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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When you set up the clock choke and the opponent grabs your arm with his far arm and rolls you onto your back, you can still get a chock from his back side by connecting your shoulder to the back of his neck and reposition your hips.

When applying the clock choke from the opponent's turtle, you can execute the classic method by grabbing the wrist on the far arm, or by grabbing the far leg, or by dropping your armpit weight over his neck.

This video shows the most common entry to the Peruvian Necktie Choke and its most common defense.

When you have closed guard, and the opponent gets a sword grip on your lapel, you can break the grip and secure an overhook on his arm to launch a series of attacks on the neck and nearside arm.

This video shows the Loop Choke when you trap the head and arm, and spin under for an alligator roll.

When your opponent stacks you to defend the armbar from guard, you can spin through to a better position for breaking the armbar defense.

When opponent defends your standard armbar from guard by making a bicep grip of the hand on the arm being attacked, you can attack a Gold Chain armbar on the other arm.

This video shows the difference between the Aoki Lock versus the straight Foot Lock.

This video shows you key details of the Paper Cutter Choke, and how to execute it from Side Control or North South.