When you want to hide the set up for the Papercutter choke, you can move to the North South position and get your grips. Then move lift opponent and drop to side control for the finish.

To avoid having him defend the choke before your grips are in place, you can setup the papercutter choke grips by using your cross face to get the armpit grip, and get the thumb-in collar without having to put your forearm across his face.

Details of the grips and mechanics of the Papercutter Choke.

This is a drill for switching Single Leg X leg position from one leg to the other, and then finishing with a sweep and footlock.

When you have a Straight Ashi Footlock, and your opponent pops your foot off the hip and hops over your foot, you can grab his other foot and switch your Straight Ashi leg entanglement to attack the other foot.

From DLR, sit up and get collar grip and pull weight forward so you can put foot on hip and enter a modified X-guard. Then do a sweep straight into the straight footlock.

Finishing details of the Straight Footlock with Straight Ashi leg entanglement.

When opponent has knee shield half guard, but uses his foot on your hip, you can shove his foot under your belly and lock in the Estima Lock. Angle to 90 degrees and push hip forward to apply the submission.

When opponent has reverse DLR guard, you can shove his foot from your hip to your stomach and trap the blade of his foot under your belly and lock it in with your arms. Angle 90 degrees and push hip in to finish the submission.

When standing up from opponent's knee shield, he is likely to put on the Reverse De La Riva guard. You can roll into the toe hold if you slap on the toe hold and prepare to trap his defending leg before you roll forward into the toe hold.

When inside opponent's knee shield half guard, sit on his bottom leg, wedge your elbow against the back of his top knee and slap on the toe hold.

When opponent has knee shield half guard, you can isolate the toe and trap his bottom leg before rolling into the toe hold submission.

When you attempt to his escape side control, and the opponent moves to north south, you enter the inverted guard to keep his chest off yours. From inverted guard, you can control the sleeves and spin into a triangle hold.

When doing the armbar from guard you want push the opponent's head towards the mat. However, when he moves his head in the opposite direction of what you want, then you can roll over your forehead to enter the belly down armbar.

Part 3 of a three part attack sequence from closed guard. This attack is the arm drag to back to clock choke or bow-and-arrow choke variation when the barataplata fails in part 2.

Part 2 of a three-part attack sequence from closed guard. This attack is the the barataplata when setting up the armbar in part 1 but opponent bends his arm to avoid armbar.

Part 1 of a 3 part attack sequence from closed guard. This attack is the armbar using cross sleeve grip and a collar grip from under the opponent's arm to keep his elbow separated.

When you enter the omoplata, and your opponent attempts to counter by posturing, your can use this prinicple of staying behind his knee line to maintain your omoplata hold. This technique was inspired by a Clark Gracie seminar.

When the opponent prevents your knees from spreading apart during his double under pass attempt, you can grab your shin to finish the no-arm triangle choke.

When opponent begins putting his arms under your thighs to begin the double under pass, you can quickly counter y underhooking his arm from between your legs. Then you can fish out the arm to enter the triangle.

When you apply the armbar from guard and the opponent applies a figure 4 bicep defence and stacks you, you can rotate underneath him to get into the belldown armbar position.

When you enter the armbar from closed guard, and he moves his head in opposite direction of the armbar so that you do not drive his head to the mat, you can enter the belly down armbar to finish on your side or flip him to finish from your top.

You can enter the baseball bat choke by securing the 2 collar grips while your opponent is busy setting up a pass or attack. When his head lifts off your chest and you can get a clean connection of your forearm to his neck, you stay with the choke and move your hips no matter where he goes.