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The Fastest Way To Becoming Effective In Standing Position Part 3
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Now, we've been looking at precursors to
getting to the single leg situation.
Now, it's time to start getting into the
nitty-gritty, picking up an opponent's
leg in a in a sparring type situation.
We're looking at setups. Um, when it
comes to setups, you're going to have a
vast array of choices. Um there are
three fundamental criteria of a good
setup. First, any good setup should be
uh should enable me as the attacker to
control my opponent's movement. I should
be able to make him step with either one
of his legs. I should be able to make
him step forwards. I should be able to
make him step backwards. I should be
able to set up uh the distance between
myself and my my uh and my shot so that
I facilitate my ability to get through
to the leg. Um, so control of my
opponent's movement is the first
criteria of a good setup. The second
thing is defensive responsibility. While
I'm holding the setup, I should be
offensively strong while at the same
time taking away the the the hard
element of his of his offense. Um, and
the third thing is it should enable me
to attack both sides of his body
whenever possible. So it's difficult for
my opponent to read which side of the
body I'm going after. So, the three
criteria we're looking for, our good
setups should be able to move our
opponent around and control his
movement. Uh, it should be defensively
responsible, make it hard for an
opponent to get through and attack us
while we're trying to attack him. And we
should be able to attack both sides of
the body. The first one we're going to
look at is one of the very best uh
setups that we use all the time. This is
the idea of collar. We get a hold of our
training partner's collar and we control
the elbow. We play with thumbs in when
we're defensive and thumbs out when
we're offensive. Thumbs out when we want
to pull someone and thumbs in when we
want to push someone. So once we get
into that position, we can use our
Colorado to start to move our opponent
around. I'm standing right-handed.
Placid's right-handed. And from here,
we're able to go forward and get our
hands on our opponent. The beauty of the
Colorado stand athletic possible. From
here, we should be able to make our
training partner's rear leg move, pull
it around and get it moving towards us.
I should be able to switch my stance and
then from here make this leg here move
towards me and bring that foot in. And
as a result, I can always get that
outside foot position that we favor so
much. And then from there, we're in good
position to attack. At the same time,
it's defensively responsible. Plus, he
was standing right-handed. That means
his right hand will be his shot hand.
Okay? It's all the right hand side is
what I probably when he goes into a
shot. It's that it's that right side
which is going to go in and start
launching the attack. But if I have my
thumb inside my training partner's elbow
along with my collar tie when he goes to
make that shot, you're going to be
controlling his shot hand. Okay, so
that's always something we're interested
in. Collar and elbow is both offensively
strong because we can control our
opponent's movement and it's defensively responsible.
responsible.
It controls your opponent's shot hand at
the same time. It enables me to attack
both sides of the body. Let's stand up.
Okay. From here, we're always in a
position where we can start moving our
training partner's leg around and we can
attack one side of the body and come up
or we can attack the other side of the
body and get that leg up. Okay. So, it
has all the criteria of a really good
setup. Question of course is how we
going to get to the collar and elbow
reliably. When we're in front of a
training partner, it's a little risky
for me just to reach out here with my
hand and get through to a coll. Your
opponent can go underneath your arm and
and make a shot while you're reaching.
So what we often do in these situations
is we come out and we start the action
of fainting and we bring our training
partner's head down with a faint. And
every time the head comes down with a
faint, we go in, we get to our grips.
Now we're in place. Another one we favor
along is to get a gift to our training
partner. goes to grab and now we're in a
good position to control our training
partner's arm at coral and elbow.
There's nothing now stopping us coming
up to take the coral tie. Now second
hand coming in and now we've safely
gotten into our copper elbow. So we want
to get here. One of the best methods is
a quick faint that brings his hands down
and lets us lock up the collar and elbow
and come into place. Another great one
is to feed him a wrist. Then from here
we come up collar and elbow. Now we're
in business. Okay. Okay. So, once we're
in there, the next big thing, of course,
is how we're going to use this to set up
our high single legs. First one we're
going to look at is attacking our
opponent's back leg. So, once we've
established collar and elbow, we're
going to start circling and pulling just
like so. Okay. As I make the circle and
pull, watch my feet. I start with my
right foot forward. As we start circle
and pull, my right leg starts stepping
back. So, now my stance has switched
somewhat. And from here, we're going to
run straight to a leg. We're going to
hit an inside reach. We pick our
training partner's leg up and come into
good position. As always, from here,
we're looking to get that leg up nice
and high very, very early. And from
here, we're in good taking position. So,
once again, however we've gotten into
our collar and elbow position. We start
athletic stance. Bend your legs. From
here, we're going to start that action
of pulling on our training partner's leg
so we can get it moving towards us. As
we do so, looking at my feet, I start
with my right foot forward. As we step
out and pull, we create a situation
where I'm now left side forward. My left
hand is my shot hand. We come in, we use
an inside reach. We walk through our
training partner and come up in a good
position. Head up, back straight,
