William Tackett: Narrated Roll Breakdown

William Tackett (@tackett_jiujitsu), UFC BJJ athlete, narrates a roll with Caleb Tackett: an arm push escape, Williams guard, a far neck grip to arm triangle, a rolling back take and two wrist locks. From the video: https://youtu.be/5v7bGm_OcNc

Flow outline

1. Caleb Passes To Side Control

   • Caleb throws William's legs to the side and works side control.
   • From William Tackett (@tackett_jiujitsu), UFC BJJ athlete, in the video "William Tackett Narrates Jiu-Jitsu Roll".
   • Leg Path: legs thrown to the side
   • Pressure: hunkers down on the neck

2. Arm Push Escape

   • William uses a little escape by pushing the arm.
   • Entry: push the arm

3. Reverse Triangle Defense

   • William fiddles with the arm and uses kimura slash wrist lock to unlock Caleb's legs.
   • Grip: kimura slash wrist lock
   • Reaction: Caleb unlocks his legs

4. Top Side Control Attempt

   • William starts to take the arm out and work into top side control.
   • Entry: start to take my arm out

5. Step Over Attempt

   • William tries to step over but Caleb powers out.
   • Reaction: Caleb powers his way out

6. Williams Guard Setup

   • William uses a Williams guard, scooping the far leg to set up triangles or omoplata.
   • Entry: scooping your far leg
   • Option: set up triangles
   • Option: tightening up the omoplata
   • Position: played from closed guard

7. Sweep To Top

   • William uses the guard to sweep and gain top position by rolling through.
   • Finish: rolling through and landing inside the guard

8. Underhook Pass To Side Control

   • William works for an underhook and slices into side control.
   • Entry: working for like an underhook
   • Finish: hitting any slice into a side control position

9. Shoulder Pressure Control

   • William applies shoulder pressure, keeping the head and shoulder heavy on Caleb's chin.
   • Pressure: keeping my head my shoulder heavy on his chin
   • Goal: keeps Caleb from turning to face you and getting out

10. Far Neck Grip On Turtle

    • William moves around the turtle, reaching for the far neck with a choking pressure grip.
    • Grip: reaching for the far neck
    • Pressure: almost like a choking pressure on their neck
    • Effect: works like a weird nelson that makes it easy to turn the partner over

11. Arm Triangle Finish

    • William turns Caleb over and cinches in an arm triangle.
    • Finish: cinch in an arm triangle
    • Pressure: pulling their neck into their own shoulder

12. Back Take With Hook Insert

    • William inserts a hook, and when it gets kicked out, rolls through the far shoulder and inserts the opposite hook.
    • Entry: insert my hook
    • Leg Path: roll through my far shoulder
    • Checkpoint: left leg already inside
    • Finish: crossing my ankles
    • Reaction: they kick the first hook out

13. Wrist Lock Control

    • Instead of grabbing the wrist, William grips the palm with the fingers, connects both hands to the palm, pulls the elbow into the chest and gets the wrist locking motion.
    • Grip: grab my fingers on the palm
    • Anchor: connect both my hands to his palm
    • Pressure: pull his elbow into my own chest
    • Finish: wrist locking motion
    • Entry: tries to trap the arm with the underhand, Caleb pulls the hand out

14. Two On One Control

    • William tries to use two on one control to suck Caleb in.
    • Grip: two on one control

15. Caleb Falls Back On Leg

    • Caleb falls back on William's leg.
    • Reaction: falls back on my leg

16. Elbow Bend Wrist Lock

    • William puts the head in the crook of Caleb's elbow, bends the elbow, then bends the wrist to force the hand towards the head.
    • Head Position: put my head in the crook of their elbow
    • Finish: bend their own wrists
    • Finish: force their hand towards their head

17. Caleb North South Dive

    • Caleb dive bombs in from north south style position like a torpedo dive.
    • Entry: dive bombs in from like the north south style position
    • Timing: really hard to stop when timed correctly

18. William Turtles Up

    • William mostly turtles up to defend.
    • Reaction: mostly turtle up

Branch conditions

• when he hunkers down on the neck
• then he caught me in a reverse triangle
• he unlocks his legs
• then I try to step over
• then we reset and I use Williams guard
• then I use it to sweep
• then I work for an underhook
• then I apply shoulder pressure
• then we reset and I move around the turtle
• then I turn him over and cinch the arm triangle
• then I work to his back
• then I try to trap his arm
• then we work back into it
• but he falls back on my leg
• later in the roll
• then Caleb is back on top