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The Hip Pressure Defence subfamily covers leg lock defence techniques where the defender drives their hips toward the opponent, reducing the space needed for the submission's rotational or extension m...

The Stack Triangle Escape uses forward pressure to fold the attacker's body by driving the defender's weight over the top, compressing the attacker and changing the triangle angle to relieve the choke...

The Half Stack Pass combines stacking pressure with half guard passing, using the opponent's folded position to create space to extract the trapped leg. [1]

The Butterfly Pass in MMA context combines pressure passing with striking, using strikes to disrupt the butterfly guard player's hooks before driving through. [1]

The leg weave pass threads one arm between the opponent's legs — behind the top knee-shield leg and in front of the bottom hook — binding both legs together, then drives the forehead into the opponent...

The double under pass is a fundamental pressure-based guard pass where the passer threads both arms underneath the opponent's legs, gable-grips the hands together near the hips, and stacks the opponen...

The Fundamental Guard Pass family covers the core guard passing techniques that form the foundation of every grappler's passing game — the essential methods for navigating past the opponent's legs to ...

The Shin-to-Shin Pass uses shin-on-shin pressure to collapse the opponent's open guard frame, driving through with forward pressure. [1]

The Shin Slide Pass uses the shin to slide across the opponent's thigh while passing half guard, maintaining heavy pressure throughout. [1]

The Stacking Defence subfamily covers armlock defence techniques where the defender drives their weight forward and upward, compressing the attacker beneath them to relieve the extension pressure on t...

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 Stack Pass is a pressure-based guard pass where the passer drives the opponent's legs over their head by walking forward with chest pressure, compressing the guard player's spine until their hips ...

The Body Lock Pass is a modern pressure-based guard pass where the passer secures a body lock (arms locked around the opponent's waist/hips) and uses heavy forward drive to pass the guard — the techni...

The Leg Weave Pass is a pressure-based guard pass where the passer weaves one arm through and around the opponent's legs, creating a configuration that pins one leg while clearing the other — a method...

The Von Flue Counter is a guillotine escape that converts the defender's position into a counter-submission by passing to side control while the attacker maintains the guillotine grip, then applying s...

The No Hand Pass to Side Control is the side control variant of the no-hands passing concept, using pressure and hip movement to clear the half guard. [1]

The Pressure Pass family covers guard passing techniques that use heavy bodyweight, chest-to-chest compression, and methodical forward drive to flatten the guard player, immobilise their hips, and slo...

The Frame Defence family covers ground-based defensive techniques where the fighter uses rigid arm, knee, and hip structures (frames) to create barriers that prevent the opponent from advancing their ...

The Over-Under Pass is the signature pressure pass where the passer secures one arm OVER the opponent's far leg and one arm UNDER the near leg, clasps the hands, and drives heavy chest pressure to fla...

The Double Under Pass is a classic pressure pass where the passer threads both arms under the opponent's legs, stacks them by walking forward, and passes around the compressed guard — one of the most ...

Lower limb nerve locks target the nerve pathways of the legs — primarily the peroneal nerve (running along the outside of the knee), the sciatic nerve (posterior thigh), and the tibial nerve (behind t...

The Lemon Squeeze Pass compresses the opponent's half guard by squeezing the legs together like squeezing a lemon, forcing the guard open through pressure rather than technique. [1]

Xande's Flattening Pass is a half guard passing technique developed by Xande Ribeiro that focuses on flattening the opponent before extracting the trapped leg. [1] The emphasis is on crushing pressure...

The Shrimp Recovery subfamily covers defensive techniques that use the shrimp (hip escape) movement to create space and recover guard position when under pressure or when the guard has been partially ...

A Damn Good Guard is BJ Penn's term for an active closed guard that immediately threatens with submissions while preventing the top player from posturing up or passing. [1] The guard player maintains ...

The chin-down wrist lock from seated guard is a flexion-based wrist submission where the attacker, working from a seated or guard position, traps the opponent's hand and forces the wrist into acute fl...

The Side Control family covers the dominant top position where the controlling fighter lies perpendicular to the bottom fighter, chest-to-chest, having passed the guard to achieve a lateral pin. [1] S...

The Mike Pyle Special is a guard pass named after UFC veteran Mike Pyle, combining wrestling-based pressure with a specific leg threading movement to bypass the open guard. [1]

The over-under pass is a pressure-based guard pass where one arm goes under one of the opponent's legs (underhook) while the other arm comes over the opposite leg (overhook), creating an asymmetric le...

Kneebars from guard are applied when the bottom player catches the opponent's leg during passing attempts and transitions to a kneebar position, controlling the thigh and applying hip pressure to hype...

The No Hand Pass to Mount bypasses the half guard using hip pressure and weight distribution alone, without relying on arm grips or underhooks. [1] The passer uses their hips to slide through the half...

The Standard Knee-Elbow Frame brings the inside knee up to meet the elbow on the same side, with the forearm blocking across the opponent's shoulder or chest while the knee blocks the hip line. [1] Th...

Smother locks are submission techniques that obstruct an opponent's breathing by covering the nose and mouth with the body — typically the chest, belly, shoulder, or arm — creating a seal that prevent...

The ear pull from guard is a pain compliance technique where the attacker, while playing guard, grips the opponent's ear and pulls or twists to create pain and disrupt posture. [1,2] From closed or op...

The two-on-one wrist lock from seated guard is a flexion submission where the attacker uses both hands to control and bend a single wrist from a seated or guard position. [1] Both of the attacker's ha...

The Standard Leg Drag Pass is the classic execution of the leg drag — gripping one pant leg at the knee, pulling it across the opponent's body, pinning it at the far hip with the dropping hip, and adv...

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 body lock pass uses a gable grip or clasp around the opponent's waist or lower back, driving the chest into the opponent's torso to eliminate space, then incrementally clearing the legs to advance...

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...

Standard Stacking drives the defender's weight forward by standing up and driving the hips into the attacker, folding them in half while maintaining grip on the trapped arm. [1] The defender posts on ...

Guard passing encompasses all techniques used by the top player to navigate past the bottom player's legs and achieve a dominant position — it is the yin to the guard's yang and arguably the most comp...

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 Hip Frame subfamily covers defensive framing techniques where the fighter uses their forearm or hand placed against the opponent's hip as a primary barrier, preventing the opponent from closing di...

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 Backstep Pass is a guard passing technique where the passer steps backward and away from the guard player's legs, pivoting to pass from the back angle rather than driving forward through the guard...

The Godfather Sweep is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu technique executed from The Stomp Position — a specific guard configuration entered when the opponent achieves double underhooks from inside the practiti...

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...

Headquarters (HQ) is a guard passing positional framework where the passer straddles one of the opponent's legs (shin trapped between the passer's legs), serving as a hub for chain-passing into multip...

The Posture Guillotine Escape uses postural adjustment to relieve the choking pressure of the guillotine by extending the spine and lifting the chin line above the attacker's choking arm. [1] The defe...

The Top Position group encompasses all dominant ground positions where the fighter on top has passed the opponent's guard and achieved a controlling position. [1] Top positions represent the upper hal...