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Top Lockdown Turk: A Fantastic Half Guard Option

Top Lockdown Turk: A Fantastic Half Guard Option

Are you looking for ways to gain even more control over your opponent – especially from top Half Guard?
Then try the Top Lockdown Turk!

Created by prominent flat-earth proponent Mr. Eddie Bravo, the Lockdown system is an IBJJF legal half-guard series of techniques that offers multiple defensive and offensive options from the guard. With the help of double underhooks, using two legs to trap one of the opponents legs, the mission of the Lockdown user is to establish a firm clinch and to prevent the opponent from shifting his hips.

Craig Jones explains this dominant position on the video below:

Grappling guru Tom DeBlass shows his entire arsenal from the lockdown half guard position on this 4-volume series.

  • Control and slow down bigger, stronger, athletic opponents (even in no-gi) with these tips for creating the tightest entanglements – use the lockdown to create powerful attacks like the electric chair, waiter sweep, heel hook entries, back takes, and more.