Submissions

Helena Crevar's collar-and-sleeve armbar: isolating the sleeve-side arm and climbing to the lock without losing the collar.

Crevar's collar-sleeve triangle, using the collar to break posture so the sleeve-side arm stays trapped.

Mikey Musumeci's collar-sleeve fundamentals: grips, foot placement, and the triangle/omoplata reactions that make it a first open guard.

Jon Thomas's answer to strong stallers from collar-sleeve: back up and pull the collar to force movement, then take the omoplata, triangle or loop choke depending on how they react, with follow-ups when they stand.

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.

Why collar-sleeve is the hub of gi open guard: the grips and foot placement, the triangle and omoplata that fall out of it (with Meregali competition footage), the basic sweeps and how to pull straight into it. Chaptered.