Crossface Riding System: Placement Standards, the Nelson Pairing, and the Defensive Shift

Mat Manual companion guide to "How to Use the Crossface." Print it. The article explains the tool and its standard. This book makes the standard drillable: placement checkpoints a coach can freeze, the four riding jobs as progressions, the half nelson pairing as a timed sequence, the defensive crossface by layer, and a conduct page the whole room signs.

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SAFETY AND CONDUCT, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ☐ The flat of the forearm only. The forearm's edge and the elbow point never carry pressure on a face in this room, in drilling or in live rounds, winning or losing. ☐ Any partner complaint about face pressure stops the rep at once. The placement is rebuilt at slow speed. A second complaint in a session ends crossface work for that pair that day. ☐ The forearm never settles on the throat and never slides into the eyes. A placement that travels there in a scramble is released and rebuilt, not ridden out. ☐ Crossface and half nelson are never cranked at the same time. The sequence in Part 9 is the room law for the pairing. ☐ Breathing stays clear under every crossface in this book. A partner who cannot breathe comfortably calls it, and the pressure eases before anything else continues.

Part 1: The Tool, in One Page

The crossface turns the head, and the body follows the head. Everything in this book serves that one mechanical fact, and every standard in it protects the surface the fact is applied to.