At a certain point, I realized that there was an innate connection between the scissor sweep and kneeshield half guard.
The whole cross collar and sleeve grip combination could be used interchangeably in both situations to unleash offense, and the only difference between the two was the position of the bottom leg.
Yeah, yeah I know.
That’s not a cool as a flying omoplata.
But hearken here.
There are so many different ways you can apply that knowledge to your benefit, and to demonstrate that, I’m going to deconstruct a sequence that depends on that reality.
Let’s start with the first attack.
In the gi, the traditional grips for the scissor sweep are of course, the cross collar and sleeve. Then you create just enough space to escape your hips and bring your top knee across the body.
Now you’re in the base of operations.
Then you have two conditions to achieve before the sweep will be possible.
First, you have to load his weight forward. The hips must separate from the heels, and ideally, his hips will come close to aligning vertically with his knees.
And second, you have to bring his knees as close together as possible.
Sometimes though, the guy won’t let you load his weight, or he’ll widen his base by spreading his knees further apart.
That’s where the kick out version of the sweep come into play. And once again, there are conditions to fulfill. You either have to force the leg (on the side you’re sweeping to) straight or stretch the knee out so far that the whole structure of his base crumbles to dust.
But you’ll also run into guys who either step that leg up or shift their weight away from you.
This is where I unleash the hip tilt on them by switching just the position of the bottom leg.
There’s a problem though.
One of the conditions for hitting this sweep is that I must have control of the other arm, and my grips are committed to the collar and sleeve. For that reason, their best defensive response is included in the calculations.
(You’ll still catch people by surprise sometimes.)
When that hand bases though (the most logical response), they’re in for a whole heap of pain. The loop choke awaits them. And it has no mercy at all.
My grip on the collar just has to slip down a wee bit, and my head has to be higher than theirs, and I have all the conditions I need to chop their head off like an executioner performing his duty.
Here’s where the offensive loop comes in.
If the choke fails, it’s generally because they were able to slip their head out towards the same side as your cross collar grip before you cinched their head in at your hip. That means that their weight shift back the other way. And all you need is the sleeve grip back to go back to kicking out the knee for the scissor sweep.
It’s all pretty simple.
Well, as long as you understand what has to happen for your thing (whatever it is) to work.
With that knowledge, you can internalize the offensive attack chains and know instantly when it’s time to give up on one attack in order to move to the next.
And if this exploration of offensive loops and attack chains is your cup of tea, study my deathlock system. It’s an endless flow of pain and misery once you master setting the initial grip right. And it’ll help add more teeth to your closed guard if you devote time to mastering it.
If, however, you just want to see something cool, it’s not for you.
In fact, unless you plan to actually submit people within closed guard, don’t check it out.
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