Hand Fight to Get Behind and Lock Your Hands
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3:00
Tell the roomUse your closed-hand connections to get behind your partner. Same: use your closed-hand connections to get behind your partner.
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BOTH PLAYERS
PLAYER A and PLAYER B share these rules.
POSITION
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting.
OBJECTIVE
Use your closed-hand connections to get behind your partner.
CONSTRAINTS
Don't stop until you get behind. Once you're behind, you can play there for a bit; you don't have to let go right away, but then let them go and start again. Optional focus if getting behind is hard for you: get behind one of their limbs. Getting behind an elbow, or getting on a leg and crossing it across your body, opens a path to the back; any time you move a limb across the body, the path opens up.
WIN CONDITION
You get behind your partner and lock your hands.
PLAYER B
POSITION
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting. Same game.
OBJECTIVE
Same: use your closed-hand connections to get behind your partner.
CONSTRAINTS
Same rules. Don't stop until you get behind; play there briefly, then let go and start again.
WIN CONDITION
You get behind your partner and lock your hands.
Coach Greg Souders, Standard Jiu-Jitsu, ADCC Camp @ 10p South Bay with Greg Souders Part 2 - Full Session (free video on the Standard Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel; Greg running practice for the ADCC camp at 10th Planet South Bay, August 2026).
Problem
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting.
Setup
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting. Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting. Same game.
Score
You get behind your partner and lock your hands.
Rules
- Don't stop until you get behind.
- Once you're behind, you can play there for a bit; you don't have to let go right away, but then let them go and start again.
- Optional focus if getting behind is hard for you: get behind one of their limbs.
- Getting behind an elbow, or getting on a leg and crossing it across your body, opens a path to the back; any time you move a limb across the body, the path opens up.
- Same rules.
- Don't stop until you get behind; play there briefly, then let go and start again.
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Hand Fight to Get Behind and Lock Your Hands
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BOTH PLAYERS
Position
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting.
Win condition
You get behind your partner and lock your hands.
Constraints
Don't stop until you get behind. Once you're behind, you can play there for a bit; you don't have to let go right away, but then let them go and start again. Optional focus if getting behind is hard for you: get behind one of their limbs. Getting behind an elbow, or getting on a leg and crossing it across your body, opens a path to the back; any time you move a limb across the body, the path opens up.