White Belt Questions, Black Belt Answers
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Every Wednesday on reddit.com/r/bjj, white belts get to ask whatever questions they want. We're going to answer them.
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How To Start A Roll
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Learn How To Invert Safely
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Stop Getting Your Neck Grabbed While Playing Shin On Shin
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Learn How To Pass The Half Guard
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Which Side Should You Play Guard On?
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How To Pass Flexible Guards
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How To Keep Your Closed Guard Locked Without Getting Tired
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How To Finish Armbars Our Favorite Finish
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Learning How To Granby Roll
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How To Recover When You Get Flat In Half Guard
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How To Stop The Bench Press Escape From Side Control
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How To Deal With Someone Stalling Inside Your Closed Guard
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Chokes From Inside The Closed Guard. Good Or Bad?
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How To Have Pressure On Top As A Smaller Person
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How To Use Stiff Arms The Right Way
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How To Stay On Top Of Side Control
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How To Have Posture Inside Someones Closed Guard
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How To Finish An Arm Triangle
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How To Stop The Double Ankle Sweep
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How To Take The Back From Turtle
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How To Finish An Americana
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How To Finish The Body Lock Pass
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How To Enter X Guard
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What To Do When You Get Stuck In Kimura From Top Half Guard
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How To Isolate Arms To Finish The Choke
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How To Finish A Kimura From The Guard
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How To Escape The Back
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How To Hold Mount
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How To Beat Sticky Hooks
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How To Go From Half Guard To Closed Guard. Important recomposing concepts.
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White Belt Do Not List
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How To Prevent Getting Choked When You're Doing The Over Under Pass
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How To Pass Seated Guard
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How To Break Sleeve Grips
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Reverse Hitch Hiker Escape
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What To Do When Your Getting Choked Inside Your Closed Guard
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37
What Would You Focus On If You Could Start Jiu-Jitsu Over Again?
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38
Should You Work On Judo Headlocks For Jiujitsu?
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39
How To Do Half Guard Without Getting Flattened Out
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How To Stop Someone From Yanking Out Of Armbar
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How To Do A Mounted Triangle
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How To Hold Knee On Belly
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43
How To Progress As A White Belt
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How To Set Up A Guard When Someone Is Trying to Pass
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45
How To Not Get Guillotined While Doing Takedowns
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How To Not Panic While Rolling With Upper Belts
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How To Finish A Omoplata
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How To Finish A Rear Naked Choke When They Tuck Their Chin
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49
Traits Of A Good Guard Passer
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50
What To Do In Quarter Mount
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Over Under Passing Options
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How To Escape The Kimura When On Top
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How To Finish A Triangle
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How To Finish An Ankle Lock While Keeping Your Feet Safe
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3 Ways To Finish A Kimura
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I'm Not Getting Submissions, Am I Doing Something Wrong?
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How To Attack Someone From Deep Half Guard (Top)
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How To Finish a Triangle When Someone Has Good Posture
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How To Deal With Someone Feeding The Lapel In Half Guard
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How To Finish The North South Choke
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Making Jiu-Jitsu Goals For The New Year
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How Do I Maintain Open Guard When I Have Trouble Keeping Feet On The Hips?
