This is my curriculum I give to white belts as a road map to blue belt.
It's a bit long, but I made it as detailed as I could.
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WHITE BELT CURRICULUM
BODY MOVEMENTS:
a. snakes
b. front snakes
c. forward roll
d. backward roll
e. break fall
f. penetration step
g. technical stand up
h. 'butt to frame' sit up
STANDING TECHNIQUES:
1. TAKE DOWNS
a. basic double leg, at least two finishes
b. basic single leg, at least two finishes
c. low single
d. inside trip/low single combo
e. hip toss
f. ankle pick
2. TAKE DOWN DEFENSE
a. proper sprawl
b. under hooks
c. front headlock
d. whizzer
3. SELF-DEFENSE
a. guillotine choke attack
b. guillotine defense to outside trip
c. guillotine defense to body slam
d. school yard headlock escape
GUARD POSITION (TOP)
1. POSTURE
a. one hand holding lapels, other holding pants
b. one hand lapels, one had sleeve
c. hands on biceps (cupped, webbed, holding both lapels)
2. OPENING GUARD
a. standing with postures a, b, c, push knee with hand/elbow
b. knee in tailbone break
c. pinning biceps knee up the middle break
3. PASSING GUARD—at least 8 variations
a. double underhook pass
b. single underhook pass
c. pin shins to sidemount pass
d. push shins to knee on belly pass
4. ATTACKING GUARD
a. straight ankle lock
b. Ezekiel
5. PASSING HALF GUARD—at least 8 variations
a. underhook and crossface pass
b. double underhook pass
c. change base pass
d. change base kimura
6. PASSING BUTTERFLY GUARD
a. control legs/hips, pass to the side
b. jumping pass
7. DEFENSE FROM GUARD
a. armlock defense
b. triangle defense (good posture)
c. kimura defense (lock hands/grab thigh)
d. guillotine defense
GUARD POSITION (BOTTOM)
1. CLOSED GUARD
a. breaking posture
b. chokes 1 & 2 (both palms in, one palm out)
c. kimura
d. kimura (umpa) sweep
e. guillotine choke
f. 2 armlocks (wrist/triceps grip, triceps/shoulder grip, under leg
grip or any combination)
g. triangle choke, 3 set ups (double wrist control, overhook, while
passing, or any combo)
h. omoplata submission and under leg sweep
i. pendulum sweep
j. scissor sweep
2. CLOSED GUARD (OPPONENT STANDING)
a. under leg hip in thigh sweep
b. under leg omoplata sweep
c. double ankle pick sweep
3. OPEN GUARD
a. basic spider guard control (one foot on hip, other on biceps)
b. triangle from spider guard
c. armlock from spider guard
d. omoplata from spider guard
e. push pull sweep
f. various hip/biceps control with sleeve and label grips.
4. HALF GUARD
a. proper underhook position
b. escape to back
c. counter whizzer roll through sweep
d. trap other leg takedown
e. kimura
5. BUTTERFLY GUARD
a. double overhook sweep
b. double underhook sweep
c. under/over sweep
6. GUARD DEFENSE
a. defend Americana take back
b. defend ankle lock
DOMINATE POSITIONS
1. MOUNT
a. spinning armlock
b. force armlock
c. chokes 1 & 2
d. ezekiel choke
e. americana
2. BACK
a. rear naked choke
b. double lapel choke
c. body triangle
3. BACK (NO HOOKS)
a. clock choke 1 (wrist and lapel)
b. clock choke 2 (double lapel)
c. putting hooks in (2 variations)
4. SIDE MOUNT
a. 3 controls (both arms close, one arm close one over, underhook and
crossface control)
b. kimura
c. kimura to armlock
d. americana
e. head and arm choke
f. under armpit gi choke
g. changing base to mount
5. KNEE ON BELLY
a. basic control
b. close side armbar
c. far side armbar
d. choke 2 (one palm in one palm out)
ESCAPES FROM DOMINATE POSITIONS
1. MOUNT
a. umpa (bridge) escape
b. snake escape
c. defense choke
2. SIDEMOUNT
a. safe position
b. underhook escape to takedown
c. roll away escape to takedown or to recompose guard
d. knee under body recompose to guard
e. escape from underhook/crossface position
f. escape from headlock
3. BACK
a. escape hips to proper side
b. 'Carlson' defense
