From side control it is important to keep the near side arm’s elbow off the mat and on your hip. Matt Darcy demonstrates how to intercept the far side arm to be able to clear the way when kicking over. For the armbar post near your opponents legs, clamp your knees together to secure the arm. For...

When someone attempts a stack pass their goal is to get a leg onto their shoulder to complete the pass. Matt Darcy times this moment, turning to his shoulder and hooking the back of their head with his foot, turns leg side, frees his bottom leg, and comes on top in the crucifix position.

For the defense Matt Darcy spreads his legs wide and heavy to prevent your legs going up on his opponents shoulders. He then walks his shoulders backwards to get his feet on the hips. He hips out, circles one leg in, and shoots his triangle.

In this stack pass escape Matt Darcy times it for right when their hands connect. When they do he extends his body, pushes the hands upward, and frees his knees from their hold.

Matt Darcy goes over the fundamental steps to defending the armbar.

When in the omoplata position Matt will sit onto his leg side hip, weaving his top leg through the opponents side opening and doubling up on the wrist to finish the armbar.

In this video Matt Darcy continues his omoplata training block with the sit out armlock. When setting up the omoplata normally this is for an opponent with a strong base and hard to break down. He hips out till he is perpendicular to his opponent, figure fours his legs and feeding his head side ...

When Setting up the armbar from the omoplata position Matt will often opt to take the back instead. He will weave his top leg through the opening and take his bottom leg out. You can then sit up for top back position with one hook in, or hip escape and pull them into your lap.

Matt Darcy shows a fundamental triangle defense. Immediately when the triangle is attempted he makes his knee and elbow connection with strong posture. Two hands come up to the knee and driving upward to break the triangle. He then drives his knee over this opponents leg to prevent another trian...

While in the omoplata position Matt will throw his body across the back of his partner. He then feeds the far lapel into his hand and ratchets his elbow into the small of his opponents back. His other hand will grab the horse collar and to finish he circles away from his opponent finishing the o...

Matt Darcy starts with one of his favorite omoplata setups from shallow lasso guard. When his opponent attempts to posture he goes with their momentum and back rolls, ending in the top position sitting on their chest. He then “rings the towel” ensuring full immobilization of the arm as he donkey...

Matt Darcy shows a sacrifice trip from the back body lock position. He transitions to a collar and outside knee grip and performs the trip by sitting and blocking their foot with his leg. With the collar and knee grip it transitions easily into the top leg drag position.

Using the cross sleeve and back grip, Matt Darcy shows a scrifice throw. Stepping in and hooking his opponents leg while he sits and puts his back to the ground. The cross sleeve grip prevents his opponent from being able to post and stop the throw, thus sending them into a shoulder roll and Mat...

Matt Darcy uses his sleeve to bait the grab to get the grips he wants, one cross sleeve and the other going across the back. He then back steps to bump their inside thigh to get their hands on the ground and going straight into the spiral position to stop any possibility of a a wrestling scramble.

When attempting to perform the sleeve drag, some may recognize and avoid it by locking their elbow down into your hip. When this happens Matt Darcy put a foot on the hip ramping his hips up which also lifts that arm. When he then attempts the pendulum sweep that downward force they are applying ...

After dragging the arm across, the opponent may attempt to correct the move and square up to avoid the back take. When this happens Matt Darcy uses his free hand to reach across the back, into the far armpit to lock them down, and use their momentum to sweep them into the other direction. From t...

Matt Darcy Shows a grip break using the joystick grip to then punch the arm across to expose his partners back for back take from closed guard.

Matt Darcy shows how to transition to mount from side control then goes over the cross choke with a fine tooth comb to make sure every attempt is a high percentage finish.

Matt Darcy shows the post and hook single leg and the reasoning for which hand he uses to post on his opponent. He then demonstrates a double leg to use when the single leg takedown gives you trouble.

The higher level you go up against training partners start to recognize and defend against baseball bat chokes well. Matt Darcy instead wraps the lapel around the arm so when they pull it out it creates a loop with the lapel that he then feeds his own hand into to get an Ezekiel choke.

Matt Darcy shows an entree into the single leg by posting on their chest making their front leg light. This entry is especially useful in situations where you may not want to get into grip fighting with your opponent or for the use in nogi.

In this video Matt Darcy shows some drills to develop the proper timing for basic kouchi gari.

This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.