(heavy rock music) (upbeat acoustic rock) - Now we're gonna take a look at how to open your opponent's guard in a very safe way. Especially when there's a weight difference, when your opponent normally he brings you down by breaking your posture and giving you a hard time and as you go drive him back, there's a lot of risks of arm lock, triangles and things like that. So the main thing, I remember still, when I was a child I had a huge problem was to stand up here, because back then you would hold both hands right here and square would try to get up.
So every time I had a larger opponent; a taller opponent or a heavier opponent, I would go through hell to open his guard. So I start studying a way to do it, which was, my grip here was always, you have to understand, I grew up where our hands would be here, but this kept us very hard to be able to keep the posture. So to place a hand forward was very dangerous for the fact that you always offer your arm because back then people would hold this way, so the elbow was in perfect position for an arm lock.
Look: you see. By changing just the grip, could you do the same arm lock again? Please go.
(laughs) You see by just placing your elbow outwards, became very hard for him to raise the hip long enough, far enough to be able to finish me there. So I'll be sideways, and before when I was always square they would grab both of my collars with both hands and they'd bring the head up, look. They'd bring the head up and they put it down.
(grunts) So it would be hours of struggle. So by suffering through this for many years I began working to keep my whole body sideways so I would check even my knee was further forward. .
. than the other one. So I place my whole body sideways.
So from here, could you grab my both collars again and bring me down? Look how hard it is for him, bring me down. He cannot even-- Look.
All his leverage is done there. With that, following the same procedure of keeping my body sideways I would bring this leg up first. I would do this.
You see, and if you'll notice, my leg is already putting pressure on his hip. It's like my goal is to place my foot further up, like I wanna place the knee right on his stomach, look. Now from here I will pop my leg open and I will bring myself up this way and the leg goes open.
If it happened for him to keep the leg closed, what happened here is this: once I'm up, keep your leg closed, I come up, I let my hand slide to the middle of his thigh and my elbow has to touch inside his knee right there. And if you see the beauty of this because I have my hip elevated I no longer need to raise my weight or my hands or my arms. This will prevent him from getting me out of balance.
So grab it, flip it over right here (speaking dampened by collar) See there's no risk of him trying to reach here; he's actually helping me to pass if he does that. So I have control for the whole time. Now one important thing, especially if your opponent is much heavier and bigger than you, that will help you to stand up a lot is this little detail that was created by John Danaher Once you're sideways here and your leg is up, sometimes you have trouble and you need to put your weight into him to get up.
That brings you out of balance so I would do this: the foot will pop out, look, this way, it became very easy to stand up, independent of his size and weight.
