Opening the Closed Guard by Stacking Variation and Knee Cut to Side Control (Advanced)

Professor Lucas Lepri shows a variation on how to open the guard. Lucas shows how to open the opponent’s closed guard by stacking the opponent. In this variation, Lucas is not able to feed the arm underneath the opponent. Instead, Lucas just feeds the lapel underneath the opponent. If he is able to trap the arm with the lapel as he feeds it under, perfect. If not, then Lucas just feeds the lapel leaving the arm out. Lucas is then able to pass using the knee cut pass.