Day 2
Each game consists of a three minute round, a one minute break, and then another three minute round with the position of the players switched.
Standing
Attacking Player:
- Position: Standing in front of your partner with one arm connected to their torso inside one of their arms (underhook).
- Objective: Fight for inside space. Get underneath or behind your partner's elbows.
- Constraints: No takedowns.
- Win Condition: None
Defending Player:
- Position:Standing in front of your partner with one arm connected to their torso inside one of their arms (underhook) on the side opposite their underhook.
- Objective: Fight for inside space. Get underneath or behind your partner's elbows.
- Constraints: No takedowns.
- Win Condition: None
Attacking Player:
- Position: Standing with one arm connected to your partner's torso inside their arm (underhook) with your other arm free.
- Objective: Create hip to hip contact and lift your partner's feet off of the ground.
- Constraints: No takedowns. Only elevate your partner.
- Win Condition: Your partner is disconnected from the ground.
Defending Player:
- Position: Standing with your partner's arm connected to your torso inside your arm with your same side arm hooked around their arm so that your hand is near their armpit.
- Objective: Deny your partner access to inside space and hip to hip contact and lift your partner's feet off the ground.
- Constraints: No takedowns. Only elevate your partner.
- Win Condition: Your partner is disconnected from the ground.
Guard
Top Player:
- Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked behind you.
- Objective: Break your partner's grips and control of your upper body in order to gain upright posture and work to open their feet.
- Constraints: None
- Win Condition: Successfully opening your partner's feet.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them.
- Objective: Create meaningful connection with your partner and use it to control their posture. Do not let them gain an upright posture, stand, or open your feet.
- Constraints: Do not sweep or submit your partner. Only fight for grips and posture.
- Win Condition: None
Reset if top player wins.
Top Player:
- Position: On your knees with your partner's hips connected to your shoulder outside of your arms with their legs wrapped around your torso.
- Objective: Break your partner's grips and control of your upper body in order to gain upright posture.
- Constraints: Do not stand with your partner attached to you.
- Win Condition: Return to a standing position, seated position, or bring your knees or feet between you and your partner.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your side with your hips connected to your partner's shoulder outside of their arms and with your legs wrapped around their torso.
- Objective: Focus on maintaining your connection to your partner and using it to transition to chest to back contact.
- Constraints: None
- Win Condition: You achieve chest to back contact and maintain it for three seconds.
Reset if either player wins.
Pinning/Passing
Top Player:
- Position: On top of your partner with chest to chest contact lying perpendicular to their torso.
- Objective: Focus on keeping your partner flattened to the mat by maintaining pressure through your chest to chest connection.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: None.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your back with your partner on top of you lying perpendicular to your torso with chest to chest contact.
- Objective: Focus on breaking the chest to chest connection using movement and framing.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: Bring your feet or knees between you and your partner, sit up, or reverse the position.
Reset if bottom player wins.
Top Player:
- Position: On top of your partner with chest to chest contact lying perpendicular to their torso.
- Objective: Focus on keeping your partner flattened to the mat by maintaining pressure through your chest to chest connection.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: Get one leg to the other side of your partner's body so that you are straddling their torso.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your back with your partner on top of you lying perpendicular to your torso with chest to chest contact.
- Objective: Focus on breaking the chest to chest connection using movement and framing.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: Bring your feet or knees between you and your partner or reverse the position.
Reset if bottom player wins.
6 Minute Round
Live round with a partner. Start standing if you are able to do so safely. Otherwise pick the starting position from one of the previous games and start there. Roll to submission, reset, and continue. Repeat as many times as possible before the round ends.