Purple belt · Sweep · Core
X-guard entry and technical stand-up sweep
You slide under a standing opponent, hug one leg, and split their legs with an X of your feet. Use it when they stand up in your butterfly or De La Riva guard.
Step by step
- From butterfly guard, when they stand up, lift with your hooks and slide your hips under them.
- Hug one of their legs with your arm, their knee tight to your shoulder.
- Put both feet on their other leg: one foot hooks behind their knee, the other foot pushes on the front of their hip. Your legs cross in an X.
- Extend your legs to split their legs apart while you keep hugging the near leg. They fall back to their seat.
- Keep the leg, post your free hand behind you, and do a technical stand-up.
- Stand with their leg in your arms and pass right away.
Details that make it work
- Your shoulder stays tight to their knee. Space there lets them step over you.
- Extend both legs at once, like opening scissors.
Common mistakes
- Holding the leg too low, at the ankle, so they pull it free.
- Lying flat and staying there after they fall, instead of standing up with the leg.
Drill it
Partner stands in your butterfly guard: 10 entries to X-guard, then 10 full sweeps with the stand-up.
If it fails, or what comes next
- Knee cut (knee slice) pass Pass · Passing
- Toreando (bullfighter) pass Pass · Passing
- Leg drag pass Pass · Passing
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