Half Guard Sweeps (diary entry)

SG PT24.01.2025

My teaching client from Cotswold Karate School finished his course on Submission Grappling/Ground-Fighting with a two-hour hit on sweeps from close to mid-range. As the title states, our main focus was on half-guard. We especially spent a lot of time on deep half-guard.

We based our 5-minute rounds of these constraint-led games:

  1. Closed guard only no-hands breaking posture vs no-hands standing up in guard
  2. Open close guard only sweeps vs moving through, around or under guard
  3. Half-guard establishing lock-down and far leg under-hook vs chest-to-chest or choke
  4. Ditto on other side
  5. Begin in lockdown – Move to dominant position vs chest-to-chest or choke
  6. Ditto on other side
  7. Begin in half-guard – Move to dog-fight position vs chest-to-chest or choke
  8. Ditto on other side
  9. Begin in dog-fight – Sweep or take the back vs all counters to dominant position
  10. Ditto on other side

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