Snapdown

1. Pete has an underhook and collar tie combination. Note that his wrist is turned in creating a ‘false grip’. His underhook elbow flares out, preventing the whizzer, his collar elbow is in tight.

2. Pete can use his collar tie to simply snap on the neck, but here he uses a fake to make Richie lower his head. Pete fakes either a high crotch on the near leg or a knee tap on the far leg, depending on how Richie is standing. When he steps his legs back his head will go low.

3. Pete jumps up, legs back, and lands with his chest over the back of Richie’s head. Pete maintains his underhook and punches down with his other arm.

4. Pete controls Richie’s head in the centre of his chest to prevent him peeking out. The crown of Richie’s head is under Pete’s sternum. Pete Reaches for Richie’s chin to control his head while he extracts his underhook.

5. Pete starts to retract the underhooking arm.

6. Pete gets ready to lock his grip over the near arm. He lets the chinstrap go and shoots his hand under the armpit and punches down over the outside of the arm to lock up his grip.

7. Pete locks up the Gable grip, palm to palm without the thumbs.

8. Pete squeezes his elbows together to torque Richie’s spine a little. He sandwiches Richie’s head between his arms, making him easy to control.

9. Pete drives his chest down, forcing Richie to carry his weight.

10. Pete jumps his hips back and drives his shoulder down, bringing Richie to his knees. Note that Pete has his hips back, only one knee down; his weight is on Richie - not the mat.

11. WRONG - Pete has both knees on the mat. His legs are close enough for

Richie to circle off and capture a low single, and his weight is on the mat - not on the opponent.

Front headlock to high single or high crotch

1. Richie is aggressively resisting the snapdown, trying to fight his elbow out and looking to duck under or spin out the far side. Pete anticipates the duck and places his head low and to the side of the captured arm.

2. Pete places his head deeper toward Richie’s inside leg and reaches around to capture the near side leg, cradling Richie.

3. Pete steps around to the outside and releases the head as Richie attempts the duck under.

4. Pete keeps the leg wrapped and goes to the ankle to prevent Richie from putting his foot to the outside as he picks the leg.

5. Pete lifts the leg high. A less flexible opponent will become more unbalanced the higher you can lift the leg.

6. The high crotch is a good alternative to picking the leg. Pete keeps his head in tight as Richie springs back up.

7. Pete capitalises on the motion Richie exerts to regain his head position, and, if correctly timed, it becomes very easy to squat under and hoist him up. Note the Gable grip, high on the inner thigh.

8. Pete starts to slam Richie back to the mat, he swings the leg to the outside. Rotating Richie stops him simply putting his foot back down and rebalancing himself when finishing forwards.

9. Pete slams Richie, keeping his head in and controlling Richie’s leg to prevent him regaining guard or scrambling to his feet.

Double

1. Richie is hand fighting inside to break Pete’s grip, either trying to duck or spin out the far side, or back out of the headlock.

2. Pete lets his grip go and controls the elbow on the near side, and ‘goes for his gun’ on the far side (retracts his hand to his hip). As Richie’s head pops up higher to escape the headlock Pete performs a simple elbow pass (clearing the elbow to the far side of the body). This creates the window for penetration.