When you are in turtle bottom and your opponent is hip-to-hip with his arm over your back, you can trap his arm in your armpit and roll over you back to finish in the side control position.

When you have the turtle bottom position and the opponent is hip-to-hip behind your shoulder line, you can secure an underhook to achieve the dogfight position and perform a sweep.

When your opponent is in the turtle position, you position yourself next to his hips and secure a collar grip like you would a Clock Choke. then step over his back and head and reach for a farside underhook as you fall onto the other side to secure the Helicopter Choke.

When the opponent does a Guillotine from his closed guard, use the Von Flue Choke to escape and pass. Move your hips to the opposite side of your head and apply should pressure on his neck to motivate him to reconfigure his legs.

Use the Von Flue Choke to counter a guillotine choke attempt. When the opponent puts on the headlock, move into side control and then drive your shoulder into his neck while trapping his arm in the headlock.

When the opponent rolls out of your guillotine from guard, use your leg over his back to follow him, and then finish from the top using the same upper body mechanism as from guard.

Guillotine setup from the opponent's defense to your hip bump sweep or Kimura. Get the hands on the mat and sit up to attempt the hip bump sweep. When the opponent drives into your and hugs your body. Use the arm post behind your body to keep yourself seated up while wrapping your other arm aroun...

How to counter the guillotine choke from guard by passing to side control. As the opponent falls back to tighten the choke push the legs down and jump over to side control.

Most common entry and finish for the Guillotine Choke from Open Guard using a chin strap.

How to get a High-Elbow Guillotine from a snap down headlock. When you get the headlock from standing and they resist attacks by pulling in their elbows, you can put snap him down onto his knees and then put on a high-elbow guillotine.

How to do a snap down to get a headlock. Use it to get side control by pulling the elbow while stepping one leg backwards.

Counter to underhook half guard by pushing shoulders to the mat and getting nearside underhook. Then tripod to clear your knee and then do knee cut on farside to pass or go to 3/4 mount to pass.

Reclaim the underhook from half guard top by going into reverse half guard, clearing your knee, reclaim the underhook, and then do a knee cut pass.

When opponent tries to get a deep underhook from half guard, you can defend by blocking his hip with your knee. Then you can counter by transitioning into a Smash Passl

When you get onto your knees from an underhook half guard, you are in the dogfight position. Trap his arm in the overhook position and pinch your knees around his knee to trap his leg. Then fall forward onto your shoulder and grab his far leg to complete the reverse sweep.

When you have the underhook in half guard, avoid his pummel for an underhook by moving forward each time he moves backwards. If you get smashed by his chest, you can turn to your side and then move into the sweep or backtake.

When the opponent has an underhook from his half guard, push his shoulder back onto the mat and backstep into the reverse half guard. Then attack a kneebar.

When opponent has underhook half guard, you can counter with a Guillotine Choke. Push his shoulder back onto the mat and stretch his free arm so that his body is stretched out and you have room to pass. Then when he gets onto his knees for a single leg, put on the guillotine.

When opponent has the underhook half guard, you can counter with a kimura grip, and then use your free leg to help clear his guard. From there, you can do a Kimura from the top, or roll forward to expose his back.

Use this counter sweep when the opponent tries a low knee cut pass with his hips high and head low. When he attempts to pushes your knee to keep you from recovering full guard, you can trap his arm between his legs and do a hook sweep.

When being smashed from under half guard, use the Whip Up to create space for an Underhook. You can whip up straight over your head, or side to side. If there isn't space for an immediate underhook, use your butterfly hook or knee to create more space for your underhook.

When you are in the Butterfly Ashi leg entanglement while facing the opponent, you can execute a very tight straight footlock by getting a deep grip on his foot while catching a little of his heel on your ribs so that he cannot do the boot defense. Your hook behind his knee will prevent him from ...

When the opponent is standing in your Single Leg X (SLX) guard, and takes your foot off his hip and steps off your inside hook, you can transition to the Butterfly Ashi leg entanglement to do the back sweep and then immediately finish with the footlock. This video includes details on the finishin...

The Butterfly Ashi is a leg entanglement that is similar to the Straight Ashi entanglement, but the positions of your legs around the trapped leg are slightly different. The most practical application for the butterfly ashi is the straight footlock where you can use the entanglement to rotate to ...