When Setting up the armbar from the omoplata position Matt will often opt to take the back instead. He will weave his top leg through the opening and take his bottom leg out. You can then sit up for top back position with one hook in, or hip escape and pull them into your lap.

Matt Darcy shows a fundamental triangle defense. Immediately when the triangle is attempted he makes his knee and elbow connection with strong posture. Two hands come up to the knee and driving upward to break the triangle. He then drives his knee over this opponents leg to prevent another trian...

While in the omoplata position Matt will throw his body across the back of his partner. He then feeds the far lapel into his hand and ratchets his elbow into the small of his opponents back. His other hand will grab the horse collar and to finish he circles away from his opponent finishing the o...

Matt Darcy starts with one of his favorite omoplata setups from shallow lasso guard. When his opponent attempts to posture he goes with their momentum and back rolls, ending in the top position sitting on their chest. He then “rings the towel” ensuring full immobilization of the arm as he donkey...

When attempting to perform the sleeve drag, some may recognize and avoid it by locking their elbow down into your hip. When this happens Matt Darcy put a foot on the hip ramping his hips up which also lifts that arm. When he then attempts the pendulum sweep that downward force they are applying ...

After dragging the arm across, the opponent may attempt to correct the move and square up to avoid the back take. When this happens Matt Darcy uses his free hand to reach across the back, into the far armpit to lock them down, and use their momentum to sweep them into the other direction. From t...

Matt Darcy Shows a grip break using the joystick grip to then punch the arm across to expose his partners back for back take from closed guard.

Matt Darcy shows how to transition to mount from side control then goes over the cross choke with a fine tooth comb to make sure every attempt is a high percentage finish.

Matt Darcy shows the post and hook single leg and the reasoning for which hand he uses to post on his opponent. He then demonstrates a double leg to use when the single leg takedown gives you trouble.

The higher level you go up against training partners start to recognize and defend against baseball bat chokes well. Matt Darcy instead wraps the lapel around the arm so when they pull it out it creates a loop with the lapel that he then feeds his own hand into to get an Ezekiel choke.

Matt Darcy shows an entree into the single leg by posting on their chest making their front leg light. This entry is especially useful in situations where you may not want to get into grip fighting with your opponent or for the use in nogi.

In this video Matt Darcy shows some drills to develop the proper timing for basic kouchi gari.

This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.

This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.

This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.

This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.

Matt Darcy shows how to pull De La Riva from open guard when you are sitting and your opponent is standing. Using an ankle pick threat gets the opponent to be in a defensive reaction leaving them susceptible to getting put into De La Riva successfully. By applying a proper torquing of the knee w...

Matt Darcy shows a strong break from pitstop.

Matt Darcy breaks down the 4 sections of SAP. Section 1 - Entrances (Funneling them into the position). Section 2 - 3 positions of control with safeguards. Section 3 - Breaks. Breaking the opponents defenses. Section 4 - Finishing the arm once the defense is broken.

Matt Darcy shows a powerful break from leg side with a post in SAP

When trying to perform the foot scrape to escape the mounted position, an opponent may be able to glue the laces of their foot down to the mat making it difficult to perform the move. Instead of trying to force the scrape matt will opt to hook his foot under theirs to lift their leg and trapping...

Using the foot scrape to escape from mount to half guard, Matt Darcy urges his student to keep that momentum going to get to their strongest position to get the finish.