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The cross collar choke from guard (jūji-jime) is a fundamental gi strangle executed from closed guard by feeding both hands deep into the opponent's collar with crossed grips. [1,2] The attacker pulls...
The Cross-Grip Closed Guard establishes the closed guard with a cross-body collar grip — the guard player grips the opponent's opposite-side collar, pulling across the centre line to break posture and...
The Cross-Arm Cover subfamily positions both arms crossed in front of the face or body, creating a double-layered barrier against incoming strikes. [1] The cross-arm cover provides maximum facial prot...
Guard chokes are choking submissions executed from bottom guard positions — closed guard, open guard, half guard, and various guard variations. [1] These techniques exploit the guard player's ability ...
The Boxing Defence family covers the blocking and guard techniques specific to Western boxing — the most refined system of hand-based defence in combat sports, developed through over 150 years of prof...
The X-pass is a foundational standing guard pass where the passer controls one of the opponent's knees with a cross-grip while kicking the same-side leg back to clear the opponent's hook, then quickly...
The Standard Cross-Arm Cover crosses both forearms in front of the face with the hands touching opposite shoulders or ears, creating a lattice of bone and muscle that protects the chin, nose, and temp...
The Full Guard Recovery subfamily covers techniques for re-establishing closed (full) guard — legs wrapped around the opponent's torso with ankles crossed — after the guard has been opened or partiall...
A crossface-based variation of the arm triangle choke applied from the guard position. Instead of using a collar grip, the attacker drives a crossface under the opponent’s head, trapping the far arm a...
The Knee Pass (knee cut / knee slice) family covers one of the most versatile and highest-percentage guard passing techniques in BJJ — driving one knee across the opponent's thigh while establishing a...
The Knee Slice Pass is a specific variation of the knee cut where the passer drives the shin diagonally across the opponent's thigh in a slicing motion while establishing a crossface — the most common...
The Closed Guard Sweep family covers all sweeps executed from the closed guard position, where the guard player wraps the legs around the opponent's waist with ankles crossed. [1] Closed guard sweeps ...
The X Pass is a fundamental open guard pass where the passer steps to the side and drives the knee across while controlling the opponent's legs. [1] It is one of the simplest and most effective open g...
The X-Pass is a quick standing guard pass where the passer steps one leg over the opponent's shin/ankle area while driving through to side control — named for the crossing leg motion that navigates pa...
The knee slice pass is the single most common guard pass in modern competitive BJJ, where the passer's shin acts as a wedge splitting the opponent's legs at a 45-degree diagonal angle while upper body...
The Cover Defence family encompasses defensive postures and techniques where the fighter positions the arms, hands, and shoulders to create a protective shell that absorbs strikes on non-vulnerable ar...
The near-side cradle from top half guard hooks the opponent's near leg — the leg on the same side as the attacker's head — and connects it to the head through a clasped grip, folding the opponent late...
The Attacking Closed Guard subfamily covers closed guard configurations specifically set up for offensive attacks — sweeps, submissions, and transitions — rather than passive control. [1] Attacking cl...
The Cross Parry subfamily covers parrying techniques that use the rear hand to deflect the opponent's cross (rear straight punch), redirecting the straight punch off its intended path to the chin or h...
Ochs (the ox) is a high guard that positions the longsword beside the head with the point aimed at the opponent's face or upper chest, hilt at temple height. [1] Ochs threatens an immediate thrust to ...
The Lockdown System is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu half guard control method where the bottom player crosses their feet in a figure-four lock over the opponent's trapped leg, creating an extremely powerfu...
Forearm and collar chokes are submission techniques that use the gi lapel, collar, or the bare forearm pressed against the front or side of the neck to restrict blood flow or airflow. [1] This family ...
The Standard Plan B executes the backup half guard sweep by redirecting the opponent's forward pressure into a sweep, typically involving a change of grip from the underhook to a different control and...
The Knee-Elbow Frame subfamily covers the defensive position where the fighter brings the knee and elbow on the same side together, creating a compact barrier that blocks the opponent from establishin...
The Fundamental Side Control family covers the core side control variations and techniques for maintaining chest-to-chest control, attacking with submissions, and transitioning to more dominant positi...