walking through our opponent so we can
create that situation where we can start
bringing the leg up nice and high and
get into our off hands. So, one more
time. However, we've done it, we go in
and we establish coral elbow. And then
from here we start that action of circle
and pull. Switching ourselves so we can
walk through our training kind of
keeping this guy movement and bringing
the leg up nice and high into good
attacking position. What if we want to
take the other side
like before we come in we establish
collar elbow. I'm standing with my right
side forward. Look how from here I start
that action of stepping stepping and
pulling that leg in. So there's the
outside step. Right. From here, we walk
through a training partner and pick that
leg up nice and high. From here, we're
always bringing the leg up and into our
favorite attacking position. So, if I
wish to attack, my training partner's
lead. From here, we start that action of
pulling the leg in towards us. As we
start the pull action, we switch
ourselves. And now we're in position to
walk through our training partner and
bringing the leg up nice and high. In
this way, we can use collar and elbow to
get our opponent stepping. We're
defensively responsible the whole time
cuz when I hold in here and here, if he
begins to shoot on us, it's going to be
very, very difficult. Okay, it's going
to be easy for us now to start getting
into our counter offense. So, we're
defensively strong. The corner elbow
enables us to make a foot step forward
on either side. Doesn't matter which
side it is, we can always get this guy
moving and stepping. And then from here,
Now we're looking at setups to our high
single leg. We just looked at a splendid
example of inside control. It's collar
and elbow. Okay, when we're my elbow is
inside my training partner's elbow, my
hand is inside, but this is a good
example of inside control. You'll
clearly see that my elbow is inside the
elbow of my opponent on both sides of
the body. Okay, so that would be a fine
example of inside control. We should of
course be able to attack from both
inside and outside control. So, if I
deliberately tie up with an elbow wide,
that will give my opponent inside
control. We're going to grip a hold of
my sheny partner's tricep. My head comes
in and then I take a thumb inside tie on
the opposite side. So, I have an outside
tie here and an inside tie here. Now,
we've already seen the criteria of a
good setup.
It should be defensively responsible.
Shouldn't be easy for your opponent to
attack you when you're in your favorite
grips. Your grips should give you, as it
were, uh, something of an advantage
prior to attack. So, it has to be
defensively responsible, easy for you to
attack, tough for the other guy to
attack. It should enable you to move
your opponent around at will. You should
be able to make him step anywhere you
want. You should be able to control his
movement, and it should enable you to
attack both sides of your opponent's
body. Those are the three criteria of a
good setup. So when we come out and we
start that idea of giving him the inside
tie and then locking in and grabbing my
training partner like so. I can move
this guy very easily. I can make his
back leg step towards me. Okay. I can
make my training partner's front leg
stepping towards me by just gripping
here and just pulling and making him
step. So either side of my opponent I
can create a step which brings him in.
Okay. So we're defensively responsible.
If he goes to shoot on us, that thumb
blocks that'll make it very, very
difficult. Make it easy for you to step
back. If he tries to shoot on the other
side, you're controlling your training
partner's arm. He can't even get his
hand down to your leg. Okay? So, both
sides are defensively strong. If I want
him to step towards me, it's an easy
thing for me to step and get my outside
foot position. If I want the other side,
I can do the same thing. And there's our
foot position. And of course, it's
enabling me to attack both sides of the
body. When we come out here, I can
attack his back leg very easily. I can
attack his front leg just as easily. And
then from here, we're engaging the leg
up in our usual attacking motion. But in
this position, just put your hands on my body.
body.
Now, this is a good position for us to
work. So, once again, we come in on our
training partner. We take that outside
tie. We're defensively responsive. He
goes to shoot on me, it's going to be
tough. On the other side, it's going to
be tough. Okay? Okay. So, we're
defensively responsible. If I want to
get this guy stepping towards me, it's
not so difficult for us to come through
and end up on the back leg. It's not so
difficult for me to come in and attack
him by his front legs. Then from here,
get our legs up into good attacking
position. So, this is another fine
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Now, another great setup involves inside
control. This is wrist and elbow. Again,
the three criteria of a good set. It
should be defensively responsible. You
should have a grip on your opponent
where you can attack them pretty well,
but it's tough for them to attack you.
Uh you should be able to move your your
opponent's body and control their
movement. And you should be in theory at
least be able to attack both sides of
your opponent's body. Here's a really
good example of inside control, which
does exactly that. One of the most
useful ways to control a training
partner's wrist is to roll the wrist
outwards. My hand starts on the outside
when my fingers point up. But when I
point them down, my wrist, you can
clearly see, turn your watch, is inside
my training partner's wrist. So I have
inside control. My hand is inside his
hand. My wrist is inside his wrist.
Okay? So when we're in front of a
training part, one of the best things we
can do in these situations is start that
wrist roll out like so. Now my hand
comes down and it goes just inside my
training partner's elbow. So, if he were
to try to shoot from my body, I'm in
total control of my training partner's
two hands. If he tried to snatch on this
side, he'll never get through. I'm
controlling my training partner's wrist.
