Open Guard: Three Flanks, Then Lock Your Hands vs Feet Inside and Both Hands
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Tell the roomFlank three times, then lock your hands for the pass.
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TOP PLAYER (PASSER)
POSITION
Standing in front of your partner's open guard.
OBJECTIVE
Flank three times, then lock your hands for the pass.
CONSTRAINTS
A flank is avoiding the feet and getting both your knees and legs to one side of their body and touching the body, not passing yet. Then back out and do it again on the other side, and again: three flanks, alternating sides. On the fourth time, go for locked hands and the actual pass. Avoid getting swept and avoid getting tangled in their legs. If they entangle you anyway (pull you into guard, a single leg, and so on), it's your job to get out and carry on with your count.
WIN CONDITION
After your three flanks, you lock your hands around them: around the waist, crossways with an underhook, or around the head.
BOTTOM PLAYER (OPEN GUARD)
POSITION
On your back in open guard.
OBJECTIVE
Keep your feet inside their legs and connect with your hands.
CONSTRAINTS
Keep working to get your feet inside their legs and keep at least one grip active on them while they move around you.
WIN CONDITION
You get both feet on the inside and both hands connected to them.
Reference video
Open video · frankthetankjj
frankthetankjj, 20250924 ecological class fc (free class video on the frankthetankjj YouTube channel).
Problem
Standing in front of your partner's open guard.
Tell the room
Flank three times, then lock your hands for the pass. Keep your feet inside their legs and connect with your hands.
Setup
Standing in front of your partner's open guard. On your back in open guard.
Score
After your three flanks, you lock your hands around them: around the waist, crossways with an underhook, or around the head. You get both feet on the inside and both hands connected to them.
Rules
- A flank is avoiding the feet and getting both your knees and legs to one side of their body and touching the body, not passing yet.
- Then back out and do it again on the other side, and again: three flanks, alternating sides.
- On the fourth time, go for locked hands and the actual pass.
- Avoid getting swept and avoid getting tangled in their legs.
- If they entangle you anyway (pull you into guard, a single leg, and so on), it's your job to get out and carry on with your count.
- Keep working to get your feet inside their legs and keep at least one grip active on them while they move around you.
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Open Guard: Three Flanks, Then Lock Your Hands vs Feet Inside and Both Hands
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TOP PLAYER (PASSER)
Position
Standing in front of your partner's open guard.
Win condition
After your three flanks, you lock your hands around them: around the waist, crossways with an underhook, or around the head.
Constraints
A flank is avoiding the feet and getting both your knees and legs to one side of their body and touching the body, not passing yet. Then back out and do it again on the other side, and again: three flanks, alternating sides. On the fourth time, go for locked hands and the actual pass. Avoid getting swept and avoid getting tangled in their legs. If they entangle you anyway (pull you into guard, a single leg, and so on), it's your job to get out and carry on with your count.
BOTTOM PLAYER (OPEN GUARD)
Position
On your back in open guard.
Win condition
You get both feet on the inside and both hands connected to them.
Constraints
Keep working to get your feet inside their legs and keep at least one grip active on them while they move around you.