An underhook from your half guard will give you many opportunities for sweeps and backtakes. The most common entry is from knee shield half guard. You can use it to perform a single-leg sweep, a backtake, or a reverse sweep.

When the opponent gets an underhook from his kneeshield half guard, prevent a deep underhook and then counter with a Kimura, Guillotine, or Kneebar.

When being smashed under half guard, you can recover the underhook by using the whip up technique where you use your hands and legs to move his body forward to create space. You can also use the half butterfly hook to create space to recover an underhook or full butterfly guard. If he attempts a ...

Use Butterfly Ashi leg position from Single Leg X for better control of the knee for your footlock. The position is also good for rotation to the belly down footlock. You can enter this leg entanglement from double seated or when the opponent stands up.

When you have double sleeve grips in guard, you can do a lasso sweep by hooking the far leg, far thigh, or far armpit. Pay attention to controlling the far shoulder and your angle relative to your opponent.

From Spider sleeve grips, you can enter DLR and use the sleeve grips to sweep. Use the far sleeve grip to do a forward sweep, and the near sleeve grip to do a back sweep. Once in DLR, you can also enter the crab ride position using the Baby Bolo technique or X-guard transition from a forward coll...

When in De La Riva (DLR) with a collar grip, bring the opponent's hands forward and transition to X-guard to do the get up sweep or enter the crab ride backtake. Another attack from DLR is to do a back sweep and invert into a mount or a Berimbolo roll to the back take.

How to use the De La Riva (DLR) guard to control the balance, recover guard from headquarters, and use with collar grip to perform single leg sweeps or takedowns.

When you have the opponent's collar grip from within your De La Riva (DLR) guard, you can do a leg hook sweep and finish with a knee cut pass. Or, you can get a deep DLR hook sweep and end up in the mount or smash position. Either sweeps can be done from the opponent's combat base or standing.

When your opponent stacks you from closed guard, you can climb the guard using your legs until you lock down the shoulder so that he cannot pull back his elbow. Then pass the leg over the head and you can finish in either directions, as long as your hips stay tight to his armpit.

This sequence shows you how to pull guard into a standard armbar, and attack the other arm if he defends the first armbar by pulling out his elbow.

Practice pulling guard to get the hip and leg movement of the flying armbar. Then throw your legs directly into the armbar from the standing position before your body hits the ground. When you have an underhook and the opponent is on his knees or in dogfight with you, you can execute the corkscre...

From your closed guard, an effective way of enter the armbar is to secure a cross collar grip and a cross sleeve grip. Place a foot on his hip to block his elbow and push him into an angle with your other leg. Pay attention to when he resist by posturing, pulling his elbow back, stepping over you...

When you have closed guard, and you have a cross sleeve grip with the same side pant grip, you can attempt a flower sweep to get his weight onto his far hand. This will give you opportunity to attack the triangle or corkscrew armbar.

From you cross sleeve grip in your closed guard, you can do the hip bump sweep or Kimura when he defends the hip bump sweep. Alternatively, you can throw your far leg over onto the same side to trap his arm between your legs. This gives you attack options of a back-up sweep, omoplata, or backtake.

The Hip Bump Sweep is a very good sweep from closed guard when the opponent keeps a good posture. You can do the sweep without a gi by cupping the elbo, or with the gi by holding onto the opponent's cross sleeve. If the opponent drives you back down when you sit up, or he posts his hand on the ma...

When your opponent shifts to technical mount, you must seize the vulnerabilities by the space he gives you to escape it. This video shows how to get into technical mount, and then how to deal with escaping it by using elbow-knee connection and double under grips.

Basic escape from under mount using frames. When he is upright, wedge elbow in, lay one leg flat and bridge towards the side of the elbow wedge to create space. When he is leaning forward, push on his knee to get his foot closer to your feet and use your feet to capture his foot or escape your leg.

The Estima Lock has similar mechanics to the Toe Hold. You can enter the Estima Lock from top positions for Reverse DLR, Knee Shield, and De La Riva. To defend the Estima Lock, you straighten out your leg. But the top player can transition to a Knee Bar when he straightens out his leg.

When your opponent defends against your armbar from mount by putting his arms in a figure 4, also known as the spider web defense, you can break it using one of these two methods. If the opponent manages to get onto his knees, you can transition to the belly down armbar.

Inside heel hook from the standard 50/50 and backside 50/50. This video shows a few ways to enter the backside 50/50 from a standard 50/50 or X-guard, including Robert Deggle's preferred entry.

When you are in 50/50 standing or double guard, you can put your foot to the other side and immediately put weight on that knee to complete a leg drag pass. You can also enter 50/50 from your De La Riva to defend against the standing opponent's leg drag attempt.

This video explains the important concepts of the 50/50 position and shows common escaping techniques that will lead to a position dominance.

When you have 50/50 from bottom, enter the backside 5050 by getting your opponent to his knees and then finish with the inside heel hook. You can enter from either turning to the outside or turning to the inside.