The Dagestani Drag. For those who hate to shoot. 

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Thanks... Going out to my local pub tonight. Gonna give it a try.

I do this to my 8 yr old son. Works almost every time. Finish w a razors edge or armbar central. 💪🏻

This is a great way to set up the Dagestani double or the Dagestani single, or sometimes go right into a dagestani trip to attack Dagestani submissions.

I once took a Dagestani Step after a another. They were similar to any normal steps, but after the name change I felt much more proud of my walking.

One thing to note here: it's very important to make this drag one smooth motion, do not get caught struggling right after the arm drag, and if your opponent fights it off successfully, turn away slightly and the quickly rotate back and drag him HARD a second time to force the position - if you don't, you risk getting your leg grabbed and getting dumped. What I mean is this: after the grip and pull on the same-side arm, you see that the instructor steps in and his left leg ends up tight against the opponent's right leg. However, you also notice that the dragged arm is VERY close to the instructor's knee - if you do not IMMEDIATELY move around towards the back and drag him down to finish the takedown, there is a real possibility of the opponent getting a grip on the knee from the inside, even connecting his other hand as well, if he throws his right leg back and steps forward with the left he can do it even easier while turning into you and defending the takedown - if he can do this and then posture up while yanking on that leg, he can flip you over on your back, rotating his torso to face you on the way down - he can also use his right leg to trip the instructor's far leg while pulling up on the close (left) one, making the dump to the back even easier (or, posture up hard and step in to trip with the left leg while turning towards the instructor the whole time, same result). worst case, you end up on your back with the opponent in side control.

ive been using this move ever since and it gives me a lot of openings to another takedowns, thank you !!

Detail with getting the shoulder behind theirs as the focus/secure spot to me was very interesting and helpful. I will start to implement that change in my arm drag attempts.

I’ve been using that for years, lol I love how it’s called a dagestani double, we used to call it an arm drag or Russian tie

The best armdrag explanation I’ve ever heard. I could never wrap my head around the concept till now.

I used this exact same drag in highschool and until I was scouted on film by other teams it worked like a charm out of it I could go 3 ways, attack the hips, heel hook and trip or capture the near single leg, if your opponent comes to expect it from you, it is easily countered. Not knocking it and it is a good alternate to direct convential leg attacks.

Stellar video and technique, man! Thank you making this video. 👊😃

been using this move all week at practice, thanks for the help!!

thank you Mr. Cavaliere , good job for your cut also

LOVED that fringe flick !

Straight to the point. Love it.

I like throwing knees and always had a fear of shooting for the legs because i know how my mind works for someone shooting for the legs. When i started doing this to incorporate grappling and takedowns my wrestling improved greatly. Strikers take note, this is a game changer.

Love the quick clear tutorial..thanks!

DAMN that is a really effective yet practical move. Thank you for sharing this!!

Wow, well explained in < 90 sec. This really ties together with what my teacher explained in class, thank u

The shoulder position is a great detail!

Thank you so much. Your channel is going to have a positive impact on a lot of grapplers.

I mean... sure the dagastani mma guys use this but so do most grappler everywhere, it's just an arm drag. But I guess putting dagastani in the title helps with the algorithm

Love these tips, thank you.

By far my favorite drag is the Duck Under. We had a painting of the move by our mats. Seeing it all the time, I have used it and it worked so well! Especially when followed up with a pin.

Super good and easy to follow breakdown. Thanks.

Awesome video. I did my first bjj comp this weekend. I took away so many points I need to work on, wish I found your channel earlier. I'm not young, so shooting isn't my first option. I prefer to work arm drags. This is awesome I will work on this one. Thankyou

Le knee slide! Toujours beau à voir 😍

Love that detail with the shoulder behind their shoulder

Nice, didn´t know this way. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice, thanks! it's like an arm drag russian tie haha, lovely.

Brilliant demonstration... thankyou mate. A good reminder seeing such physicality.. we arent in this game to make friends

Beautiful! Thank you.

I always left too much space and they got the underhook on me. Good detail with the shoulder position. Good video.

Yoooooooo 😮 You do a snap to turn the corner, I've never seen that taught before! I always just saw step and grab, this is gold

I just thought of three variants if this in seconds thank you man, starting bjj again in january so will be perfect for me.

You explained that very well.

Thanks for this! We have solid defense for single leg takedowns but was curious about other methods we can be taken down. Thank you for the details

Brilliant.Thank you!

