Old training partner of mine.

From the defensive athlete's point of view, he's always looking to get his knee rotating to the inside and his foot as close to the ground as possible, as much surface area of the foot as he can on the inside of the foot, down to the mat.

And if he can do this, he can prevent heel exposure, he can go into a series of rolls which will gradually loosen the connection that you have and ultimately escape.

Okay, so that's always the problem.

that we're facing when we're the offensive athlete.

So we've seen a bunch of ways to deal with this.

One is foot elevation, where we take a cross sole grip, and then from here when he goes to rotate, we can lock on a tighter form of ashigurami.

and i'm so i'm so stiff with that i feel like like a violin so bad so