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Week 4 of 96

Side Control — Reverse Kesa Gatame

Reverse Kesa Attacks

What To Think About This Week

The Lesson

This week completes Month 1. You have now felt all four arm positions in Side Control Top — Chest to Chest, Lapel Under, Kesa Gatame, and Reverse Kesa. Each one is a different room in the same house. You have been given a tour this month.

Going forward your job is to stop thinking about which room you are in and start feeling which room your partner is giving you. The position that is available is always the right position. Your awareness of all four is what makes that possible.

Class Warm-Up

The Drills

Line Drills

Hip Escape
Hip Escape to Sprawl
Shoulder Roll Break Fall
Break Fall Stand in Base
Sprawl

Guard Movement Drill

Low Mount → Middle Mount → High Mount Flow

▸ Video · The Drill

Escape Drill

Turn-In to Guard Recovery

▸ Video · The Drill

Strike Defense

Striking Offense

▸ Video · The Drill

This Week's Techniques

The Material

Submission Sequence

Reverse Kesa Attacks

▸ Video · The Technique

Reverse Kesa Attacks

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Class Rolling & Takedown Rules

How We Roll

White vs White

Flow training by default unless the instructor specifies otherwise.

Upper vs Lower

Lower ranking student picks their top position. Blue through black vs white, or blue vs black — the lower rank decides where to start.

Purple / Brown / Black

Neutral start or request a specific position you want to work on.

Takedown Rounds

Same rules apply across all ranks.