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Core Games

Game 1

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  • 1 - Your hand will be on the elbow of your opponent
  • 2 - Your forearm will be against the mats
  • 3 - You will be on your side in an upright position
  • Alternative Option 1
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    • 2 - Your forearm will be on the mats flat
    • 3 - You will be on your side

Objective 1

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    • Your objective is to move past your opponent’s grip on your arm, bring your opponent’s back flat to the mats and get chest to chest contact
  • Bottom
      • Your objective is to great distance between yourself and your opponent by pushing against their arm

Objective 2

  • Top
      • Your objective is to great distance between yourself and your opponent by pushing against their arm
    • After creating the distance you are to get to a more dominant position on your opponent
      • You are to consolidate the back, side-control or mount for 3 seconds

Game 2

  • Starting Position → Low side control
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    • 1 - Shoulder into your opponent’s cheek
    • 2 - Connect your elbow to your opponent’s waistline
      • For this wedge feel free to experiment where your hand will go
    • 3 - Chest to chest contact
    • Although it isn’t shown in the above, try to use your knees to point the person on bottom’s hip in the opposite direction away from you
  • Starting Position → From another angle
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    • Top
      • 1 - place one hand into your opponent’s hip
      • 2 - place another hand into your opponent’s neck
    • Bottom
      • 3 - shoulder into your opponent’s check

Objective

  • Top
    • Keep chest to chest contact and your opponent pinned to the mats for the duration of the given time
    • Alternative options for objectives
      • Navigate to north-south
      • Navigate to your opponent’s back
      • Bring one / two arms up and over the head of your opponent
  • Bottom
    • Use the Houdini escape to remove yourself from the position
      • Lift your hips and connect your leg to your opponent’s side → this prevent your opponent from immediately passing into north-south
      • Dive your hand underneath your opponent’s waistline
      • Strong push against his waist to come out the back
    • Video Example
 

Game 3

  • Legs Captured
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    • 1 - Wrap both of your arms around your opponents legs
    • 2 - place your head on the outside of your opponent
    • 3 - opponent should be on their ass, shoulders off the mat
      • another variation → shoulder on the mats
      Different variations of grabbing an opponent’s leg
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Objective

  • Top
    • Using your hand, heads and forward pressure to bring your opponent’s back to the mat
    • Walk around their legs
    • Go into the side control position from game #2 and hold your opponent for the duration of the time given
  • Bottom
    • You are to prevent the side control position by either:
      • Standing up
      • Becoming the more positionally dominant player of the game (get to your own side control, get on top with mount or take their back)
      • if you are caught in side control, you can only escape

Context Switching

Game 4

  • Dog-fight Position
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    • 1 - grip your opponent’s waist
    • 2 - place your arm underneath your opponent’s shoulder (wizard)
    • 3 - (optional) the player who has the waist grip can throw their knee over their opponent’s foot

Objective

  • Player with waist control
    • Get into a dominant position → side control, mount, north-south
    • if you get caught in side control you are only allowed to escape using the Heisman Escape
  • Player with the control of the shoulder (wizard)
    • Get your opponent’s back to the mat, get chest to chest connect, shoulder to cheek and hold them down for the duration of the match

Game 5

  • Standing To Side Control
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Objective

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    • You are to get to the side control position from the previous games.
      • you do this by getting past the legs
      • getting their back to the mat by getting chest to chest contact
Kipping EscapeSingle Leg Escape