Game 1

Starting Position

• 1 - make a "c" grip with your hand and grab the blade of your foot

• 2 - place your arm underneath your leg

• 3 - get the crook of your elbow around their neck

• 4 - place the other foot into the waistline of your opponent

Objective

• Person who is doing the buggy choke
• You are to maintain the buggy choke for the duration of the game's time
• If you opponent tries to defend to push away from the buggy choke grab their arm with your free arm
• so if the buggy choke is on your right hand you grab them with your left

• Person who is being choked
• You are to escape the choke
• This can be achieved by
• Wrapping the arm close to your head around the waistline of your opponent
• Use your other arm to frame the face away
• Rotate your body towards the head

Game 2-a

Starting Position

• Person on bottom start in octopus guard with no hooks (butterfly/ko-soto)

• Person on top has no grips either

Objective

• Person on top
• Your goal is to bring your opponent down so that their back is flat against the mats
• Your shoulder is pressed into their cheek

• Person on bottom
• Maintain the octopus guard position
• Once they go to put your back on the mats you are to hip out and get the buddy choke
• Maintain the buggy choke for the duration of the time given

Game 2-b

Starting position

• This game can be done by either choosing to use the ko-soto / butterfly hook

Game 2

Starting position

• 1 - elbow deep into their shoulder + grab their lat

• 2 - chest must be outside and over their waistline

• 3 - wrap your leg around the opponent's shin
• you'll know your doing it right when the knee is flared
• (crook of the knee wrapping over the shin of your opponent)

Objectives

• Escaping player
• Your objective is to:
• maintain the back heel into the knee
• walk your foot into your opponent to free up space so you can switch the hips

• Attacking player
• Your objective is to get your over the head of the escapee and get chest to chest contact

Common mistakes

• 1 - Don't trap the bottom leg as well.

• 2 - Only the top leg should have the knee flared

Game 3

Starting Position

• 1 - place your elbow into your opponent's shoulder
• reinforce by cupping your underneath your thigh, near the crook of your knee <- this is optional

• 2 - place your toes on the inside of the thigh

• 3 - place your shin in the crook of your opponents knee

Objective

• Top

• extend your opponent's leg with your foot
• push into them & depending on their reaction
• trying to push back into you → do sweep #2
• they do nothing and stay still → take the back
• trying to move away → do butterfly sweep #1 -

Context Switching

Game 4

Starting Position

• Side control w/ your shoulder planted into your opponents face

• palm to palm with your thumb on the inside

Objective

• Top
• Maintain chest to chest contact
• Keep your opponent on the floor
• Continuous game with no clear winning condition

• Bottom
• remove the shoulder from your cheek
• get to your opponent's back from reaching around them
• The games doesn't stop if you end up in half-guard or even closed guard. Keep rolling until you get to your opponent's back

Game 5

Starting Position

• Start in a completely neutral position with one person standing and another supine

Objective

• Top
• Attempt to pass the guard by using only
• side control
• getting into half-guard

• Bottom
• get to your opponent's back using octopus guard
• reverse the position and get to a more dominant position

Objective

• Top
• Get your opponent's back to the mats
• Take your opponent's back

• Bottom
• when your opponent tries to get your back to the mats use that opportunity to get and maintain the buggy choke
• You also have the option to sweep your opponent based on which hooks you have in
• Ko-soto = hook sweep, hip bump
• butterfly = sweep-1, sweep-2, butterfly bolo

Game 3

Starting position

• 1 - Burrito grip

• 2 - Leg against the shin / ankle

• 3 - knee shield

Objective

• Top
• Pass your opponent's guard
• get chest to chest connection
• get chest to back connection

• Bottom
• Reverse the position with a sweep
• Ko-soto
• Butterfly
• Get and maintain the buggy choke

Context Switching

Game 4

Starting Position

• Start in any variation of side control (examples shown below)

Objective

• Top
• Maintain chest to chest contact at all times
• Shoulder forcing your opponents face to look away
• Feel free to adjust to different positions (mount, north-south etc) but the position must end in side control
• what I mean by that is if you start in side control and go into mount you must return on the other side (or same side) into a variation side control

• Bottom
• You are to remove the shoulder from your face and use octopus guard to get a finish with the buggy choke

Game 5

Starting Position

• Top -> Start standing with no grip

• Bottom -> Start seated

Objective

• Top -> you are allowed to finish the submission
• Choose one of the following submissions
• Armbar
• RNC
• Guillotine

• Bottom -> You are allowed to finish the submission
• Prevent your guard from being passed
• You are only allowed to finish with the buggy choke from octopus guard