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Pass or back take · Pressure pass · Intermediate
Float pass
A guard pass (pressure pass) you hit from Passing butterfly guard and Butterfly guard, landing you in Side control (Yoko Shiho Gatame). Intermediate level.
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How to do it
Works from
Puts you in
- Win head position or an underhook and keep your hips back so their hooks can’t lift you
- When they lift with a hook, let your weight float onto their chest and come up on your toes
- Kick your legs back and swing your hips over the lifting hook, landing beside them
- Drop your hips and settle in side control
How it connects
- Starts from
- Passing butterfly guardButterfly guard
- Similar pass or back takes
- Knee slice passOver-under passStack passBody lock passSmash passLong step pass
- In courses
- Foundations IV: PassingOpen guard set
Get it right
Key details
- Your weight stays on their upper body, not on their hooks
- Float over the hook as it lifts instead of fighting it
Common mistake
Sitting your weight down on their hooks, so they can elevate you.
If they defend it
They follow with a new hook: drop to a body lock or smash a hook to half guard top.
Safety and research
Read about itGrapplearts articlesBJJ Heroes
Practice
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