Adults: Body Lock Pass
Warm-up
Single Leg Balancing
Player A
Player A starts with a single leg. No takedowns, just controlling and maintaining the leg for as long as possible. Start between the legs, but you can switch to the armpit, move around, etc. Take good care of your training partner. Don’t run them into anyone. This is a warm-up.
Player B
Player B, I want you to first keep your balance. Stay moving and hopping, keep your hands on them, and try to find a way to get your foot out. That could be circling and digging underhooks, digging underhooks and stomping in the middle, turning and running, running it out with your hands, whatever you need to do.
Win Condition(s)
Once Player B escapes, switch.
The Connection Game
Player A
Player A starts in a seated guard. Just trying to stay seated. We’ve done a variation of this before. You’re handing fighting here.
Player B
Player B, instead of getting them flat, you’re instead trying to log your hands around their torso.
Win Condition(s)
If Player B gets locked hands, switch.
Seated Guard Passing
Player A
Starts seated. You can wrestle up, you can sweep, you can attack.
Player B
Player B, keep them seated and look for the pass.
Win Condition(s)
If Player A gets a sweep, submission, or gets up to both feet, switch. If Player B passes, switch.
Main Class
Body Lock Entry
Starting with a seated player, we’re going to look to both flatten them and lock our hands. To do this, we’re going to get the person seated to get on one hip. This makes our job easier and allows us to enter into our body lock.
From here, we’re going to get an inverted grip on the leg, and a grip on the same side or opposite side of the head, and we’re going to threaten to pass around the outside. This will make someone who isn’t on their hip, get on their hip, and it’ll give you an opening, even if they’re already on their hip.
From here, elbows come back to our body, and we drive in with our forehead, into their upper body, to help us flatten them out.
From here, we shoot one arm nice and deep. We don’t want both arms centered, as this throws off our base and opens us up for butterfly sweeps. We look toward our grip, where our hands are connected, and we connect with an S-grip.
Now, we sprawl our hip back, sinking our hips to the mat, to kill any butterfly hooks. From here, we walk toward our long arm.
Our long arm is going to pinch the hips and keep the knee from getting to the chest. What we want to do is bring our knee up to our elbow, above their knee, to get it into the hip to finish the pass.
If they post on our knee, we have a good wrap on their hips, so we take a near side underhook to pop off the arm, as we switch our head to the opposite side and bring our knee to the hip.
Finishing the Pass
We’re going to finish the pass like Vagner’s half-guard pass.