A few years back, I often used to travel to the heart of the nation’s capital to train with Nakapan Phungephorn at his academy.
And at the time, he was completely obsessed with leg locks.
Almost every moment I was even defending an attempt or succumbing to my doom, and there was one particular position that gave me all kinds of fits.
It was the texas cloverleaf.
Imagine it.
I get to half guard. I get the underhook. I’m all ready to go. Then bam, he backsteps, collects the far leg, and now I have to defend multiple leg locks at once.
And that, my friend, is no exaggeration.
Almost every leg lock is possible from that position.
You like ankle locks? It’s there.
What about heel hooks? It’s there.
How about a side of toe hold? It’s there.
And who can forget the kneebar? It’s also there.
Not a fun position to be in at all.
And for the longest time, I had no answer to it. But that changed one day, while I was down in North Carolina teaching seminars. At one of the gyms I visited, I learned an answer.
And you can learn it right now if you so wish.
Not long ago, I dropped a video breaking it down in detail on the Tube, and it can be found right here:
