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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.
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