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I've been doing this for about a year now, I love it! I have my third stripe on my white belt.
Today's workout (aka how I got turned into a pretzel today):
Starting from a guard position (one person one the ground with feet on the hips, the other standing with their hands on the other's chest). Grab the opposite wrist (right with your right or left with your left), with your free hand, grab the nearest ankle. Keeping the foot (same as the hand on the ankle) on the hip, the other moves to the nearest bicep. Use the foot on the bicep to push them back for some space, move that foot down to their free ankle, push with the foot on the hip while holding the wrist and the ankle. This should result in a sweep. Continue the motion, using your grip on their wrist and ankle to pull yourself up into a half guard position.
From the half guard, move your free leg so that the foot is resting on their knee. Keeping your weight on their chest, bring both arms to the opposite side and the hand (same side as your free leg) under their arm, wedging their arm up with your shoulder. Use your other hand to push their knee down to release the half guard. If it's really tight, you'll have to hook your heel by putting your hand down the inside of your leg, cupping your heel and using that to pull it out. This, theoretically, results in side control.
From the side control, if they continue to try for the half guard, use the leg on the mat to hook their bottom leg, push their other knee down and go for the mount. If you time it just right, as you go for the mount, you can use your shoulder to push their arm across their own neck and trap it with your body and go for the choke.
My latest preztling technique...these are a series of sweeps.
Starting position: Closed guard. The person in guard stands up, using the chest or hips for balance.
- The person on the bottom grabs both ankles from the outside of the person who stood up, then open the guard, keep the knees together and use the knees to push back while holding or even pulling the ankles towards you. Keep going by using their ankles and the momentum to pull you up to the mount position.
- If the person makes the prior technique undoable by stepping away with one foot, don't bother trying to chase the foot, wrap the nearest arm around their ankle the hand going from the inside to the outside. You can wrap it up to your head or shoulder to get a tight lock. Then lever your hips up, applying all your pressure to the knee of the leg you have. Keep going, using the hold on the leg to get to the mount.
- If they counter this by balancing their weight on your opposite shoulder, you still have a nifty trick. Swing your far leg around their head and do a back roll right next to their foot. As you do your roll, make sure that you keep ahold of their foot. As you come up from the back roll the momentum and the pressure will complete the sweep. After the sweep, you'll head for side control most of the time keeping your hold on the leg from the sweep.
After trying all of these yesterday, I find that I prefer the third technique, but it's far easier for me to execute after they've gone up on one knee and are starting to go up to the other. I just go straight to the back roll and skip all the other options and it seems to work well.
A leg pick - push on one shoulder or the other hard enough to make the person step back...you might need to do multiple pushes on opposite sides to get the desired reaction. Go for the forward leg (should be opposite to the shoulder you pushed) with both arms, keeping your head low and against the stomach where possible or against the thigh if you can't make it to the stomach. From there, any type of take down you can do.
The defense...after they get the leg, put both hands on their shoulders to keep them from getting deeper. Push their head to the outside of your body. With your outside arm, go over and through their arm on the inside of your leg. With your other arm grab their wrist and complete the chimera hold by grabbing your own wrist with the other hand.
Option 1, go down to a guard position, you'll first want to move the leg they have to their outside, sit down, close the guard, then apply the chimera.
Option 2, stick your foot a little deeper if possible, keep your chimera grip, then sit down and use the leg they're holding onto to sweep them, scramble to your knees and keep their head under control and them on their side, apply the chimera.
2A If they get sticky about it or have grabbed their own gi in defense. Release your own wrist and run it over their hand, grab their gi (bottom part) with the other hand and put it in your empty hand, this pins their arm. Then move around for the choke, either directly, thumb inside the collar (you may need to sneak around the back side and loop over) or alternately wrap your arm from underneath, keep one knee against their back and the other one against their head as you push their head into the choke. If the choking doesn't work or you end up with your knee below their arm, loop the foot under the arm while still keeping the other arm secure and fall away from that side holding their free arm. This will either give you a triangle if you can tighten it enough our keep them secure while you implement a shoulder pin on the free arm. Just keep pushing it back until they tap.
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