Quick Answer: The over-under pass is a pressure-based guard-passing technique where one arm hooks over your opponent’s thigh (overhook) and the other drives under the opposite leg (underhook), with your hands locked at their hip. You flatten them, load your weight onto their chest, and walk around to side control. In no-gi, you grip directly…
The body lock pass is no-gi’s most dominant guard pass. Learn the entry, the finishes, and the mistakes that kill it — the Gordon Ryan way.
The body lock pass is the no-gi guard pass that quietly became the meta. Watch any ADCC final from the last six years and you’ll spot it: forearms cinched around the lower back, head heavy on the chest, knees splitting the opponent’s hips. Gordon Ryan rode it to three ADCC golds. Nicky Rodriguez built an…