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Sylvia tries to stand up out of Nogueira’s guard and Big Nog hooks his right arm around the back of Tim’s knee. If you recall my post on Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir, Lesnar did a great job of keeping Mir’s hips flat in half-guard so Mir couldn’t move at all. This is critical in order for him to have any leverage to move Sylvia around. Note that Nogueira is shrimped over on his right side. The gif on the right starts with Nogueira in half guard (both of his legs are wrapped around Sylvia’s right leg). Sylvia is able to escape that disadvantageous position, but is still in Nog’s half-guard twenty seconds later. He also wraps his left arm around Sylvia’s back in an effort to establish the “Octopus Guard”.

Note also that while Nog is dropping back he releases Sylvia’s right leg with his left arm and attacks it instead with both of his legs, thereby pulling half-guard.

Its because Nogueira is using Sylvia’s own motion and momentum against him. This creates the impression that Nog is moving at light speed while Tim is in slo-mo. When Sylvia goes to push him back and sprawl out of the double-leg, Nog is already falling to his back. This time he ducks under Sylvia’s outstretched left arm instead.īy the time Sylvia digs for an underhook with his left arm in order to sprawl, Nogueira is already under his center of gravity and is transitioning from a double-leg takedown attempt into a guard pull. Sylvia reaches for Nogueira’s head, I’m thinking because only a minute or so earlier, Nog had shot in high and tried to get Sylvia in a Thai Plum. It’s really a thing of beauty and has nothing of the passivity that is sometimes associated with pulling guard. In the gif on the left, we see Nogueira shoot in and pull guard on Sylvia.

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More on the move and how he pulled it off in the full entry, including animated gifs. In this case, Nogueira’s wrist control prevents Sylvia from posting out to prevent the sweep. It’s a sort of push pull, you push one direction, he resists and pushes back, you take his push back and pull him over and behind you. Rather than resisting you take his momentum and roll behind yourself. Let’s say you’re using the underhook variation you want it so deep that its actually pushing him over so he overhooks to block you and you put downward pressure. In this instance, Nogueira has wrist control rather than an underhook, but the basic premise is the same: the attacker pulls in one direction to get the opponent to move in the other direction and then uses the opponent’s own momentum to effect the sweep. Nogueira discusses some variations of the sweep he used on Sylvia in his book: “Mastering Mixed Martial Arts: The Guard” including the Underhook Reverse Sweep. Sadly for Big Nog, he could never make the formula work against Fedor Emelianenko, but the combination of serviceable boxing, an iron chin and some of the most effective jiu jitsu in MMA history made Nogueira the second greatest heavyweight in MMA history. He followed the same template to beat Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic, the very-formidable at the time Bob Sapp, and Mark Coleman. It had everything PRIDE fans had come to expect from Nogueira over the course of his legendary career.

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