The setup for the roll through sweep is when you have a tight waist grip on the opponent and and under hook scoop grip on their leg. Your feet should start from an inside hook position around their leg.

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The lower leg shift

• The lower leg shift is a switch from inside to outside position from around the opponent’s knee to their ankle
• The opponent’s legs should be bent to 90 degrees or greater
  • The straighter the opponents leg the less control you have over your opponent.
    • If the opponent straightens their leg too much they can turn their knee into you, creating a frame on your hip.
  • To keep the opponents leg at 90 degrees, keep your foot towards your butt. Turning their foot outside of their knee.
    • The opponent’s leg will straighten during the sweep, it is only important to keep 90 degrees at the start of the sweep.

The knee lift

• The knee lift is performed after the lower leg shift.
• The opponent knee must be lifted off the mat, so you can shift your body under the opponent.
• To perform from the lower leg shift:
  • Place your feet firmly to the mat and hip in and point your hips to the ceiling.
    • This should bring their knee off the floor allowing your inside leg to move freely under the opponent.
  • Reverse shrimp until you and under the opponent and keep forward shrimping until you bring the opponent all the way over.
    • While doing this bring the elbow of your arm with the cross waist grip to the floor.

The hip shift

• The hip shift is the transition from one of your hips to the other while bring the opponent across your body completing the sweep.
  • A reverse shrimp bring you from your starting hip to your back.
  • A series of small sliding shrimps then brings you to your opposite hip.

The law of the elbow

• The opponent posting with their hand is the primary way to stop the sweep.
  • It is possible to directly take their back if they are too focused on posting and do not move to defend the back take with a whizzer.
• You can still sweep when the opponent is posting with both their hands on the floor.
  • To do this you need to sweep in the direction the elbow of your tight waist arm is pointing.
    • If the opponent tries to post against this you can bridge and force them to face plant.

Directionality of force for roll through sweeps

• The opponent will be smart and be moving their hand to support themselves from getting swept.
• The belt shows the direction that you should sweep the opponent.
  • The direction of force should be in or below this direction.
• You should be continually be moving in a small circle under the opponent while applying a downward force on their leg.
  • You will find yourself going from reverse shrimping to shrimping as you continually circle and move from one shoulder onto the other.

Details on the sweep

• The most effective way to prevent this sweep is by resisting the knee lift by being heavy.
  • When you are unable to life the opponent knee lift yourself.
  • The opponent should put in a whizzer to keep you from taking the back…
  • You can then forward roll from here.
    • This may sweep them, but at a minimum it will lift their knee off the mat allowing you to hip shift under them allowing you to sweep.

Taking the back: The duck under

• If the opponent does not have a whizzer, you can take the back using the duck under.
• This can be done after threatening the roll through sweep and forcing the opponent hands to the floor.
• Two methods of achieving, the first one requires more athleticism:
  • Using a whipper:
    • Bring your legs off the floor and throw them to the side, bringing yourself up behind the opponent.
  • Moving your body:
    • Move your head to the outside of their body to an angle by walking your feet.
    • Switch your feet
    • Keep your head away from the opponent to keep them from getting the whizzer in.
    • Keep pressure on the tight waist to ideally keep the opponent on their elbow
    • Bring yourself up, using your leg to generate momentum.

Taking the back from tight waist

• When taking the back you need to make it difficult for the opponent to apply the whizzer.
  • When you are coming out from a failed roll through sweep. reverse shrimp out of the position.
  • Keep a tight waist grip pulling your opponent so they must put their weight into their hand basing on the floor.
  • Keep your ear on the opponent back. This prevents the whizzer.

The limp arm

• The limp arm is a way to take the back when the opponent has a whizzer in place.
  • Point your fingers on your base hand outward and drive into your opponent with your head.
  • Keep your shoulder of your arm with the tight waist lower than your arm.
  • Point thumb up and relax arm and move your head away from the opponent.
  • Pull your loose arm out.
  • Quickly take the back before the whizzer is applied again.