The Sickle Sweep

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The sickle sweep is bound to help your open guard game evolve into a more effective system, particularly from the longer ranges of jiu jitsu. As your partner is trying to stand or get away, or (even more likely) trying to avoid a different sweep, the sickle sweep waits in the wings, ready to pounce whenever necessary. I've personally used the sickle sweep as a part of my open guard game for more than 20 years now, although my understanding of it has certainly evolved a great deal. Let's look at a few different scenarios designed to help you better understand this sweep.
 
This is one of those moves that you feel like a total bad ass after hitting
 
I've been doing a lot of old school tripod guard into the hook sweep or sickle sweep a lot lately. People are so used to DLR and RDLR positioning that they don't immediately recognize the danger of that ankle grab and foot in the hip position until they're already tumbling backwards.
 
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