Thank You for this video.

Literally showed one of the most important parts of this technique in real time instead of slowly. 😂

Thank you, I'll try this.

Thanks, Imma try to hit this on Bo Nickal 🔥

Thank you for sharing this video i have heard of this takedown before but didn't know how to do it this could work wonders against larger opponents not expecting it. Shooting against larger people in a street fight can be very dangerous and tricky but this looks like it could be very effective with enough practice

Thanks! I'll use this

Great explanation.

As a judo/japanese jujitsu practitioner, I now know the direction to go to learn wrestling. Drags.

Great move, well explained! I find it both interesting and frustrating that this and similar technique work in very real fights but would be rare to find branded as “self defense” unlike crane + snake form fusion style bullshido.

Wow thank you for the video. I'm gonna try it with my brother.

BJJ white belt here, thanks for this! Try to get some time in for takedowns, this is very helpful and well explained.

Awesome stuff man

Awesome, thank you sir

Thank you.

Thank you so much 🙏

I love his feet techniques❤❤❤

TOP NOTCH BODY BROTHER. AIMING FOR THIS KIND OF BUILD. INSHA'ALLAH

Simple yet highly effective

This is interesting. One could fake a go behind but use this move. Thanks for sharing!

Nice takedown! And the hair is salon quality for both!

Love when wrestler help out our bjj game with good wrestling techniques and we help them out with our bjj which in turn improves their wrestling techniques. Gordon Ryan uses this armpit grab and drag all the time and gets super high level black belts like candy.

TY! 🙏🙏🙏

Efficient and effective, low risk and high reward 🥋👍

Thats some great detail, thanks for that, as a purple belt my self, I will def utilize this more! Hello from Los Angeles!

Thanks, Ludwig!

This is brilliant. I always get caught in front headlock because my shots suck. My shots suck bad because i have knee issues. This helps out big time.

Jerma really does everything

Basic arm drag in wrestling. You want to move your opponent and step around. The point of any setup in grappling is to get a reaction and / or move them.

great advice!

Awesome and super useful

Good explanation thx

Wonderful demonstration, another important tip is to try and get your near foot in between his two feet

good ass beat at the end lmao

I'm blown away Wrestling isn't considered not only a martial art but it should have dojo's and a belting program 🥋

shoulder to shoulder thats what my coach forgot to mention i suscribe , happy new year and peace

Nice to see Jeff Caveliere do some wrestling!

You could completely take his back with that right arm trapped, then just sweep the outside of his left foot and take mount. And way quicker to just say "arm drag", it's been around alot longer than the popularity of Dagestani fighters.

Needed some of the details....appreciate ya

Bro thank you so much! I am a leg shooter but now my teammates has gotten my game recognize now. I’ll try this to catch them off guard, if I can’t get this and they try to back off or shoot off I can use the opportunity to shoot the double or single. I’mma shadow wrestle and rep this out rn. Ty 👍🏼

Dude appreciate the clarity of detailing the technique. Automatic like

I love this channel

This is great for a older overweight guy like myself. Hate shooting.Thanks for the vid.

That's another pretty good one I like that wrestling take downs are good for bjj and it gets you where you wanna be. Bjj does all them too but that a good arm drag one I like that better than any judo sweep

Very cool. Subbed

I used to do something very similar to this in wrestling all the time.

I'm terrible at shooting so I constructed my whold wrestling around arm drags, it's a good alternative. It's great if you didn't wrestle in high school.

My wrestling coach in high school taught us this, but while using the crown of your head to apply pressure to the temple of your opponent.

Useful for hospital security, thanks.

Nice

Hello from Dagestan =)

Great breakdown. What all takedowns do you do from this position?

The arm drag into what we called the "Russian." From there I went into the standing armbar to the ground all in 1 motion, or many other takedowns.

Kid looks like a young Jeff Cavalier

Trying this at practice

Very good pls more

gangster. straight to the point content. i hate shooting, this looks sweet

Short and practicable. Nice

ey man.. can you do a vid on what the most important submissions are ?

G do you think you could make a tier list video of the most energy efficient takedowns or ways to get an opponent to the ground ?

Perfect set up for a Fujiwara armbar or cross face.

Thank you for the share but this is a normal Greco Roman wrestling move so it's not a Dagestani drag or a secret , I've been doing this move for more than 9 years Our style back home is the Bulgarian style of wrestling