One of my favorite positions to finish a guillotine from is the half guard. A lot of people mistakenly believe that you can’t finish a guillotine from half guard. That is only half true. 🙂

If you have the head on the side of your body where you leg is trapped, then you are in the money. Not only do you have a strong finish because of your hip angle, but you also have easy sweeps here too.

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If you’ve played Half Guard long enough then I’m sure you’ve experienced the situation where you get smashed by the person on top squeezing you. It happens to all of us.

Well, in today’s BJJ technique video I’m going to show you how to escape a tight half guard position and get unstuck by using the Lockdown position (most commonly known from 10th Planet) to get the person off balance.

I’m also sharing this position in part because I know a lot of beginners in BJJ (White and Blue Belts) find themselves in this position naturally and don’t know how to use it.

Hopefully the off-balancing technique is useful to you and helps you be more effective from Half Guard with your Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

Thanks for watching the video.
-Chewy

P.S if you’re into lockdown or 10th Planet stuff check out my buddy BMac’s channel:
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Today’s video is a Half Guard sweeps drilling video. This is some of the things I’m working on with my classes and I figured I’d share them with you as well.

In the video you’ll see 7 different Half Guard sweeps or techniques used. And the way we do it is after the sweep or technique is used the other person will regain their half guard and then the sequence restarts. This keeps the action moving and keeps it more engaging for both people.

If you’re a Half Guard player or trying to get better at the position, I hope the sweeping drills help.
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Guillotines are usually attacked after giving up top position or allowing yourself to go back to get the finish. However, attacking guillotines from top gives you much more control, and let’s you trap them. We go over a few ways of using the guillotine trap from side control and top half guard.

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Arm Inside Guillotines are a great attack that are hard to escape, but sometimes they can be difficult to finish on a smart defender. So what do you do when you have a full guard and a guillotine that is not in?

Sweep, redirect, and submit!

The beauty of a head inside guillotine is that it’s also a front headlock. So you have a strong wrestling position, that means you can control this person. We go over how to hit an elevator sweep, kick over sweep to anaconda, or switch to a strong half guard to get a better angle or hip bump sweep.

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The Eagle Claw is probably my most used passing technique these days. It’s easy to grab, but hard to break. I’m not the only one who does this of course. In the past weekend, you could see young champion Tye Ruotolo using the eagle claw constantly while passing the guard.

Why does it work so well? Because when you grip the ankle with the eagle claw, you place your thumb behind their leg by their achilles. This makes breaking the grip hard, as everyone wants to kick forward and not backwards. Plus, by kicking backwards, they open their guard even more.

As a result, you get a rock solid grip that allows you spread them out to pass. For the very wirey and flexible people, you can even lift with the eagle claw, which will turn their hips away from you and give you the pass too.

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The Knee Shield can be a tricky guard to work against. It gives the bottom player a strong frame, allowing them to manage distance very well.

The Sprawl Pass is meant to crush the knee shield. Your sprawl will minimize the defense the knee shield provides, allowing you to pass by circling over towards his head, or jumping to the back. It also provides a lot of options such as cradles, eagle claws, and more.

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The Fantasma pass (Spanish for Ghost) is named after one of my students, after he used it many times in competition with great success. It’s also fitting, because the pass seems to come out of nowhere, and surprise people when they get caught with it.

It starts from the half guard, when your opponent has the under hook from bottom. Normally, this is a disadvantage, but with the Fantasma pass, you can sneakily get the near side under hook, and pass with a cross body knee cut.

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