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How Do I Grip Without Burning Out My Hands
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64
Passing no-gi open guard
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65
Standing Posture and Cross Knee Passes
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Defending the Double Ankle Sweep
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Trouble Shooting the Scissor Guard
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Maintaining Knee on Belly
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Preventing Groin Pain During Armbars
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Back control - hand fighting
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Shooting a double/single without smashing your knee
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Half guard when you're smashed flat but you have underhook
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Escaping the headlock
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Omoplata log roll sweep, clean finishes
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Finishing the kimura from half guard
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Countering the knee cut from quarter guard
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Defending kimura from bottom half guard
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Breaking posture in closed guard
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Cross knee pass, preventing the turtle
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Lasso guard entry and spinning omoplata
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How to deal with a goon holding your wrists down
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Returning to guard from turtle
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How to hold side control
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Omoplata without being flexible
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Half guard - Countering the back step pass
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De la Riva guard - when they squash the other foot down
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87
Head outside single leg takedown (not recommended)
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Common beginner takedown mistake: no grip fighting
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Controlling the triangle position
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Omoplata when bottom legs gets trapped
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Crucifix leg positioning
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Americana - attacking and defending the submission
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Follow ups to defended americana from side control
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Defending the guillotine from the front headlock (sucker drag)
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Entries into single leg x-guard (SLX)
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Spider guard basics - Triangle, omoplata, sweep
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Passing spider guard
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Scissors sweep vs wide base
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Knee cut pass: preventing it and finish it without the underhook
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100
How to break armbar defenses, finishing mechanics
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101
Omoplata, stopping the rolling and jump over escapes
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102
Wrestlers, stop trying to cheese the guard pass
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Armbar from guard - Countering the stack by going belly down
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Freeing the foot from 3/4 mount
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Breaking the ankle grip from DLR/RDLR
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Difference between whizzer and overhook
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Standing pass vs leg underhook
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Escaping rear mount to the good side
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109
North-south kimura
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Beating the underhook from side control
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Omoplata and triangle vs tall posture
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112
Beating the stiff arm in stand up
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Finishing a stuffed single leg
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114
Rolling bow and arrow choke
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Countering the sitout
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Attacks and leglocks from knee shield half guard
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Arm triangle and the ezekiel choke
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118
Attacking the back when they hold your arm
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119
Half guard when opponent disengages
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120
The "no roll" roll to crucifix
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Entering deep half guard from mount and rear mount
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Killing the near side arm from side control
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Not getting footlocked when doing double ankle sweep
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Maintaining pressure when attacking from side control
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Troubleshooting half guard sweeps and back takes
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126
Single leg X guard (SLX) vs lapel pull
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Two good half guard passes for beginners
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Breaking collar grip when passing guard
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Can small grapplers do americanas on big guys?
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Getting under the chin for the rear naked choke
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Butterfly hook sweep troubleshooting
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Passing versus crazy flexible legs
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Upa escape when they post free hand
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134
Setting up the double under pass
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"The Witty Pass" - knee through the middle pass
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Defending the waiter/muscle sweep when standing in guard
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Defending the guillotine from YOUR butterfly guard
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Finishing the arm triangle from side control
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Deep half guard without getting stuck in submissions
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Kimura from half guard - alternative finishes
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Dealing with the guard pull from standing
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Passing collar and sleeve guard
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Defending the straight ankle lock
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Switching side when passing the knee shield
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Cross grip waiter sweep.
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Not getting kneebarred when hitting the kiss of the dragon from RDLR
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Getting around the head to finish the armbar from guard
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Finishing the double under pass
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Preventing the stand up and stack when finishing the triangle
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De la Riva versus stretch out opponent
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Defending americana from TOP of side control
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Preventing the knee pin pass from butterfly guard
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Defending kimura from guard and side control
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Back step pass vs sitting guard
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Over-under pass vs head pushing
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Holding mount
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Countering butterfly pass (ankle trapped)
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Passing half guard when you lose the underhook
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Butterfly guard passes
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Finishing the side control escape to guard
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What's the difference between the anklelock and the heelhook?
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Escaping north-south to the single leg
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Submission attacks from north-south
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Is it OK to smash the knee shield?
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Regaining posture in closed guard
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Escaping side control without getting darce choked
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Countering the hip bump sweep
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Running the pipe to finish the single leg takedown
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Mount vs super defensive opponent
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Finishing the straight armlock AKA razor armlock
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3 sweeps from half guard
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Lasso guard vs a sprawled out passer
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"Octopus" half guard troubleshooting
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Bellydown armbar troubleshooting
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Using combat base to pass guard
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Finding the Goldilocks zone to do the scissors sweep
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Knee-on-belly vs explosive bridging
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Dealing with low pressure passing
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Which side to lock the rear mount body triangle
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Collar and sleeve guard without getting footlocked
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Defending leg drag
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Defending quasi over-under pass from butterfly guard
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Omoplata and sweep with overhook
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Defending against backstep pass to De la Riva
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Baseball bat choke from guard
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Ankle picks against evasive opponent
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Developing your hooks for open guard
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Killing the near side arm in side control
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Escaping mount without bridging
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Bad "half butterfly guard" top and bottom
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Attacks from s-mount
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Playing open guard without being held down
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Passing knee shield guard
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Playing open guard and preventing the bullfighter pass
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Holding technical mount (countering escape to half guard)
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Escaping the bow-and-arrow choke
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No-gi attacks/submissions from mount
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Finishing the kimura from guard
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Escaping knee on belly / knee ride
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Finishing the triangle or transitioning to the omplata
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