DLR: Timber and Axe Sweep

The "Timber" sweep, created, named, and taught to me by JT Torres (although nothing is actually new in jiu jitsu) is my best DLR sweep. Deceptively simple and easy to set up, I've actually tried to stop sweeping this way because I'm too successful with it against white-purple belts who let me get a DLR hook and double sleeve control and only sweeping one way is limiting my game. With that said, it's awesome and I just learned the axe sweep to compliment it. If you aren't experienced with DLR, I highly recommend starting with the first sweep.

A. Timber Sweep
(starting left leg hooked, double sleeve control)
1. A really tight hook helps a ton here. To repost:

to get a deep hook, bridge hips and look over left shoulder and drive the hook deep, then recenter and buckle his knee inwards as you square up with a deep hook. It was incredible what a difference this made

2. Slide your hips back and to the left, increasing the angle towards his back. I do this by straightening my legs which naturally changes the ankle towards their back.
3. Raise up on your left hip
4. Plant your right foot on the mat
5. Simultaneously push with your foot, kick with the hook, and pull with your hands to sweep them onto their back
6. Don't drop the hand-grips-use them to come up into a cut pass

B. Axe Sweep
-people can avoid the above sweep with proper posture/positioning, but once the sweep is actually in motion one of the few things an opponent can do is backstep with the back leg and use that to post. This is the counter.
1. Immediately after opponent backsteps, switch your orientation and slide onto your right hip
2. Slightly reposition the hook to be shallower, now pushing into the back of their thigh instead of hooking (looking like a reverse-DLR hook but on the other side)
3. Immediately kick with the hook and pull with the hands to sweep them towards their front
4. Once again come into a cut pass, this time cutting over the top of their thigh. Alternatively, go into more of a smash pass.