Nick Rodriguez uses his signature pass to capture 3 points and defeat Felipe Pena at ADCC 2022. Let’s take a look at how Nick used an opportunity to advance his grip, smash, and eventually get to dominate side control.
Step 1
From both knees, Nick dives in to Felipe’s butterfly guard keeping hit chin tucked and arms our wide. Felipe uses a left arm under hook, in which Nick capitalizes on.
Step 2
Nick smashes forward with his right arm over Felipe’s left under hook. Nick is able to secure an s-grip on Felipe’s lower back as his continues to smash forward with his chin tucked.
Step 3
With Felipe’s left arm trapped and the s-grip secured, Nick smashes Felipe to set up his grip advancement.
Step 4
Nick advances his s-grip from Felipe’s back to a head and arm using the Gable grip. Nick raises his hips while maintaining heavy headlock pressure.
Step 5
While keeping heavy headlock pressure, Nick uses hip switches and clears Felipe’s legs to move into side control.
Step 6
Nick continues to maintain the same headlock and Gable grip as he secures side control and gains 3 points. He keeps heavy chest pressure and pulls his knees close to Pena.
