Quote:
Originally Posted by Aesopian
|
I like this photo because it shows an aspect of the reverse DLR that I've never seen anyone explain well -- when the guy goes the *other* way, and you end up having his legs held in a "high open deep half guard" type position, or kind of a pseudo x-guard. Maybe a deep z guard .. naming conventions start to fail at this point.
If you grab the far ankle here, you obviously have a pretty sweet double ankle control type sweep. Otherwise, I think your option is basically to try to go to a deep half guard game. Finally, it seems you might be able to use the knee to spin back to guard.
In general, the "open" half guards (DLR/reverse DLR/shin guard/single leg guard) are not adequately explored.
I think I heard that Glover has an instructional that will come out soon, and it may help to explain his awesome half guard game.