Elevator Sweep! Sweep the...whole body, Johnny!

You have them in Guard Stage 1, they decide to post on one foot and smash down on you like a wrestler! A very crushing and super uncomfortable place to be.
When they post on their foot, though, the create the opportunity for you to do an Elevator Sweep!
Uncross your legs, push off of their legs with your legs to shrimp outward to the right. You do this so that you can swivel your right leg around and get your foot under the back of their knee. You also drop your left leg by theirs. You also hug their arm of the shoulder that bearing down on you. You also snake your right arm under their left.

Once you have all that set up, lift with your right arm and right leg/foot, and chop inward with your left leg on their leg, and make sure to hold onto that arm that you are hugging. Do all of that at once, as you turn over. 

And now you are on top, in Mount position! 

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Headlock Escape 1 - Super Lock!

When you are on the bottom, and they've headlocked you, you first go for the standard Frame Escape. Generally, that will break the grip. But sometimes, their grip is so tight, that the Frame Escape just won't break it. In that case, we use the Super Lock Escape!

When you go for the standard Frame Escape, and they keep holding on, you will create movement. They will topple over. All you have to do is go with the momentum of their topple! As they go down, use your hands for base, get your knees behind them. Then, bring your lower hand (in relation to their head) over and block their legs. Then, step over. And then, pull your foot in, and voila! You are in the Headlock Counter position, from which you can punch and take the back, or break the grip and do an armbar. Either way, you have the top position, and are now in control.

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Shrimp Escape - Punch-Block Version

In a street fight, if the opponent has you in Side Mount, what they are most likely doing is trying to hold you down to eventually strike at you. 
So when they have you in Side Mount, double down! Hold them in close and tight! They will actually not like that, because now you are controlling them! So, quite naturally, they will want to posture up to punch you. In that moment that they pull their arm back to strike, they create a little space. When that space is created, that is when you do the Shrimp and Shoot Shrimp Escape.

So really, this technique is mostly the Shrimp Escape - Shrimp and Shoot variation. The only difference is that they are in closer, and you are holding them down into you, and waiting for them to make the move to try to hit you. 

You do have to practice patience, and the ability to react at the right time. So definitely learn to recognize when the space is made for you to Shrimp and Shoot. 

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Triangle Choke Forced!

After putting them in the Guard Stage 1, there's a chance that they might not do anything at all. But, they won't give up either. So in this case, we make them give up, by forcing them into the Triangle Choke.

The arm we use to wrap their arm now comes on top of their neck for head control. We use the other arm's forearm to insert into their arm. 
We uncross our legs, and the feet momentarily go to the ground. In one motion, we shrimp and push on their arm at the same time. We do this to create space, and insert our knee. Right after we do that, we put the other leg on their back. Now we are officially in the Triangle 1.5 Setup position. from there, the steps are the same as before:
-Extend your shin, while sliding your grip down to their wrist
-Bring that leg over their should and cross your ankles, now you're in Triangle Setup position.
-Stay safe from punches by keeping your hands up and out.
-Bridge your hips, bring their arm across their neck with both your hands.
-Then one hand grabs the top of the head.
-Put your foot on their hip.
-Wiggle back, pushing off of them, as your other leg clamps to the side of their neck.
-Grab your ankle.
-Replace your hand that grabbed your ankle with your other leg
-Both hands go to the top of their head
-Apply 3 points of pressure - squeeze your thighs, bridge your hips, and pull down with your hands.

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Kimura Rider

From Stage 1 of the Guard, they decide to post their hands on the ground to get up. At that point, you ride with them for a moment, then you release, post on your foot and elbow, reach over, grab your own wrist and at the same time grab their wrist with your other hand.
Push off of your feet to lie down, and that will bring them down.
Then put your foot in between their legs for a brief leg trap, and scoot your hips and shoulders to make you sideways. Once you are there, crank their arm to the floor, or until they tap.  Keep their elbow in close to your chest. 

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Armbar From The Mount

In a street fight, if you've Mounted your attacker, there's a good chance that they will try to push you off with a bench-press type of push. When they do, make sure to do the High Swim first.

After they've done a few of those and are getting a little tired, they may have one last go at it. It is at that moment where you could take their arm and do an Armbar.

The key thing is to put your hands together, isolate an arm, and turn your fingers 90 degrees toward the direction you want to go. 
Put your weight down on your hands, on their chest, invert your leg (that is the same direction where your fingers are pointing), keep your hips low, and swing your back leg around.

