This is a basic sweep, often underrated, yet very strong sweep.

By threatening to break your opponent’s posture, you’ll force him to push back with his upper body, at which point they will help you to get to the right position.

Use your forearm, elbow and hand to base as you come up with your hip and connect it to your opponent’s upper body.

Control by grabbing his belt or arm, and waiting for them to posture again to step forward (similar to a warrior walk) and complete the sweep.

​This is a basic sweep using foot in the bicep, but it works in advanced levels too.
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Once both your feet are on his biceps, make sure that you drag him towards you so that you get him off base, at which point you can push the knee and complete the sweep.

After the sweep, don’t lose connection, keep your grips and slide down to a strong mount position.

Start playing a traditional spider guard.

When you opponent stands up, switch your foot on the hip to a reverse De La Riva hook.

With your free hand, undertook his leg and get a grip on his sleeve.

Start shifting your weight to force your opponent to base, at which point you transition your legs position to do a scissor sweep.

You will land on a position to do a knee cut pass.

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Sensei Douglas Santos showing options to pass the Knee Shield.

When what’s stopping you from passing is the knee shield, you can turn things around by switching everything to the other side. Control the bottom leg and shift your opponent’s hips to the opposite side and establish control.

Sprawl and zig zag your way to the mount while keeping control.

Sensei Douglas Santos showing options to control and submit your opponent from the knee shield guard, also known as diamond guard and used so effectively by Sensei Xande Ribeiro.

Use your knee shield to connect with your opponent’s hip and your arms to frame.

When he gets close enough, your frame becomes a grip on his neck. At this point you can release the knee shield and make the choke tighter and finish the submission.

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It starts with a cross collar grip and the "One Two" guard.

Once you have your "One Two" established, you drag his arm across and shift your hips to point the opposite way while stepping over his arm with your leg.

From here, simply sit up and control his far arm to get really good control and finish the submission.

Again, it all starts with a cross collar grip and the "One Two" guard.

Once you have your "One Two" established you drag his arm across and shift your hips to point the opposite way while stepping over his arm with your leg.

For this unusual setup, you want to be perpendicular to him, and lock your legs in a figure four. Your left leg will ideally lock underneath his far armpit, and if you can't reach that far, you can use his neck.

Extending your body should be enough to complete the submission. If your opponents is too flexible you can sit up and scoot back a little bit to increase the pressure on his shoulder until he taps.

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The "One Two" is a great way to position yourself in open guard and have control of your opponent's posture.

Your left hand has a cross collar grip. Your right hand has a same side grip on his sleeve.

You are lying on your side, not on your back.

Your right foot is against his left hip, and with your left leg you can create a knee shield against the collar bone as in the video, or place your left foot on his right bicep.

This is a great position to sweep to your right, all you need to do is push his base knee back and finish in the mount.

The "One Two" is a great way to position yourself in open guard and have control of your opponent's posture.

In this variation you are going to place your left foot on his bicep, giving you a lot of control over his posture.

Then you are going to switch your hips to face to your left while dragging his arm and setting up your omoplata attack.

As he'll probably roll over to avoid the submission, you can secure the control by hooking your leg behind his and sitting on his arm.

This will allow you to transition into mount.

The "One Two" is a great way to position yourself in open guard and have control of your opponent's posture.

You already know the setup from the previous videos:

In this variation, as you step with your left foot on his right bicep, you'll go further into breaking his posture so that your right foot leaves his hip and instead reaches across his back to hook his right arm from underneath.

Now your left foot doesn't need to push against his bicep anymore, and instead it can go over his head, and if possible hooking his right leg as well.

This is a very controlling position and you don't need grips to hold it in place.

From here you can finish with an omoplata on his new arm, an arm lock on his far arm, or a sweep.

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Starting on a sitting position, place your feet against your opponent’s knees, establish a cross collar grip and drag.
Leave your foot outside for better mobility. You don’t really need it as a hook yet.

With your far arm, tuck your with elbow in and place your hand on his shoulder. Don’t compromise your position by using your full arm to control him, because he can trap it and roll you over.

