During a heel hook, how do you prevent your opponent from rolling their entire body around and loosening the pressure? I'm figure-fouring with my legs, but the more experienced grapplers seem to just go into a kind of gator-roll and take me with them. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Your instructor should be able to help you with this one. Parallel (Same side) Heel Hook, use your outside/over leg and hook that foot underneath his free leg. He won't be able to roll away or stand up. If he tries, just kick your leg straight and it will sweep him back. He can't roll into the lock or it will damage his knee so he has only one way to turn.

The Cross/ Reverse Heel Hook is a lot harder to roll out of but sometimes a lot harder to get into.

I don't like rolling with heelhooks in play as all my students as well as myself have to go to work for a living. Very easy to get hurt with spiral/ twisting locks.

terminology question: are you talking about a heel hook similar as used in an Osoto Gari throw, except entirely locking the leg with your foot? or, are you talking about this in a ground grappling sense? If so, I can't visualize it.

Cosidering this is in the grappling section, I personally would assume he meant the ground submission

oh thats right, MMA doesn't train a stand-up game.

This is a heel hook.

picture is 1000 words. thanks.

btw, your condecending tone...is it new? lol

If only counting the times when people try to be condecending with me, then no, it's a tool I always keep by my side, along with my limited edition Bruce Lee nunchucks...

thanks everyone. I was talking about a heel hook in a grappling sense, just like what was shown in the picture. I'll work on getting my foot under their other leg. Thanks for the advice!

Going off the picture I teach a little different positioning as the first method of doing it.

Take the legs and figure four them from there, right foot into left knee. Then use the left foot to either push out on there other leg, or just hook under it.

This will prevent them from rolling with it as there other leg is tied up, and rolling the other way does damage to them.

It is also a very secure position, so if you can achieve it you can hold it for a while, so it you want you can roll, get the position, and not crank on it without them being able to do much, call that the win.

Heel hooks are pretty versatile and position can vary, I just like the one I described as it is very secure

Thanks, Mr Green. Could you by any chance post a pic of that one? I would love to see it as this is a problem I've been trying to solve in my game for quite some time.

Thanks

Thank you very much sir.

Here ya go:

http://innovativema.ca/forum/view.php?pg=guardheelhook

Excellent. I'll try it out tommorow. I appreciate it, now that I've seen it I can't believe I didn't think of it haha. Great position.

Thanks Andrew. Nice work.