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Omoplata Setup To Monoplata
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...
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Closed Guard Sleeve Drag - Part Three - Pendulum Sweep
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 ...
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Closed Guard Sleeve Drag - Part Two - Crash Sweep To S-Mount
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...
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Closed Guard Sleeve Drag - Part One - Back Take
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.
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Transition To Mount From Side Control And Finishing With The Cross Choke
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.
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Post And Hook Single Leg To Double Leg TakeDown
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.
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Knee On Belly Lapel Wrap Ezekiel Choke
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.
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Post Hook Single Leg Takedown
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.
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Kouchi Gari Drill
In this video Matt Darcy shows some drills to develop the proper timing for basic kouchi gari.
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Kouchi Gari To Single Leg
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Kids Fundamentals - Open Guard - Double Ankle Sweep
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Tripod Sweep
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Kids Fundamentals - Open Guard - 6 Places to Put Your Feet
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Open Guard - Triangle Choke
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Open Guard - Power Sweep
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Pulling De La Riva - Triangle Finish
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...
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Standard Armlock Position (SAP) - Section 3 Breaks - Fulcrum Break and Finish
Matt Darcy shows a strong break from pitstop.
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Standard Armlock Position (SAP) - Section 2 - Control and Safeguards
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.
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Standard Armlock Position (SAP) - Section 3 Breaks - Silverado Break and Finish
Matt Darcy shows a powerful break from leg side with a post in SAP
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Mount Escape - Leg Lift To Half Guard
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...
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Mount Escape - Foot Scrape To Half Guard - Keep The Momentum
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.
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Kids Fundamentals - Back Control Escape
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Kings Chair
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Rolling Bow and Arrow Choke
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.