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Core
- Intention
- Player on their back
- Maintaining arm-and-head isolation of an opponent’s broken posture
- Player on top
- Recovering the isolated arm to prevent the choke
- Regaining posture
Game 1
- Starting Position
- Player on their back
- 0 - back to the mat
- 1 - connect both palms together
- 2 - connect ankle to ankle
- 3 - (although its not shown) the other player of the game has their arm pressed against their neck

- Attention
- Player on their back
- Keep your opponent’s arm between yourself and your chest
- Using your legs, keep your opponent’s posture broken down
- You must keep your back to the mats
- Do not finish the submission
- Player on their knees
- Get the arm between your opponent’s chest and neck back in-between the two of you to break the connection from chest to chest
- Get chest to chest OR chest to back for three counts of mississippi
Game 2
- Starting Position
- Player on the bottom
- 0 - connect back to mats
- 1 - wrap your opponent’s hand around the circumference of your neck
- 2 - connect ankle to ankle
- NB - feel free to do whatever you find most comfortable with your other hand

- Attention
- Player on their back
- Get to the position of the first game by pummeling your unoccupied hand through
- Using your legs, keep your opponent’s posture broken down
- You must keep your back to the mats
- Do not finish the submission
- Player on their knees
- Break connection from your opponent
- Get chest to chest OR chest to back for three counts of mississippi
Game 3
- Starting Position
- 0 - Back to the mats
- 1 - grab the crook of your knee
- 2 - grab the wrist of your opponent
- 3 - Connect ankle to ankle

- Intention
- Player on your back
- Keep your opponent’s head facing towards the mats and under your armpit
- Get to the position from game #1
- Player on your knees
- Remove the grips your opponent has over your wrist
- Frame against their body to posture up in order to working towards getting either chest to chest OR chest to back
Game 4
- Starting Position
- Start with your legs wrapped ankle to ankle around your opponent
- Your back is to mat
- Your opponent’s hands are on your chest

- Intention
- Player on their back
- Using your legs, rock your opponent forward and get them into the position from game 1
- Once the position has been achieved then the game happens the same as the previous
- Player in the guard
- You are to break the connection that are holding you down from your opponent achieving either:
- chest to chest connection for 3 counts of Mississippi
- or chest to back with both legs are connected to your opponent’s thighs
Game 5
- Starting Position
- One player is standing
- One player is seated

- Intention
- Seated Player
- Get your opponent on their knees and get into the position from game #1
- Once in the position from game #1, you are able to finish for the submission
- You are able to get the submission, once submitted reset to the starting position
- Standing Player
- Using your hands and legs remove your opponent’s legs from in front and off to the sides
- From there get chest to chest OR chest to back connection for 3 counts of Mississippi
- Author:jondoesbjj
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