Knees/Hip on Floor – Flower Sweep

• Flower sweep from closed guard while opponent is one two knees
  • Grab a same side cuff grip of the sleeve
    • With this grip put your wrist on top of the opponents
  • Grab a same side cuff grip of the pants
    • You may need to perform a knee pull to make the pant fabric loose enough to get grip
  • Plant foot in front of opponent’s ankle on side of the sleeve cuff grip
  • raise other leg and turn foot outwards
    • Leg should remain stiff and not hook around the opponent
  • Use your leg to push over opponent while hand with cuff grip pushed towards the opponent
  • Sweep opponent
    • Be sure to keep pant grip throughout sweep to maintain control
    • Sweep should be towards the opponents shoulder and not directly sideways
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The hip sweep

• This sweep does not see a lot of appearances in modern day competition, however it is one of the mechanically most popular sweeps.

• The two biggest problems you will face when trying to hip sweep

  1. The opponent’s head
  2. The opponent’s hands

• When doing a hip sweep, you intuitively want to sweep an opponent backward, but you should be trying to sweep them forward * You should begin the sweep facing one direction and finish it facing another

• How to

  • Come up to a hand from closed guard
  • Face chest downward
    • This keeps the opponent from knocking you over
  • Collect the opponents arm with your free hand keeping them from posting
  • Scissor legs to bring opponent over
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• Misdirection

  • Best done when opponents have hands applying pressure on you, but do not have grips
  • How to
    • Open up your guard
    • Bridge so that only your shoulders are on the mat
    • Start shifting to one direction and when your opponent goes to block you with their head switch to the other direction and come up into the sweep
    • Face chest downward
    • Collect the opponents arm with your free hand keeping them from posting
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• Cross elbow post

  • Best done when opponents have hands applying pressure on you, but do not have grips
  • How to
    • Open up your guard
    • Push opponents hand to the outside as you come up to a hand
    • Go up into the opponents hips
    • Face chest downward
      • This prevents you from being pushed to your back
    • Collect the opponents arm
    • Scissors legs and sweep
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• Grip break method

  • How to deal with a lapel grip
    • Obtain a cross cuff grip
    • Weave hand under their hand and grab your own wrist
    • Break grip over your head as you knee pull
      • Do not pull straight up or towards the opponent
    • Stuff their arm to the side
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• The golden rule of the hip sweep

  • The golden rule: It is mechanically a great position if you can get to it by eliminating your opponent’s ability to block you with a head or hands
  • The biggest problem with the hip sweep is beating the opponents head and hands
    • It is your upper body vs their head and hands
  • Create the ideal conditions for the sweep
    • If you can get the opponent’s hand, elbow, should hip or butt on the mat, you can sweep someone

Hip sweep setups

• Flower sweep to hip sweep
  • Using a flower sweep can break the opponents posture, getting their hands, elbows or shoulders to the mat, allowing you to hip sweep
  • How to do from closed guard
    • Plant foot on outside their ankle to trap it
      • Make sure your foot is right up against their ankle, or they can easily step over it
    • On the other side use a shallow under hook their knee with your hand
      • You do not need as good of a grip as in the normal flower sweep as your goal is just to break them down
    • Scissor your legs to start the flower sweep
      • More detail about this above in the notes
    • When their hand, elbow or shoulder hits the floor continue to the hip sweep
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• Collar Tie Method
  • How to do from closed guard
    • Post on your opponents shoulder from an inside position
    • Come up to your elbow
    • Grab a collar tie with your hand that was posting
    • Come up from your elbow to your hand
    • Hip bump into your opponent forcing their hand to the mat
    • Collect their hand to your chest
    • Hip sweep
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• Scoop sweep to hip sweep
  • John’s favorite method
  • How to do from closed guard when opponent is standing
    • Scoop an under hook around opponent’s ankle
    • Hand can grab a cross cuff grip or go to the mat behind your head
    • Bring pelvis up as you turn hips towards their griped ankle bringing them down to the mat on their hip
    • Put elbow over the top of their shoulder
    • Curl foot to opponents butt and knee to mat as you go to chest down position
    • Continue with hip sweep
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  • Breaking posture when opponent posts on one leg
    • Scoop an under hook around opponent’s ankle
    • Pull ankle forward and hip into them to sit your opponent to their butt
      • You can set up this weep to either side depending on which direction you drive your opponent with your hips
    • Put elbow over the top of their shoulder
    • Curl foot to opponents butt and knee to mat as you go to chest down position
    • Continue with hip sweep
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• Cross cuff hip sweep
  • This method does not require the opponent to have lapel grips, it can also be done if you gain a cross cuff grip
  • How to when opponent has lapel grips
    • Get a cross cuff grip
    • With your other hand pull your own lapel away from the opponent
    • Force their hand to the outside
    • Open guard
    • Shift hips and go to elbow
      • Go up to your elbow by pulling it behind you and don’t bring yourself sideways over your elbow
      • No need to go to your hand, your chest position is what matter not your type of post
    • Point chest downward as you bring the opponents hand across and go into hip sweep
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