Underhook vs Overhook: Pick Up a Leg, Lock the Body, or Cover the Head
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Tell the roomMake one more connection: pick up a leg with your hands locked, lock your hands around the body through the center line, or cover their head.
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BOTH PLAYERS
UNDERHOOK PLAYER and OVERHOOK PLAYER share these rules.
POSITION
Standing, hip to hip with your partner. You have an underhook; they have the overhook on that side.
OBJECTIVE
Make one more connection: pick up a leg with your hands locked, lock your hands around the body through the center line, or cover their head.
CONSTRAINTS
Stay on your underhook the whole time until you complete a task; you can't exit it and switch to something else. Your other hand is free to work. There is no push-out rule in this version. Keep the pace light (you should be able to talk). 3-minute rounds; when you hit your task, switch so you're on the overhook.
WIN CONDITION
You pick up a leg with locked hands, lock your hands around the body through the center line, or cover their head.
OVERHOOK PLAYER
POSITION
Standing, hip to hip with your partner, on the overhook side of their underhook.
OBJECTIVE
Same tasks from the overhook: cover their head, pick up a leg, or lock your hands around the body through the center line.
CONSTRAINTS
Stay on your overhook until you complete a task. Your other hand is free to work. Switch roles after either player hits a task.
WIN CONDITION
You cover their head, pick up a leg with locked hands, or lock your hands around the body through the center line.
Reference video
Open video · The Brinkmanship Lab (Chris Alfar)
Chris Alfar, Win the Center, Keep Them Down | Standing to Ground (free video on The Brinkmanship Lab YouTube channel; taught at the Accélérateur Martial camp at Jiu-Jitsu Saguenay).
Problem
Standing, hip to hip with your partner.
Tell the room
Make one more connection: pick up a leg with your hands locked, lock your hands around the body through the center line, or cover their head. Same tasks from the overhook: cover their head, pick up a leg, or lock your hands around the body through the center line.
Setup
Standing, hip to hip with your partner. You have an underhook; they have the overhook on that side. Standing, hip to hip with your partner, on the overhook side of their underhook.
Score
You pick up a leg with locked hands, lock your hands around the body through the center line, or cover their head. You cover their head, pick up a leg with locked hands, or lock your hands around the body through the center line.
Rules
- Stay on your underhook the whole time until you complete a task; you can't exit it and switch to something else.
- Your other hand is free to work.
- There is no push-out rule in this version.
- Keep the pace light (you should be able to talk).
- 3-minute rounds; when you hit your task, switch so you're on the overhook.
- Stay on your overhook until you complete a task.
- Switch roles after either player hits a task.
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