Guard passing - Hey, he's got my leg!

Cassio covered a lot of different open guard passes this week, most of which I missed. Yesterday he went over options when you opponent is seated, you are standing with one leg between his legs and he sits up and grabs your leg.

The first thing he talked about was making sure you keep pressure on his chest by driving you knee forward. Ideally driving him onto his back. If you don't drive him back with your knee you'll give him the low single or let him around to the side for the double leg.

The first version he showed was a simple knee across pass, he's got my left leg, I've driven my knee into his chest and rolled him a good deal towards his back. Now I must get the underhook with my left hand. Once I have that I grab his left arm/sleeve with my right hand, put my forhead on the mat and drive my knee to my right, across his leg and to the mat. Finally taking side control.

The knee across pass is gotta be high on my list of worse passes (and that's a long list).

The second pass is the same to where you drive him back, then instead of the underhook you post your left hand by his right ear and lift up your right leg and swing it around behind your body. Very strange position. I'm not sure i can accuratly describe it here but you then drive your knee towards yourself. Like I said, it was odd for me.

The third one was much easier. You swing your leg around like before, but this time you go even farther around. You should end up sitting on your right shin almost sitting on his head. You then break the grip on his right hand and apply the kimura. Sweet.

When Dan did this one to me the first time just sitting on my shoulder that way I though my shoulder might separate. Now hopefully I'll remember the moves.