Diagonal Ashi Garami — Defending
Defending diagonal ashi garami in no-gi — an inside structure with an ashi name. Square up, hide the inside heel, deny the hip, and do not file it with the outside positions.
Adapted from InGrappling, Diagonal Ashi Garami — Defending. System Games did not invent this curriculum.
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Diagonal ashi garami from underneath. The name says ashi, and the structure is inside — which is the single most useful thing to know about defending it.
The attacker sits across your line rather than beside it, and from that diagonal both the inside heel hook and the Z-lock are available along with the ankle.
Defenders who file this with the outside ashi positions get the timeline wrong by a large margin.
Elevated RiskDiagonal Ashi Garami (Defending) is an elevated risk technique. The inside heel hook rotates the tibia against the knee, and the Z-lock adds a hip attack from the same structure. The diagonal relationship means the attacker can load either without repositioning. Serious injury can occur Short. Inside-line timelines apply here despite the ashi in the name..
If you are new to this technique: read this section before anything else. Understanding the danger is part of understanding the technique.
The person applying the technique is responsible for releasing immediately.