Triangle

Attribution: Attribution: This lesson plan is based on an Instagram reel posted by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.


Game 1

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked together behind you.
  • Objective: Maintain upright posture and keep your hands on your opponent.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

  • Position: On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them.
  • Objective: Make strong meaningful connection anywhere on the body to try to remove the the hands and destabilize your partner forwards or backwards by using pushing and pulling of the legs. Cause your partner to post.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Game 2

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked together behind you.
  • Objective: Maintain posture and keep your hands on your opponent. If your post gets trapped fight out back to an upright posture.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

  • Position:On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them.
  • Objective: Make strong meaningful connection anywhere on the body to try to remove the the hands and destabilize your partner forwards or backwards by using pushing and pulling of the legs. Cause your partner to post. Puhish the post by trapping it with underhooks and overhooks.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Game 3

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked together behind you.
  • Objective:Maintain upright posture and keep your hands on your partner.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Fighting back to posture.

Bottom Player:

  • Position: On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them. Start with one arm either hooked over their shoulder or one arm hooked under their armpit.
  • Objective: Separate the hands and work your way towards the arm in arm out scenario.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Achieving the arm in arm out scenario.