1 minute body lock tip- there is a common misconception about body locking where some people think that you either use locked hands (standard body locks) or unlocked hands (tight waists) to pass. If you’re a body lock passer you lock your hands and don’t unlock until you pass or you’re a tight waist passer and don’t lock your hands until you pass. We must learn to erase the arbitrary line between locked and unlocked hands. We must be able to move freely back and forth between the two. Here, I slow a standard body lock, to an open tight waist, to a locked long arm short arm with an inside elbow. When talking about general directions with body lock passing, you work around shelving, stuffing, and splitting. You either shelf the leg across your hips and pass, you stuff the leg into half guard chest to chest, or you split the legs. A double split (seen here) is the ultimate front body lock passing position. You dominate the inside of the hip with your elbow AND you dominate the lower body inside real estate with BOTH of your legs, preventing any meaningful connection of your opponents legs to you. Whenever we can force a double split, easy passes will follow. Hope this helps 😀