So, once again, if he goes to shoot with
that left hand of his, I'm in control of
it. If he goes to shoot with his right
hand, I'm in control of it at the elbow.
As a result, it's in great way for me to
open up my training partner's elbows and
start creating highways towards my
opponent's legs. At any given time, I
can attack this leg just by stepping
away from it and pulling. And that's
just a very easy thing to take my
training partner's leg up on the other
side. If I want to take this leg here,
look how I just switch my stance. I'm
here with my right side forward. I just
switch my stance, give a little pull,
and now the leg is in a good position
for us to walk up and get our hands
connected. So, it's a great way to shut
down our opponent's ability to attack
us. When we first start off, we come in
here. If he goes to shoot on us, it's
going to be very, very difficult to get
through. It's your head position and
your hand position makes it very, very
difficult. If I want the leg to come
towards me, I just step, pull. Now that
leg's right there in front of us. All we
have to do now is come up off the saw.
And there's nothing good at taking
position. If I want the other side, look
how my thumb slides over my training
partner's tricep. And then from here, we
just give that little pull. That brings
that leg in towards us. And as a result,
we can walk the leg up and end up on
good attack.
So once again, we have a training
partner in front of us. As we come out
and make contact with our training
partner, we go through and we get our
grips. We make this guy step and there's
the leg up in front of us. On the other
side, as we come in on our training
partner, we start to pull. There's that
leg, our hands connect, and we're once
again in fine attacking position. So,
this is a really practical way to
separate our training partner's arms,
dominate the arms from the inside where
he can't really get a hold on you, but
at any given moment, you can get a hold
on him. And from there, the legs are
right in front of you. You can attack on
Now, let's get into what is most likely
my favorite setup to high single legs.
I've always loved this one. It's very,
very practical, very easy for most
people to apply, and has the criteria of
any good setup. It's defensively
responsible, enables you to move either
side of your opponent's body. You can
bring the front the back leg forward.
You can bring the front leg forward.
That enables you to attack either your
opponent's front leg or back leg with
equal uh facility. So as we start in
front of our chinny panda, we saw
various tricks where we get a hold of
opponents and start posting on their
body. Whenever we go to post, a very
common reaction is people go to grab
your wrist. And whenever we see this, we
just brush down and we take a cross
wrist grip. From cross wrist, I just
point my elbow at his elbow. And now
we're in the perfect position to give a
little pull. I step away and pull. and I
just aim my ear inside his bicep. So, we
just pull and bring it in just like so.
Now, we walk in and just pick up our
training partner's leg. And once again,
we're in perfect attacking position. So,
once again, however it happens as we
come out with our training partner, it's
a very common thing that will go to grab
a wrist and then from here just come
straight in and bring that leg in
towards us. Now, my head's on the
inside. If he goes for a guillotine,
it's impossible cuz I'm controlling one
of his wrists. He goes for kimora, it's
similarly impossible. He goes to sprawl
from here. It's hard cuz I'm on my feet.
And as a result, we can walk through
this guy and get good head position
right from the start. And you can do
this on either side of your opponent's
body. Okay, we're defensively
responsible. We have our hands down and
we just kind of give our opponent the
ability to snatch a wrist. And there it
is. Now we come straight in. We pick up
our training part. This leg start
walking through this guy. And once
again, we're in good position bringing
that leg up high. So no matter how it
happens, as we start off grabbing with
our training part, we see him
controlling the wrist. You just go
straight in and pick up that training
partner's wrist. Okay. So many times
you'll have an opponent who wants to get
a hold of your wrist and that's the
perfect time to go in and get to your
grips. You've got outside foot position,
foot to foot, level change down. There's
nothing between you and your opponent's
legs. So we just start that action
picking your leg up and getting into
good position. However it happens, you
leave a wrist dangling. Your opponent
goes out to grip it and there it is
right in front of you. Now we're up and
attacking on the other side. Each time
our partner grabs our wrist, we just
come in and we draw that leg in towards
us as a little level change. That puts
us in the perfect position to bring that
leg up. Always looking to walk through
our training partner and bring the leg
up nice and high. And of course, just
going to have her on either side of our
opponent's body. Again, that idea of
pulling him into the perfect position
where your foot's outside his head's up,
back straight, walking through our
training pond, and getting him to a
position where we can easily draw the
leg up nice and high and get up into
good position and start attacking
people. It's always the same song. Once
he comes in, controls the wrist, we go
through cross grip, one little step
away, brings his leg in towards us,
gives that perfect foot position. Okay,
from here we're walking up and through
our trend pine and bringing everything
down in position where the leg comes up
nice and we're ready to start
cross ribs. Very very uh useful setup
because you can attack both sides of the
body. It's defensively responsible. If I
gripping his wrists if he goes to shoot,
you can't do it.
Can't take shot.
He needs he needs a leg sorry arm to be
able to to reach with.
It doesn't matter which side we're on.
