How to Win the Pupil Hand Fight

With your legs you're generally looking to have the inside position on their arms. One of the hardest places to reach with your hand to clear a grip is your armpit. Whoever reaches first often like gives the other person a good chance of control. I think a problem a lot of people have is they want to win the hand fight and they reach out very far, which makes it easy for an opponent to get perfect grips before they can. Keep their elbows away from hips so then you can shoot into something like a K-guard or step on the hip if you like triangles and so on as well.