Adults: Snapdown/Double Leg
Warm-up
Hands to the Mat
Player A
Both players are attempting to get their opponent’s hand or hands to the mat. Once you get it three times, connections to the lower body are your next goal. Use the off-balancing of hands to the mat, on the third try, to connect hands around a leg, legs, or hips. Reset once the connection is obtained.
Player B
Win Condition(s)
Seated/Standing
Player A
Player A is seated and just trying to stay seated. Defend your feet and create frames. Only one hand is allowed on the mat at a time. Deny your opponents’ grips and angles.
Player B
Player B is standing and trying to get Player A’s back to the mat. You’ll have to fight through and find the angle to get their back to the mat. You can attack their shoulders or legs to do so.
Win Condition(s)
If Player A’s back touches the mat, switch top and bottom.
Connection Maintenance
Player A
Player A has a front headlock. Trying to get around and connect to the hips with a bodylock OR get connected to the legs and get a hip/butt/back to the mat.
Player B
Player B is trying to disconnect the hands and stand up.
Win Condition(s)
Switch if Player B disconnects and stands up OR Player A gets to the back with a bodylock or gets Player B’s hip/butt/back to the mat.
Main Class
Snapdown
- Discuss collar ties. Elbows are close, don’t reach.
- Snaps require opponents’ elbows to be far from their bodies. If they have a collar tie, snap the tie hand. Push in, then pull back as they push back to snap.
- If they’re staying tall, with elbows close, that’s the time for a duck under or elbow pass.
- Snapdown is a level change, not just a pull. Arms move like you’re shaking a rug, but your hips drop as well. It’s a large pull. We flick our hands down to the mat.
- Once hands touch the mat, we get our chest on the back of their head.
- We circle with snaps and don’t just do one snap. It’s consistent snapping. Even if we don’t get hands to the mat, it’s going to be tiring. Our objective is to hang off of our opponent.
Double Leg
- If our opponent gets tired and starts lifting up after our snaps, that’s the perfect time to shoot the double.
- Push off the back foot to step inside.
- Hips in, head up. If we shoot with our hips out or our head down, we’ll get sprawled on.
- Arms snaking around the legs.
- Stepping out and turning to look into their pocket to finish, while keeping our hips in and head up.