No-gi Intermediate
Lachlan Giles' hand-fighting detail for passing seated guard: bring the hand in with the elbow attached to your body and you win inside position every time.
Escapes
Grip Breaking
Breaking collar, sleeve, wrist and lapel grips efficiently so the opponent's guard or takedown never gets started.
Also called breaking grips, grip breaks, breaking collar grips, breaking sleeve grips.
Where it shows up
Related techniques
Shorts
Gi Beginner
Two fundamental ways to break a lapel grip, the first job of anyone stuck in collar-sleeve guard.
YouTube videos
Gi Intermediate
Andrew Wiltse on smashing the lasso: turn a deep lasso shallow with the knee and elbow, get a two-on-one on the sleeve so they cannot invert, then mash the leg down and circle.
Gi Beginner
Gustavo Gasperin's four ways to break spider grips: always stand, knee or hip behind the heel, shin behind the knee, and extending both arms while walking backwards.
Gi Intermediate
Three rules for the passer in spider guard (make grips, move back, never keep the arm bent), then a pant-grip break that leads straight into a leg drag or side control.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Leg pummelling for the passer: how to keep your legs inside and free of hooks so you stop getting swept while working an open guard pass.
Gi Intermediate
Passing collar-sleeve by clearing the collar tie and the bicep foot before the toreando or knee cut.