Once we take cross wrist, he can't
shoot. He goes to shoot, you control the
wrist. It's it's worth it. So, you're
defensively very responsible. And any
movement on your part is going to bring
him into a situation where you have
outside foot position. You're in a good
stance to walk through and get this leg
Now, do you remember guys that earlier
in the video we talked about uh some key
elements of setups and hand fighting? We
saw one of them was the ability to get
an opponent's hands to the mat. That was
a big deal. If you can get hands to the
mat, that's always a good thing in
fighting. Um we saw the idea of getting
outside of our training partner's
elbows. That's always a great thing. If
you can get angle on your opponent,
everything's easier. And we looked at
the idea of creating situations where
your opponent's head and hands were
above your head. And as a result, there
was nothing between your head and your
opponent's legs and gets through with
the good shots. That was one of the the
big themes that we looked at. One of the
most reliable ways to do this in
grappling situations on the feet is a
simple elbow post. Whenever your
opponent puts hands on your body, okay,
his intention is to hold you off or to
pull you around the mat, either to set
you up or keep you away. That's a good
thing for your opponent to do. But if I
feel a hand posted on my body, the
straighter and more locked out this
hand, the easier it is for us to start
posting like so, right on our training
partner's elbow, there's going to be a
small level change, and I create a
situation where now my head is
underneath my opponent's hand. And as a
result, there's nothing between you and
your training partner's legs. Okay? Um,
what we don't want to do is try to push
the arm up like this. What we're looking
for is to take his bicep onto the crown
of our head just like so. So, the push
is actually just like so. So, the elbow
goes over the crown of the head. So,
when someone goes to reach in here,
we're always looking to take the head
just sorry, the elbow just like so.
Then, we're going to use an inside reach
and we come up with that second step
that looks perfect position. Bring the
leg up nice and high. and get into good
jing position. This is something you can
do anytime you have an opponent who
comes out aggressively and puts hands on
your upper body. Probably one of the
most common things that you'll encounter
in a standing grappling situation. So,
when we see someone in here, we see that
that posted hand come out. We're just
going to come in and just lock. Don't
come up here. Okay? The arm bends below
the elbow. So, we want to go where the
arm doesn't bend so much. And then we're
not pushing up so much as we're going
down and just guiding the the hand and
elbow over our body. Then we use that
inside reach and we walk through our
training body and come up in a good
position to get the leg up into our
favorite attacking position, the high
leg where the leg comes up high to the
chest. And now we can start attacking
ways that we'll be looking at shortly.
So once again, we see that training
partner of ours come out and start that
action of reaching perhaps a little more
than he ought to be. And then from here,
it's that simple action of just bend
legs up. It all happens in together.
Then we walk through our training
partner. There's a little bump for head
to get the weight onto the far leg. And
always from here, it's about keeping
this man moving in ways that set up
various finishes that we'll be looking
at soon. Now, every so often you're
going to have an opponent whose arm is
so bent when he puts hands on you that
it feels tough to post on you. Okay?
It's hard to post. The more bent his arm
bend bend, the more difficult is the
post. So, when the arm is bent, the
first thing we do is we take the hand
off and snap it off. Then, we just to
reach a second time, let someone come
through and we get that good post going,
bring the leg up nice and high and going
to work. So once again, if we have a
very straight arm, then we just go
straight to the move. We come in and
pick up our chinny partner's leg and
we're ready to go. If the arm is much
more bent and as a result somewhat
difficult for us to work with, then
we'll just snap the hands off. And then
from here, we see the hand come up and
we go in, we pick up our training
We're looking at the idea of setting up
our single legs in standing position. Uh
the basic idea is that we want to be
able to take both sides of the body. We
want to be able to move our opponent
around and we want to be defensively
responsible. The setup we're about to
look at now doesn't do a particularly
good job of those three things because
you actually don't have your hands on
your opponent. So you can't control
their movement uh defensively. It's not
very responsible cuz you don't have
hands on your opponent at any given time
and it's not clear that you're going to
be able to take the leg that's further
away from you unless circumstances are
right. So, it's a little different from
most of the setup criteria that we've
looked at so far. Nonetheless, it's a
very successful setup and in fact, it's
actually one of the most successful
setups. So, we have to take it very
seriously. Uh it's my opinion that this
setup is at its best in situations where
you are kinky oddsu where you have
opposite stances. Okay, he has left foot
forward and I have my right foot forward
because this puts our lead feet very
close together. Okay, our feet are
matched and the distance between them is
very very small and as a result it's
going to be pretty easy for us to get to
the leg in the manner that we're we're
describing. The basic idea behind this
is that we're going to put hands on our
opponent in a way which is kind of uh
rhythmical and predictable. So as we
come out towards an opponent, we come
out and we just start putting hands on
an opponent and pushing around the back
and then we're just going to break
contact and move away. As we come back
in front of our training partner, once
again, we put hands on our opponent. We
come in on us like so and we push away.
And so what we're doing is we're
building a sense of expectation in our
opponent that every time we come out
we're putting hands on and then working
our way into grips and then from this
position we move out and the way and
after a while doesn't take long. Every
time your hands move towards your
opponent his hands come up in response.
