Immediate help with lockdown game (GI)

[Cora Sek]

We in need of immediate help with the lockdown game in the GI. I know some of you out there do play in the Gi also, so please help us. We only have a few days to fine tune things for Kids World. Ok here is the situation. When playing her lockdown game, Cora do the usual attack. She would black mamba and get the 1/4 guard, but as soon as she swing to get the under hook on the far leg, they would drop to their knee or sprawl out hard to prevent her from getting the leg. Then they use collar grip to push on the collar to prevent her even coming close to their other leg. As Cora tries to fight for the lockdown, they continue to use the Gi collar grip to threaten the choke. How have you guys been able to play the lockdown game in the Gi? I'm hoping this is an isolated incident. But in any case, just a precaution, still need help with it. Thank you in advance.

[Will Thaxton]

Breathing comes first lol. I sometimes control their right knee with my right hand and defend the choke with the left. Practice swinging to deep half to give them another element to worry about. You can let them come on top and hit mini stomps. Plan B are easy if you can get a collar grip with your left hand. Even if you do nothing but hang on to that 1/4 and don't let it go for nothing they will eventually get impatient and give you what you want.

[Kevin Gibbs]

come up to dogfight

[Chad Clark]

If they sprawl really hard as she is diving for the electric hook and she just can't get a good angle for the hook, don't forget about the whip down. If you can't get a good hook on anything else, turn into them and stiff arm the near armpit to get them loaded up and over. That far leg will be much closer with the other kids hips so far over Cora, making sprawling the leg back much less of an issue, and even if she can't get the leg loaded onto her shoulder for the electric chair, Five-0 control is right there, too.

[Royce Kim]

Based on my experiences, playing quarter guard with the Gi is a losing battle.

There’s more to defending the Knee Slide Pass in the Gi than just the underhook. They’ll either grab same side or cross collar to keep you pinned while fishing for that sleeve to baseball slide through. The threat of the collar choke is there I guess, but it’s more so a bait to pass rather than finishing.

Lockdown is still extremely effective in the Gi, just a little harder to setup. How does her Dela Riva and Spider Guard game look?

[john harris & sons]

Straight back to dog fight. Lockdown half is an option, not manditory

[Cora Sek]

She has nice DLR and spider guard, but hasnt really work on it much lately as she been killing it with her lockdown game. I too am starting to think the same way as you about the 1/4 guard in the Gi. Maybe go back to the spider guard game. Or maybe these 2 boys are the exception as they have been training so much longer than her. We'll try to work something out and go back to see how she do this time. Just to let you know how good these 12 yr old boys are, while watching them berimbolo each other, it was like Mendes vs Cobrinha all over again, that is how good they are. And the pace they were moving was unreal.

[Niko Rotko]

You should ask Magnus Hansson. He is truly an expert with GI halfguard.

[Niko Rotko]

Maybe try to play little kneeshield z guard to get the distance. It is quite safe when rules don't allow toeholds. Waite for the moment to shoot deep with lockdown. Also for her it is good to find if there is option to take full guard and do her magic. Also if she has underhook go to the dog fight and transition to guard from there if the opponents are stronger. Well my 2 cents. Might be good advice or not.

[Joshua Jarboe]

Caution: white belt thinking follows:

can she just go to full guard? If they aren't blocking the inside leg with their leg (leaving it vulnerable to attack), can she just pull the inside leg up or shrimp out to get to guard?

Disclaimer: the idea above may be awful.