If you’ve made that leap of faith into the dark arts of Leglocks, then figuring out how to get the infamous Heelhook from everywhere should be your focus. One great example, is from Half Guard when are you are on top.

In the video above, the infamous and feared Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares chows a lightning quick setup for attacking a heel hook from the top half guard that will surprise your opponent.

First of all,  you have to make some distance between you and your opponent to make it effective. It’s very important that you don’t let the opponent under-hook on you… If they go for the underhook, Toquinho tells you to block the underhook and push them back.

Listen up, here is the takeaway: When you push them back is the moment when you go for your Heelhook!

You need to slide your bottom knee next to the opponent’s hip, grab their knee on the outside, and pull their leg towards you. Use that motion to cross your other leg over at the same time. Plant your foot on the opponent’s hip.

From here, to finish the technique, Toquinho explains that all you have to do is squeeze your knees tight and connect your hands with a Gable Grip. With the opponent’s heel deep inside your elbow, if you apply all of these points of pressure well – the foot on the hip, the knees, and the heel-grip – your tapping success rate will increase by tenfold!

Check out the heel hook setup from Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares’s latest instructional ‘Heel Hunting’ in the video above.

HEEL HUNTING WITH ROUSIMAR “TOQUINHO” PALHARES
In this course, Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares will teach you how to attack quickly and effectively for submissions from all positions, increasing drastically your success rate on the mats!