Think about it. If I start putting hands
on my opponent and he doesn't put hands
on me then he's a sucker. If he stays
with his hands in and I start putting
hands on, I'm start moving around the
van and making for easy attacks. So once
he start putting hands on people, they
they more or less have to put hands back
on you. And that's exactly what we're
doing. We're building an expectation
that I'm going to put hands on his upper
body. And as he goes to match me, we're
going to break the rhythm that we've set
up and get to our opponent's legs. So
the first time we come out, we notice
that we're in opposite stances. So our
lead leg is very close to our train
partner's lead leg. We come out, we put
hands on this fell and we start pushing
around the room and working in the usual
fashion like so. Okay, we come out, we
put hands on this guy and as a result,
we're pushing him around the room and we
break contact and move away. The third
time we come out, his hands come up and
now we go underneath. And so you build
an expectation that our hands are going
to meet and then we go underneath it.
And then we just come in, we get two
hands to the leg and we start pushing
through our training partner's body,
creating that situation where the leg is
temporarily shelf on our leg. And as a
result, we can bring it up nice and high
into good position. So we're building an
expectation and then breaking the
expectation. So it starts us coming out
and then from here working away with
upper body grips and we break contact.
We come out with our training partner.
We work upper body grips and break
contact. We come out. We just go right
underneath our opponent like so. Now we
come in, we pick up our training
partner's leg and create that good
attacking position where we can just get
all the weight onto that final leg and
make the selection nice and right. And
if we come into good position, guys, I'm
going to recommend to you that this move
is at its best in open start situations,
so called kinky situations. Why? Because
the leg is so close to you. It's such a
small distance. your leg and his leg are
so close that any little outside step
puts us in the perfect position to get
two hands to the leg. Build that
expectation that we're coming up and
then we go low. So, it looks like our
hands are going high and then our hands
go low. Hands high, hands low, and now
we're in perfect position to go on the
attack. As soon as you get two hands to
the leg, start getting them out of
balance. Okay? may focus more as we
talked about earlier on getting your
opponent out of balance and getting the
leg up quickly than worrying so much
about how you're locking your hands or
what have you. So, first step is to
build the expectation in our we come
out, we lock up and we start going into
grappling. We move away from our body.
Now, we come in, we start that action of
creating expectations and then we just
break the expectations. Then from here,
it's a quick movement. brings him up
into a situation where that leg comes up
high and now we're ready to start all of
our tanks in the usual fashion. Using
this method of creating expectations and
then breaking expectations is one of the
most effective methods, but I am going
to recommend to you it's at its best
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Now, we're looking at this idea of
creating good, reliable setups in
standing position. One of the all-time
classics will always be the arm drag.
The arm drag is a quintessential example
of getting outside angle on opponent and
getting outside of our training
partner's elbows. And that always makes
it easier for us to get around into
single leg situations. So, let's start
our training partner here in front of
us. We're going to come through. And the
first method we're going to look at
involves getting wrist control with our
palm up. So, we come through, we get
that initial palm up grip. Then, our
head's going to come slightly off to one
side. We're going to hit an arm drag
where our head goes to the inside here.
I know there's many forms of arm drag
where our head comes over the top to our
training partner's back, but that's not
what we're looking at now. We're looking
at getting to our training partner's
leg. So, our head's going to go to the
inside. So, from a situation where we
establish an initial wrist control, we
come in, we just take our body right in
here. Now, we're going to cramp uh right
around our training partner's leg. We're
going to step past our training partner
second leg. So, we can bring the leg up
nice and high. And right away, we're in
good taking position. So, once again, we
start in front of our training partner.
And from here, we establish a basic form
of wrist control. And then we just come
in. We hit that drag, making sure that
our whole wrist comes up inside our
training partner's arm, and we start
that action of pulling and getting into
a good position where we can get around
our training partner's ankle. Now, as we
pick the leg up, we just step right
behind the training partner's second
leg, creating that good shelfing effect.
We can bring the pick up nice and high,
and we get into a good attack position,
ready to go. So, it's all good. So from
another angle, we're here in front of
our training partner. There's our
initial wrist control. Head comes in. We
start that action picking our training
partner's leg up. There's that shelfing
effect. Use that bump. It creates the
high leg and brings it up in good attack
and checking position. We're ready to
play. Now, another way we can get wrist
control is with a roll. We start with
our chain partner. We go in here. And
that two is an excellent way for us to
get into a good drag, which creates that
same effect where we get that leg up
nice and high. Keep the leg up. Then
we're good to take position.
So once again, instead of gripping palm
up, we now grip palm down. So we start
in front of our chinny partner. We go
in, we hit that initial drag. There's
that leg ready to go. From here, we're
always getting the leg up nice and high
and attacking with a nice drive. We'll
be looking to finish the short leg. Now,
um, another great way for us to work is
out of basic wrist control to a drag. So
very often when we start in front of a
training partner, we're playing in
short, we're just going to come through
and take two on one wrist. From that
twoon-one wrist control, we go through,
drag, and there's that same position.
