Assuming Right Leg is Trapped.
Half Guard to Mount
- Gable grip their left side. Raise hips, tip toes, apply shoulder pressure into their neck.
- Using your left foot, peel away their right foot and slip your right foot out, into mount.
Half Guard to Same-Side Side Control
- Gable grip their left side. Raise hips, tip toes, apply shoulder pressure into their neck.
- Pull right leg into chest while turning hips to left side. Try to slide right knee onto the ground.
- Using your left foot, kick their right knee to free your right leg.
- Establish side control after freeing leg.
Half Guard to Opposite-Side Side Control
- Posture right elbow against their right neck. Try to hold onto their right lat gi area.
- While keeping your body on top of theirs to maintain balance and pressure, half roll over onto your right side.
- Opponent: Keeps same leg trap configuration.
- Using your left leg, kick in between their legs to open and escape your right leg.
- Establish side control.
Half Guard to Back (Berimbolo)
- Posture right elbow against their right neck. Try to hold onto their right lat gi area.
- While keeping your body on top of theirs to maintain balance and pressure, half roll over onto your right side.
- Opponent: Changes to triangle leg trap.
- Move your right elbow under their right armpit.
- Essentially now a front roll with right arm in front. Halfway through the roll. Kick both legs up to advance the position.
- Keep right leg under their body, simultaneously hip escape outwards and climb up their back.
- Establish back control/seatbelt grip.
Z Guard
Z Guard to Side Control
- Push their bottom knee down with right hand.
- Pin their right armpit down using same side collar with left hand.
- Get knees up and slide out to the left.
- Keeping active toes and pressure with both pins, walk around.
- Establish side control.
Z Guard to Back (option if opponent is framing)
- Push their bottom knee down with right hand.
- Left hand cross collar.
- Get knees up and slide out to the left.
- Flip to the opposite side.
- Crab walk with hips around towards their shoulder while using left hand to pull their collar down.
- Flip back onto knees.
- Close distance with seatbelt grip (left hand under left arm).
- Shove right knee under their right shoulder.
- Left leg under their left arm, right leg over their right arm.
- Switch feet so left foot is on top.