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.

00:01 - Butterfly half guard is tricky to pass, but it has one big weakness: it doesn’t force the top player to pressure forward. That gives us an opening to pass on the outside. If the guard player connects to us with their arms (like an overhook), we can no longer use the leg drag. Good half guard players start with a knee shield, connect their arms, then move into butterfly half—removing the weakness of butterfly half guard. To use the leg drag, we first need to break the arm connection. Once broken, we can go into outside passing.

00:30 - Just art... the heavy collar tie by Elder Cruz punishes him really quickly where Roberto capitalizes with an insanely athletic flying armbar, the key to making sure you finish this is the crossface leg of Roberto, he gets it as quickly as possible to control Elder's head.