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Originally Posted by Zankou
This is why I like to control the crossfacing arm as the setup to the position. If you control the crossfacing arm and drive it over you, he doesn't have much chance to keep his legs tight, because you are spinning his upper body too far and he can't come back. If he does suck his leg tight somehow, you can drive into him for a sweep since he has no base from his arm or leg on that side.
You really need a gi to get that much control over the arm though. Also a gi makes it much easier to grab his pants at the knee and end up in my preferred "elbow and knee" dominating position.
The time I get into trouble with this is when I can't get both arms into the space between his leg and his crossfacing arm -- one of them is still on the underhook side. Then you are screwed. Hard to do anything if you just have one arm and the guy is laying on top of you. I need to figure out some options from there, as it seems to be the most serious problem I run into (a purple belt consistently catches me in this hapless position, then sits there working for the kimura or mount).
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I see it where you're going now. I kinda use it similar. I like to cup the bicep and follow their arm to block the crossface. It's distracting and keeps them busy usually and I work my underhook while they worry about their crossface.
When they pass their arm completely over my head, I don't follow because they'd catch my arm over my face, and I usually tuck my elbow into my hip and that's the only time I work a wedge position. They usually sit up and with nothing holding me down I just do my "Navy HG sweep" by coming to the top.
I've drilled the wedge movements and they're really fun. We just have a ton of wrestles and scramble-artists so I may escape the HG but it's hard to get control if they just scramble to neutral.
In your last paragraph when you only have one hand in the wedge and your other is an underhook and you get stuck, try to use my ankle-lacer HG sweep (aka navy hg sweep). If you don't get that one, why aren't you catching his foot (of his free leg) and passing it to your underhook arm and sweeping? If his leg is posted out, you wedge under him and come out the butt. Or you pull FG. If he's sitting back and not smashing you, shoulder pressure into him and keep your underhook, but use your free hand to base up. You can stand here and go neutral or turtle. He will have the whizzer so just know about it and your defensive options. If you're lazy he can triangle you when your free hand posts though so look for that coming. Make the posture.
If you stand and he has the whizzer, you need to face him or throw him asap. If he has his hips next to yours, he will throw you unless you do it first.