Let's take the leg up nice and high and
get into our favorite jacking position.
So once again, training partner's here
in front of us. We go through and we
just grip our training partner's hand
almost at a handlebar. We can start
dragging the opponent through, getting
to that good drag. Head to the inside,
scooping up our training partner's leg,
getting our foot behind his foot.
There's that short lift kick. That makes
it easy to bring the leg up higher.
Anytime you're controlling your training
partner's wrist, that's a fine time to
work. We can also do it with a snap and
drag. If an opponent has his hands on
the inside, it's an easy thing for us in
these situations to be able to bring our
wrist down to his wrist. And then from
here, we go right away into that same
position. We get to that drag. We step
in behind the thing on his foot, shen
the leg, and bring it up nice and high.
So, we get that idea that we're
attacking both sides of our opponent's body.
body.
You can attack the back leg as we've
seen going in and picking that leg up
and bringing it up nice and high like
so. And of course, we can also attack
the front leg and more or less the same
way, stepping across our chain and
bringing the leg up into good attacking
position. So, those are some simple ways
for us to use arm drags. The key idea is
that our drag position will be with our
head and neck inside here. Very hard for
your opponent to counterattack. Hard for
him to get uh strangle holds, kimoras,
etc. because of that good body position
you're in. Easy for you to get that
precious outside foot position that we
favor so much. And now it's an easy
thing to get wrist deep around our
training partner's legs and start that
action of stepping behind so we can get
the leg up nice and high. And of course,
no matter how we do it, outside control,
inside control, wrist control, they all
work. So from here, we can pull this guy
around the corner and start hustling
into a situation where we bring the leg
up nice and high. So we have snaps
that give us a good arm drag. We have
wrist controls which give us a good arm
drag. Doesn't matter whether palm down
or palm up. Such an effective way to
work that you can use on both sides of
your opponent's body to reliably get
Now, another really good way for us to
start getting into single leg situations
is courtesy of a head post. Let's look
at the basic idea here. Anytime we're in
front of a training partner, a huge part
of his defensive capability is built
around his head position. As long as his
head tracks my head, it's very hard for
me to get into my training partner's
legs. So, one of the best things that we
can start doing is moving our training
partner's head around. What we're going
to do is we're going to start a
repetitive snapping. Just small snaps.
We're not trying to snap his hands to
the mat here. Small snaps that let us
get to an angle where instead of pulling
on the head, we can push. So, it's going
to be a pattern of pull, pull, pull,
pull, push, pull, pull, push, pull,
pull, pull, pull, push. There's going to
be a series of pulls, however many you
feel is appropriate at the time, and
then followed with a push. The push is
going to give you angle and an ability
to offbalance an opponent. So, when
we're in front of a training partner,
we're going to come out towards our man,
and we're going to start the action of
pull, pull, pull, push. Now, that push
is going to set up our ability to walk
through our training partner and go into
good at taking position. So, once again,
we're here in front of a training
partner. We come out and we start with a
small pull motion. It might be just one
or two pulls. One, two. And then we push
out to the side like so. Now you've got
that angle that we're always looking for
when he tries to face you. That pose
makes it very difficult for him to face
you in the time available. And you're
going to get through and snatch your
training partner's leg. So as we come
in, we start with a pull and he goes
with that push and then we run straight
through our opponent and then we find
ourselves in the perfect attacking
position ready to go. So once again,
training partners in front of us. We
start with a pull, pull, and then push.
The push lets us run through our
opponent and get up in the good position
where we can start bringing the leg up
nice and high and getting the style
balance in the way that we favor. And we
can do this on the other side, too.
Doesn't matter where his uh body is.
Once we start that posting action, now
we're in the perfect angle to start
running our opponent's legs down. We
just go straight on through and pick
that leg up and get into good attacking
position. The basic idea, pretty simple really.
really.
Hands on enable us to start a pulling
action. Then we just go from one hand
across the other and we switch off into
a push. When he goes to face us, it's
difficult cuz we're controlling that
head of his from the the side angle. Now
is always from here. We're always
stepping toward that the second leg. So
we can shelf his leg. Bring his head up
nice and high and we're good at taking
position. So once again, we start off
with fire push, pull, walk through our
chin, fight with lift, find a good high
leg, ready to attack. So this is a head
post. Very simple, very effective way of
Now, here's a setup which really works
well um and uh enables you to draw a
training partner's leg more or less at
will towards you. The reason I'm very
fond of this method is because it works
extremely well in what is undoubtedly
the most common tie-up situation in all
of jiu-jitsu. If you look at most
jiu-jitsu matches, even at the highest
levels, the vast majority of your
opponents are going to come out and
start fishing for collar ties. Okay? So,
if we're in front of an opponent, one of
the most common situations here is
they're going to come up and get your
collar. Okay? It's probably fair to say
it's the single most popular tie up in
all of jiu-jitsu. In an overtie, my
opponent takes a collar tie and I grip
over his collar tie. So, I take a collar
tie of my own over the top of his collar
tie. The beauty of this is it enables us
to pull a leg towards us merely by
stepping away. So, I get into an
athletic stance and then from here I
give a little pull and step that draws
his leg in towards me. Okay, so that's
the basic idea. Our P comes out, he
takes a collar tie and we go over the
top and we take our own coral tie. Now,
we make a little step and we drag our
training partner's foot in towards us.
