Keenan Cornelius

Keenan Cornelius on the modern leg drag: how it has changed since the early 2010s and the control that makes the finish easy.

Keenan Cornelius's Worm Guard 101: sit to guard safely with the lapel, go to DLR, pass the lapel outside your ankle and behind their knee, and hand it to the other hand. The canonical entry.

Keenan's introduction to lapel guard, including the pendulum spin-under sweep that shoots the leg through to the far hip and deliberately avoids ending in 50/50.

Keenan's lapel slayer: one grip that slices through lapel guards and gets you back to a regular pass.

Keenan Cornelius' worm-hat choke, a lapel-guard strangle that uses the wrapped lapel around the neck.

Keenan on finishing the Peruvian necktie with all four limbs so it is a choke, not a hopeful jump to guard.

Keenan Cornelius' introduction to pressure passing: the philosophy before the individual passes.

Keenan Cornelius' kick-spin to kill K-guard and get back to passing.

Keenan Cornelius' high-percentage knee-on-belly counter, a simple escape when the knee is already on you.

Keenan Cornelius on osoto gari as an answer to chronic guard-pullers, using a collar grip they already gave you.

Securing the sleeve grip alongside the lapel in the '90s worm', and using it to off-balance a knee-cutting opponent before building the full position.

The worm guard position explained in fifteen seconds. Useful as a quick reference for where the lapel goes, nothing more.