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Worm guard
You feed their own lapel around their lead leg and grip it, building a hook that is very hard to remove. A Keenan Cornelius invention.
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Essentials
You feed their own lapel around their lead leg and grip it, building a hook that’s very hard to remove. A Keenan Cornelius invention: good for sweeps and back takes.
Your goals
- Lapel fed deep behind their knee
- Grip the lapel with your same-side hand
- Sweep or take the back
What they want
- Strip the lapel
- Step around your legs
Key principles
- Deep lapel behind the knee
- Pull the lapel and push the hip together
Common mistakes
- A shallow lapel
- No foot on the hip
Techniques to learn
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Where it leads
- Moves from here
- Side control (Yoko Shiho Gatame)Back controlDe La Riva guard
- In courses
- Open guard set
If this happens…
- they strip the lapelRe-feed it as they reach
- they step aroundTurn and take the back
Advanced detailsTransitions, threats, reactions, troubleshooting and a sparring drill
1. Overview
You feed their own lapel around their lead leg and grip it, building a hook that is very hard to remove. A Keenan Cornelius invention.
Key controls
- Their lapel fed deep behind their knee
- Grip the lapel with your same-side hand
- Free foot on hip or bicep
In this position
3 transitions · 1 sweeps · 0 submissions · 2 reactions · 2 troubleshooting fixes · 1 sparring exercise · 2 techniques
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