You land on your bottom, staying in close, and finish with the Armbar. Be sure to grab the wrist, bring their hand thumb side up, towards the south, lift your hips, and pull down on their wrist. Be sure to keep your legs heavy so they can't easily push your legs off.

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Armbar - Side Variation

You're Mounted on them, and for a moment, nothing is happening. So you decide to create some movement in order to bring this altercation to an end. You strike the face, and they roll to their side, to which you do the Modified Mount, just like in Take the Back.

But unlike Take the Back, instead of them rolling all the way to their knees, they stop on their side. No problem, this is where we can do an Armbar, especially when they're covering your head to protect from your strikes. 

Just hook their top arm with your further-away arm, and pin your hand to your shoulder, to trap their arm. Once you do that, just follow the same steps for the Armbar that you did for the Headlock Counter. And that is to:
-Press down on their head with your other hand
-Walk your front foot up under their bottom armpit
-Swing your back leg around
-Execute the Armbar - pull down on their wrist, push hips up. 
Make sure their arm is south, with the thumb side up.

Partners, again, please make sure to tap, and people doing the technique, go slowly, and respect the tap.

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Headlock Counter With Armbar Finish

So you have Mounted them. They try to roll you off with a headlock. We know how to keep the position by going into the Modified Mount. 
In an earlier video, we showed how we can Take the Back and end with a Rear Naked Choke. 

However, in this video, we show how to end in an Armbar. First, we have to break their grip. We do that by creating a frame with our forearm, and press it into their neck as we lean forward and pop our head upward. Then, we take the arm that was around our neck, and pin it with our own head, and our far arm. 

From there, we place our other hand on their head, walk up our front foot under their arm pit, open that leg's knee, and swing our back leg around, in front of their neck, as we sit down. We then slide our grip down to their wrist, putting their thumb side up, bringing their arm south (in the direction toward our far shoulder. Keep the legs strong on them, make sure you are in tight, simultaneously raise your hips and pull down on their arm. 

Your training partner needs to tap, as this is an arm breaking technique. As soon as you feel your partner tap, release. Of course, in a street fight, you have to use your judgment on whether or not to break their arm. 

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Americana Standard

We've done the Neck Hug version of the Americana or Figure 4 or American Key Lock submission.

Now we're doing it from the Mount, where we are postured upright. We are wanting to control the situation, so we set up the lock with striking their face. They will invariably bring their arms up to protect themselves, and that's when we take their arm and lock it up. 

We pin the arm to the ground, and then go through the steps.
Don't forget to put the leg hook in, otherwise they could roll you off.

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Heel Drag Elbow Escape

They got the Mount on us, unfortunately. So, we try to Trap and Roll, doesn't work, we can't wrap their arm. We try to Elbow Escape, it doesn't work either, because they stiffened their leg. We try to do the Fish Hook Elbow Escape, but that doesn't work either, because they kept their knee on the ground and lifted their shin!

So this is when we need the Heel Drag version of the Elbow Escape. What we do is we take the leg that just attempted the Fish Hook and lasso that around their shin, and pull their leg with our leg. Simultaneously, we push down on that leg with our left hand. 

This creates the space we need to bring our left leg through and do the standard Elbow Escape. If you need a breakdown on the steps for an Elbow Escape, please go back to that video, and check out the description.

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Rear Clinch From A Guillotine Attempt!

They punched at us, we clinched them. They're flailing around desperately trying to get out. At this point, we know if:

-they stop moving, we do the Leg Hook Take Down.
-they try to push off of us and break our grip by scooting back, we Pull Guard.
-they try to punch us, we do the Body Fold Take Down.

In this case, they desperately try to wrap our neck with some sort of Guillotine attempt. Or just even to get their arm up and around our head. 

Easy.

We just pop our heads up against their arm, turn the corner, and get tot their back for a Rear Clinch!

The key thing is to bring your head up, like a turtle popping its head out of its shell, and keep your head close, as you turn the corner for the Rear Clinch. 

Remember, in the Rear Clinch, we hold the S-Grip. Also remember to keep your head down on the lower part of their spine. And also remember to keep your hips away. You will not hold this position for more than 3 seconds. After 3 seconds are up, you must execute the Rear Take Down.

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Double Leg Take Down - Aggressive Opponent

Another option for you, if the attacker is aggressively coming at you with strikes is to change levels and tackle them!

