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The Hand-Clasp Guillotine is a guillotine choke variant that uses a palm-to-palm grip (both palms pressed together around the opponent's neck, like praying hands) rather than the traditional interlock...
The Desperation Escape is a high-energy, explosive escape used when standard technical escapes have failed and the fighter is in immediate danger of being finished — a last-resort survival technique t...
The Turtle Position group encompasses all positions related to the turtle — the defensive curled-up posture on hands and knees — from both the perspective of the turtled fighter and the attacking figh...
The Overhook-Whizzer family covers clinch positions where the attacker hooks their arm over the opponent's arm from the outside, wrapping around the upper arm or shoulder to control or redirect the op...
The Wrestling Bottom Escape family covers escape techniques from the wrestling bottom (referee's) position — the on-hands-and-knees starting position used in folkstyle wrestling where one wrestler is ...
The Standard Chair Sit establishes the basic chair sit position with the controlling fighter seated behind the opponent, hips on the mat, legs around the opponent's waist, and upper body control via s...
The Back Position Transition family covers techniques for transitioning to and maintaining back control — the second-most dominant position in grappling (after mount in some hierarchies, or the most d...
The Dogfight Position is the neutral/advantageous position reached when the half guard bottom player comes to their knees with an underhook — both fighters are on their knees in a wrestling-like clinc...
The Dump Finish completes the single leg by lifting the captured leg high while rotating the opponent over it, 'dumping' them sideways or backward onto the mat. [1] The attacker elevates the captured ...
The Granby Roll is a dynamic wrestling escape from the turtle position where the bottom fighter rolls over their shoulder to invert, escape the opponent's top control, and recover guard or create a sc...
The Rear Body Lock subfamily covers positions where the attacker locks the grip around the opponent's torso from behind, with the attacker's chest against the opponent's back. [1] The rear body lock i...
The Standard Side Body Lock TD is the genus-level execution where the attacker, locked onto the opponent's side, uses a hip bump and rotational drive to topple the opponent laterally to the mat. [1] T...
The Half Guard Sweep family covers all sweeping (reversal) techniques executed from the half guard position — where the bottom player controls one of the opponent's legs between their own legs and use...
Two hand collar rear chokes use both hands gripping the opponent's collar simultaneously from back control to create a symmetric bilateral strangle. [1,2] Both hands insert into the collar on opposite...
The guillotine choke is a front headlock strangle where the attacker wraps one arm around the opponent's neck from the front, clasps the hands together, and squeezes upward while pulling the head down...
The reverse guillotine applies a front headlock choke with the attacker facing the opposite direction from a standard guillotine — wrapping the arm around the neck from the reverse angle, typically wi...
The reverse headscissors from guard applies the head squeeze with the attacker's legs oriented in the opposite direction compared to the standard version, typically with the attacker's hips angled or ...
The headscissors from turtle is applied against an opponent in the turtle position by threading the legs around the opponent's head from the front or side, then squeezing the thighs together to compre...
The rear neck crank from back without hooks is a cervical-spine submission applied from a partial back position — chest-to-back contact established, but no hooks or body triangle. [1] Rather than rely...
The Side Body Lock Takedown family covers takedowns executed from a lateral body lock position where the attacker is positioned to the side of the opponent with arms locked around the torso. [1] The s...
The dogfight is a 50/50 kneeling position where both grapplers are on their knees, one with an underhook and the opponent with a whizzer (overhook), occurring at the terminal stages of half guard swee...
The DeSouza Special is an MMA-specific technique that converts a defended double-leg takedown attempt directly into a guard pass, bypassing the intermediate step of landing in the opponent's guard. [1...