Deep Half Guard Prevention When Passing Half Guard Variation to Side Control (Advanced)

Professor Lucas Lepri teaches how to prevent the opponent from reaching the deep half guard. Lucas is in the opponent’s half guard and is getting ready to pass. The opponent attempts to go for the deep half guard but Lucas defends. Lucas moves his top leg up and slightly turns his hips as he raises and points out his other knee. He uses his top hand to block the opponent on the pants or on the hip. In this variation, the opponent tries to go for the deep half guard before Lucas is able to under hook. Lucas instead, under hooks the leg as soon as the opponent starts to transition. He now shifts his hips and uses the cross face to go to the side control.