Butterfly Guard Bottom

You are seated with hooks in. Control posture, get the underhook or arm drag, and lift.

Switch to Butterfly Guard Top

• Control

  Posture and Grips

  Sitting up into the opponent, winning the underhook or overhook and keeping the hooks alive.

  5 resources

• Sweeps

  Sweeps

  The classic butterfly (hook) sweep and its variations off the underhook, overhook and arm drag.

  11 resources

• Submissions

  Submissions

  Guillotines, arm-in guillotines, kimuras and triangles when the opponent drives into you.

  3 resources

• Entries

  Entries to X-Guard, SLX and the Back

  When the sweep stalls, dropping under into X-guard or single-leg X, or spinning to the back off the arm drag.

  5 resources

• Retention

  Retention

  Staying seated and keeping the hooks when the opponent tries to flatten you or step around.

  5 resources