I love the humor more than anything . I see its a way to highlight key details. As an Aussie I just give everything a stupid nickname.. lol people are too serious.
I’m one of the shitty half guard players Andrew refers to that does a bunch of the little things wrong. I was able to use this and make some adjustments and get it to start working immediately after the drilling in a live session. Good stuff here!
so used to seeing some type of knee shield when he locked his legs my brain went "your doing it wrong". Going to need you to drop a gi halfguard dvd on fanatics. Please and thank you
My half guard is 100% better because of Andrew Wiltse private lessons going over alllll this shit. I might still suck but I suck so much less than others because of his perspective on half guard. So important to learn his ways on this.
Never seen half guard taught this way. It's excellent and makes a lot of sense to me. Something I'll definitely work on developing and teaching as well.
Had a ton of eye opener moments from this video. Good to see you back brother. The WNO competitors definitely hard gulped when they heard you was back. PSF for life. 🤙
bro... these are gold. ty for the content and really missed your videos. I hope you are feeling better and looking forward for more teaching and sparring videos.
Thank you so much for filming this class and posting it on your channel, Andrew. I've seen videos of other people teaching this sweep, but I feel like most of them rush to get to the sweep itself and overly simplify how to effectively control the opponent first and get to the position. The step-by-step progression you show and all the details you provide about gripping and body position, as well as what can go wrong, are fantastic! I'd love to see more no-gi half guard material from you, whether it's more RU-vid videos... or a full-length instructional through BJJ Fanatics 😁
Sometimes I have to fight off my feeling when I hear 99% of half guard players are dogshit knowing I'm Def in that bracket and not in the 1% lol Truth hurts! Good video - gonna start applying these tidbits!
I was under the impression that clamping on the thigh was old school half guard, I have been playing with the bottom leg like vine because i'm lazy af and knee bumping but I haven't make it work like advertised. I'm gonna try and cut some blood flow now.
Hey Andrew, thanks for the lesson; please keep up the good work! You mentioned in the video that you only play the lockdown when you are exhausted. Why do you choose to not use the lockdown as often? Isn't lockdown also very good at lifting people's knees off the ground, whipping people side to side for sweeps (electric chair and dogfights?), and preventing people from blasting past your half guard? As a tiny ass rooster white belt, I enjoy playing half guard, and I was never taught to properly "squeeze" the leg in a traditional half guard. So after multiple times of getting smashed and my guard passed, I found that the lockdown made it easier for me to control the bigger guys in my guard and prevent them from using their size and strength to blast through my half guard. Your half guard fundamentals video taught me very important details that I've never learned before, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could help and share your thoughts. Thank you!
I don't think so. Lockdown leverage is at the end of your legs mostly. Triangle leverage is a lot closer to your core. I don't think lockdown is useless, it was actually my main hakfguard for like 8 years because I had eddy bravos DVD before I ever had training partners and stuff. I just think this style im showing is more effective
Andrew I’ve watched this lesson a few times and the concepts have paid off for me. Is it fair to say you seldom ever play a knee shield, or would you only use it in transition / to create space while you work to get your tight lock? Thank you!!
It would be reactionary and not used for long. Unless I've got the world's tightest clamp and I'm trying to push them backwards or invert. I occasionally use a high knee shield under their shoulder for a quick lift to deep underhook half guard.