This is called the Double Leg Take Down. 
As they step towards you, you incrementally back up, and then when the actual strike comes, you change levels (by bending your legs and going a little lower), and shoot towards their legs.

Get your lead leg in between theirs, grab the backs of their knees, bring your head opposite to the opposite side of your forward leg, then drive off of your back leg, going downwards.

As you go downwards, the side your head is on, that same side's arm/hand needs to hold onto their leg. You use your other hand to break the fall.

After you go down, take the hand that held onto their leg to push that leg down and bring your leg that was in between theirs over their leg and stay low as you transition into Side Mount.

It's a great take down move, and a good follow up, to avoid either their legs wrapping around you, or just any funny business with their legs in general - so you go to the side. From there, we know how to transition to the Mount.

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Rear Take Down -- TIMBER!!!

You got the Rear Clinch on them. Now, it's time to take them down!

You step up with your left leg, then shoot the bottom of your foot to the back of their heel, straightening out your leg. 

Sit down on your right leg, as you pull them over your left foot. Note: KEEP YOUR LEFT LEG STRAIGHT!!!

As you pull them down to the side, right before you hit the ground, undo the S-Grip lock that you had from the Rear Clinch, and tuck your elbows in. 

Bring your right leg over them. After that, a little shoulder get up and adjustment, spread your hands, and secure the Modified Mount position. 

Really break down these steps, and although momentum is involved, really try going slow, so you can be very aware of where everything is. 

Ultimately, this technique happens very quickly. But it is important to go slowly to understand the nuanced placement of everything, and for safety for you and your partner.

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Haymaker Punch Defense - Rear Clinch!

The Haymaker punch or overhand punch is a huge swinging technique with full body weight behind it, with the intent of knocking you out. 

So the Haymaker Defense - Rear Clinch strategy is an effective one. The Haymaker punch, while very powerful, leaves a very big gap when generating the power. And in that gap is when we shield, move forward in a slight angle while wrapping the body with the other arm. Then we link our hands with an S-grip, turn the corner, and get behind them, with our head on the lower part of their back. In this particular clinch, our hips are AWAY from the attackers body.

We are only going to hold this position for a few seconds, so don't wait too long. In our next video, we'll discuss the Rear Take Down, which is what follows.

For now, get comfortable shielding up, slip through the punch while wrapping their body, close the hands with the S-Grip, turn the corner, keep your head on their lower back, keep your hips away, and hold for no more than 2-3 seconds. 

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Body Fold Take Down - Down They Go!

Important stuff! Let's look at this:
So they try to punch you, you close in on the distance and clinch them. The thing is, even though you are in tight, they feel they can still clean your clock with a good, hard punch! The thing is, in order to get any kind of leverage behind that punch, they have to arc back a bit. When you feel that arc back, that is when you do the Body Fold Take Down.

Lower your center of gravity by bending your legs.
Lower your arm grip, down to the lower part of their spine.
Pull their hips in with your arms.
Push their chest with your head and shoulder.
Straighten up as you do the last 2. 
As you are both going down, step out/forward with a leg, to slow the fall down. 
Right before you hit the ground, separate your hands, and get into the Mount position. 

As the attacker, make sure to lean back to give a committed punch, and then, as they take you down, either break the fall by slapping the ground, or simply, hold onto them as you go down for a gentle landing. 

This is a classic leverage-based way to get someone who is trying to hit you hard, down to the ground. 

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Guard Prevention, BUT, We Call it the "Flip Prevention"!

Technically, this is called Guard Prevention, however, I like to call it "Flip Prevention". 

So the idea is this: 
You've Side Mounted on someone. They might bring their elbow/forearm down by your hip. In a super technical scenario, they bring their arm/elbow down on your hip to push and create a little space so they can shrimp and shoot, and put you into their guard. Chances are slim to NONE that this will happen in an actual street fight. It is a highly specialized and technical move, that is not at all very intuitive to an aggressive attacker on the street. 

What is more likely is that after they try rolling you off, and they find that they can't, they might sneak their arm/elbow down there, and try to flip you off. It's very effective, because they have controlled your hip!
Have your partner do it to you, so you can feel that that flipping you over move is a very legitimate threat to your position. 

Once you've done that, now let's do the technique. From your arm that is under their arm (underhook) and from your posted foot, use that as your base to push upward from. That will give you just enough lift to slide your back leg through, going ahead of your posted left leg. Keep your torso and head low.

