Knowledge

It is a variation of Cross Ashi Garami with both Inside Position and Outside Position.

It is a variation of Criss Cross Ashi Garami where our outside leg is protected by being below the inside leg.

It is a variation of Criss Cross Ashi Garami where our outside leg is exposed by being above the inside leg.

We secure the opponent's secondary leg so the opponent can not turnout in the first place, so we solved the Turnout Problem from the parent system. We then deal with the Release Problem instead. Release Problem: If we want to apply an Inside Heel Hook on the opponent's primary leg, at some point we need to release the secondary leg. We need to finds way to manage the release of the secondary leg so we can apply an Inside Heel Hook.

The Cross Ashi Garami system is a way to go from Cross Ashi Garami with our feet on the inside to the application of an Inside Heel Hook while dealing with the Turnout Problem first, and depending in the path we take, different other spinoff problems. Turnout Problem: When we are in a Cross Ashi Garami situation the opponent must escape by turning out away from us. From there he can hide his heel, expose the back of our legs and start building up to escapes and counters.

Arm-in front-headlock strangle threaded under near arm.

It is a defensive position when we are being attacked from Cross Ashi Garami situation. It has 2 main objectives: - Hide our primary leg heel from the opponent. - Denied access to our secondary leg to avoid Double Trouble attacks on us.

It is a continuation of D1 where we gain inside position with our secondary leg and get up to our knees having our hips higher than the opponents hips. It will allow us: - Keep moving in the right direction (we want to go to our knees). - Expose the opponent hamstrings. - Go up to our knees - From our knees to have stronger hamstring exposure on the opponent's outside leg that we can explote with our arms, and on the opponent's inside leg that we can explote with our secondary leg by posting our foot there.

It is a continuation of D2 where we are 4 pointed on the floor. It will allow us: - Push back with our leg into the opponent. - Misdirect our own knee for escapes, go for rolls, knee slips.

It is a continuation of D3 where we are standing. It will allow us: - Use gravity against the opponent by pushing his Ashi Garami down away from us.

Cross Ashi (Inside Sankaku) with the opponent's secondary leg crossed to the other side of our body.