As we see our training partner take the
step towards us, we're going to take our
free hand and we're going to post like
this on our training partner's elbow. My
fingers point towards my opponent and I
give a small bump up. Nothing crazy. All
I'm trying to do is take my training
partner's elbow over my shoulder. It's a
very small movement. It's not so much
about me lifting his elbow as it is
about me going underneath his elbow. So,
if I don't do this and he brings his
elbow down low, I'm going to run into
the frame of his elbow. So, what we want
to do before we go into the shot is just
go underneath our training partner's
elbow so we can get to that leg. That's
the basic idea behind it. So, here we
are. We're in front of our training
partner and he comes out and takes a
coral tie. We take our own overtie and
we make a little step away. We drag our
training partner's foot in towards us.
Even as we make the step, we bump our
training partner's elbow and now you
have an outside step. your head's up in
good position and you snake your hand
around your opponent's leg. And as a
result, we can quickly start getting
that leg up nice and high and come up
into good attacking position. So once
again, as we start off in front of our
training partner, so often as we work in
here, he's going to go in and take that
that colise. We take our overtime, we
make him take that step in towards us,
and then we give that little bump that
brings his elbow up. Now, all we have to
do is to start that action of walking
through our training partner. There's
the shelf of the leg. And as a result,
we can start bringing the leg up high
and taking a start to a situation where
ultimately we can put him down. So once
again, our opponent comes out, he takes
a collar, we take the overtime. We make
him take a step. And my hand is already
positioned just like so. Even as he
takes the step, we're already bumping.
So now we're in perfect position to step
through this fella. And now we've
created the perfect position. Get in.
Get that leg up nice and high. Going to
take it down to the floor. This is a
really practical way to turn what is
unquestionably the most popular type
that your opponents will be using
against you and really turn it against
One of the great traditional setups that
high single legs and standing position
is the under hook setup. This is an
excellent way to use inside control in
your favor. This looks just getting to
an under hook. It's solid if you're
doing stuff. When we first start off
with the training part, we're going to
roll our training partner's wrist. We've
already seen that when we grip our
training partner's wrist like so from
the top, we can roll the wrist out and
get our elbow inside our training
partner's elbow. As a result, we can now
take our head and push it to the inside
position and then come up into a classic
under hook. Now fellas, when we work
with an under hook, you've got a bunch
of options here. You can grip at your
training partner's shoulder. This is
very good for pulling. You can grip
across to the far trapezius. This is
very good for bringing the head down.
And you can grip across your training
partner's shoulder blades, which is very
good for pushing across your training
partner. When it comes to getting to the
single leg position, we're looking most
of the time to pull our opponent. So,
most of the time, we're going to be
looking to work from here. Okay? There
are exceptions to this rule, but this is
a pretty good grip to work with. So,
we're going to start off in front of our
opponent just like so. We're going to
roll our training partner's wrist and
roll that arm out and then come up into
the classic under hook position. We're
going to give a little pull that brings
our training partner's leg straight past
us like so. So, give that little pull.
Now, we have the outside foot position.
We catch with an inside grip and then
our hand is going to come down as we
step across our training partner and
we're in good position now to get our
hands together. Once our hands lock in
this position, it's always the same
song. Your head is pushing up into your
training partner, getting weight onto
that second leg. to a shelf, not
training partner's leg and bringing the
foot up high then into good ejecting
position. So once again, as we start off
training partner in front of us, we
start by rolling that wrist down,
getting good under hook position. And
then from here, we make this guy take a
step and as a result, we get right into
our training partner's legs. Once we're
in here, we're always pushing, pushing,
pushing, walking through, creating that
shelf effect where the leg comes up. And
now we can take it up nice and high and
go into our favorite attacking positions.
positions.
So once again, training partner's in
front of us. We start by rolling that
wrist out. We get to our under hook and
we start that action of stepping away
from our training partner's body and
creating that pull effect. We can get
right into our training partner's leg.
And from here, our hands come in and
connect. Walking through our training
partner's center of mass. Heads into our
training partner. Getting that little
thumb shelf that leg so we can take it
up nice and high and get into a good
position to start attacking up on the space.
Now, another very useful way to
counteract an opponent's collar tie and
set up a high single leg is going to be
a shock. Normally, shocking is a method
of getting to our opponent's back. So,
for example, if my opponent comes out,
takes a collet on it, and we're in like
so. One method of doing this is to put
our foot right next to our training
partner's foot, put our elbow behind our
training partner's tricep, and we would
use this to take our training partner's
back. So everything would come straight
past us and Edel would get his hands
down to the mat and take our training
partner's back. And that's an excellent
way to get behind in a pocket and
standing position. But you can also use
this to set up single legs. Instead of
keeping my hand on my training partner's
collar, we're going to use that same
shuffing motion. We step to the outside
just like before, but when we're
shocking by our hands going to come off
the collar, we're going to make him step
forward by using that same shocking
motion. And our hands going to come down
just to save our training partner's leg.
