Half bicep slice omoplata

Rick Macauley showed us this move at his seminar. Thanks to Andrew for helping me with my notes.

1. Establish bicep slice half guard on his right side. Remember that your left leg rotates in for biceps slice while you hold his right cuff with your left hand.

2. Escape your hips out to make some space. Bring your inside (right) leg across waist out to opponent's outside (right) hip.

3. Prop yourself up on free hand.

4. Roll onto your knees facing away from the opponent, but still holding his cuff.(skip step when you get better).

5. Do a FORWARD roll into omoplata.

Rick also finished the omoplata with an armbar: Stop on side with your top knee over his back. Can push on his hip with your other foot for leverage if needed. Armbar. Keep it if he rolls.

Phil Migliarese likes a similar movement where you spin on your back to the omoplata instead of rolling to it. It is like the pendulum sweep to belly-down armbar spin. Hard to explain entirely, but easy to do once you understand it.

Half bicep slice flower sweep

Thanks to Andrew for helping me with my notes.

1. Establish bicep slice half guard on his right side. Remember that your left leg rotates in for biceps slice while you hold his right cuff with your left hand.

2. Try the bicep slice pendulum sweep. However, the opponent is heavy or bases out. Keep your grips secured on his cuff and far pant leg.

3. Shove your entangled knee deep through the bicep slice, while maintaining your grips. Use it to build momentum to sweep.

4. Knee upwards forcibly while using both your arms lifting him up to sweep him over his shoulder.

5. Finish sweep into side control or opponent's half-guard.

Galvo likes this sweep a lot in the gi.

Half bicep slice pendulum sweep

Rick Macauley showed us this move at his seminar, but I first learned it from Bobby. Thanks to Andrew for helping me with my notes.

1. Establish bicep slice half guard on his right side. Remember that your left leg rotates in for biceps slice while you hold his right cuff with your left hand.

2. Next use your free (right) hand to secure grips on opponent's far (left) pants near the ankle, or hook underneath his leg instead.

3. Jerk opponent out with your intertwined foot so all his weight goes onto your hooking (right) leg. You can set this up using a Jedi mind trick then jerking his weight onto your shin.

4. Rock opponent forward while pushing out with left leg. You are a pendulum. Push up and roll him over you and over his (right) shoulder.

5. Pass into side control or finish biceps slice from side.

This sweep is similar to the spider pendulum sweep.

Bicep slice half guard

Rick Macauley showed us this move at his seminar, but I first learned it from Bobby. Thanks to Andrew for helping me with my notes. The bicep slice guard is set up by a failed attempt to close distance from half-guard.

1. You have half guard, on his right side, with the underhook and posting on his knee, like usual.

2. Open your half guard. Keep the inside hook in, but post with your outside leg and shrimp out.

3. Intertwine his outside (right) arm with your outside (left) leg: Go underneath then over top his arm to intertwine his arm. The instep of your foot is touching his triceps, your ankle is in his elbow. Keep control of his wrist!

4. You now have bicep slice half guard.

This is a good move when your opponent tries backing up out of your half guard too. I used to name this move the "entangled" half guard. Andrew called it a "bicep slice" which is better terminology. You use the bicep slice from spider guard a lot too.

M/2 guard to 50/50 position with sweep

Rick Macauley showed us this move at his seminar. Thanks to Andrew for recording these notes. I am not very good at this move and need to practice it a lot more.

1. Establish m/2 guard from half guard on his right side.

2. Switch feet controlling trapped leg.

3. Lift opponent's leg and rotate, placing right leg into 50/50 position after full revolution.

4. Kick through to sweep opponent.

5. Posture up while pushing hips forward to pass opponent's leg into either side mount or knee-on-belly position.