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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 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 ...

Reverse-wrap front chokes apply choking pressure from the front headlock using a reverse grip configuration — the choking arm wraps in the opposite direction from a standard guillotine. [1] This can i...

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 Kiss Of The Dragon subfamily covers the specific berimbolo variation where the guard player inverts and threads through the opponent's legs from a reverse De La Riva position, emerging on the othe...

The Standard Kiss Of The Dragon executes the fundamental version of this technique by establishing reverse De La Riva guard, inverting between the opponent's legs, and threading the head and shoulders...

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 Standard Berimbolo Technique executes the full berimbolo from De La Riva guard by hooking the DLR leg deep, gripping the opponent's belt or pants, inverting by pulling the hips overhead, and spinn...

The Reverse Grip (also called icepick grip) holds the knife with the blade extending from the little-finger side of the fist, point downward. [1] This grip excels at close-range downward stabs, hookin...

The reverse guillotine from front headlock is applied by wrapping the arm around the opponent's neck from the front but with the choking forearm positioned on the opposite side compared to the standar...

The reverse guillotine from front headlock with elbow-pin finish uses the opposite arm orientation compared to a standard guillotine, with the finishing pressure applied by pinning the elbow against t...

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 triangle from side control locks the triangle choke in reverse orientation — the attacker's legs wrap around the opponent's head and arm from the opposite direction compared to the standar...

The Disengage is the most fundamental indirect attack in Western fencing — a blade movement that passes the point under the opponent's blade to change the line of attack from one side to the other, de...

Sok Sab is the downward elbow strike, driving the point of the elbow from high to low onto the opponent's forehead, bridge of the nose, or crown of the head. [1] The raised elbow-joint drops with body...

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 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 Sweep — Guard Reversal group encompasses all techniques for reversing position from a bottom guard position to a top position, constituting the offensive component of the Escape and Reversal class...

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 Reverse Butterfly Sweep is a butterfly guard sweep that reverses the typical sweeping direction — instead of sweeping the opponent to the side with a standard butterfly hook elevation, the reverse...

The Standard Granby Roll executes the fundamental shoulder roll escape from turtle by tucking the chin, dropping the shoulder, and rolling over the shoulder and back to emerge facing the opponent in a...

The stack pass is a fundamental pressure-based guard pass where the passer places the opponent's legs on their shoulders, rises onto their toes, and drives forward to fold the opponent in half — stack...

The cartwheel pass bypasses the opponent's guard vertically by executing a lateral cartwheel motion over the guard player's legs, inverting and landing in a dominant position behind or beside them. [1...

The Imanari roll is a rolling entry into leg entanglement positions, developed by Japanese MMA fighter Masakazu Imanari around 1998-1999. [1] The attacker grips the opponent's ankle, drops onto their ...

Standard Sukui Nage executes the classical scoop throw where the thrower reaches between or around the opponent's legs, scoops the lower body upward with the arms, and drives the opponent over by rota...