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SweepIntermediateGiNo-Gi

X-guard sweep

The basic sweep from X-guard. Your legs open their stance wide, and you stand up with their leg still in your arms as they topple.

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Key steps

  1. Hold their leg tight to your shoulder from X-guard with your arm wrapped around it.
  2. Straighten both legs and keep pushing until their balance goes.
  3. Plant your free hand behind you for base as their weight tips away.
  4. Come up to your feet in base while you keep hold of their leg.
  5. Drive into them as they land and settle into a top position past their legs.

Key details

  • Coming up while they're still balanced lets them sprawl on you, so stretch them first.
  • Losing the shoulder leg lets them step out of the X before you stand.