Absolute MMA St Kilda - Melbourne

Lachlan Giles on understanding guard passing: concepts and heuristics that apply standing or from the knees, including how not to get swept or entangled while you pass.

Lachlan Giles' toreando pass class: distance, ankle control and finishing around the legs.

Lachlan Giles on controlling the bottom leg and switching base so the half guard player cannot recover, the key idea behind all his half guard passes.

Lachlan Giles on passing K-guard: weight forward, freeing the underhooked leg and the passes that follow once the hook is dead.

Lachlan Giles on the inside heel hook: setup, safety and the control that has to exist before you crank anything. Also the best short explanation of how the position injures.

Lachlan Giles on how he plays single-leg X: getting there, the details that keep the opponent stuck, and the sweeps and follow-ups that come off it.

Lachlan Giles on linking single-leg X attacks together: sweep when they lean back, attack the ankle when they resist, and how each reaction feeds the next attack.

Lachlan Giles on passing single-leg X safely: protect the foot, control their hip and free the leg before working around to pass.

Lachlan Giles walks through the whole X-guard package: entering from butterfly when the opponent stands, keeping the hooks tense and the opponent off balance, then finishing the basic sweep and technical stand-up.

Lachlan Giles on moving between the armbar and back control so a defended choke becomes an armbar and a defended armbar becomes the back again.

Lachlan Giles' kimura overhead sweep from closed guard when the opponent posts to stop the kimura finish.

Lachlan Giles on lumberjack sweeps when the opponent stands in your closed guard, grabbing both ankles and driving the hips.

Lachlan Giles from collar-sleeve: the triangle when the elbow comes free, and the overhead sweep when they stay tight, pulling with the elbows high and knees to chest rather than pushing away.

Lachlan Giles' high-percentage omoplata from collar-sleeve when they hide the elbow from the triangle.

Lachlan Giles on moving between De La Riva, reverse De La Riva and closed guard as the passer changes their lead leg.

Lachlan Giles on the Japanese necktie from the front headlock, including how it differs from a D'Arce.

Lachlan Giles on frames as a concept, not a specific technique.

Giles on sequences versus positional options: two different ways to learn BJJ, and when each helps.

Lachlan Giles on the knee cut as a pressure pass from a kneeling start.

Lachlan Giles on passing with headquarters, including the near-side knee through and the smash.

Giles again: near-side knee through and smash pass from headquarters against a framing opponent.

Lachlan Giles' standard body-lock pass: a clean, slower teaching version of the same pass Ryan popularised.

Lachlan Giles breaks down the underhook half guard sweep he considers the most important one, with details on gripping under the leg and using the bottom leg to elevate.

Lachlan Giles flattens the half guard with crossface and underhook, frees the knee to mount and finishes with an arm triangle. A complete top half guard sequence.

Lachlan Giles' John Wayne from a high knee shield: hooking the far leg and rolling them over when they sit back to pass.

Lachlan Giles' weave pass: threading the arm between the legs, pinning one and walking past the other.

Giles again without the gi, so the weave works when you cannot grab pants to pin the woven leg.

Giles on why K-guard is the best leg-entanglement entry: inside versus outside position on the trapped leg.

Lachlan Giles on attacking from knee on belly: the armbar, kimura and chokes that appear when they turn.

Giles' back-step to top saddle and heel hook: entering the saddle from a passing exchange, not only from K-guard.

Giles on defending and escaping the saddle: hide the heel, clear the knee, get the leg back. Also a map of the control you need to keep it.

Giles teaching the heel hook from 50/50, including the come-up that scores the sweep in points matches.

Lachlan Giles explains how to pick the escape based on where the top player's weight sits: bridge when they lean forward, hip escape when they sit back. Good decision-making framework.

Lachlan Giles on the armbar from mount: isolating the arm, controlling the head and the fall-back without losing the elbow.

Lachlan Giles on the arm triangle from mount: driving the elbow up, the bite on the neck and keeping the elbow low so the choke still works when you dismount.

Lachlan Giles on the americana from mount, with the details that stop the bottom player straightening the arm or bridging out of it.

Lachlan Giles' mounted triangle: entering from high mount when they frame, locking the legs from above and adjusting the angle to finish.

Giles on escaping north-south and choosing the correct escape based on arm position.

Lachlan Giles on the arm drag from seated guard: win the wrist, drag to the armpit and immediately glue your chest to the trapped arm so they cannot pull it back before you come up to the back.

Why hip escaping with the top foot on the mat gives the passer the knee-to-chest space they want, and why the high pummel retains guard better. Lachlan Giles with Ariel Tabak.

Lachlan Giles's fundamentals class on RDLR: why the knee cut needs the space you are denying, foot on hip or shoulder to make distance, and never letting them get the cross face.

Lachlan Giles on passing RDLR: clear the foot on the hip, bring your hips in so it cannot return, block the leg with the hand and then hunt the cross face.

Lachlan Giles's knee slice against RDLR, including how to deal with the frame and foot on the hip that keep your weight back.

Lachlan Giles on finishing from side control by reading what the bottom player does with their near arm, and chaining the shoulder locks and arm triangle off each reaction.

Lachlan Giles moves from De La Riva to single-leg X when the opponent steps, with live rolling examples showing the timing.

Lachlan Giles' diving back take from turtle, useful when the opponent is sprawled and you cannot pick a hook the slow way.

Retention versus the knee cut from headquarters: what the passer has to beat and what the guard player is trying to do.

Giles on underhook half guard versus the D'Arce and guillotine: the submission threats the top player has to respect.

How Giles' K-guard has evolved since 2019, including the shallower entries used at the highest level.

Lachlan Giles on removing the grapevines before you can shrimp, a common sticking point when the top player rides low mount.

Lachlan Giles on starting the pass by getting inside leg position and blocking the knee, and why leading with the hip beats reaching with the hand.

Absolute MMA fundamentals class on side control bottom: preventing the pin from settling in the first place, then the frames escape back to guard. Part one of a series.

Absolute MMA class on transitioning from side control to mount, keeping chest pressure while the knee crosses the body.