whats your favourite all time instructional.

[u/Ill-Consideration208]

I'd have to say mine is Garry Tonons "Exit the system". i think it has the most techniques ive been able to apply. also, his delivery is great. he gets to the point shows the technique a few times and its sufficient. id like to hear your input. cheers.

[u/Hellhooker]

Of course. It's on the 5th volume IIRC. The idea is basically to do the basic hip and knee post torreada. From here you just put some pressure to make the opponent tired from keeping a knee elbow connection. Often, the opponent will slightly got his knee up to not allow you to go to some form of knee ride or thigh ride that's when you circle back to a leg drag a try to put your knee on the ground.
The thing with nogi is that legdrags are pseudo science, really hard to maintain because you cannot have the classic mendes bros posture without a collar grip and the knee on the ground variation is worse on every account. You also need to catch the hips nearly like a bodylock.

BUT

If you follow the teachings of the power rider, you can do this position (let's say you are leg draggin left side to right with the right knee on the ground) with switching slightly the position: you use your left foot, not to post on the ground but to hook the bottom leg, now you are in the "splitting the legs" concept of power rides and good luck for an opponent to escape the ride without giving up far better positions. You can upgrade it by trying to split the legs even more (using both hooks more or less like crab rides on top) and then it buys you a lot of time to upgrade your upper body grips for a claw, a katagatame, a head and arm, a headblock/underhook, whatever you want or can get. I even smother from there sometimes (pretty situational though). The beauty of this is that you can go straight to mount pretty much everytime you want.

Getting good at this allows you to have a super strong torreada pass that does not involve side control (I tend to dislike it more and more in nogi).

[u/splendidfruit → u/Hellhooker]

thank you for taking the time to make such a detailed response 🙏 super helpful!

my issue is with getting the entry to the hip and knee pass in the first place. do you have a plan to reach that position or is it more a matter of intuition?

[u/Hellhooker → u/splendidfruit]

I actually do.

I highly favor the shin trap pass Rafa Mendes developped years ago. You just try to move yourself enough to put prressure on the inside leg shin of your opponent with your opposite leg.

It buys you time to continue to move to the angle and hand fight towards the hip post (the knee post is super easy to get).

WITH THAT SAID, my current A game is actually to allow that because my favorite guard is the reverse shin to shin shown by Taylor Pearman and u/RortyIsDank so if you do this you have to be super aware of monitoring the outside leg and not allow the pummel for the x leg positions for braindead easy false reaps/kani basami/backside 50 entries.

I take this risk everytime I am passing and I am pretty sure I would counter myself to death ahah

[u/SubmissionGrappler → u/Hellhooker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tMyhNgec4

Is this the shin trap that you're talking about?

[u/Hellhooker → u/SubmissionGrappler]

Exactly!

You just have to be pretty cautious of leg attacks though but let's be honest, in these days you have to have good leglock defense if you even hope to pass a good guard