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Core Games
Game 1
- 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 2
- 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
Objectives
- Top
- Using your hand/heads/forward pressure bring your opponent’s back to the mat
- Walk around their legs
- Go into the side control position from game #1
- Bottom
- You are to prevent the side control position by either:
- Standing up
- Reversing the position and becoming the more dominant player of the game (get to your own side control, get on top with mount or take their back)
Game 3-a
- 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
- Player with the control of the shoulder (wizard)
- Get your opponent’s back to the mat, regain chest to chest connect and hold them down for the duration of the match
Game 3-b
- Standing To Side Control
Objectives
- Top
- You are to get to the side control position from the first game.
- you do this by getting around your opponents legs, controlling their head and getting their back flat on the mat by maintaining chest to chest contact
- Bottom
- Your objective is to not get placed into side control & off-balance your opponent with your leg sweeps
- Both of these games can be adjusted based on the learning requirements.
- Lets say you wanted to only focus on your students on passing without getting swept.
- Then the task focus for the bottom player would be to off-balance your opponent with sweeps and leg entanglements
- once they get their opponent’s hands to the mats or completely takedown you would then want to assume a more dominant position
Context Switching
Game 4
Starting Position → Half / Closed guard
Objective
- Top player
- Pass your opponent’s guard
- Get to side control
- maintain chest to chest contact, shoulder to cheek for the duration of the stipulated time
- Bottom player
- Prevent your opponent from passing
- Either
- reverse the position
- you get to a more dominant position than being on your back (side control, mount, north-south)
- Author:jondoesbjj
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