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The Standard Inversion Escape from north-south bridges the hips upward, rolls onto the upper back, and swings the legs over the body to hook around the opponent, recovering guard through the inversion...
The Standard Inversion Recovery executes the fundamental guard recovery inversion where the defender rolls onto the upper back, elevates the hips overhead, and uses the momentum to bring the legs back...
The Inversion Recovery subfamily covers defensive techniques where the fighter inverts their body (rolling onto the upper back/shoulders with hips elevated) to recover guard position when the guard ha...
The Inversion North-South Escape uses an inversion — rolling onto the upper back and elevating the hips — to recover guard from the north-south position. [1] The inversion exploits the fact that the o...
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 calf slicer (also called calf crush or calf compression) works by placing a hard fulcrum — typically the shin or forearm — behind the opponent's knee and folding the lower leg back, crushing the c...
The Baby Bolo Sweep is a De La Riva guard sweep that uses a small inversion (a 'mini-berimbolo') to off-balance and sweep the opponent without committing to a full berimbolo back-take rotation. [1] Th...
The Standard Berimbolo subfamily covers the core berimbolo technique — the foundational inversion from De La Riva guard that spins underneath the opponent to take the back. [1] This is the original be...
The Berimbolo family covers the berimbolo technique and its variations — a spinning inversion from De La Riva guard that uses an under-the-back rotation to take the opponent's back or achieve a sweep....
The Hip Movement Defence family covers ground-based defensive techniques that use hip displacement and rotation to create space, recover guard position, or prevent the opponent from establishing domin...
The Inverted Guard is an advanced guard position where the bottom player inverts (goes upside down on their shoulders/upper back) to create angles for guard retention, sweeps, and back takes — a high-...
The tornado guard is an inverted guard position played from half guard where the practitioner rolls underneath the opponent using a twisting inversion to create sweeps and submission entries. [1] Whil...
The Inside Heel Hook Entry covers the specific pathways used to enter inside sankaku (saddle) ashi garami for the inside heel hook — the most dangerous submission in modern grappling. [1] Entries incl...
The toe hold is a leg lock that applies combined plantarflexion and inversion to the ankle complex using a figure-four grip configuration. The attacker isolates the opponent's foot and twists it downw...
The North-South Escape family covers techniques for escaping the north-south position, where the opponent controls from head-to-head with their chest on the defender's chest, facing the opposite direc...
The De La Riva Sweep subfamily covers sweeps from the De La Riva guard, where the guard player hooks one leg around the opponent's lead leg from the outside while controlling the ankle of that leg. [1...
The Guard Retention group encompasses all defensive techniques used on the ground to maintain or recover a guard position, preventing the opponent from passing to a dominant position. [1] Guard retent...
The Sit-Out Escape family covers turtle escapes where the turtled fighter sits the hips out to one side, rotating the body to face the opponent and create a more favourable position. [1] Sit-out escap...