My Cage Pressure Butterfly Notes

Dominate from butterfly guard w/ shoulder-crushing pressure & cage awareness... You'll learn to control opponents w/ shoulder smashes, transition to submissions when they react, & keep top position w/ ground-&-pound mentality. Every movement keeps you ready to strike or secure the finish

Flow outline

  1. Butterfly Shoulder Smash

    • From here, most of the time the foundation - smash their shoulder into the mat with your butterfly hooks, controlling their posture and setting up all your attacks. keep them pinned and feeling the cage pressure

  2. Butterfly Shoulder Smash Position

    • From here, often you've got them smashed - shoulder pinned, posture broken. from here you can finish the shoulder crusher or react to their defensive movements. keep pressure and watch for their escape attempts

  3. Finish Shoulder Crusher

    • Crush that shoulder joint - scoot your hips back and drive pressure down. isn't just a submission, it's a statement. Make them tap or risk shoulder damage

  4. Butterfly Sweep

    • When they pressure into you, use that butterfly hook to elevate and sweep. Get on top immediately - ready to ground and pound or secure a dominant position against the cage

  5. Finish Cutting Armbar

    • Usually They tried to free their arm - bad move. Foot on thigh, shrug the shoulder, throw that arm up to your neck and fall to your inside hip. Secure the armbar before they can defend. Don’t force it

  6. Finish Choi Bar

    • If they frame, usually they drove you to your outside hip - frame that knee on their head, throw your leg over, break their posture. secure the choi bar submission from dominant control position. switch if it stalls

  7. Finish Inverted Armbar

    • Often They defended the armbar and freed the neck grip - time for the inverted finish. keep control and torque that arm from unique angle

  8. Finish On Top With Inverted Armbar

    • Key detail: you hit the butterfly sweep and immediately transition to the inverted armbar on top. dominant position - you're controlling and finishing while maintaining pressure

  9. Finish Arm Bar On Top

    • If they frame, they tried to roll out - you let them, retracted the butterfly hook, and swung your leg over. now you're on top finishing the armbar. control the position, control the fight

  10. Enter Single X

    • Once set, they stood up - shoot your hips under and collect that outside leg. enter single x guard, maintaining control and setting up your next attacks. keep them off-balance. switch if it stalls

  11. Closed Guard Arm Across

    • Key detail: from here, you've brought their arm across your body into closed guard. lateral guard position gives you control and multiple attack options. keep pressure and watch for openings. switch if it stalls

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