Foot Contact vs Closed Hands
Mat mode
3:00
Tell the roomKeep the overhook, move your partner around with both hands, and stick your foot to either of their legs to make them fall.
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OVERHOOK PLAYER
POSITION
Standing with an overhook on your partner's underhooking arm.
OBJECTIVE
Keep the overhook, move your partner around with both hands, and stick your foot to either of their legs to make them fall.
CONSTRAINTS
Keep the overhook the whole time; do not take it out while moving your partner. Your free hand may help any way you like. Make foot-to-foot contact on either leg, inside or outside, and follow the leg when it moves. You cannot fall to make your partner fall: if you put them down, you stay standing (sweep the feet, block the knees, or lift, but stay on your feet). No jumping at your partner for any reason. Change roles after every win.
WIN CONDITION
Your partner falls while you stay on your feet.
UNDERHOOK PLAYER
POSITION
Standing with an underhook (under the elbow, hooked onto the shoulder) against your partner's overhook.
OBJECTIVE
Connect your hands around your partner.
CONSTRAINTS
Grabbing your partner's hand does not count. The connection must be below the armpits — anywhere from under the elbows down to the ankles. Same no-falling-to-make-them-fall and no-jumping rules. Change roles after every win.
WIN CONDITION
Any closed-hand connection on your partner below the armpits, from under the elbows down to the ankles.
Reference video
Open video · Standard Jiu-Jitsu
Greg Souders (Standard Jiu-Jitsu), seminar at Game Theory, Cologne, hosted by Hilti BJJ — Standing Grappling CLA @ Game Theory/Hilti BJJ Seminar with Greg Souders (free video on the Standard Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel).
Problem
Standing with an overhook on your partner's underhooking arm.
Tell the room
Keep the overhook, move your partner around with both hands, and stick your foot to either of their legs to make them fall. Connect your hands around your partner.
Setup
Standing with an overhook on your partner's underhooking arm. Standing with an underhook (under the elbow, hooked onto the shoulder) against your partner's overhook.
Score
Your partner falls while you stay on your feet. Any closed-hand connection on your partner below the armpits, from under the elbows down to the ankles.
Rules
- Keep the overhook the whole time; do not take it out while moving your partner.
- Your free hand may help any way you like.
- Make foot-to-foot contact on either leg, inside or outside, and follow the leg when it moves.
- You cannot fall to make your partner fall: if you put them down, you stay standing (sweep the feet, block the knees, or lift, but stay on your feet).
- No jumping at your partner for any reason.
- Change roles after every win.
- Grabbing your partner's hand does not count.
- The connection must be below the armpits — anywhere from under the elbows down to the ankles.
- Same no-falling-to-make-them-fall and no-jumping rules.
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