If your opponent turtles up and really tightens up, then there’s not much you can do to create openings. However, two things might still be available – their ankles.
And, coincidentally, there are two ways to use their ankles to deal with the Turtle position; the “near and far ankle” approach.
Neil Melanson demonstrates them on the video below:
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