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Reverse De La Riva
Your leg hooks inside their lead leg, often after they start a knee cut. A key guard for stopping knee-slice passes.
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Essentials
Your inside leg hooks their lead leg from the inside and your knee blocks their knee line. Reverse DLR is a strong answer to the knee cut and the entry to the kiss of the dragon and leg entanglements.
Your goals
- Hook from the inside, knee in front of their knee
- Grip their far sleeve or collar
- Turn under to sweep or invert to the back
What they want
- Pass to the other side
- Smash your knee and settle on your hips
Key principles
- Block the knee line
- Turning under is the main attack
Common mistakes
- Letting them stack your hips
- Staying flat instead of turning
Techniques to learn
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Where it leads
- Escapes
- Escape the kneebar
- In courses
- Open guard set
If this happens…
- they try to knee cutThe reverse hook blocks the knee: off-balance and sweep
- they step backFollow with a leg entry like single leg X
Advanced detailsTransitions, threats, reactions, troubleshooting and a sparring drill
1. Overview
Your leg hooks inside their lead leg, often after they start a knee cut. A key guard for stopping knee-slice passes.
Key controls
- Shin inside their thigh, foot behind the knee
- Control the far sleeve or belt
- Hips turned in
In this position
6 transitions · 1 sweeps · 1 submissions · 2 reactions · 2 troubleshooting fixes · 1 sparring exercise · 2 techniques
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