Taking the Back When Opponent Turtles Up

We did mostly free sparring yesterday, but spent some time covering the following:

Fighting For Rear Naked Choke:

-         From rear mount, slide one arm under the opponent’s jaw, and try to pull their chin up.

-         Immediately slide your opposite hand into the space created by this movement

-         Continue to do this back and forth until you sink one arm in deeply.

Taking the Back When Opponent Turtles Up:

-         Opponent starts turtled up with their head directly infront of you.

-         Put your chest on their shoulders and sprawl back with both legs out straight (so they can’t grab a leg)

-         Spin to one side, keeping pressure on their shoulders with your chest, stop when you get almost behind them.

-         Grab their close wrist with your close arm, hook your far arm under their far shoulder, and pull them up until you’re in a squatting position.

-         Hook your leg in under the wrist that you’ve grabbed.  Fall to that side.

-         Hook your other leg in on the other side.

-         Work one arm across for the choke