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 bottom player lets their knee drift away from their chest, we can enter the smash pass position. If they are doing the right thing, keeping their knee to their chest, then we will leg drag.

01:09 - From RDLR, the defender will likely look to control our free leg which. We can use this to our advantage to elevate our foot to take a straight grip on the top player's wrist by grabbing under their wrist. We can feed this into a cross grip so we can get outside their elbows to wrestle up with a single leg. He emphasizes that the initial grip on the wrist has to be under the wrist of the top player so the weakness of our grip leads them into our cross grip.

03:47 - Icaro enters mantis DLR and inverts into K-Guard. He uses it to enter the leg across position before wrestling up into a rear body lock from a 4-point.