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Introduction
- On the spectrum of positions within jiu-jitsu’s turtle falls within the “extremely defensive” category. It is characterized by the exposure of your back from having curling up in a ball-esque form.
- As we look to gain advantages from turtle we will place our focus on allowing the players to explore strategies to getting into one of the many dominant positional pins of jiu-jitsu for them to then work on isolating a periphery and obtaining a submission
- Dominant positions being:
- chest-to-chest
- chest-to-back
- chest-to-hip
Core Games
Game 1
- Starting Position
- Bottom Player
- 1 - one hand covering the knee and the other hand reinforcing the grip
- 3 - shelving TP’s leg against your shin (get your shin touching their ankle)
- Top Player
- 2 - locking their hands around BP’s chest


Objectives
- Cue(s) → Key points to pay attention to
- Top Player
- Freeing the leg → Remove the shin to ankle connection that the bottom player has
- Freeing the knee → Use a half nelson
- Bottom Player
- Using the trapped knee → elevate your leg and shelf the leg by your waistline
- Top Player
- Connect your chest to their back and get both hooks in
- Bottom Player
- Connect your chest to their back and get both hooks in
Game 2
Game 3
- Starting Position → Seated vs. Supine

Objective
- Cue: grab the arm of your opponent and another appendage as he tries to pass your guard
- Attacker → Completely disconnected trying to pass their guard
- Defender
- Only defense is turning to turtle
- you are trying to chest get chest to back / chest to chest connection
- Author:jondoesbjj
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