Scissor Sweep
- BJJ
- Sweeps
- fundamental
- Closed guard
- 4 steps
Load a shin across the body and scissor the legs to sweep the opponent and come up on top. Also known as the Hasami-gaeshi. Here is the exact breakdown from the DARCE app: 4 steps, the details that make it work, and the mistakes to avoid.
Step by step
- 01
Guard with sleeve & collar grips
Take a collar grip and a same-side sleeve grip, and break their posture toward you.
- 02
Load the shin & off-angle
Turn to your side, slide one shin across their midsection and drop the other leg low as a base.
- 03
Scissor the legs
Pull with the grips, push with the top knee and chop the bottom leg across their base to tip them over.
- 04
Come up on top
Follow them over, keep your grips and post up into mount or top control.
Key details
- Off-angle first, sweeping straight back into their base rarely works.
- The top knee and the chopping leg must move together like scissor blades.
- Keep both grips through the sweep so you ride up into a dominant position.
Common mistakes
- Trying to sweep without breaking their posture and creating an angle.
- Pushing only with the knee and forgetting to chop the bottom leg.
- Letting go of the grips and failing to follow up on top.
Related techniques
- Hip Bump SweepBJJSit up, reach over the shoulder and bump your hips to roll the opponent over into mount.
- Flower SweepBJJControl a sleeve and a leg and swing your legs like a pendulum to sweep them over and come up on top.
- Butterfly SweepBJJFrom seated butterfly guard, underhook and use a hook to elevate the opponent over to the side.
- Triangle ChokeBJJTrap the head and one arm and strangle with your legs in a figure-four around the neck.
- Armbar from GuardBJJIsolate an arm, swing a leg over the head and extend the hips to attack the elbow.
- Cross-Collar ChokeBJJFeed both hands deep into the collars and flare the elbows to strangle from guard.
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