00:10 - When you're attacking someone in turtle, one way to take the back is to throw in your far hook. If they try to block our hook using just their elbow, it tends to not work well—so they often use their hand. When they do that, their arm is more extended, which gives you a chance to get a deep underhook and roll them into a pin instead of taking the back.
00:30 - LIMI introduces a submission called the "farce" a variation of a darce and an arm triangle. The most common defense to an arm triangle is the defender turning away to alleviate the pressure of the strangle. When they turn away to the arm triangle, this is the time to switch to the farce grip. People like Nicholas Meregali and Giancarlo Bodoni have been playing with it in training and we saw it used during the Giles Trials event, which makes LIMI confident in adding it to his game. He also added #farse to the Outlier Database to help others study it.
02:50 - LIMI talks about propping up on your elbow when grip fighting from bottom half guard. The strategy from the elbow prop is, you can either fall from your elbow to your shoulder as you take a grip on the near arm. Or you can stay on your elbow as you take a cross grip cross-grip to pull the passer across your body setting up leg entries. But if the passer gets their elbow inside your thigh, you lose lower body frame, so even if you do get a grip, it is now useless. So you first need to reestablish a lower body frame before attacking grips.
04:21 - When we are being pinned in chest to chest half guard, we want to prevent the guard passer from controlling our head and shoulders. If they already have control over our head and shoulders (maybe a crossface) it can be hard to directly remove it. Instead, we can look to use the lower body to upper body dilemma. If we can threaten an elbow escape, the guard passer will need to remove their own crossface to use their arm to prevent us from winning the battle at the lower body. By threatening to escape at the lower body, we indirectly remove the crossface, and then we focus on not letting them control our head and shoulders again.
05:20 - LIMI breaks down a standing sequence where a failed single leg leads to an underhook (lower body to upper body dilemma.) He uses the underhook to facilitate a hip throw motion, off-balancing his opponent to get ahold of the far leg and set up a knee tap. Although the takedown gets countered with a lat drop, the setup is great. LIMI shows how JFlo does a similar sequence, using the underhook to try both the far leg and a foot sweep when the far leg is not available. These can be some things to play with if you are looking for takedown ideas when you have an underhook.
06:12 - Traditionally in jiu jitsu, there is not a penalty for getting pushed out of bounds, but the slanted walls of the pit/alley make it so there is now a consequence if you do. LIMI explains how we can expect to see people looking to control the mat similar to wrestlers. Wrestlers like Carter Starocci use collar ties, underhooks, or biceps ties to walk opponents to the edge of the mat. Once there, the opponent has limited choices: push back, circle, or shoot. Each choice has a counter. For example, if they push in, Carter snaps them down. If they circle, he uses head position to take them down. If they shoot, he can defend and counter. It’s all about forcing mistakes with relentless pressure. So many thing open up when you force your opponent to the edge of the mat, but to do so often you need to win the grip fight, so LIMI highlights how important that is.
09:14 - The wall isn’t just for takedowns. It also helps with leg locks by stopping the defender from turning to escape. It works like the cage in MMA.
09:32 - LIMI breaks down a sequence where the attacker is working from outside ashi against a standing defender. He reaches for the secondary leg, but the defender drops to a knee to prevent the grip on his secondary leg. Knowing this is now the attacker's strategy for destabilizing him, the defender takes a straight wrist grip to prevent the attacker from controlling his secondary leg with his hand. The attacker then tries to attack the primary leg by switching to butterfly ashi. However, the defender is ready for this with a quick back step to escape and threaten the guard pass.
09:58 - When we are looking to climb the body to finish the back take, we can use a back roll to get into a top wedge.
10:09 - When we are attacking from SLX, it can be very annoying when the defender peels our foot off their hip and back steps to escape. As the attacker, to counter this movement we can look to take that foot that was on their hip to behind their knee (like a reverse matrix hook) to stay on the attack.
10:45 - LIMI comments on how it is becoming trendy to pass the guard by going under the legs. To counter this as the guard player, we can look to bring our secondary leg across to the same side as the scoop grip or on the passer's stomach as a frame. This gives us space to pummel our foot out of the scoop grip or invert to pummel our knee inside the scoop grip to retain against the under the legs passing.
