When the opponent crosses his leg in a figure 4, you can pull in the top foot over his shin and catch the kneebar. If he crosses his feet you can hold each of his heels in your hands to separate the legs and catch the kneebar.

From you half guard top, you can backstep and sit onto their hips to secure a good clamp on their thigh. Then pull the knee and grab his heel and sit down to straighten the leg for a tight kneebar.

From your side control, you can trap the opponent's far arm on under your chest and step over the body to secure a straight jacket. Then you can enter the back triangle. Rotate your hips to adjust the position of your calf on his neck to get the choke.

From your side control, use your chest and arms to trap his arms into a straight jacket. Then step over his body into a farside S-Mount Armbar.

When you do a farside spinning armbar, the step over the opponent's head needs to result in a low squat or knee sliding position. This helps keep your hips close to the arm so you don't lose the elbow.

When the opponent defends your farside armbar by grabbing a gable grip, you put both legs on the other side and cross your feet under his far elbow. Then you pull at the wrist and lean away from his hips to maximize the weakness of his grip. Then you can break the grip.

When you are attempting an Americana from side control, and the opponent straightens his arm to defend, you can catch him in an armlock using the same configuration of your arms.

When you have side control, but the opponent gets an underhook and turns onto his side intending to get onto his knees, you throw your leg over and catch an omoplata, ensuring that you land him face down with your body leaning forward.

When you have side control, you can start attacking an Americana. If he defends by bringing his arm on the other side to hug your head, you can wrench his arm at his elbow, step over his head, grab his pants, and spin into an armbar. This includes preventing him from defending using his grips.

When you are in Knee Ride, and your opponent pushes on your knee to counter, you get an underhook on the pushing arm, step over his head, grab his pants, and spin into an armbar. Details are included about where to place your arms and where to step.

When the opponent gets an underhook with his far arm from underneath your side control, and then he gets onto his knees, you can use your overhook to grab his far lapel and sit into guard for a powerful choke.

When the opponent turns into you from under your side control, and he doesn't have an underhook, apply a crossface with your forearm to slow him down, use your body to slide under his armpit, and then trap his arm over his face with your chest. Then you can step over his chest into an S-Mount arm...

For warmup, you can do SLX (Single Leg X) switches on your partner when he is seated or standing. Then finish a set of switches with a straight footlock.

From your SLX (Single Leg X) sweep, you can immediately put them into 50/50 to expose the heel. Then when he rotates after you catch the heel, you can trap him in Backside 50/50 for the heel hook finish.

If the opponent turns his knee inward from your Single Leg X (SLX), you can throw your feet to his backside and catch the Backside 50/50 with Double 50 variation.

From side control, grip the opponent's nearside hand from behind his head to get the gift wrap hold. Then align your hip side shin along his back, let his head fall out of the gift wrap hold and step over his head to get the armbar. If he defends by grabbing his own hand, step the hip side leg ov...

When you launch an Americana attack, a common defense is to roll away to grab the arm being attack. You can trap him on his side and reach under his nearside arm to attack the Half Nelson or Ezikiel Chokes.

When you have side control, secure a thumb-in grip behind the head and step over the opponent's head to get the Canto Choke.

When the opponent hugs your head within your side control, you can set up a north south choke using grips on his lapel near his head. Once grips are secure, spin into the north south position and tripod with your head next to his hip to finish the choke.

When you have side control, and the opponent hugs your head, you can trap his arm on the other side of your head while you set up lapel grips around his head. Once the grips are established, you spin into the north south position for the choke finish.

When you have back control, and the opponent's elbow is raised to defend the rear choke, you can begin isolating his arm while threatening the choke. Then let him escape your hook and you can sit up and reposition you legs to get the arm bar.

When the opponent is defending your armbar from mount by gripping his hands together, you can grip his nearside collar, take your leg off his head and put on a sneaky loop choke.

When you enter the Paper Cutter Choke from north south, you can isolate the opponent's arm. You can distract him with the Paper Cutter choke while you set up the shotgun armbar.

General strategies for defending the heel hook. Defend from 50/50 by hand and foot fighting, and then escaping the knee. Defend from Outside Ashi by hand fighting, slip the heel, and then then take the back.