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Core Games
Game 1

- 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
- 2 - Your forearm will be on the mats flat
- 3 - You will be on your side

Objective 1
- Top
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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


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
- 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
- Author:jondoesbjj
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