Eddie Bravo's Half Guard Game (Old School + Electric Chair)

Yesterday in our nogi class we went over the first set of moves in the half guard chapter of Eddie Bravo's 'Mastering the Rubber Guard'.  There are definitely some little things that aren't well explained in the book that you need to figure out to do the moves.  By the end of class stuff started to make a whole lot more sense to me.

Lockdown (pulling opponent back)

Lockdown: 
- You're in half guard and have been completely flattened out, opponent is putting pressure on your jaw.
- Clamp your knees together around the opponent's trapped leg and square up your hips (without squaring up your hips sometimes it can be really hard to wrap your legs to the lockdown position.
- Take your outside leg and wrap it over the opponent's trapped leg.
- Take your inside leg, and wrap it over the opponent's trapped leg and your other leg.
- Hook your inside leg under the opponent's ankle.
- Squeeze your legs tight together

Jaws of Life:
- You have the lockdown on your opponent and only one underhook.
- Take your (not underhooked) arm and frame it in front of your opponent's face
- Push up and quickly drop your elbow down into the free space created to secure your other underhook.

Whip Up:
-You have both underhooks and the lockdown on your opponent
- Release the underhooks and bring your hands to your opponent's armpits, rib cage, or (if you're really deep) waist)
- Try to lift your lockdown as high as possible in one quick jerk (knees to your head if possible).  At the same time, push up and over your head with your hands.
- In the space created, secure a deep underhook, and turn up on your other elbow.

You usually want your head tighter to the guys chest than in this picture.

Now you can either ditch the lockdown and go to the Old School sweep, or maintain the lockdown and go to the Electric Chair sweep/submission.

Foot grabbing action

Old School Sweep:
- You're in half guard, with lockdown and a deep underhook.
- Reach under your opponent and grab under his foot (palm up)
- Put your head to the ground.  Use it to base and stick your ass up in the air.  This allows you to get to your knees.
- Pull the leg towards you and push with your head towards the opponent's chest to complete the sweep.

Electric Chair submission position

Electric Chair Submission/Sweep:
- You're in half guard, with lockdown and a deep underhook.
- You reach for the Old School sweep, but the opponent bases his leg out wide.
- Dive your head in towards the leg that's based out.  Grab under it with the hand that's on that side.
- Take your other hand and grab under the opponent's rib cage and pull him up on top of you.
- Wrap one arm around his leg and squish it to your ear, while stretching your opponent out with the lockdown.  This is the electric chair submission.
- If that doesn't work, unhook the lockdown and keep driving forwards towards your opponent until you have his back pinned to the mat with the leg you've trapped next to your ear.  You should be able to step over his remaining leg easily into side control.