He is a very aggressive player and does this well. He always says “Just fucking smash through it” and it works for him.

To kill it my coach throws his hips really hard into my legs, causing me to lose control for a second. Then he makes his move to whatever position is given to him.

Any defensive suggestions? This is a little difficult to defend becuase my first reaction when guard is thrown at me is to posture up….which makes the triangle easier, I guess.

If you look at the first two pics, you can see where I actually hit the triangle. As they go to pass the guard I push on the shoulder and bring my right leg over the top turning inverted.
When I do I’m looking for my left heal to hook on his right hip. Then I use that heal and the sleeve grip to swing right back into the triangle.

I’m using the “backwards” triangle almost constantly from this transition.

Everyone who first saw me trying to figure this move out doubted it, and since then I’m triangled almost all of them with it. Or at least got in the position to triangle them but couldn’t quite close because my triangle ins’t good enough. Still you will get the head and arm you need to set up the triangle, and i think it will help a lot of people in opening their guards, and building good hip movement for everything else.

But thanks for digging this stuff out. Seeing it at least keeps me from thinking there are too many “written in stone” rules or strategies in bjj.

Who is Lloyd Irvin though and what is the Game Plan?

Ah, http://www.lloydirvin.com/adult/bjj/testimonials.html

Now, what is the Grappler’s Blueprint? Never mind, I’ll just read their website and go from there. (Sounds potentially controversial, though….)

I do wish his students would just say “Coach Irving” instead of “Master Irving.” Or “Teach’”. Or even sensei; I think “sensei” for example, is used by grade school kids in Japan for their school teacher so it doesn’t have the kind of “heaviness” to it that “Master” does.