And as a result, we can come up into
good attacking position, bumping that
leg up, shelfing it, and getting the leg
up high when we want it. So once again,
we have an opponent comes out, he takes
a collar, and from here, we start that
action of going into that shot position.
And then from here, we start taking him
straight on pass as we throw him by with
our forearm. Our hands going to come off
the collar and down here to our training
partner's leg. Then he come up into good
position. We go in and attack the
classic high single leg. hips forward,
shoulders back, going on the attack. So
once again, the most common tie up in
jiu-jitsu, a collar tie. From here, we
go through, we place our foot next to
his. So we're ankle to ankle, foot to
foot, the way we're always getting to uh
be here. We make him step forward. So
that shocking motion. We come down nice
and low. We shock our train by and catch
our partner up there at the leg. And
he's a perfect position to bring
everything up nice and high and get this
man moving. It's a very practical way to
work. From another angle,
training partner comes out. He goes into
a classic coral tide. We come in, we
place our forearm, nice and tight.
You're already foot to foot on your
training partner. We start that action
of turning and pumps and catch our
training partner's leg. And as a result,
we're able to bring everything up nice
and high and get into our favorite
Now, one of the great traditional setups
to a high single leg will always be the
twoon-one. There's a couple of different
versions. The classic one involves
controlling our training partner's wrist
and controlling our training partner's
shoulder. Make sure your hand comes up,
gets to the shoulder, and you're going
to place your front deltoid right on his
rear deltoid. You have a choice of
controlling the hand in front of you or
pulling it up to your chest like so.
They're both great options. The beauty
of a good twoon-one athletic stance is
from here you can draw your training
partner's leg towards you and as a
result step behind it in ways which are
really going to set up a good single
leg. We're going to use an inside reach
while we maintain that twoon-one long
enough to get our hands around our
training partner and in good attacking
position. Now, of course, the obvious
question is how you going to get into a
twoon-one? Well, anytime we're working
from the outside, your opponent has an
inside t. It's a pretty easy thing to
cross grip. Take your training partner's
arm on by. And then from here, we take
our shoulder right up to our training
partner's shoulder and start that action
of pushing into our training partner.
Now, we draw his leg on par so that our
foot ends up with that classic outside
foot position. And then we just go elbow
deep around our training partner's leg
and we're in perfect position now to
walk up to our training partner, shelf
that leg of his and bring it up into our
classic finishing position. Nice and
high. So
another great way training partner takes
your wrist. From here we go through and
cross grip. We bring our shoulder up and
get into the classic two on one. We
switch our hand and once again we draw
our training partner's leg on butt and
find ourselves in the perfect position.
Now start pushing into this fan and
bringing the leg up and into good
position we go. Sometimes your opponent
will come out and collar tight. And from
here it's an easy thing just to brush
our train partner's arm on by. And from
here we pull the leg in. Once again, we
find ourselves in the perfect position
to start bringing the leg up in a degree
taking position. All of them are
excellent and practical ways to get into
the twoon one. Um, looking at the key
elements when our opponent has an inside
t and we start taking our training
partner's arm off. We're always looking
to get that good head position as we
push into our training part. Becomes
easy now to make this guy step. And now
we're right in there on our training
partner's leg. Now it's just a matter of
connecting our hands and just walking
through our genie part but partner
breathing that situation with the leg
shelves. And now we take everything up
high and get him into the classic high
has the inside tie. From here we take
our training partner's wrist and take
the arm on by. We end up in the classic
twoonone controlling our training
partner shoulders getting this guy
stepping and getting our foot around. So
we come up to that classic high single
leg position. And now we're ready to
start going through it and looking for
our finishes. Now, if you will remember
from earlier in the video, we talked
about the idea of attacking both sides
of our opponent's body. In the classic
twoon-one, it's an excellent method to
attack the near side leg with the high
single. You can do attacks to the side
of the body, but high single leg isn't
really one of them. There there are good
attacks to the far side, but not high
single leg. So if I want to attack the
other leg, instead of using a classic
twoon one, we're going to use an elbow
twoon one where from a situation like
so, we go through and we make the elbow
twoon one. Now we just reach through,
pick up our ch this leg, and now we're
in perfect position. Go up and bring the
leg up into our favorite attack. So if I
want to attack the lead leg, we're going
to hit a different kind of twoonone
where instead of going shoulder to
shoulder, we just hold the elbows in
like so. Now we start that action of
bringing our training partner's foot,
making him take a step. And now we're in
perfect position to go in and make the
attack. As always, from here, we're
looking partner's leg up in a good
position and attack. So once again, if I
want to attack his lead leg, from here
we go through the elbow twoon one. Now
we step through our chin partner, find
ourselves in a perfect position, bring
the leg up high, start attacking our
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