When you get passed the opponent's knee shield into half guard, you can pin his back to the mat and pass using his lapel.

When you sit up for the standard omoplata finish, but your opponent postures, you can secure a grip that will connect you to your opponent's back and execute a crucifix omoplata off your back.

When the opponent manages to get under your elbows in high mount, you can escape with double underhooks when he advances his position with an S-mount.

When you keep the opponent's hip directly above your hip, you can execute these fundamental techniques to escape mount.

When opponent uses the hitchhiker's escape, you can counter with an omoplata or an armbar.

When the opponent counters your Overhook Cutting Armbar attempt by circling his wrist back onto your hips so that you can't armbar or omoplata him, you can execute the Barataplata

When you break the sword grip from your closed guard, you can trap his arm in a overhook and threaten a choke while setting up the Cutting Armbar.

When your opponent places his hand near your neck in your closed guard, you can execute a cutting armbar.

When opponent is your closed guard and he tries to choke you by grabbing your collar, you can counter with a standard armbar from closed guard.

When the opponent attempts to do an armbar from his closed guard, you can execute the Figure 4 Counter followed by a stack pass.

You can quickly get into the armbar from closed guard by securing the cross sleeve and cross collar grips.

This video shows some transitions of your guard attacks that shows the relationship among the triangle, armbars, and omoplata.

From the lasso guard, secure the collar grip and put your far foot on their bicep. Then control the elbow on the lasso side, pull her elbow in then shoot for the triangle.

When you attempt to do a single leg sweep and the opponent pushes back, it's called a Dog Fight. You can use that position to enter the triangle when the single leg sweep fails.

When you sit up to do the hip bump sweep, hug the head on the other side. When the opponent posts the hand to stop the sweep, you touch the foot on his arm and then fall back into the triangle.

You can get to the bicep sandwich either from an Omoplata sweep, or directly from side control top. From there, you can setup a rolling back take, or roll into a triangle from the backside.

If you get him to turn an standard X-Guard into a Single Leg X, you can roll into a back take.

When the opponent has the DLR guard on you, you can back step over the DLR leg and then roll into a back take.

Kneeride and crossface with the forearm. Countering the ghost escape. Side control to S-mount. Side control to North South and back to side control.

When the opponent attempts to re-guard by turning into you, you can switch your base into the scarfhold and then switch back in a closer position under his elbow.

This video explains the when the seated guard is appropriate, and shows the sweeps and takedowns you can do with capturing one leg in your seated guard. You can "run the pipe," do a hip drag, or do a double leg takedown.

Drills for practicing X guard entry from far away and nearby. Ankle pick, Sit up, overhead, and single leg X sweeps from X-guard. X-guard to backtake when you sit up for a sweep.

A slower but more controlled way of escaping the opponent's back control is to use your turtle position to drive the opponent's shoulder to the mat and pop off his foot hook.

If you can fall to the side of his underhook, you can execute the back scraping technique to escape. If you fall on choking side, you can use the sinking technique to escape.