Search: “Feet on Hips”
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The Running Up the Cage Mount Escape is an MMA-specific technique that uses the cage wall as a physical prop to generate the hip bridge needed to escape mount when the defender is flat on their back n...
Open guard encompasses all guard positions where the bottom player's legs are NOT locked around the opponent, instead using feet on hips, hooks on legs, grips on sleeves/collars, and dynamic hip movem...
The Standard Wall Pin Position places the attacker's body against the opponent with the opponent's back flat against the cage, using a combination of chest pressure, underhooks or body lock, and low h...
The Strike class encompasses all combat techniques in which a fighter delivers percussive force to an opponent using a part of the body — fist, elbow, knee, shin, foot, or head — to cause damage, crea...
The triangle choke from open guard is applied from various open guard configurations — spider guard, lasso guard, De La Riva guard, or simply open guard with feet on hips — by shooting one leg across ...
The Guard Position group encompasses all positions where the bottom fighter uses the legs to control, manage distance, attack, and defend against the top fighter. [1] The guard is BJJ's most revolutio...
The Standard Wall Walk Clinch Position represents the active wall walking stance where the attacker maintains cage pressure while systematically improving grip and position. [1] The attacker keeps a w...
The Open Guard Sweep family covers all sweeps from open guard positions — guard variations where the guard player's legs are not closed around the opponent and instead use feet on hips, hooks, or slee...
The Standard Standing Guard Position establishes the fundamental standing-versus-seated dynamic with one fighter standing and the other seated or on their back, using feet on hips, hooks, or grip-and-...
The Open Guard family covers all guard positions where the guard player's legs are not closed around the opponent, instead using feet on hips, hooks, or grip-and-foot combinations to maintain guard co...
The Standard Cage Brace presses the back or hips against the cage fence while establishing underhooks or wrist control against the opponent, using the fence as a third point of support that prevents b...
The Standard Sit Guard Pull establishes a collar or sleeve grip, then sits directly to the ground while maintaining grip control, immediately establishing a seated guard position with the feet posted ...
The Standard Hip Sit drops the hips sharply downward and backward when the opponent initiates a takedown, lowering the centre of gravity below the attacker's grip while widening the base for stability...
The Standard Low Base positions the fighter in a wide, low athletic stance with the feet wider than shoulder width, knees bent, hips back, and weight distributed evenly between both legs. [1] The spin...
The Standard Kipping Escape executes a sharp upward hip thrust that launches the opponent momentarily off balance, then immediately follows with a shrimp or knee insertion to recover guard before the ...
The Alcatraz is a mount escape from the 10th Planet system where the bottom player frames on the opponent's hips, hip escapes to one side, uses the far-side leg to hook under the opponent's foot and e...
The Standard Mount positions the top fighter straddling the opponent's torso with the hips centred on the midsection, knees tight to the sides, and feet hooked under the opponent's thighs or extended ...
The Short Back Kick is a compact variant of the back kick that uses minimal leg extension to deliver the heel into a target directly behind the practitioner, optimised for very close range situations ...
The Hopping Roundhouse Kick combines a quick skip-step forward with a rear-leg roundhouse kick, using the hop to close distance rapidly while maintaining the full power and circular trajectory of the ...
The Standard Collar-Sleeve Sweep executes the fundamental collar-sleeve sweep by placing one foot on the opponent's hip and the other foot on the bicep of the controlled sleeve arm, then off-balancing...
The Hopping Front Kick combines a quick skip-step forward with a rear-leg front kick, using the hop to close distance rapidly while maintaining the full power of a rear-leg kick — solving the fundamen...
The Horse Stance (kiba-dachi in Japanese, ma bu in Chinese) is a wide low-stance position with both feet pointing forward, knees deeply bent, and weight distributed equally between both legs — as if s...
The Standard Low Double executes the fundamental below-the-knee double leg where the attacker drops to both knees with an explosive penetration step, wraps both arms around the opponent's lower legs o...
The Tripod Sweep is an open guard sweep where the bottom player places one foot on the opponent's hip and hooks behind one of their ankles with the other foot, then pushes and pulls simultaneously to ...
The Switch High Kick is a head-level roundhouse kick preceded by a rapid switch of the feet, converting the lead leg into the kicking leg with added rear-leg power and timing disruption. [1] The switc...
The Switch Body Kick is a body-level roundhouse kick preceded by a rapid switch of the feet, where the fighter hops and swaps the lead and rear leg positions before immediately launching the kick from...
The Fundamental Pin Escape family covers the core techniques for escaping wrestling pins and judo hold-downs — the essential survival skills that prevent a loss by fall in wrestling or ippon by osaeko...
The Collar-Sleeve Guard subfamily covers the open guard position where the guard player controls one collar and one sleeve while using the feet to manage distance and create attacking angles. [1] The ...
The Collar-Sleeve Sweep subfamily covers sweeps from the collar-sleeve guard, where the guard player controls one collar and one sleeve while using the feet to manage distance and off-balance the oppo...
The Single Leg X-Guard subfamily covers the guard variation where the guard player hooks both legs on the outside of one of the opponent's legs — one foot on the hip and one behind the knee — controll...
Standard Suplex is the foundational form of the suplex family, executed from a front body lock in which the attacker wraps both arms around the opponent's torso, lifts them off the ground by driving t...
The Rear Mount Escape family covers all techniques for escaping back control when the opponent has established hooks (feet inside the defender's thighs) or a body triangle from behind. [1] Rear mount ...