BJJ Sweeps

The scissor sweep is one of the first sweeps taught in BJJ. From closed guard, you use your legs in ...

The hip bump sweep capitalizes on an opponent who sits back with good posture in your guard. You use...

The flower sweep (pendulum sweep) uses a big pendulum motion with your leg to generate momentum and ...

The sit-up sweep is a modification of the hip bump where you time your opponent leaning back to expl...

The pendulum sweep uses a swinging leg motion to off-balance and sweep the opponent from closed guar...

The cross grip scissor sweep combines a cross collar grip with a scissoring leg motion to topple the...

The balloon sweep is performed when the opponent stands up in your closed guard. By placing both fee...

The overhook sweep uses an overhook (whizzer) grip on the opponent's arm from closed guard to set up...

The hip bump to kimura is a classic chain where the initial hip bump sweep forces the opponent to po...

The star sweep is a dynamic sweep from closed guard where you simultaneously push one direction with...

The shoulder clamp sweep uses an overhook combined with your legs clamping the opponent's shoulder t...

The wrestler sweep from guard uses a body lock or double underhook grip to stand up in base and then...

The arm wrap sweep from closed guard involves wrapping one of the opponent's arms against your body ...

The double ankle grab sweep is performed when the opponent stands in your closed guard. You open gua...

The butterfly sweep is the fundamental attack from butterfly guard. Using your hooks and an underhoo...

The hook sweep is a variation of the butterfly sweep where you use just one hook to elevate and swee...

The elevator sweep uses your butterfly hooks to literally elevate your opponent off the ground and s...

The butterfly arm drag sweep combines the butterfly guard with an arm drag to take the back. By drag...

The butterfly guillotine sweep combines a guillotine choke with a butterfly sweep. When the opponent...

The butterfly underhook sweep is the most fundamental butterfly guard technique. By securing an unde...

The Marcelo Garcia butterfly sweep uses a body lock grip and off-angles to create sweeps from butter...

The no arm butterfly sweep uses only your butterfly hooks and body movement without gripping the opp...

The old school sweep is a classic half guard technique. You come up on an underhook, get to your kne...

The deep half sweep gets underneath your opponent to sweep them. From deep half, you have excellent ...

The electric chair is an Eddie Bravo signature technique that sweeps the opponent while threatening ...

The old school sweep is a fundamental half guard sweep where you use an underhook to come up to top ...

The dummy sweep is a simple but effective half guard sweep where you push their arm and roll them ov...

The John Wayne sweep from half guard uses an underhook to come to a single-leg position and then tri...

The dogfight is a scramble position from half guard where both fighters are on their knees battling ...

The lockdown sweep from half guard uses the lockdown leg configuration (double overhook on the leg) ...

The Plan B sweep is the backup option when the old school sweep is defended. When the opponent whizz...

The knee tap sweep from half guard uses the underhook combined with a hand on the opponent's far kne...

The coyote guard sweep uses an overhook from half guard to control the opponent's posture and sweep ...

The half guard back take uses the underhook from half guard to come up behind the opponent and take ...

The Z-guard hip bump sweep uses the knee shield frame to create space, then explosively bumps the hi...

The waiter sweep from deep half guard uses your feet to elevate the opponent's trapped leg overhead ...

The tripod sweep is a fundamental open guard sweep that works when opponent stands in your guard. Yo...

The sickle sweep works against a standing opponent. You hook behind their leg with your leg and swee...

The waiter sweep is named because your arm position looks like a waiter carrying a tray. You catch t...

The overhead sweep launches your opponent over your head when they pressure forward. You use their m...

The lasso sweep uses the control from lasso guard to off-balance and sweep your opponent. The lasso ...

The reverse De La Riva sweep uses your hook on the outside of their leg to off-balance them. When th...

The basic spider guard sweep uses your control of their arms to off-balance them. By pushing one arm...

The collar drag sweep from seated guard pulls the opponent forward and off-balance using a collar gr...

The tomoe nage sweep from guard adapts the judo sacrifice throw into a guard sweep. By placing your ...

The single leg X sweep uses the single leg X guard position to off-balance and topple the standing o...

The idiot sweep, also called the dummy sweep, is a deceptively simple sweep performed by pushing on ...

This combination from spider guard uses a sweep attempt to set up a triangle choke. When the opponen...

The shin to shin sweep places your shin across the opponent's shin while seated, then uses this conn...

The ko uchi gari sweep adapts the judo minor inner reap for use from seated or open guard. When the ...

The arm drag sweep from open guard uses a sharp pulling motion on the opponent's arm to expose their...

The push sweep from open guard is a fundamental sweep where you push the opponent's knees or hips aw...

The worm guard sweep uses the lapel wrapped around the opponent's leg to create powerful off-balanci...

The Sit-Up Guard Sweep is a sweeps technique that helps you advance from Open Guard to Mount with co...

The standard X-guard sweep elevates your opponent and dumps them to the side. X-guard is one of the ...

The X-guard technical standup sweep is the most fundamental X-guard sweep. By extending your hooks t...

The X-guard overhead sweep launches the opponent directly over your head using the X-guard hooks. By...

The ankle pick from X-guard removes the opponent's base leg while your X-guard hooks control the oth...

The X-guard dummy sweep simply pushes the opponent backward by extending both hooks and lifting them...

The X-guard to single leg transition uses the X-guard hooks to off-balance the opponent enough to co...

The De La Riva back take uses the DLR hook to spin underneath the opponent and emerge behind them fo...

The DLR overhead sweep uses the De La Riva hook combined with a belt or collar grip to throw the opp...

The DLR ankle grab sweep grabs the far ankle while maintaining the DLR hook to remove the opponent's...

The DLR scissor sweep combines the DLR hook with a scissoring leg motion to sweep the opponent. Your...

This transition uses the DLR guard to enter X-guard and then sweep from there. When the opponent def...

The deep DLR sweep uses a very deep De La Riva hook that goes all the way through to the far hip. Th...

The DLR tripod sweep adapts the standard tripod sweep from DLR guard. By using the DLR hook on the n...

The berimbolo is an inverting technique from DLR guard that spins you underneath the opponent to tak...

The DLR knee push sweep is a simple but effective sweep where you push the opponent's hooked knee in...

The DLR collar drag sweep combines the DLR hook with a sharp collar drag to pull the opponent off-ba...