A danger lurking in the over under

This week, I’ve been teaching a lot of lessons on the over under, and there are few details that I like to focus on.

Can you guess?

You might.

Or maybe not.

But one of my central principles is that there is a micro battle that is fought the moment the position is established. It centers around the top guy’s shoulder,which must connect to the bottom guy’s belly in order to facilitate the pass.

I’ve realized something though.

The other shoulder is just as important. It’s role lies in smashing the thigh and forcing that leg on the underhook side to spay out uselessly.

Why?

It’s because there are whole host of dangers that await any passer who fails to stop that leg from moving freely.

Case in point:

Last night, I taught three specific counters to the over under position when that second shoulder pressure isn’t applied correctly. The first was a stupid simple sweep that I once even hit on Mahamed Aly. It’s so frightfully easy that you’d think it shouldn’t work, but it does (oh does it ever).

And it’s even in the half guard trickery course.

But the other two aren’t

And the second one is an inversion of the back take that Andre Galvao hit against Roberto Tozi several years ago. It’s a real tricky counter too. If you’ve never seen it before, you’d never expect it.

Not in a million years.

Then lastly, is just a triangle. But there’s a specific method to creating the space necessary to hit while someone is trying to crush your soul with pressure.

Those last two options are going into micro adjustments this weekend.

And you’ll be able to learn it (if and only if you sign up):

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