Mere moments in a match was enough to entice me into a little bit of obsession.

Yup.

When Gustavo Batista swept Renato Cardosa it sent me headlong into a whole bunch of studying. I’ve watched many of Gustavo’s matches since then. All with the intention of finding more examples of the sweep in action, and in the room, I’ve been laser beam focused on hitting it.

In fact, today I’ve probably hit it well into the double digits.

And every time, it has become a little bit more mine, as I make adjustments and notice more specific instances of opponent vulnerability.

Case in point:

I’ve actually started to hit the scissor sweep against standing opponents.

How?

Well, I step on their foot. Yup. And it works too.

If you curious about exactly how it’s done, though, you’ll have to wait. In the recent lesson I did on the Batista variation of the scissor sweep, I only mentioned the viability of a pinning the foot briefly.

What you can learn right this moment, though, is the specific adjustments to the scissor sweep that will enable you to hit it off a guard pull and with greater ease from closed guard.

The lesson awaits you here:

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