I’ve spent many years working on this position and am very familiar with all of the major strategies and innovations that have taken place in it’s long and storied history. Think of this Instructional as not just a course on how to get better at the cross Ashi Garami but a record of the development of the meta-surrounding a position which completely revolutionized not only the leglock game but also jujitsu itself. I’ll be going over what I think works in this position and what I think doesn’t work making reference to offense and defense.
Figure out how Rob keeps getting away with this leg trap saddle bullshit.
Understand the developing Cross Ashi Garami meta-game
Think of this Instructional as not just a course on how to get better at the cross Ashi Garami but a record of the development of the meta-surrounding a position which completely revolutionized not only the leglock game but also jujitsu itself. I’ll be going over what I think works in this position and what I think doesn’t work making reference to offense and defense.
Move from control to heel exposure to submission application
Ultimately I’ll give you guys a blueprint for how I think you can best use the position and you’ll have a very comprehensive understanding of why that is the case based on a clear reading of the positions history and the development of all the innovations surrounding it.
Instructional content:
- 1. Introduction to the Cross Ashi Garami position (4:23)
- 2. Basic features of the Cross Ashi Garami (6:15)
- 3. Basic control points (4:00)
- 4. Basics of what not to do defensively (5:51)
- 5. A general theory of grappling from the bottom position (4:21)
- 6. The 2 ways leglocks and leg entanglements become sweeps (3:04)
- 7. 2 big offensive goals in the Cross Ashi Garami (2:03)
- 8. Risk mitigation in grappling offense (3:00)
- 12. Introduction to heel hook offense (0:38)
- 13. Basics of heel hook breaking mechanics from Cross Ashi Garami (8:38)
- 14. Breaking mechanics through a full 360 degrees of rotation (4:21)
- 15. Dealing with late stage defensive reactions when applying the inside heel hook (10:13)
- 16. Further details on late stage heel hook application (5:05)
- 17. Opposite hip Ashi Garami pummeling against late stage inside heel hook defense (4:05)
- 22. Basic defensive considerations in the Cross Ashi Garami when he only controls one leg (7:30)
- 23. Escaping and countering in the Cross Ashi Garami (6:21)
- 24. Defending against the Diagonal Ashi Garami (reaping Ashi) (3:34)
- 25. Defense when he has control over both of our legs (8:23)
- 26. The battle of the Honeystick and the Opposite Hip Ashi Garami (4:20)
- 27. The value of Cross Ashi Garami positional rounds to learn fundamental double seated leglock defense (3:17)
- 28. Some proposed heel exposure strategies I don't think work (8:00)
- 29. Over under into double cross Ashi Garami (5:43)
- 30. Foundational Leg trap saddle offense and defense (15:21)
- 31. Leg lace against early stage leg trap saddle defense (3:46)
- 32. Leg trap saddle Z lock (5:44)
- 33. 2 stages of Leg trap saddle Z lock breaks (3:58)
- 34. My thoughts on the Mikey lock as of 11/14/2021 (5:20)
- 35. A general theory of heel exposure and heisting mechanics in double seated leg entanglement situations (8:20)
- 36. The mechanics of base, heisting and the Cross Ashi Garami (4:31)
- 37. Taking the back from the Cross Ashi Garami (4:19)
- 38. Pressure passing from the Cross Ashi Garami (3:45)
- 39. Attacking the Kimura to advance to our opponents upper body (5:13)
- 40. Using the top Cross Ashi Garami to create a dilemma between heel hooks and upper body attacks (4:27)
- 41. Outside Ashi leg pummel counter to Cross Ashi and Opposite Hip Ashi follow up counter (9:09)
- 42. Escaping the Opposite Hip Ashi Garami and transitioning into a 5050 (4:16)
- 43. Dealing with a reap transition when defending from Opposite Hip Ashi (7:52)
- 44. Double trouble Cross Ashi defensive basics (9:44)
- 45. Leg trap saddle Z lock (9:58)
Other Robert Degle instructionals
If you enjoy this course and find the information valuable some good next steps would be these courses. The Kani Basami course will teach you how to enter into the Cross Ashi via the Kani Basami movement and the advanced leglock defense and basic leglock defense courses will prepare you for the entire range of the double seated leglock game.