In this video, I want to take a look at an idea which has been used to pass my open guard with alarming ease, and is used by contemporary elite athletes like Ffion Davies, Cammy Donnelly, and Jozef Chen.
Essentially, you want to get your students to get chest to chest contact with a supine opponent, lock their hands around the upper body and then flatten their opponent's shoulders.
It doesn't need to be more complicated than that!
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