01:24 - From a low knee shield half guard, Diego props up on an elbow before taking an upward facing 2 on 1 grip. He uses it to threaten and entry on the far leg but the defender brings their other arm down to stop it. Diego follows up with an arm saddle grip to transition into a choi bar. The choi bar is failing so he goes back into the legs, spinning the leg to enter cross ashi.

00:00 - When trying to do a knee cut to pass the guard, we are often met with a strong knee shield by the guard player. As the top player, to get around the knee shield, we can post on their shoulder and their shin as we step over their knee shield leg putting ourselves in a butterfly half guard. Then, we switch sides and shuffle our feet as we leg drag their knee shield leg. If at any time the bo...

11:37 - Nicholas is attacking from mount with a single chest wrap. He brings the extended arm outside of his head. The defender has a straight grip on the wrist of Nicholas on the other side, but Nicholas uses the indirect control of that grip to transition into a shin pin on that side. He uses this to transition into a hanai sankaku triangle as he sits to guard. Since Nicholas brought the arm to ...