From your closed guard, secure a cross sleeve grip and perform an arm drag to create opportunities for the back take, pendulum sweep, or armbar.

Tripod sweep with your foot on the same side sweep (push-pull sweep), and a variation with the opposite foot on hip (sickle sweep).

Technical details that explain the top and bottom positions of a tournament match and what is considered a sweep.

This video explains the details for the basic guillotine with the arm in and the basic guillotine without the arm in. It includes the basic escapes for these guillotines.

Explanation of the Baseball Bat Choke with crucial details in ensuring that you can complete the choke once you get the grips.

This covers the fundamentals for the butterfly guard sweep. Includes a solo drill that will help you understand the mechanics. It also covers crucial details that will help you overcome the resistance your opponent will present.

When you get a grip on your opponent's farside lapel from side control, you can execute the North South choke, Baseball Bat choke, cross collar choke, or Brabo choke, depending on his reaction.

When you open your closed guard to finish the Kimura and your opponent rolls forward, you can still complete the Kimura from side control if you quickly react to the roll.

This video shows you how to create the conditions to execute the Kimura from your closed guard. It includes details that will make the kimura tighter.

When the opponent hugs your head or turns his arm downward to avoid the Americana or armbar, you can execute a Kimura. This video shows details on how you can finish the Kimura with the maximum control of body.

When in knee ride and your opponent turns on his side, you can enter the cross collar choke while he is on his side. Once you get the first cross collar grip, you can finish the choke even if he flattens his back onto the mat. You can also use the cross collar choke grips to take his back if the ...

When doing an armbar from mount, and your opponent grabs his other bicep and locks his arm in the figure 4 defense, you can pry his hand off the bicep using both of your arms.

When your opponent hugs your head to counter your Americana attempt, you can execute the farside armbar, and deal with his defensive moves to complete the armbar.

This guard pass was inspired by the teachings of BJJ legend Pedro Sauer who promotes details that would enable you to address many of the defensive moves the opponent would offer. The video includes the entry into this pass from Reverse DLR.

Details for an effective cross collar choke from closed guard and variations using the opponent's lapel. There here are also details on how to relate the chokes from guard to the top position, and execute the lapel variation from side control.

Defend the double under stack pass with an entry into the saddle position for leg locks.

When opponent attempts a double under stack pass, you can defend the stack, and then invert into a right angle tordando sweep where you end up on top side control position.

You can use your legs to perform a wrestler's switch for a back take when your opponent attempts to do a stack pass from double underhooks on your legs.

You can do the stack pass from double underhook of the opponent's legs, and then transition into an effective over/under variation when you fail to raise his hips.

Detailed explanation on the mechanics of an effective foot lock, and the correct things to address when executing the defense for it. It also address the definition of reaping of the opponent's knee.

You can push yourself into the S-mount on the farside, when you fail to get the armbar from mount.

When the opponent grabs his other hand in order to counter your armbar from mount, you can enter the triangle.

When the opponent pulls his elbow to the mat during your attempt at an armbar from mount, you can grab his far arm and execute a belly down (Goldchain) armbar.

When you enter the omoplata, you can figure 4 your leg and sit up at a right angle to finish a shoulder lock.