WHITE TO BLUE BELT MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• break fall to technical get up
• shoulder roll forward & back 
• shrimp forward and back
• bridge left and right 
• bear crawl - 4 post break down with sit out
• shoulders walks and chicken runs
• guard circles / crazy 8’s
• butt scoots forward & back
• standing stances and footwork 
• double leg shot
• sprawl

• Star control
• Break fall / roll side jump / technical get up 
• Shoot / sprawl / turtle build up /  sit out / back take / front top turtle spin with under hooks 
• Standing guard pass option switch step knee belly 
• Shoulder pressure through leg weave side to side
• Head far side hop over
• Fist to ground monkey spin side to side
• Figure 8 guard drill
• Double leg pick ups

POSITIONAL RETENTION & 

 SUBMISSION DEFENSE

• strike safe series
• clinch breakdown
• knee shield
• spider / stretch guard concepts
• half guard lock down
• collar pull / knee push guard entry
• guard pull granby roll entry 
• half guard lock-down
        

ESCAPES & SWEEPS / ATTACKS / TRANSITIONS

• guard get up 
• hip bump - attack to guillotine + kimura combo 
• scissor, elevator, butterfly sweep combo
• arm bar - triangle - gogo + oma plata sweep
• cross collar choke series attacks & counters
• shoulder pry to back control
• low knee shield, scissor with leg chop / knee push with collar & sleeve
• low sweep head & arm trap 
• low sweep overhead arm trap
• scissor sweep, butterfly 
• ankle pick sweep series (double ankle - grip with foot hook - grip with leg weave trip)  
• half guard transition sweep series

  POSITIONAL RETENTION

• hi & low posture control and attack defense
• hi sit up retention
• grip breaks / hip & upper body control positions
• low positions - double bicep / hip control

PASSING

• guard break  concepts - combat base - knee cut options - standing & closed guard
• double / single under & over
• Standing step through + over, bullfighter, pressure pass, L pass
• half guard lock down  / break options & pass series

 COUNTERS / TRANSITIONS / ATTACKS

• arm bar & triangle submission counters
• knee shield counter and pass
• double / single under & over counters
• standing step through + over, bullfighter, pressure pass to cross body control
• knee cut , back spin to straight knee bar
• collar choke attack

POSITIONAL CONTROL & RETENTION

• box control concepts
• head & far under-hook control
• kesa (scarf), kizure (broken scarf), reverse  
• knee ride

 PRESSURE & TRANSITIONS

Postitional advancement from all cross side positions

• mount & reverse mount transitions
• back transitions
• knee ride transitions
• north south transitions

TOP ATTACKS

Attacks from all cross side positions

• far arm attack flow #1 series
• kata gatame (shoulder hold) near & far arm
• near arm attacks flow
• 3/4 slicer   
• north south set up lock flow #2 series

 CONTROL PREVENTION

• framing concepts (face/neck/hips
• bicep control (sticky hands)
• heavy head
• heavy elbow (far side under-hook prevention)

ESCAPES / TRANSITION

• fetal facing in series -  back door to back attack
• fetal facing in -  shrimp to guard
• fetal facing in - far side under hook to turtle knee tap to side control
• fetal facing out series - south arm trap
• rock n roll elbow tucks

POSITIONAL RETENTION CONTROL

• Low Mount
• Mid Mount
• High Mount

 PRESSURE & TRANSITIONS

• knee ride pop up
• Modified Mount set up with gift wrap
• high mount to S mount

TOP ATTACKS

• Cross collar choke
• Loop choke
• Ezekiel choke
• Modified mount arm bar
• Modified Mount Gift Wrap to arm bar  
• S mount set up
• S mount Arm attacks and top triangle

CONTROL PREVENTION

• Bicep block
• Heavy head
• heavy elbow (far side under-hook prevention)
• Framing concepts (face/neck/hips)

ESCAPES

• Safe positioning
• hand fighting
• leg fighting
• Trap & Roll 
• Escape counters from submission attacks

(timing and connection focus escapes)

• Mid mount bump /  heavy elbow / hip frame /  shrimp escape to guard
• Low mount elbow knee escape to guard

 ATTACKS & COUNTERS 

• Arm bar attacks
• hand fighting
• leg fighting
• Escape counters from submission attacks

  POSITIONAL CONTROL

• seated control
• supine control

PRESSURE & TRANSITIONS

• Modified Mount set up with gift wrap
• high mount to S mount

TOP ATTACKS

• Choke flow #1 -
• 1 arm > short > big > drawstring > wedge > bow n arrow
• seated control
• supine control

 CONTROL PREVENTION

• Early prevention - seal training

ESCAPES & TRANSITIONS

• Active legs - head pressure > under-hook side fall > bottom leg escape > elbow tuck > hips up
• Transition with Butterfly hook to Mount

• Attack legs - head pressure > choke side > bottom leg escape > chicken run out (detach lower body control)
• Transition back arm over to cross side

• Bottom turtle Hip Up / leg circle out
• Bottom turtle far arm tuck and roll
• Head / shoulders / hip

 ATTACKS & COUNTERS

• Ankle lock attack flow 
• Arm bar escape attack            

STANCES

• Boxing
• Kickboxing
• Wrestling
• Footwork

GRIP FIGHTING / TAKE-DOWN

• Gi and no grips
• Grip breaks
• wrist control (wrist pummeling)
• Inside bicep (arm pummeling)
• head positioning (giraffe pummeling)
• Standing grips (cross elbow / back grip to trip take-down flow / counter guard pull & pass) (cross collar / outside elbow to snap down, ankle pick, o soto / counter guard pull pass) 

CLINCH CONTROLS

• Over under 50 / 50 control
• Collar tie up
• Inside bicep control
• whizzer 

STRIKING

• Body targets

kidneys / liver / spleen / sternum / bladder

• Kick postures
• Switch step
• Strike attack series
• Retreat attack series

SET UP

• Double under control
• Arm drag to back
• Snap down
• Sleeve & Collar control 
• T formation
• Back hold with hanging hip control 
•  Arm drag 

TAKE-DOWN

• Snap downs
• Back control to rear trip
• Body fold with leg trip
• T formation back hanging trip
• T formation hip in rear knee tap
• T formation step back with front knee block
• over hook lateral drop
• over hook drop to low single / ankle pick
• over hook uchi mata - ankle pick variation

      TOP TRANSITION FLOW

• Take down connecting to positional control & submissions