Dear UmaLumpa,
You did not describe how your training partners are defending your guard pass … It may be helpful to understand your problem.
Anyway … If you are more at ease passing the half guard, you can consider jumping into your opponent half guard from a broken closed guard or an open guard (you will most often be low on its body in this case), and passing the half guard.
[quote=UpaLumpa;2184912]To try and help others, I’ll try and describe what is one of my money passes. I suck at textually describing things though.
Starting out in someone’s guard I’ll get a strong grip on their pants similar to as is shown here:
Except higher up, closer to their waist band. I then pin my elbow to the ground which kills their hips and keeps one of their legs pinned which keeps me out of danger from triangles. I’d also be in closer on them otherwise they may be able to pull out releasing the pin and creating the opportunity for an inverted triangle or other assorted silliness. With that grip I have a variety of options that are all highly effective for me. One that works quite well comes when they bring the free leg up higher, sometimes to where they’re trying to triangle me. Even if the leg is only half way up to there what is very effective is to baseball slide under, keeping really low. As I come around I’ll keep the grip and if possible also trap the leg I slid under between my shoulder and my head. From there I switch my hips and under hook their head with my free arm. I often also keep the grip (which now is basically me holding the front of their pants with my arm between their legs) and use that to turn their hips and square their shoulders to the mat and turn their hips away from me which makes taking mount or knee on belly easy.
Sorry I suck at describing things but I’m happy to clarify.[/quote]