BLUE COLLAR GRAPPLING
A simple, beginner-friendly curriculum designed to help students learn, review, and understand the techniques taught in class.
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01 / STUDY
Takedowns & Wrestling
Guard
Guard Passing
Submissions
Escapes & Defense
Foundations
Trap an arm and the foot on the same side, bridge your hips upward, and roll your opponent over to escape the mount.
Create space with your frames, shrimp your hips away, connect your elbow and knee, and work your leg back inside to recover guard.
Protect your neck, control the choking arm, move your body toward the safe side, and work your shoulders and hips to the mat to escape back control.
Maintain strong posture inside closed guard by keeping your head up, back straight, elbows controlled, and a solid base to prevent your opponent from breaking you down.
Posture with your hands near your opponent’s armpits, stand up while maintaining good posture, then back away to force the legs open.
Control your opponent’s upper body, create an angle with your hips, place one leg across their body and the other near their knee, then use your legs and upper-body control together to sweep them to the side.
Video coming soon
Control your opponent’s posture and isolate one arm, bring your legs around their neck and arm, lock the triangle, and adjust your angle to finish.
Control your opponent from the back, slide your choking arm underneath the chin, secure the choke, and apply controlled pressure for the finish.
Control your opponent’s wrist to the mat, secure the figure-four grip, and carefully rotate their arm to finish the shoulder lock.
Control your opponent’s legs, move them to the side, and circle around their guard to establish side control.
Get onto your side, secure the underhook, come up to your elbow and then your knees, and work into the dogfight position to begin attacking from half guard.
Throw your legs and hips back while applying your weight down onto your opponent to defend against a takedown attempt.
Push the head away, dig a whizzer, get your trapped leg to the outside, and kick your leg free to recover your stance.
Description / key points coming soon
Control the head and arm from the front headlock, keep pressure on your opponent, and circle behind them to establish top control.
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Start with the fundamentals and work through the beginner curriculum in order.
Start the Beginner Curriculum
02 / LIBRARY
Hip Bump Sweep
Guard • Closed Guard
03 / LIBRARY
Scoop Double Guard Pass
Guard Passing • Double Under
Stand Up Guard Open - Knee Cut Pass
Guard Passing • Knee Cut Pass
04 / LIBRARY
Kipping Mount Escape
Escapes & Defense • Mount
Knee-In Side Control Escape
Escapes & Defense • Side Control
Closed Guard Armbar Counter
Escapes & Defense • Closed Guard
06 / LIBRARY
Takedowns & Wrestling
Duck Under
Takedowns & Wrestling • Standing
Snap Down
Takedowns & Wrestling • Standing
Double Leg Takedown
Takedowns & Wrestling • Standing
Single Leg - Run the Pipe
Takedowns & Wrestling • Standing
Blue Collar Grappling — Technique Library