When you hug the head form your closed guard, and both your arms are over his shoulders, you can slide your arms into a double overhook. Then when he attempts to pull his arms out, you open your guard and place your feet on his hips for a sneaky double armbar.

When you secure an overhook from your closed guard, you can use a grip on his far collar to keep his posture broken while applying a choke into the side of his neck with your fist.

When you attempt a toe hold, your opponent can defend by curling his toes backwards (putting on the "boot"), or straighten his leg. This video shows you how to overcome those defenses.

When you are in the top position of your opponent's knee shield half guard, step your knee over his bottom knee. Then grip the toes of his knee shield leg, and then lock in the toe hold. If he starts to move or straightens his leg, you can roll to the far side to finish off your back.

When you attempt a standard armbar from closed guard, you can enter the Corkscrew Armbar (also known as the belly-down armbar) when the opponent defends. If he defends by looking away so that your leg cannot pass over your head, enter the Corskscrew Armbar on the arm you were attacking. If he def...

When your opponent puts his hands on the mat and raises his hips in attempt to escape your back control, you can slide your hips towards his head on the underhook side and go into the corkscrew armbar.

When you start the omoplata from closed guard, and your opponent pulls his arm out from your hip, you grab the hand and rotate belly down to hook your foot on the back of his neck and clamp his arm between your thighs. Then continue to rotate over your forehead towards his feet and finish the arm...

The Corkscrew Armbar is an attack on the nearside arm when you lift your hips and go belly down, catching his arm between your thighs as you rotate your face towards his feet. This video shows the finishing mechanics after you rotate towards his feet.

This video shows you the mechanics of a basic kneebar from a backstep while in the top position of your opponent's open guard.

When the opponent crosses his leg in a figure 4, you can pull in the top foot over his shin and catch the kneebar. If he crosses his feet you can hold each of his heels in your hands to separate the legs and catch the kneebar.

From you half guard top, you can backstep and sit onto their hips to secure a good clamp on their thigh. Then pull the knee and grab his heel and sit down to straighten the leg for a tight kneebar.

From your side control, you can trap the opponent's far arm on under your chest and step over the body to secure a straight jacket. Then you can enter the back triangle. Rotate your hips to adjust the position of your calf on his neck to get the choke.

When you have side control, but the opponent gets an underhook and turns onto his side intending to get onto his knees, you throw your leg over and catch an omoplata, ensuring that you land him face down with your body leaning forward.

When you have side control, you can start attacking an Americana. If he defends by bringing his arm on the other side to hug your head, you can wrench his arm at his elbow, step over his head, grab his pants, and spin into an armbar. This includes preventing him from defending using his grips.

When you are in Knee Ride, and your opponent pushes on your knee to counter, you get an underhook on the pushing arm, step over his head, grab his pants, and spin into an armbar. Details are included about where to place your arms and where to step.

When the opponent gets an underhook with his far arm from underneath your side control, and then he gets onto his knees, you can use your overhook to grab his far lapel and sit into guard for a powerful choke.

When the opponent turns into you from under your side control, and he doesn't have an underhook, apply a crossface with your forearm to slow him down, use your body to slide under his armpit, and then trap his arm over his face with your chest. Then you can step over his chest into an S-Mount arm...

From your SLX (Single Leg X) sweep, you can immediately put them into 50/50 to expose the heel. Then when he rotates after you catch the heel, you can trap him in Backside 50/50 for the heel hook finish.

From side control, grip the opponent's nearside hand from behind his head to get the gift wrap hold. Then align your hip side shin along his back, let his head fall out of the gift wrap hold and step over his head to get the armbar. If he defends by grabbing his own hand, step the hip side leg ov...

When you launch an Americana attack, a common defense is to roll away to grab the arm being attack. You can trap him on his side and reach under his nearside arm to attack the Half Nelson or Ezikiel Chokes.

When you have side control, secure a thumb-in grip behind the head and step over the opponent's head to get the Canto Choke.

When the opponent hugs your head within your side control, you can set up a north south choke using grips on his lapel near his head. Once grips are secure, spin into the north south position and tripod with your head next to his hip to finish the choke.

When you have side control, and the opponent hugs your head, you can trap his arm on the other side of your head while you set up lapel grips around his head. Once the grips are established, you spin into the north south position for the choke finish.

When you have back control, and the opponent's elbow is raised to defend the rear choke, you can begin isolating his arm while threatening the choke. Then let him escape your hook and you can sit up and reposition you legs to get the arm bar.