Go Further Faster – Half Guard (part 4)

The knee level is one of the best ways to get an underhook
- How to
  - Apply the knee lever causing them to base out with their hand
    - Inside hook with foot up to the knee
    - Put outside foot so that your toes cross with your inside foot
    - Tighten your knees
    - Point knees to the side
  - Move hand into opponent armpit to slow down their ability to come back into position
  - Use the space created to obtain underhook
Using a high knee shield
- The high knee shield is where your knee is near the opponent’s armpit
- You should back up the knee shield with a grip on their tricep
- How to obtain underhook
  - Punch you leg through
  - Have your hand near your knee and follow your leg as it punches through
  - Come up to an elbow with your other arm using the momentum of the movement
Using a low knee shield
- The low knee shield is when your knee is in the hip
- How to obtain underhook
  - Use a cross frame with the same side hand as your knee shield
  - Build yourself up to your elbow with your other arm
  - Pummel your hand through for the underhook
When you have your back flat to the mat and
- Windmill your arms and bridge into the opponent
- Bring hand to underhook
- Use other hand to block their arm

About the position
- A tight waist is where your underhooking hand goes around the opponents back to their far hip
- The position is made stronger if you are able to come up to an elbow of a hand
- The position allows you to easily switch between an inside hook and outside hook with your legs
  - The outside hook is usually preferred for the tight waist series
The Trilemma created from the tight waist series
- The Trilemma
  1. Capturing the far leg
    - How to
      - Come up to your other knee to a base of support
      - Capture part of the other leg
      - Drive into the opponent
    - Opponent counters by bringing up their far leg and driving into you
      - Opens themselves up to roll through sweeps
  2. Roll through sweep
    - There are many versions of this sweep that are covered below
    - How to
      - Control far leg with outside hook
      - Have strong outside leg hook
      - Get your weight under the opponent
      - Sweep Them
    - Opponent counters by putting their hands out in front of them and to the mat
      - Opens themselves up for a back take
  3. Back take
    - How to
      - Bring head through under opponent’s arm
      - Start back take
    - Opponent counters by using a whizzer
      - Opens themselves up to capturing the far leg

Sweep 1
- How to
  - Grab the opponent’s pants near the knee
  - Get an above knee outside hook
    - This leg should be put into a bent un-natural position from this
  - Bring your center of gravity under the opponent and roll
    - Maintain pant grip on your opponent
  - Turn onto your side and bring yourself out from under your opponent
Sweep 2
- Done from a failure from the first sweep
- How to
  - Reverse the movements from the first sweep
  - Use the pant grip to pull their knee towards you as you drive into them
Sweep 3
- Used when you are unable to get to your knees
- How to
  - Get a scoop grip or pant grip on your opponent
  - Lock your elbow over the opponent whizzer
    - This prevents them from being able to base out
  - Bring your hips forward
  - Sweep by rolling your opponent

When you are sweeping the opponent with a scoop sweep it is often beneficial to shift your lock on the opponents leg below their knee
- Because you have a scoop sweep and the tight waist grip this is safe to do and does not put you in a compromised position
How to sweep with this shfit
- Shift to the lower leg
- reverse shrimp to move your body under the opponent’s center of gravity
- reverse shrimp again to move opponent over your body
- Sweep the opponent