Saturday 12 April 2008

More de la Riva Guard

On Thursday night Jude taught us another sweep from de la Riva Guard:
1) you have your opponent in your open guard
2) get a cross grip on your opponents right sleeve with your right hand and a grip on their right ankle with your left hand
3) pull her right arm over your right shoulder causing her to step forward with her left leg
4) let go of your grip on her right sleeve to secure a hold of her left leg, from the inside, securely just above the knee and hold this grip tightly - you are essentially pulling her knee down onto your bicep to keep it away from your body
5) at the same time as you are executing #4 above you want to keep your left leg bent at the knee with your shin pushing against her right inner thigh
6) push and then release with your left leg in order to get your left insole on her right knee
7) push against her right knee with your left leg, effectively sweeping her to your right
You have to be careful with this as you can easily pop the knee of you opponent with this move - best to put your left insole slightly above the knee when pushing to obtain the sweep.

He taught us another technique as well but I cannot remember it! That's what happens when you wait to long to write this stuff down.

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