Half Guard pass to mount:

1. Undo Opponent’s lapel, pull it taut, and feed it to your hand doing head control, this will control opponent’s shoulder/upper body/head
2. Turn to your side so you are on your hip, facing opponent
3. Move leg in guard towards opponent’s butt, the closer the better
4. Use your elbow to push opponent’s guard past your knee
5. Slice your knee to the ground to the other side in a three quarters mount
6. Use your free foot to pry guard if it is still caught on your foot

Alternative:

6. From the ground, drag knee across opponent’s belly and knee slice on the other side and then square up for side control

Half Guard pass to Side Control:

1. Undo Opponent’s lapel, pull it taut, and feed it to your hand doing head control
2. Tripod yourself with your two feet (very wide apart), and their your head on the mat or shoulder on their face cross facing them
3. Just up and get your hips very high
4. Pry their guard to lower it below your knee if you need to
5. Knee slice pass
6. Square up and get Side Control

Half guard, side tripod:

1. Undo Opponent’s lapel, pull it taut, and feed it to your hand doing head control
2. Using first method, of guard pass, get the opponent’s guard below your knee
3. Tripod to the side
4. Get your shin of the leg not stuck in guard on opponent’s bottom leg/foot, and your knee by their waist or belly, the purpose is to hold leg in place
5. Use your free hand to pull or push their top leg to create a gap to slide your leg/foot out of
6. Push opponent’s leg to the ground and get Side Control

Bravo choke (from half guard):

1. Clear half guard pass to side control to the point where you get your knee to the ground (don’t finish the pass)
2. Relieve Pressure on opponent’s chest allowing them to go up to their side Alternative: if opponent chooses not to go up
3. Cup opponent’s shoulder and force them up to their side using your free hand (hand not holding onto the lapel)
4. With your free hand, grab the lapel so your ulna is against their neck (pinky side bone on your wrist)
   • you can either grab the lapel from the front of the opponent’s face or from the back, then moving your arm around the opponent’s head
5. Let go of the first grip on the lapel and grab the other side
6. Choke by keeping one lapel steady and pulling the bottom one through and up

Bravo choke if opponent tries to defend by bringing their up to prevent you from the second lapel grab to finish the choke(starting at step 3), D’arce variant:

1. With your free arm, use your elbow to push their head towards you
2. Push your bodyweight on their shoulder smashing it towards their neck
3. Finish choke buy pulling with the bottom lapel

Bravo choke if opponent tries to knee bump you (starting at step 4):

1. You can just concede bottom position, make sure you get your inner hooks in
2. Make sure your knee is raised of the side that first grabbed the lapel preventing your opponent from going to that side
3. Complete choke from the bottom