Deep Half

12/14 - Downtown

Finally, the secrets of deep half guard revealed!!!

Well, the basic concept anyway. Had never done deep half before.

From bottom mount:

1. Get opponent's weight off their knees/legs (upa). Use R foot to "pick up" their L foot, slide your L knee through and pinch down with your R. Rotate hips and legs over to the R, which will pick up their leg, and slide your R hand under their L thigh and cup the other side. Walk your feet to the L, which should eventually end with your head more or less in your opponent's lap. Rotate their thigh out (toward their R), which will dump them on their R side. If they keep their weight over you so that you can't dump them by rotating their thigh, you can shoot out the back.

From back mount:

2. Protect from chokes by pulling down on their choking arm, protecting your neck and keeping elbows close and tight to your body. Roll to appropriate side (to the L if they are underhooking your R), use your R foot to push down on their L foot and free your bottom leg (L) from the hook. Move hips out to the side, and keep their R leg by swinging around to gain side control by hooking it with your R foot. If they try to get top mount (likely), you should be close to deep half position. Slide R arm under their thigh. If they try to underhook your left arm (i.e. grabbing your tricep), grab their tricep with same hand, bring R hand back to the inner side of their R thigh, hook their R leg with your L leg. Push up with L leg and R hand to get them off, then rotate around in the total opposite direction you would expect to go.

Rolled with Julia once, Liz twice and drilled one round with Chris on the back-mount to deep half transition. No gi with the girls, which of course was awkward and weird b/c I'm so lost w/o lapel and sleeve grips. Had a couple of triangles that I couldn't finish (grr!) and got RNC'd once b/c I didn't respect how quick J could transition to the back.