Half Guard Sweeps (diary entry)

24.01.2025 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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