Leg Lock Entries

John Danaher clip on flowing from X-guard into a leg entanglement and the heel hook when the sweep is defended.

Lachlan Giles' saddle entries from guard, the usual next step once ashi is defended.

Crevar's kipping mount escape that lands in irimi ashi, a New Wave route off the bottom.

Half guard to a roll into the legs, Crevar's path from a failed sweep into an entanglement.

Brian Glick on K-guard to leg attacks: saddle, 50/50 and the finishes that follow the inversion.

Jason Rau on perfecting the outside heel hook finish, including how you arrive in outside ashi.

Helena Crevar's leg-lock entries, the paths an ADCC finalist actually uses to reach ashi and the saddle.

Lachlan Giles on the K-guard position itself: feet outside against a kneeling opponent, knee to the stomach, feeding the leg across to '70/30' and getting up to the back or a single leg.

Chewjitsu links the X-guard sweep to a straight ankle lock setup that appears as the opponent falls, a legal-everywhere way to start attacking legs from X-guard.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's K-guard submission essentials, covering the saddle entries and the finishes from there.

Aggressive attack options from K-guard: sweeps, come-ups and the inversion into the legs.

Shintaro Higashi's ashi garami basics: entries and the first layer of control.

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.

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

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

Danaher's four-part leg-lock system: entry, control, finish and the safety rules that sit under the heel hook.

Intro to inside sankaku (cross ashi / 411 / saddle): what the position is and the main ways in.

A guided tour of the main leglock positions: ashi garami, saddle, 50/50 and outside ashi, and how they connect when the opponent turns or hides the heel.

A complete no-gi X-guard mini-system from Energia Martial Arts: entering, sweeping and moving into leg attacks when the sweep is stopped.

Brian Glick's ashi garami 101: the basic mechanics, control drills and entries for getting into straight ashi in no-gi.

K-guard to 50/50 for the inside heel hook, a common path when the opponent turns away from the saddle.

Ashi garami explained as a control system, not just a submission: knee line, hip position and why the opponent cannot stand up.

Zuka's primary false reap entry from RDLR, with a strong safety point: never drop your hips outside the opponent's knee. Leads to 50/50, kneebar or saddle.

A twenty-minute K-guard primer covering entries from several guards, the backside 50/50 heel hook path and the back take, plus how to deal with the common defensive reactions.

K-guard to the saddle (honey hole) for the inside heel hook, plus the double-trouble finish when they hide the heel.

A beginner-friendly intro to the saddle / 411 / honey hole.

Craig Jones shows the direct route from X-guard to a heel hook when the opponent stalls the sweep. Short seminar clip.

Finishing mechanics for the outside heel hook from irimi ashi and outside ashi, which also shows the entries.