Also known as: SLX · Ashi Garami · Single-X · Irimi Ashi Garami
One leg wraps outside the opponent’s leg with the foot on their hip, the other hooks under — the basic ashi garami. It is both a sweeping guard and the gateway drug of leg locks: the straight ankle lock lives here, and every deeper entanglement (outside ashi, 50/50, saddle) is one rotation away.
Gi & No-gi · Category: Leg Entanglements
What can you do from Single Leg X?
SLX player (positional score +3/10)
Submissions
Straight Ankle Lock — The entry-level leg lock and still an elite finish: blade of your wrist under the Achilles, foot trapped in your armpit, hips arching through the ankle.
Sweeps
Single Leg X Sweep — From single leg X, lift their trapped leg and steer their hips past their free foot — they fall backward and you come up into their open guard, footlock threats trailing behind.
Standing player
This side of the position is about defending and rebuilding — see the escapes and transitions from the other role.