This video shows you how to maintain the north south position by keeping chest to chest and monitoring the opponent's hip. Keep your elbow under one or two armpits to prevent him from slipping out from underneath.

The mount position is sitting on the torso below the shoulder line. Your legs must be beneath one or two arms. You can also use the technical mount as the opponent moves onto his side by redistributing your weight among your knee, foot, and hip.

This video shows you the details of how the open guard should be maintained. Sit up leaning forward with your knees wide apart.

When you start a match in the standing position, and you want the closed guard position, secure grips on the collar and sleeve. Then put a foot on the hip and sit down while pulling down his upper body. If he remains standing after you sit, raise your hips off the ground using the foot on his hip...

This video shows the proper way to hold down side control using tightness instead of heavy smashing. Use the cross face to prevent him from turning into you, stay on the balls of your feet, and keep center of gravity very low.

To maintain good back control, you must ensure a good seat belt and a good chest-to-back connection with your shoulder glued to the back of the neck. When the opponent is trying to escape, keep a good chest-to-back connection regardless of the configuration of the hook.

When opponent grabs the hem of your sleeve (cross or same side), an easy grip break is to use 2 hands. You can also use 2 hands to break a collar grip (cross or same side).

When the opponent stands in your closed guard and you have a cross sleeve grip, you can grip the collar and underhook the leg to attempt a muscle sweep. But if the muscle sweep fails, you can feed the sleeve to the underhook hand and grip his collar. Then open your leg for an omoplata entry.

When you get a muscle sweep but the opponent tries to stop your mount by pushing his free arm into you, you can throw your leg around his arm and do an armbar on that free arm.

In closed guard, secure a cross sleeve grip. When he stands up to break your closed guard, you get an underhook on his leg and buckle his knee outward to get him to fall. Then push yourself up to mount.

When standing, if you get hug the hips from a back angle, you can trip the far leg and drag the hip to the mat for a takedown.

When you have side control, and you isolate the opponent's far arm, you push his wrist to the mat and interconnect your arms to do a cutting armbar.

When you have side control on your opponent, and he puts arm frame in front of your head, you can attack his arm with an Americana shoulder lock by pushing his wrist to the mat and connecting your arms.

When in the closed guard, you can build a frame to recover your guard. Start with your forearms, then bridge and shrimp to create space for adding your knees or feet. Then you can get butterfly or closed guard.

When in closed guard, you can stand up and lift the opponent with you and then shake while pushing on the legs to break open the guard. Then staple the leg to the floor to complete a pass.

When in closed guard in NoGi, secure two-on-one grip of opponent's arm. Then stand up and push down on one leg to open guard, similarly to the Gi standing guard break. Then staple leg and secure crossface and leg hug to complete the pass.

When the opponent pulls your posture, you push into his armpits to avoid attacks. Then you get off your knees and walk your feet towards his bum to apply the knee wedges. Then secure your grips and open the guard as if you had your posture to begin with. Finish with stapling leg for the pass. Par...

When in closed guard, you secure lapel and sleeve grips. Then stand up and align your knees against the bum and round your back. When guard opens, you immediately staple the leg, secure a cross face and back step out of the guard. Finish with stapling leg for the pass. Part 1 of 2.

When in the opponent's back control, you can seize the opponent's choking arm and bring it to the other side of your head. Then turn into him to escape his back control, while trying to avoid the closed guard.

The rear choke from back control without use of gi grips is called the "Rear Naked Choke" (RNC). The standard RNC uses both of your arms locked together. This video shows details on how to safely lock the arms together to minimize the opponent's defense.

When you have back control with the seat belt, these are common chokes using the gi to secure the choke from behind.

When setting up waiter sweep from deep half, and the opponent leans forward, you can do a shoulder roll over his leg and access the back.

Enter Deep Half Guard and then enter waiter sweep.

Use the X Guard entry to enter into the waiter sweep by underhooking the nearside leg and sweeping opponent backwards.