Lucas Leite half guard

[Roito]

First of all sorry For my bad English. I have studied Leites half and like it. but what will he do If his opponent 1) is already one step ahead in quarter guard? 2) post his knee up, in this case is he going to play rdlr?

 

[hamoom]

if their knee is already through i do this technique. block the knee with your hand so they cant slide through. underhook and bump their butt with your knee. now youre in the position to sweep.

 

[Roito]

Thanks! Have to try that out.

 

[Gambledub]

but what will he do If his opponent 1) is already one step ahead in quarter guard?

Can you say more about what you mean by this?

Firstly the knee torque is very important! If you can get even a little bit, you can use it to break the opponents balance. This lets you get better positions.

Another way is to pull the opponent with your underhook back, this makes them let go of the whizzer. It also means they can't hide their shin and ankle for the knee torque. (Here the opponent keeps the whizzer so Leite goes to single leg x guard).

Another way is to bump the opponent with your knee, you can combine it with the pull shown above.

Another method is to expand and straighten your body to straighten their leg and pull them down.

Often if the opponent has the knee up, they don't have pressure to stop you going to dogfight. Usually you want to attack the single leg takedown or double leg takedown.

Almost any time the opponents hips are higher than yours you can attack doubles or singles. Also you can force them to step and break them down.

If the opponent tries to drive the knee across to mount, take their momentum attack with the takedown.

Let me know if anything doesn't make sense.

 

[Roito]

Now when I watched those gifs I think I need to put more knee torgue and hand to the knee to get extra control, because sometimes they can kick the leg off and take the side control especially in no gi.

 

[Roito]

The reason why I am so curious is that one black belt told me I should do something else that Leites half If I am in half guard and have only control on their ankle anymore ( 3/4 guard)

 

[anaconda]

The reason why I am so curious is that one black belt told me I should do something else that Leites half If I am in half guard and have only control on their ankle anymore ( 3/4 guard)

I would listen to the black belt that has seen you roll more than people on the internet hearing your version of the facts. No offense.

The advice in this thread is very good. But there could be something the black belt is seeing that you can't see and isn't addressed by these techniques.

 

[yetanother]

I would listen to the black belt that has seen you roll more than people on the internet hearing your version of the facts. No offense.

The advice in this thread is very good. But there could be something the black belt is seeing that you can't see and isn't addressed by these techniques.

If the advice is "What you are trying to do is working, do something else", trying out some moves Lucas Leite himself is doing make sense.