Galvao VS Stewart; sick side mount sweep

[AJ Camacho]

Galvao stayed way too close to Stewart's hip when he passed his guard. Stewart was able to load his hips (a term we used in wrestling for getting your hips under your opponent's to either throw them or sweep them) and do the sweep. I could never do that on my bf/coach because he always puts his hand on the mat to block my hips.

It looks like a good sweep though if you can load your hips. That's not easy to do on experienced JJ guys.

That's what I thought at first but this is Andrea Galvao we're talking about. Due to that fact, I reexamined the move. There's too much going on here to chalk it up to poor body placement on the part of Galvao. Stewart gets the grape vine and then baits Galvao into the arm triangle. Once Galvao takes the bait, he extends his grapevine displacing Galvao's weight.

It's much more technical than it looks.

[Pete Daly]

I suppose the drawback of this sweep is; if you lose that grapevine and fail the sweep, you're almost definitely in a pretty serious arm triangle.

[Brandon Palmer]

Yep, i'd definitely have serious concerns with being arm triangled...but i'll play with it here in about 30 minutes and see.