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X-guard

An open guard where you're under them, hugging one leg to your shoulder while both your feet work on their other leg. Extending your hooks spreads their legs and takes their base.

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Key steps

  1. Get under them from butterfly or single leg X with one of their legs on your shoulder.
  2. Wrap your arm around that leg and hold it tight to your shoulder.
  3. Put both feet on their other leg: one hooks behind the knee, the other sits on the front of the hip.
  4. Control their far sleeve, wrist or ankle with your free hand.
  5. Extend your legs to stretch their stance, then sweep as they lose balance.

Key details

  • Get your hips right under them; from too far out, the hooks push them away instead of lifting.
  • Hold the shoulder leg tight, because if it slides off, they can step out of the X.