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Core Games

Game 1

Low Side Control

  • 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

Objectives

  • Top → this game is continuous for this person
    • Prevent your opponent from reclaiming the inside position
  • Bottom
    • Reclaim the inside position on your opponent and escape from the pinned position
    • If you can get into a position such as a triangle / armbar after you escape, go for it. Do not finish for the sub. Just get into the attacking position
      • what we are building by doing this is getting into the habit of moving immediately from a defensive cycle to an offensive one.
      • meaning we move from defending/escaping a position to now attacking a person
      • this is a better alternative rather than the usual being attacked then reset into a neutral position

Game 2

  • 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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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

  • Standing To Side Control
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Objectives

  • Top
    • You are to get to the side control position from the first game.
      • you do this by getting around your opponents legs, their back flat on the mat and 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 are originally continuous, however they 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 inside leg position and once they get their opponent’s hands to the mats or completely takedown and assume a more dominant position then they would be the winner
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