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7/3/2026 Jiu Jitsu Class 20

Teacher: Allie

Partner: Brian

Closed guard triangles today.

A leg triangle is when you have a person’s head and arm trapped between your legs and you choke them.

1. Do push pull on the arms, one pulls toward you and the other you push down towards hips, and bring your leg over head and lock feet behind their head. Pull the trapped arm across the neck and pull their head down. Grab my shin ,not my foot(avoids breaking toes/other problems). Turn hips and look into their ear. Back off the ground for less area on the mat to turn. Lock the other leg on foot and squeeze. Alternatively, squeeze knees together (this is easier for me because I am not agile/flexible). Make sure the leg over the shoulder is close to their body in the groove of the neck and when you grab your leg you are close to their body to prevent their escape.
2. We then did one where you push and pull the arms and shrimp out and trap an arm on one side. I would need to shrimp once or twice to one side and bring the leg, opposite the shrimp, over their shoulder and go into the triangle.
3. Second, we did the failed bump sweep(we practiced this on Monday/ last blog) and brought the leg around into the same triangle process as number 1. 
4. The last one was a scissor triangle. I didn’t get to learn from the week I missed. The scissor sweep, bring the bottom leg to their hip and top to their chest and pull them over the bottom leg to sweep. Instead of sweeping you bring the bottom leg over their shoulder and do the triangle process.

Then we escaped from the triangles. 

1. You arch your back and sit up straight and pull the isolated arm elbow to their hip and try to get both arms either in or out of their legs. If you go in then you end up in their closed guard. If you go out then you push them off of you and get side control. 
2. The other way is to start arching back, elbow to their hip and stand to foot on side they have your arm isolated and twist up and out of the triangle. 
3. The last way is to grab their knee opposite your trapped arm with the outside hand and pull them to the side to the ground and pull the head out of the triangle.