Today I had a private lesson with Jeremy. He answered a few specific questions that have been on my mind recently. First, we covered a good guard option against a standing opponent. I had expressed my reticence to make use of De La Riva because of my knees, so we covered situp guard instead.
It was nice to have a thorough introduction to this guard as it's not something I've worked with extensively before. We started with the standard version, which means that both of your feet and hands are on the inside, and your head is on the front of your opponent's leg. Having achieved the "default" (I'm going to have to learn the Capital language) it's important to control the far sleeve, and now you have the opportunity to hit one of the two sweeps we covered.
The first sweep involves taking your opponent forward by underhooking their far leg and taking them forward. Unfortunately that is all of the detail that I can remember for now, so this will only be a brief run through of the different options. Consider it the basic "if X then Y" part of the game since I have never played sit up guard before.
The second sweep we covered allows you to take your opponent backward. In this case, you tap the outside of the knee and flare your knees while keeping a foot behind their ankle, such that when you lift your hips forward and into their shin, it's as though you're ankle picking.
The situp guard also provides ample opportunity for transitioning to x-guard, single leg x-guard, de la riva, and more.
The most common ways of passing include cutting the knee across, in which case you employ the first sweep. The same applies if they put a knee in your chest to try and flatten you out.
If they try stepping backward, you use the appropriate hook on their stepping leg, as the other one ought to be trapped, and sweep them backwards.
Next, I asked about defeating the z-guard and opponents who are hipping out during the knee-slide pass. The former is laughably simple to defeat: as soon as they press the knee in, stand up and knee slide across their top leg. BAM.
The latter is also relatively uncomplicated: rather than being beholden to the underhook, stiffarm either their shoulder or their hip to kill the hip escape. BAM.
My final question was regarding killing the single-leg stack pass. This was a very useful portion of the session because I unearthed another basic principle of guard retention: don't let them turn your hips away from them. In this particular case, this can be achieved by planting your non-stacked foot on the mat, posting on their shoulder and hip and turning your hip in until your stacked leg can be reinserted.
That's it for now; I'm going to look into some sit-up guard techniques for now.
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