Attacking a standing opponent

• Arm Lock
  • As the opponent stands make sure you have control of posture
    • You can use your other hand to feed the lapel for a deep cross lapel works well for this
  • Grab an undertook on their leg with your other hand
  • Walk feet towards shoulders to enter the top lock position
  • Change from your cross lapel grip to a grip on their wrist
    • Clamp their wrist so that your wrist veins touch theirs
  • Open your feet to scissor them, so your foot comes to the back of their head
  • Move your other foot past their head to enter the arm lock position
  • Bring hips up and finish
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• Scoop Sweep
  • Gain a cross cuff grip
    • Prevents opponent from bringing hand to the floor
  • Bring elbow with grip tight to side
  • Under hook opponent’s foot
  • Bring your hips high and turn them in towards your under hook knocking them to the mat
    • Turning your hips should start to direct their knee outward
  • Bring hips forward and take mount position
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• The handstand sweep
  • Done with no grips
  • Scoop one arm inside the opponent’s ankle
  • Plant your other arm above your head
  • Bring your hips high and turn them in towards your under hook knocking them to the mat
  • When the opponent lands they will be able to post behind them, keeping you from getting mount
  • Get your hips higher than your opponents
  • Reach over opponents head with a collar tie
  • Put your leg over their shoulder
  • Bring your opponent back into the trap triangle
    • You can attack with a triangle
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• The leg trap sweep
  • Grab two cuff grips
  • Release your guard
  • Lock your legs around your opponents knees
    • Their feet must be close together to perform this sweep
  • Pull your knees towards you
  • Bring opponents one direction and their legs the other
  • Bring your head into the opponent and use head position to win the scramble
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Omoplata sweep

• How to
  • Grab a cross cuff grip
  • Grab an under hook with your other arm around their ankle
  • Put the foot of your gripping hand on your opponent’s shoulder or hip
  • Walk your other foot up the opponent’s back
  • Bring the leg of the foot on the opponent’s back connecting to the back of the opponent arm and shifting your hits out, entering the omoplata position
  • Break opponents posture
  • Swing your other leg downward to sweep the opponent
  • Win the scramble
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• troubleshooting If you are unable to sweep the opponent
  • From the omoplata position
  • Pass the sleeve grip to the hand with the under hook
  • Swing your leg downward to sweep the opponent
    • You can also figure 4 their arm in this position and apply pressure to sweep
  • Once you sweep the opponent switch the cuff back to the initial hand
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• Setting up the position in a competitive setting
  • When you get to the point that you have opened your guard you should be pushing the opponent backward, attempting to get them to give you forward pressure as a response
  • When you get the pressure response you can then move to the omoplata position and sweep using their forward energy.
• Combing the omoplata sweep and scoop sweep
  • This is a way to set up an action-reaction scenario where you switch back and forth from the scoop sweep and omoplata sweep
  • This switches between a forward and backward sweep
  • See the omoplata sweep and scoop sweep above
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Double ankle sweep

• Grab both ankles with your hands on the outside
  • If the opponent as their feet staggered you will need to shoulder walk to get to their other food
• Open guard and pinch knees together
• Keep feet connected to opponent’s back
• Knock opponent backward
  • Drive knees upwards and not straight back
• Grab A cross lapel grip or collar tie
• Bring hips high over opponents
  • Do not go in symmetrical
  • You should go in so that you bring one knee to the floor
  • Can feel like the end of a hip sweep
• Enter mount position
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