Lines

Cross-side armpit on the single leg, always. Same side lets them jump guard. Cross side deletes the option. Choose finishes that delete options.

A switch is a gamble. Be certain with your attack instead — at least until the World Championships call.

The high single leg puts you in a deadlift with someone fighting the barbell. Lower back pays, guillotine waits. Distance is the safer bank.

When they lock a figure-four on your leg, the answer is not a scramble. It’s the sprawl you were already doing. Turning makes your knee light; light knees get swept.

Whoever panics first, loses — and it will usually be the one with more to lose. So don’t move. Let them take a breather. Start when they’re done trying everything.

Stretch them out so that everything they attempt costs a lot and earns a little. That’s not stalling. That’s economics.

We don’t hunt leg locks off the takedown. But if someone sweeps us into one — well. There are better and worse times to be handed an opportunity.

Today’s class was one unbroken sentence: arm drag, single leg, pass, quarter mount, sprawl, mount. Techniques are words. Chains are what you actually say.

Feed the ankle to your knees, then replace the knee pinch with your chest. Every good position hands its job to the next body part before it leaves.