24/07/2026
Specific training using Inside Grip De La Riva to transition to and score from waiter guard 🔥
In this exchange, I switch to an Underhook on the de La Riva.
Now I allow matt to step over my inside leg and immediately enter waiter with optimal grips.
I use a rear sweep from waiter to drop matt into a “wedge” backtake mechanic (that’s the weird rotation you’re seeing) that allows me to quickly take his hips from the mat and load them into mine, creating a serious threat of me transitioning to his back.
Matt counters by finding his shoulders to the matt, so instead of insisting on chest to back, I slide my seatbelt into a head and arm for the finish.
Specific training using Inside Grip De La Riva to transition to and score from waiter guard.
In this exchange, I again switch to an Underhook on the de La Riva.
Nate steps over my inside leg willingly, allowing me to invert and destabilize him backward from waiter.
I chase the back transition, forcing Nate to bail on top and get his shoulders to the mat, conceding the sweep.
Specific training using Inside Grip De La Riva to transition to and score from waiter guard.
Once again switching to an Underhook on the de La Riva.
Nate explores stepping over the inside leg again, and I’m able to briefly enter waiter x with my shin, but opt to off balance for a side sweep to get his hands to post.
Once he’s posted, I shuck his leg over my head to find a deep octopus guard that I use to drop immediately into another wedge mechanic to threaten the back exposure.
Nate reads this and stays ahead by getting his shoulders to the mat and I’m forced to compromise and settle for the sweep.
Specific training using Inside Grip De La Riva to transition to and score from waiter guard.
I’m always getting my de La Riva underhook in this position so I’m in optimal gripping once I destabilize and move to waiter.
Matt attempts to cryangle me (locking a triangle over my waiter guard with my leg inside, absolutely diabolical but a real threat)
I’m able to free my head and begin my back roll for the sole purpose of getting my right knee over his hip to drop again into a wedge and begin back exposure.
Matt knows my entire ga
