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Core Games

Game 1

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 to your opponent’s back
    • Get on top
  • Player with the control of the shoulder (wizard)
    • Either:
      • Get to your opponent’s back
      • Get your opponent’s back to the mat

Game 2-a

Shelving The Foot

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  • 1 - place your opponent’s foot into your pocket
    • raise one foot to capture the leg
  • 2 - using your entire arm it should be cupping around the lower thigh (in-front of the knee), the other hand, cupping around of the upper thigh
    • although not shown place your shoulder against your opponent’s thigh
  • 3 - the other leg which doesn’t have anything shelving should be resting against the mat

Objective

  • Player with the shelved leg
    • Get to your opponent’s back
  • Player whos leg is being shelved
    • Escape the position

Game 2-b

The single leg

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  • 1 - cup one hand around the knee cap
    • although not showing here exactly, place your shoulder into your opponent’s knee
  • 2 - sprawl your hip into the mat
    • ensure you are sprawling on the side which has the grip around the knee

Objective

  • Player who has the knee
    • Gain height, take your opponent’s back
      • you do this by transitioning into the position from game 1
      • breaking your opponent down to his side
      • then taking his back
  • Player who has no meaningful connection
    • Prevent the player who is on your knee from taking your back and escape the position

Game 3

Deep Side Control

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  • Bottom
    • 1 - place your hand into the waist of your opponent
    • 2 - place your forearm into the neck of your
  • Top
    • 3 - shoulder into the face
      • make them turn away from you
    • 4 - although its not shown, place your arm into the waist of your opponent

Objective

  • Top
    • Keep side control, it doesn’t have to look exactly like the one shown.
    • the idea is just to keep your opponent’s back connected to the mat, always have your shoulder pressing into their cheek
    • if your advance enough go into mount and then transition to side control on the opposite side
  • Bottom
    • Escape side control → get to your opponent’s back
 

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)

Game 5

Starting position → Standing vs Seated

Objective

  • Player who is standing
    • You are to pass your opponent’s guard using meaningful connections to their feet and facing their hips away from you
    • Get to side control → depending on what should be learnt there is the option to either:
      • maintain the position for the duration of time
      • get to side control, consulate the position for 3 seconds, that is a considered a win
  • Player who is seated → Game is continuous
    • You are to prevent any guard passing
    • depending on what should be learnt there is the option to:
      • off-balance/sweep your opponent
      • get subs from the seated/supine position
 
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