Using the foot scrape to escape from mount to half guard, Matt Darcy urges his student to keep that momentum going to get to their strongest position to get the finish.
Matt Darcy shows another troubleshoot adjustment to finish the triangle called the “Scape and Chop.” Using his forearm he scrapes his opponents head into the inside of his knee and then finishes off an space that might be left with a few chopping motions with his leg.
Every body is different. Therefore, triangles might be harder to get on some body types than others. Here Matt Darcy goes over some key details that can help you finish triangle chokes when short legs or broad shoulders are an issue by aligning the knees in the same direction and using a press a...
In this segment Matt Darcy shows in detail how to shoot for effective triangles.
After shooting for the triangle Matt Darcy goes over the standard operating procedure when finishing the choke. Connecting two limbs, whether it’s legs crossed or a hand on your shin, helps maintain the partner’s broken posture. Also, by keeping active pointed toes helps the success rate of tria...
By threatening the cross choke opportunity opens up for the scissor sweep. The threat of submission from closed guard keeps you two steps ahead of your opponent because before they can address opening the guard, the choke has to be defended first.
Matt Darcy shows the traditional cross choke. Also incorporates the sling shot, clubbing the head and bypassing the hand defenses for a baseball bat style grip.
Matt Darcy shows a basic arm bar setup from closed guard adding the juji-gatame roll when your opponent uses the stacking defense.
Chris Fletcher shows the simple collar choke finish after taking the back from the turtle position using the knee scrape
Date: 4/18/2018
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Class: Fundamentals
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches an essential beginners drill. Jiu-Jitsu 101 teaches how to escape mount, break the closed guard, pass the guard and transition form side control to mount. This is a cyclica...
Matt Darcy shows a basic back choke system using the collars. This is one of the building blocks for the Iron Maiden Back Control System.
Date: 6/25/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches part 2 of the simple back choke system. He uses the knee pillow and belt line hook to make the choke even worse when his opponent tries to escape.
Date: 6/25/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy show how to do a traditional closed guard cross choke.
Date: 6/3/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows his favorite cross choke variation from closed guard.
Date: 6/3/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows how to go back to the pendulum sweep when the opponent defends the armbar.
Date: 5/20/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows how to do a basic closed guard pull and get right on the attack with a pendulum sweep.
Date: 5/20/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows how to do a basic closed guard pull to pendulum sweep armbar when your opponent defends the sweep.
Date: 5/20/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches a basic way to defend and counter the closed guard armbar.
Date: 5/1/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches a super fundamental way to do the "Toreando" or Bull Fighter pass.
Date: 3/26/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches the traditional straight ankle lock.
Date: 1/23/2018
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows how to do the most basic choke form the back and the start of many back attack systems including Iron Maiden and Hidden Collar.
Date: 1/7/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy shows how you can recover closed guard or a slick triangle choke when your opponent bases away from the Judo Reversal Roll
Date: 1/7/2019
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy teaches passing concepts using the back step pass and links it to a 3/4 mount entrance.
Date: 12/5/2018
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
Matt Darcy breaks down passing concepts using the fundamental knee cut pass.
Date: 12/5/2018
Instructor: Matt Darcy
Location: Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu San Jose
