle from an inverted position.



This video looks very similar in terms of movement that we were looking at. Start it at 2.22