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.

When the opponent has Inside Sankaku (Saddle) position, do the "running man" leg configuration by turning your heel into his body and pull your free leg away from him. Then apply a hand wedge and begin pulling your knee free of his knee plane.

When you are in mount, and the opponent pulls his arm in tight, you can use your body weight to push the wrist to the mat to begin separating his arm for an Americana or cutting armbar.

When you are attempting a chest-to-chest armlock on the farside arm from your side control, and the opponent defends by turning his palm down, you can still finish the armlock by putting the head side arm under his arm so that your bicep is against his elbow. Then wrench his wrist and push his ar...

When you are on top of the opponent's half guard, and he tries to sit up with the underhook, you can counter with a cross collar grip to enter the loop choke. By placing your head to the ground you can balance yourself to use your free foot to clear the guard and then secure and underhook before ...

When the opponent has knee shield half guard, you can grip his knees and bring to the far side and slide your knee between his thighs. Keep head low against his shoulder and clear his hooks. Then pass to the original side.

When the opponent has a knee shield half guard, you can use your shoulder or chest to pinch the knees together, place your head on the far shoulder and grip the collar to complete the leg weave pass.

When in back control with a seatbelt, you immediately put your head to the mat on the underhook side and scrape your shoulders along the mat. Ensure that you do not allow the full mount once the opponent has decided to abandon the back control.

From cross collar and sleeve guard, you can take away his base with your leg, then get up onto your knees to quickly capture the head in your armpit. Then sit down again throwing your leg over his shoulder to stop his defense of spinning out.

Armbar from S-mount with details on how to isolate the arm with a tight leg configuration and how to get a tight finish.

Attack the arm inside the triangle hold by lifting hips to apply pressure on the elbow. You can also isolate the arm by swinging the leg under the armpit over the head to squeeze your thighs for a tight finish.

When you have mount and the opponent turns to one side in an effort to push one of your legs into a guard, you can trap him on his side and apply a giftwrap hold to and sit back to pull him onto the other side for back control.

Backtake from De La Riva guard by making the DLR hook deep onto the far hip. Then apply crab ride hooks from behind, grab belt, and scoot over to back angle.

When you have side control, you can push the opponent onto his side, apply a giftwrap, align your shin to his back, sit back, and pull him to the other side for the backtake.

When you have closed guard, you can pull the opponent's arm forward so that his wrist is close to your head. Then you can trap his wrist between your neck and shoulder and angle to your side. Locate the elbow and wrench it straight for the finish.

When opponent straightens either arm in your mount, you can trap the wrist against your neck and shoulder and wrench the elbow so the arm locks in straight, then push the elbow into your body. You can do the same for the far arm in your side control when he turns into you.

When the figure 4 leg configuration is locked in, you can still escape if you twist to the choking side and then stretch out your upper body while keeping the hips still.

The Ezikiel Choke is a choke that can be applied from any position if you can isolate the opponent's head with your arms. Hug the head, grab inside the hem of your own sleeve, apply the blade of your hand into the neck, and then apply the choke by attempting to straighten out your arms.

When the opponent grips your pants, you can counter grip his sleeve and kick your leg straight to break the pants grip. This is normally done from your spider guard when he counter grips your pants.

When you are in seated open guard and your attempts to gain a pant grip before you are ready to engage a guard, a scoop grip is a fast means of breaking the grip without needing to counter sleeve grip.