Use your inside knee touching his foot to weaken his structure, and drag him towards you to expose his back.

Now you can step fully in and establish your seat belt control.

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Starting on your knees, establish a cross collar grip and drag.

Once your opponent is in turtle position, don’t put your arm fully inside to avoid getting rolled over.

Use your elbow, and the hand is over his shoulder.

Your inside knee is touching his foot. This, in combination with a little pull from your far arm will force him to expose his back.

Step in, establish your seat belt control and choose how you are going to submit your opponent.

Start by making contact using your feet.

As soon as you can, loosen up his lapel and drag it underneath his leg.

While stepping on his foot, drag him and establish an X hook with both feet on his far leg, while you keep your lapel grip.

Backtake Option:

If you step over your far leg behind his leg, you are almost ready to take his back.

Establish a new grip, release the original lapel grip, and extend your legs as you sit up and establish your seat belt control.

Sweep Option:

Same setup.

Instead of stepping your leg over to take the back, you are going to remove his base arm by establishing a new grip, and then sweep to the side.

When you land on top, you still have your original lapel grip. Keeping the pressure on, step back and establish your side control.

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Start with rotating your hips to one side and blocking your opponents hips with both hands. This allows you to move your own hips away, creating a gap to get your bottom knee out.

Because your bottom shin is blocking, there is enough space to bring your top knee out.

When you do this, grab both sides of their lapel and sit up without losing your hooks.

From here you are in a good position to attack with a loop choke.

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​Start with rotating your hips to one side and blocking your opponents hips with both hands. This allows you to move your own hips away, creating a gap to get your bottom knee out.

From here there are options to sweep. 

Pay attention to the details explained by Sensei Douglas Santos when it comes to where you should place your feet and your grips.

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This is an unusual defence technique when you find yourself in the bottom of side control.

As usual, your defense starts with proper frames. However, instead of using these frames to face your opponent, escaping your hip and reestablishing guard, you are going to attack your opponent's neck and underhook arm at the same time by bringing your bottom arm around his elbow.

The move can finish with a sweep if you bring your far leg over his head and use momentum to sit up and establish the top position.

Pay attention to the details of what each arm is doing, and the timing and sequence of events as described by Sensei Douglas Santos in this video.

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In this article we are going to discuss some fundamentals on Knee On Belly and look at attack options from the top, as well as escapes from bottom.

​Knee on belly is a very powerful position.

Pay attention how Sensei Douglas Santos explains how he prefers to place the shin one the opponent's hip, instead of the knee on the belly.

Often you opponent will push against your knee creating a small gap in the far armpit. This creates an opportunity to control the far arm and transition to an armlock.

​When attacking the arm from knee on belly, sometimes your opponent will be very aware of it and you may not be able to complete the attack because they are very strong at holding and locking both arms together.

In these instances you can switch to a reverse triangle. You will have to make some adjustments. Pay attention to the details explained by Sensei Douglas Santos to understand how to complete this transition successfully.

​If you find yourself in the bottom of Knee On Belly, you need to get out of there as fast as possible. So let's look at escapes techniques.

In this video Sensei Douglas Santos explains a fundamental escape from knee on belly.

This is another escape from Knee On Belly explained by Sensei Douglas Santos from Ds Team Jiujitsu.
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Your opponent is attempting to pass your guard. They one arm wrapped around your top leg and they are controlling your bottom leg against the mat. 

If you let them progress they will smash your legs and complete the pass.

Don't let your legs be lazy. Use them in an assertive manner to control your opponent and, as if you were hitting a scissor sweep, create enough movement to get your opponent off balance.

(Pay attention to the leg and feet positioning, and how you are creating pressure with your top leg against their hip)

When you do this, you will have enough space and time to free your bottom leg and place your foot on the hip, establishing a much better open guard position.

Now you can attack the arm they were using to hold your lapel. Switch your hip position and place your left foot on the hip as you go around with your right leg over their arm to finish in an armlock.

Pay attention to the small details on the different ways to finish this armlock.