Butterfly Guard to the Truck

[Damion Shehan]

I have been working on the Truck a lot this week and I am a huge Butterfly Guard player. I really wanted a way to get to the Truck from BF Guard so here is what I came up with. I have hit it live and it does work I wanted to make sure it was practical before posting it. I got the idea from a back take that I always hit from here and with just a few adjustments I can land in the truck. Let me know what you think. My younger brother is demonstrating it here. He made a nice little collage in slow-mo that looks pretty good.

[Carson J Lodge]

That was pretty cool

[williamperez]

nice

[JoeFirth]

nice!

[Joshua Jarboe]

Thanks for sharing, that's too cool

[David Rosado]

Nice. I was expecting an arm drag to the back as step one. This is smoother.

[Trey Rushing]

Thanks for that. Very interesting

[Brent Smith]

Smooth

[James Mitchell]

Definitely going to have to try this out. Thanks for the multi-angle slo-mo, looks good.

[Arman Fathi]

Sweet technique. On my end, though it's definitely nothing new, I've gotten the truck from the headlock escape this past week, something that I originally got the idea by learning the self-defense headlock escapes. I later realized that any opportunity to take the back equals any opportunity to get to the truck. The truck is so unconventional and consistently confuses guys that I just go for it every time now over the back take. But any back take leads to it. What I love about yours and several other truck entries is that it only requires one hook so it's generally attained earlier in the process of taking the back, thus less steps and more attack options yielded.