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How To Defend Yourself: Elevator Sweep

Alright, the first sweep that we're going to go over is front guard and it's going to be your elevator sweep. Couple of different setups, we are going to show what's different ones in, from much different angles. And we're also going to show how you can chain it together with that other sweeps that you have already learned. So first we're just going to show you just the basics setup by it self. So here I am in guard, I have to open my guard and I always like to controlling the head. I like to minimize this posture. So when I am here, what I would like to do is when open my guard, I will reach down and grab my own leg to put my foot inside his knee. Some guys are flexible enough that they can just reach up and throw their leg in there, I don't want to -- I got to hurt my leg. So when I am here, a playing guard, I control the posture, I break the guard open and while I am planning to open guard, at some point I just reach down. I bow my hips up little bit. I just bow my hips up and put one leg in. I don't want to go too high up this leg, I just want to stay down as close to his knee as possible. So here a playing open guard, I reach up and I am here. Now just like the scissor sweep, we're going to take this side of our body and we're going to kick under him. This side is going to lift him and we're going to roll over. This leg is just going to kick straight towards the ceiling. So I am going to go here. I lift straight up with this leg. I keep his posture down, if he tries to base down, I catch the arm and I chop with this leg on the other side. Okay. So we are here, I go here. And just sweep over to mount. Again, we're here a playing open guard. I reach down and catch it inside. Once I am here, I pretty well got the sweep. So from here, I am going to lift straight through the ceiling I am going to push over, over into the mount. With the other legs, that you can see it a little differently. We're playing open guard, I raise it up and put my right foot inside. This side is now going to be the catching the cutting side. We're here, all the way over into mount. One more time, I am here I open my guard. I reach down. I put my right foot inside his knee. This is going to chop. This is going to catch the arm, controlling the posture, right over into mount. From another angle, we are here. I break my guard open, inside, right. See how close my foot is to his knee. I want to be right inside as close as I can. So we're here inside. This is going to chop. This is going to catch. This is just going to keep straight up and ride all the way over. I am going to come over into mount. One of the variations that you'll get from this is the guy who feel you put the leg inside. At that point, he is going to shift his weight down because he doesn't want to get swept. So when we're here, and I put the leg inside, when he sits back, now he is too heavy. I can't lift him anymore. So what I am going to do is I am going to sit up and reach across. I want to grab his leg on the other side, on this side, it would be right here. I want to reach across his body. I want to be reaching across to whatever side the leg is under. So in this case, since my right leg is under, I'll be reaching toward my right leg. So we're here, I've got the leg under, he sits back, I want to reach up and grab onto right underneath his armpit. From here, when I sit back, I want to sit back in one motion that's when I complete the sweep. So we're here and he sits back. I reach up and grab. Now, I sit back right over into the mount. We call this the heavy variation because your opponent, as soon as he feels you come inside for the sweep, he makes himself heavy. I control the posture. I sit up. When I sit up, I go straight over into mount. From another angle, we're here. I am playing the guard, I open my guard, right in here. I am ready for the Elevator. He sits back, and I can't lift him anymore. I reach up and over. Now, when I roll back all in one motion, I sweep him, right over. That's your Elevator Sweep with the heavy variation. One of the ways that you're going to get that is off of the Mayflower Sweep. We showed the Scissors Sweep, we talked about moving from the Scissors Sweep into the Mayflower. We're going to talk now about moving from the Mayflower into the Elevator. So from this angle first, what we're doing, is we set this Mayflower Sweep, we're here. But we got to roll him, our opponent, reach his up with his foot and base is out. Now we can't roll him. So when we do, we always want to tack left, right, left. I just go ahead and load that under and now I am already setting up the Elevator, I go the other way, here. So together, I've set up for the Scissors Sweep. I have missed it, he based up. I go under for the Mayflower, he lifts his leg. I go ahead and put the Elevator under. When the elevator is under, right over into the mount. From another angle, I set up the Scissors Sweep, I can't get it. I set up the Mayflower, he pulls his leg. I go ahead and load it back and now I chop and I rollover to the mount. That's how you want to chain your submissions together. The next week that we're going to talk about continues all in that series of that chain.

