The cross sweep is also better to initiate a good position for guard passing. It’s also a much better placement to initiate passes off the cross leg sweep. I find that it’s best as an initial engagement attempt off the tie up.

You have to snag the achilles with your intep here. Big key here is the swooping motion and placement of the foot. Here’s Jason Morris hitting it on whoever he wants. Lastly if you’re only great with one leg you can sweep the cross side leg as well. Unsuccessful follow up but the timing is there. This time while digging for an underhook and pushing foward. Notice with the tie up you risk giving up a single so you have to be ready to snap down: Maybe it’s my lack of experience or maybe it’s because my timing isn’t the best yet but this same leg forward and half step now works consistently for me. I’m not great at mirroring people’s movement. Pay attention to the constant push and then hop and trip. Wait to feel them move and then hop and trip: Simply putting the leg forward you’re going to sweep with and pushing your opponent. He simply puts the same leg forward that’s closest to his opponents leg. You must learn to hop step in between their step: The difference here is he takes a half hop step to make sure and reach the foot before it touches down. Here’s Mocco pushing and pulling and mirroring. In wrestling we have Steve Mocco and Jason Morris. Better yet pull them forward and anticipate the backstep: If their left foot moves back you step forward with your right. God forbid you stand straight up against him:Ī couple things that work for Owen – He mirrors his opponents movements and anticipates where their foot will land. Owen has a lifetime of Judo and has all the timing we ever wanted. No doubt the best jiu jitsu player at foot sweeps is Owen Livesay. Let’s look at what I’ve studied to figure this out.

Here’s some of the footsweeps I’ve hit on him: A life long athlete and pretty much better than me in every attribute except maybe strategy. This is BJ- One of our toughest competitive at the IBJJF level brown belts. I was able to hit sloppy foot sweeps within a few months but after a year or so (within the last couple of months) I’ve figured out a few key things that allow me to hit them on people who are faster, more explosive, bigger, stronger than me, and have a good wrestling stance. Even the guys who are hitting them in comps like Marinho are basically low kicking their opponents to try and force them. They almost always hit them on people significantly less in skill than them or they’re often much bigger. You see the B team guys hit them but there’s a lot of issues with the footage of them doing it and here’s why. ‘It’s all timing based’ you’ll hear people say. But the footage for learning them is greatly lacking. So a couple of years ago I vowed to get good at foot sweeps, no matter how much I’d fail attempted to learn them. Decades of takedowns has left me hurting after hard stand up rounds. Besides a double leg back heel in middle school or Marcelo’s patented Kouchi Gari when I first started jiu jitsu, I never learned to use my legs to take people down. I have an efficient guard and I have efficient passing, but up until the last couple of years, taking people down has still required a great deal of work.Įnter the footsweep. As I age I have desperately searched for movements that are low effort to maximize the sustainability of my grappling career. All techniques demonstrated are steeped with Judo influences.I have grappled for more than half my life. Koll also includes three defensive foot sweeps to counter a single leg takedown. He transitions into finishing the move from an open stance, underhook, overhook, and Russian tie. These drills focus on the timing, balance and power needed to execute the Foot Sweep effectively. Koll begins by demonstrating drills to master the basic technique. With Rob Koll, North Carolina Head Coach Stanford Head Wrestling Coach from 2021 to 2023 Cornell University Head Coach from 1993 to 2021 2017 EIWA Coach of the Year 20x Ivy League Champions 2x NCAA Championship Team Runner-Up 2011 NWCA National Duals Champions 2005 NWCA Division I Coach of the Year wrestled for North Carolina 1988 NCAA Champion 4x All-American 2x World Cup ChampionĬoach Koll used the foot sweep with great success throughout his career, and now he teaches you the secrets to perform the move. Las Vegas | 2024 Spring NABC Championship Basketball Clinic.

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