The Half Mount Pass transitions from half mount (where the passer has nearly passed but one leg is still trapped) to full mount or side control. [1] Ribeiro demonstrates the knee-cross variation. [1]
The Low Closed Guard positions the guard player's legs around the opponent's waist at hip level, with ankles crossed below the small of the back. [1] The low guard is the standard, neutral closed guar...
Closed guard is the most fundamental guard position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, where the bottom player wraps their legs around the opponent's torso and locks their ankles behind the opponent's back, crea...
Schrankhut (Barrier Guard) is a HEMA longsword guard where the sword is held low with the blade crossed in front of the body, creating a barrier between the fighter and the opponent. [1] The sword is ...
The Escape Against Wrestler's Pin addresses the specific problem of being pinned by a wrestler who uses cross-face and underhook control rather than traditional BJJ side control grips. [1] Ribeiro dem...
The High Closed Guard positions the guard player's legs high on the opponent's back, with the ankles crossed near the shoulder blades rather than around the waist. [1] The high guard breaks the oppone...
The cross collar choke from front-facing positions uses both hands gripping opposite sides of the collar in a crossed configuration to compress both carotid arteries simultaneously. [1,2] From guard, ...
Cross lapel cross chokes are front-facing strangles where both hands grip the opponent's collar in a crossed configuration — each hand on the opposite side of the neck — and pull inward to compress bo...
A looping rear-hand punch thrown over the opponent's guard in a slight arc, dropping the body weight forward and downward on impact.
The Fundamental Choke family covers the core choking techniques that form the foundation of submission grappling's choke curriculum — the essential air chokes, collar chokes, and hybrid chokes that ev...
The Closed Guard family covers the guard position where the bottom fighter wraps the legs around the opponent's waist with ankles crossed behind the back, creating a locked-leg control that keeps the ...
The Inside Jab Parry uses the rear hand to tap the incoming jab inward, across the defender's body and toward the opponent's centreline, deflecting the jab past the defender's head on the inside. [1] ...
The Posture Defence subfamily covers choke defensive techniques that use body positioning and postural alignment to prevent the opponent from applying choking pressure. [1] Posture defence addresses t...
The Crooked Cut, delivered with crossed wrists to strike with the short edge, used to break the opponent's Ochs guard.
The Standard Cross-Sleeve Grip reaches across to grip the opponent's far sleeve at the wrist or forearm level, securing the fabric with a firm pull to control the distant arm. [1] The diagonal angle o...
The Standard Inside Crescent Kick is executed by swinging the kicking leg in a wide arc from the outside toward the centreline, with the leg relatively straight and the foot contacting the target — ty...
The HEMA Strike family encompasses the offensive cutting techniques (Hauw/Hau) of the German longsword tradition. [1] The Liechtenauer system organizes sword strikes into a hierarchy: the five Meister...
Nami Juji Jime is the normal cross strangle in judo — both hands grip the opponent's lapels with the palms facing down, and the forearms cross to create a scissors-like choking pressure on both sides ...
The Standard Side Control subfamily covers the basic lateral side control position where the top fighter lies perpendicular to the bottom fighter, using chest pressure and arm controls to maintain the...
The Standard Cross Parry uses the rear hand to tap or push the incoming cross punch to the inside (toward the defender's centreline), deflecting the straight punch so it slides past the defender's hea...
Side control is a dominant ground position where the top player lies chest-to-chest across the opponent's torso, perpendicular to their body, using a combination of crossface, underhook, and chest pre...
The backstep pass is a guard pass where the passer rotates their hips 180 degrees away from the opponent while maintaining weight on the trapped leg, converting a stalled knee-cut or half guard positi...
The Instep Angular Front Kick (Lotus Kick) is a front kick delivered at an inward angle using the instep (top of the foot), sweeping upward in a curved lotus-petal arc to target the groin, inner thigh...
The armbar (juji-gatame) is the most fundamental elbow lock in grappling, hyperextending the elbow joint by controlling the opponent's wrist and pressing the hips upward against the back of the elbow....
The Palm Up Palm Up Choke is the standard cross-collar choke where both hands grip the collar with palms facing upward, creating bilateral pressure on the carotid arteries. [1] This is the most fundam...