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Alright, the first sweep that we're going to go over is front guard and it's going to be your elevator sweep. Couple of different setups, we are going to show what's different ones in, from much different angles. And we're also going to show how you can chain it together with that other sweeps that you have already learned.

So first we're just going to show you just the basics setup by it self. So here I am in guard, I have to open my guard and I always like to controlling the head. I like to minimize this posture. So when I am here, what I would like to do is when open my guard, I will reach down and grab my own leg to put my foot inside his knee. Some guys are flexible enough that they can just reach up and throw their leg in there, I don't want to -- I got to hurt my leg.

So when I am here, a playing guard, I control the posture, I break the guard open and while I am planning to open guard, at some point I just reach down. I bow my hips up little bit. I just bow my hips up and put one leg in. I don't want to go too high up this leg, I just want to stay down as close to his knee as possible.

So here a playing open guard, I reach up and I am here. Now just like the scissor sweep, we're going to take this side of our body and we're going to kick under him. This side is going to lift him and we're going to roll over. This leg is just going to kick straight towards the ceiling. So I am going to go here. I lift straight up with this leg. I keep his posture down, if he tries to base down, I catch the arm and I chop with this leg on the other side.

Okay. So we are here, I go here. And just sweep over to mount. Again, we're here a playing open guard. I reach down and catch it inside. Once I am here, I pretty well got the sweep. So from here, I am going to lift straight through the ceiling I am going to push over, over into the mount. With the other legs, that you can see it a little differently. We're playing open guard, I raise it up and put my right foot inside. This side is now going to be the catching the cutting side. We're here, all the way over into mount.

One more time, I am here I open my guard. I reach down. I put my right foot inside his knee. This is going to chop. This is going to catch the arm, controlling the posture, right over into mount. From another angle, we are here. I break my guard open, inside, right. See how close my foot is to his knee. I want to be right inside as close as I can. So we're here inside. This is going to chop. This is going to catch. This is just going to keep straight up and ride all the way over. I am going to come over into mount.

One of the variations that you'll get from this is the guy who feel you put the leg inside. At that point, he is going to shift his weight down because he doesn't want to get swept. So when we're here, and I put the leg inside, when he sits back, now he is too heavy. I can't lift him anymore. So what I am going to do is I am going to sit up and reach across. I want to grab his leg on the other side, on this side, it would be right here. I want to reach across his body. I want to be reaching across to whatever side the leg is under.

So in this case, since my right leg is under, I'll be reaching toward my right leg. So we're here, I've got the leg under, he sits back, I want to reach up and grab onto right underneath his armpit. From here, when I sit back, I want to sit back in one motion that's when I complete the sweep.

So we're here and he sits back. I reach up and grab. Now, I sit back right over into the mount. We call this the heavy variation because your opponent, as soon as he feels you come inside for the sweep, he makes himself heavy. I control the posture. I sit up. When I sit up, I go straight over into mount.

From another angle, we're here. I am playing the guard, I open my guard, right in here. I am ready for the Elevator. He sits back, and I can't lift him anymore. I reach up and over. Now, when I roll back all in one motion, I sweep him, right over. That's your Elevator Sweep with the heavy variation.

One of the ways that you're going to get that is off of the Mayflower Sweep. We showed the Scissors Sweep, we talked about moving from the Scissors Sweep into the Mayflower. We're going to talk now about moving from the Mayflower into the Elevator. So from this angle first, what we're doing, is we set this Mayflower Sweep, we're here. But we got to roll him, our opponent, reach his up with his foot and base is out. Now we can't roll him. So when we do, we always want to tack left, right, left.

I just go ahead and load that under and now I am already setting up the Elevator, I go the other way, here. So together, I've set up for the Scissors Sweep. I have missed it, he based up. I go under for the Mayflower, he lifts his leg. I go ahead and put the Elevator under. When the elevator is under, right over into the mount.

From another angle, I set up the Scissors Sweep, I can't get it. I set up the Mayflower, he pulls his leg. I go ahead and load it back and now I chop and I rollover to the mount. That's how you want to chain your submissions together. The next week that we're going to talk about continues all in that series of that chain.

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