That motion gets your hips out of the question, and neutralizes that flip completely. Once you have done that, and they've calmed down a little, bring that leg that your brought forward back, but on the knee by their hip. At the same time, bring your other knee under their armpit. From here, you are about to do the Mount Transition.

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Headlock Escape 2: Leg Hook Escape

You got headlocked on the ground. You try to put in the frame, and do the Frame Escape, the Headlock Escape 1 technique. The problem is, you were too late! You didn't put the frame in time, and they got their head down, right on yours, bearing their weight down. 

So in this case, we use Headlock Escape 2 - Leg Hook Escape. Tuck your inner arm's elbow in, with the outer arm, hug around their shoulder. Then take your top leg, and hook it around their posted leg. You are going to push up and around off of your BOTTOM leg's foot! That is the key. As you climb over and around, they will still be committed to the headlock, and because of that, they will be rolling over as you make your way over and around. You end up in a modified mount, with a headlock. 

The fact that they still have a headlock on you is NOT A PROBLEM! You are on top, that's the most important thing. We have  several episodes devoted to the Headlock Counter. That's what applies here, so we are not worried about the fact that they still have a headlock on us. What we are changing is our position, from being on the bottom, to being on top. 

The elbow tuck, the hug, and the leg hook are all positions we put into place. The main action comes from the bottom leg/foot pushing you up and over them.

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Headlock Escape 1: Frame Escape

If your on the ground, on the bottom, and someone headlocks you, it can be very demoralizing, and potentially dangerous, as they could start throwing punches.

So to get out of this situation, we first create the frame with our forearm, supported by our other hand. This prevents them from bringing their head in and bearing more weight down on you. We then shrimp away a few times. Then we push up on our frame, and capture their neck/head with our legs (by lifting them and clamping them down. Make sure to position your top leg over their throat. You may need to get on your elbow and post your body upwards a little. From there, straighten out your legs, squeezing their neck like scissors. 

Partners should tap. This is a tracheal choke, not a blood choke, so it is more of a pain compliance move, rather than something that will put them to sleep (like a Rear Naked Choke or a Triangle Choke).

The usage of the frame and the scissoring of the legs are fundamental self defense ground fighting concepts.

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Shrimp Escape: Shrimp & Shoot. Anyone hungry for a Po Boy??

How did we even get here?? Ok, so let's set this up:
They punched at you, you clinched them. They try to push on you and scoot their hips back, you pull Guard. They try to stand up, you put them into Stage 4. They disconnect from your feet, and now we're in Stage 5. They dive in from the side, and you made a mistake, and missed the Block & Shoot Shrimp Escape, and now they have their chest on you.

But, they don't know the technical side mount, they think (commonly) that bearing their weight down with the chest is all they need to control and demoralize you. What they don't realize is that they've left a gap in doing that, where their lower abdomen/hips are.

And that's where we use the Shrimp & Shoot variation of the Shrimp Escape. If they came in from your right, post your LEFT foot on the ground, scoot your hips back just a little, and from that post, shoot your right knee across their midsection, and left leg on their back. 

From there, it is standard shrimp escape procedure:
-position your hands for awareness of head and arm activity
-with your right leg inside, drop it by their legs, push off of them, and straighten up
-post your right foot on the ground, and then shrimp towards the right, free that foot/leg, and wrap them into Guard Stage 1.

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Hook Sweep - Step Up, Get Knocked Down!

The Set Up:
They punched at you-- You clinched.
They tried to break out of your clinch-- You pulled Guard.
They are in your Guard & then stand up to punch-- You do Stage 4.
They decide to take a step forward to try to get closer to punch you--- and this is when we do the Hook Sweep.

The key thing behind this technique is to use a pushing and pulling mechanism simultaneously to knock them down. Here's how we position ourselves to make that happen...let's say they stepped forward with their LEFT foot:
-we  side crunch towards that left foot and grab it with our right hand (thumbless grip).
-we insert our left foot to the back of their right knee.
-we keep our right foot on their hip (from Stage 4).

All that happens at once!

And then:
-Our right hand pulls back on their ankle.
-Our left foot pulls back on the back of their knee.
-Our right foot pushes forward on their hip.

All of that happens at once! And down they go! 
Sidenote - our left foot, as it pulls back, can point the toes forward towards the end of the pull to avoid potentially getting our foot trapped in between their calf and hamstrings. 

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