Electric Chair Sweep
Electric chair sweep — extends the top player's far leg outward from the lockdown in half guard, levering them over their own trapped leg.
Adapted from InGrappling, Electric Chair Sweep. System Games did not invent this curriculum.
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The electric chair sweep is a half guard sweep executed from the lockdown position, in which the bottom player uses their interlocked legs to extend the top player’s far leg outward — leveraging the top player over their own leg. The lockdown (a figure-four leg entanglement around the top player’s near leg) provides the platform; the electric chair sweep is the sweeping application of that platform.
From the lockdown, the bottom player initiates the sweep by extending their far leg (the leg on the outside of the lockdown figure-four) outward and downward, pushing the top player’s far leg with it. This extension levers the top player’s hips upward and to the far side, tipping them over their own far leg. The sweep is named in the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system after the electric chair submission — a groin stretch applied from the same platform — though the two techniques are mechanically distinct: the sweep tips the top player over a leg, while the submission stretches the groin with the same leg-extending motion.
Note on the electric chair submission: The electric chair submission (a groin/adductor stretch) is a separate technique applied from the same lockdown position. They share the lockdown entry and the far leg extension mechanic, but the sweep’s goal is sweeping the top player to their back while the submission applies a hold to stretch the groin. See the electric chair submission page for the submission application.
INV-13Invariant "Destabilisation precedes control. An opponent who retains structural balance can generate defensive force regardless of the position they are in."
Why it works hereThe lockdown removes any near-side base by trapping the top player's near leg in the figure-four; the far leg extension then pushes the far leg outward so that side is also stripped of base. With both potential support points compromised at once, the top player has no structural balance to draw on and cannot generate the defensive force their hip strength would normally supply. Until the lockdown is tight and the far underhook is in, the destabilisation is incomplete and the sweep will meet a still-balanced opponent.
See full invariant page → The lockdown prevents the top player from stepping their near leg out to base — the figure-four entanglement holds it in place. When the far leg extension then pushes the top player’s far leg outward, the top player has no base on either side: the near leg is trapped, the far leg is being extended away. With no stable base, the top player is structurally destabilised and tips to the far side.