When your opponent has you in the Arm Triangle choke hold and he hops off your hips, you can grab your leg to temporarily defend against the choke. To escape the choke hold, you can either swing the arm back in front of his head, or bridge away from him to turn to your knees.

When your opponent has the De La Riva (DLR) guard, step over and trap his foot in the Headquarters position. Then shuffle to DLR side to smash his knees together and do the Rugby Pass.

When your opponent has the Kneeshield Half Guard, and you begin the Rugby Pass by smashing his knees together. You can transition to the Smash Pass as soon as you clear his hook on the outside of your hip.

When your opponent has the Kneeshield Half guard and knees are close together, you use your body to smash his knees together and block the knees from escaping with your bicep. Then do the Rugby Pass to his front side.

When the opponent has Kneeshield Half Guard, you move his knees to the other side to enter the Smash Pass (aka Folding Pass). You can pass directly to mount by stapling his top leg.

When your opponent has Butterfly Guard, you can move to one side to collapse his knees together and pin them to the mat with your body weight to enter the Smash Pass (aka Folding Pass). If his knees come apart, you can insert your knee between his legs and enter the Leg Weave option where you can...

When you are able to move the opponent to the side and use your body weight to push his knees together, you can complete Smash Pass. Use your head to control his upper body and your legs to pass to the backside.

When you enter Headquarters position from De La Riva, immediately apply pressure to the opponent's legs. When he push his shin across your body, then you can apply the Folding Pass by pressing his knees together to the outside. If he squares his hips up to the mat, then apply the Knee Cut Pass.

When you get into Headquarters, immediately pin the outside leg and trap his inside leg to the outside of your body while keeping heavy on his hips. Then sprawl off his hook and complete the pass to the side of the pinned leg.

When you have the nearside sleeve grip from X Guard, grab his collar and pull his weight over your body. Then flip his hips over his shoulder using your X hooks to get him to forward roll. Use the connection of your X hooks on his legs to pull you up over his body to complete the sweep.

When you enter X Guard from open guard, the upper body grip that you have will dictate the type of sweep you can do from X Guard. When you have the nearside sleeve or collar grip, you can do an ankle back sweep. If you have the far sleeve grip, you can do a forward sweep. If you have no upper bod...

When you enter the Backside X Guard position from X Guard, and your opponent leans forward, you can use the crab ride position to drive his knees to the mat. If he starts rotating, use the hip grip, pant grip, and crab hooks to maintain the backside position that sweeps the opponent and lands you...

From Spider Guard, enter the X Guard and then begin the Get Up sweep by getting his weight onto the far leg. Then lift his leg and put it on the other side of your head and re-establish your X Guard hooks. Immediately grab his belt and drag him to the mat, landing into the Leg Drag position.

When you have a seated butterfly guard and your opponent is kneeling on the mat, you get double under grips and pull him over to get his hands on the mat while lifting his hips with your butterfly hooks. Then push his armpit to the side and grab his leg to enter the X Guard.

When you have X Guard without any upper body grips, you can still sweep the opponent by forcing his weight onto the far leg while gettin up onto your knees with his other leg.

When you achieve X-Guard, you need to quickly abrupt his balance before he can start breaking down your guard. Two good balance disrupters that do not require upper body grips is the backward sweeps using either the far leg grip, or the ankle pick.

The X Guard is a very versatile guard with its signature configuration of your legs that look like an X. This video introduces you to an easy way to construct the X guard from an open guard.

When you are in 50/50 and the farside ankle is exposed, you can catch the foot under your armpit and then step your outside leg across the body below the knee to get a tight straight footlock.

When you Spider Guard, you can enter the X Guard with control of the opponent's sleeve and do a foward or backward sweep.

From your Spider Guard, you can enter De La Riva (DLR) and Sit up with sleeve control between his legs. With far sleeve control, you can do a foward sweep. With near sleeve control, you can do a single leg sweep, or overhead sweep.

From Spider Guard, enter the De La Riva (DLR) and then situp to execute the Single Leg Sweep using nearside sleeve and collar control.

Enter De La Riva (DLR) from Spider Guard, and then sit up and pass far sleeve grip between the opponent's leg to execute a forward sweep.

Use Spider Guard to enter the X Guard. Then retain the nearside sleeve grip and execute the Ankle Pick Sweep backwards.

When the opponent is standing in your Spider Guard, you can enter the X Guard and retain the grip on his far sleeve to do a forward sweep.