How To Build The Perfect Half Guard Game For No Gi by John Danaher
Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics YouTube
The no-gi half-guard version of Danaher's system, built around the underhook and coming up to the dogfight.
Sweeps
Dogfight
The scramble position from half guard where both players are on their knees with an underhook and a whizzer. A launching pad for sweeps and back takes.
Also called dog fight, dogfight position, half guard dogfight.
Where it shows up
Related techniques
Resources
4 resources
YouTube videos
No-gi Intermediate
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Short Dante Leon clip: wrist control and shoulder pressure on the back of the neck to come round from the dogfight to the back.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Dogfight fundamentals: getting your shoulder under the hip so the opponent's own weight tips them over, with old school one way and plan B the other depending on how they base.
No-gi Advanced
Eddie Bravo on entering the electric chair from the lockdown: using the threat of the dogfight so the top player cannot fully commit to sprawling, then getting the leg onto the shoulder to sweep or finish.