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My Rolling Partners Won’t Tap to Heel Hooks !

Gary Berger — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:14:08 +0000

What do you do when your training partner doesn’t tap out during your BJJ rolling?

This is the question from 1 of the Youtube viewer. With his situation he has fully applied heel hooks but some people don’t tap. So he’s wondering, what do you do if this happens.

So in this video I share how you can use these situations to sharpen and improve your BJJ submissions. And I’ll touch on a situation where I had an MMA who wouldn’t tap out and what I did.

After watching the video you should have several different ways of approaching the situation. Because in most cases, if you’re at a good BJJ gym, people not tapping means you need to improve your application or control of the technique.

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Heel Hook from Honey Stick Entry

Gary Berger — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:32:56 +0000

What is the Honey Stick? This counter leg entanglement is a powerful and tricky one that can come up in very sneaky ways. Here is one entry, and I will have a longer form video on this position on my YouTube channel soon.

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Sneaky Submission to Counter Straight Ankle Locks (White Belt Legal in BJJ)

Gary Berger — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:00:08 +0000

What’s up guys,

Today I’m going to show you a really simple counter to the traditional straight Ankle Lock from Single Leg X/Ashi.

Quick story,

I got this technique from a guy who was training at the gym, a Jiu-Jitsu Brown or Black Belt at the time, Clay, and while we were rolling, I attacked a Single Leg X Ankle Lock.

He then proceeded to submit me with this counter. Ever Since then, I’ve used it a ton in training BJJ.

Hopefully, if you like leg locks for Jiu-Jitsu, then you enjoyed this video and found the technique helpful.

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Lots of Submissions from Float Pins – Uki Gatame 浮固

Gary Berger — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:47:23 +0000

Floating Pins, or Uki Gatame, are a category of pinning in Judo and Jiu-Jitsu that are versatile and powerful. This is due to the combination of stability and mobility they offer the top player. Knee on belly is probably the most famous example of this style of position, but other variations exist and are also very useful for eliciting submission opportunities. In this video, I cover examples including triangles, darce chokes, arm locks, leg attacks and more. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

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How To Tell If You Injured Your Meniscus and What To Do?

Gary Berger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:30:05 +0000

I got a question from a viewer asking how to tell if they injured their meniscus. They heard a pop and are now concerned with their knee and wondering what to do next.

In this video, I provide some signs and symptoms of meniscus tears in the knee, how meniscus injuries usually occur, and what to do next.

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Submit, Sweep & Take the Back from Butterfly Guard | Jiu-Jitsu Attack Options

Gary Berger — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:30:01 +0000

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Butterfly guard has the potential to be the best position to initiate sweeps, and it also a potentially target rich environment for setting up submissions and transitioning to other threatening positions. That’s the theme of this video. In this one, I show some options of what we can do from butterfly in order to attack the arms, transition into arm saddle, and attack the legs or take the back from X-Guard, all initiated from butterfly. I hope this helps your game!

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0:00 – Intro
1:05 – Entering Reverse X / Saddle
1:42 – Saddle Submission Options
3:11 – X-Guard Entry to Back Take Option
4:52 – Hiza Gatame from Opp Reaction
6:16 – Arm Saddle Entry & Attack Options
8:18 – Back Take from Arm Saddle
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Aoki Lock from Saddle Entry

Gary Berger — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:46:26 +0000

The Aoki lock is a devastating leg attack. Looks like a straight ankle lock, acts more like a heel hook. This clip is from a seminar I taught on combining guard passing and leg attacks at @griffonrawl_combat_sports and this particular sequence is a stomp leg drag to saddle entry from top. We looked at several saddle submissions, but this Aoki lock is my favorite, I believe. The full seminar is coming this week to Patreon.com/KnightJiuJitsu

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Ham Sandwich from Top DLR

Gary Berger — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:25:15 +0000

This ham sandwich entry comes from diving to seemingly pass de la Riva. It looks more complicated than it is, and it is definitely confusing for the bottom player on the receiving end…which makes it a cool option. If it fails to result in the full ham sandwich, it can still result in a guard pass or even back take.

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Heel Hook from K-Guard

Gary Berger — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:48:00 +0000

This is one of the best uses of K-Guard to uproot an opponent, and create an entry to the heel hook from backside 50/50. This is from a seminar on attacking from guard while mitigating striking potential. This seminar will be available with many others on my Patreon soon.

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The 3 Ingredients of Every Good Leglock

Gary Berger — Sun, 14 May 2023 16:34:25 +0000

The three ingredients of every good leglock are control of the hip, control of the knee, and control of the end of the lever. Here’s what that looks like in practice. From https://www.grapplearts.com/cutting-edge-leglocks/

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