Martial Arts Wellington and Lower Hutt GSW BJJ NZ

Sweeps:
1. Basic Sweep
2. Hooking Sweep
3. Back Sweep
4. Front Sweep

Armbars:
1. Basic Armbar
2. Near Armbar from Kneeride
3. Far Armbar from Kneeride
4. Armbar from Guard

Sweeps
1 Basic Sweep From the closed Guard position we place our right hand in the back of their collar and our left controls their right wrist. Our opponent starts his basic pass by placing their right knee in our butt and coming up on their left foot. Keeping their posture down, we open our guard, place our feet on the mat and hip out to the right so our left hip and leg are on the ground. We then slide our right shin in front of our opponents belly. Using our body, not our arms, we pull them off their base and use our right leg to redirect their weight to the left for the sweep.

2 Hook Sweep Again from the closed guard, our opponent starts their pass. This time we get our controls and hip out as before, but now we turn onto our left hip and bring our right heel into our butt. We then circle our right foot under our butt and into the back of our opponents knee. From their we bring our opponents weight forward and raise our right foot high for the sweep.

3 Back Sweep From closed Guard our opponent stands in our guard but they have good base and their posture is up. Our response is to drop our hips to the mat, grab their ankles and squeeze our knees together. We then drive them backwards to the mat and travel around to the mount.

4 Front Sweep Again from our closed guard, our partner stands, but this time they have bad posture and they are leaning forward. We control their wrists, and place our feet in their hips. Dropping our knees towards our body we take their weight on our feet and elevate their body in the air. We then roll over our right shoulder and place our opponent on their back above our head before completing our roll and ending up mounted on our partner.

Armbars
1. Basic Armbar from Mount

• Take mount
• Lean forward and smother your opponent with your chest
• Ease the smothering a bit to enable your opponent to push your weight off, extending their arms
• Pick an arm you’d like to armbar
• Bring your arm on the same side around the top of that arm
• Bring your other arm between their arms
• Press both of your palms to their chest, letting them take your weight

Keeping your weight applied to your opponent’s chest

• Hop up to your feet – foot on the attacking side next to their ear, the other one close to the far hip
• Step over their head with the attacking side foot
• Claim their arm, either with both arms or one arm grabbing the arm, the other their near leg
• Slide down their arm to sit on the floor
• Squeeze your knees to trap their arm
• Weld their little finger to your chest, ensuring their elbow is turned the correct way
• Lie back – SLOWLY – to apply pressure to the elbow joint until they tap

Key points:

Hip penetration – get your hips as close to their shoulder as you can as you slide down the arm. This means that:

a) They have a lot more work to do to extricate their arm

b) Your hips are in an optimal position to apply pressure to the elbow joint, rather than going hell for leather to try and break their forearm.

If you don’t end up with your hips in close, keep the arm secure and just scoot your hips closer. Then lie back for the finish.

Squeeze the knees! You need to trap that arm and keep it on the right angle to ensure the tap

Knees bent -Particularly with the knee closest to their head, you want that knee bent and the heel pulled in against their neck. This enables you to drive high with the hips if necessary to apply additional pressure to the elbow joint.

As you become more confident, you can dispense with the initial jump to the feet and just swing your legs straight round for the armbar.

NB: If you lose control and fall back prematurely, let your partner’s arm go!

2. Near armbar from knee-ride

Start from side-control, controlling their far shoulder and blocking their near hip

• Switch hands, grabbing the gi on their near arm at the elbow, your other arm controlling their hip on the other side
• Pressing both fists to the mat, jump up to knee ride
• Pull their arm toward the ceiling, extending it away from their body
• On the knee-ride leg, push your hips forward so there is a straight line from your hip to your knee
• Step over their head with the leg closest to their head
• Sit in close, controlling the arm

The remaining steps observe the same principles as the mount arm-bar, with the exception that your knee-ride leg is on the near side of your opponent’s body

• Squeeze the knees
• Weld the little finger to the chest
• Lie back – SLOWLY – to apply pressure to the elbow joint until they tap
• Raise your hips to apply extra pressure if they’re particularly flexible

Also: If you have reasonably long legs, it can help to bring the knee-ride leg parallel with their body – knee pointing toward their feet – as you step over for the armbar. As you sit down you just raise your knee upright, trapping the arm and squeezing together with the other knee.

3. Far armbar from knee-ride

Take knee-ride

• Your opponent tries to push your knee off with their far hand, creating a space between their elbow and ribs
• Reach under their tricep with your arm closest to their legs
• Pull them toward you into your shins, creating space under their back
• Step around with the leg closest to their head, wedging your foot and shin into their lower back
• Spin to face the way you came from
• Make sure you’ve claimed the arm

As with the other armbars, the rest of the details are the same

• Make sure you have good hip penetration
• Squeeze the knees
• Weld the little finger to the chest
• Lie back SLOWLY
• Raise your hips if necessary to get the tap.