Finishing the half-guard pass on the negative side by clearing their 1/4 guard ankle trap in negative base.

Usually we are completing this pass with a strong shoulder pressure down on their jaw/neck and a grip deep on the back of their shoulder, but we also use this pass with a kimura grip when we can’t get the head, or if they clear our control of their head.
As long as we are stabilizing our top control in negative base, we can pass to the nearside.
If we are on a posted arm or if they start to build up off the mat, we have to be quick to hop back over.
In the cases where we don’t score 3/4 mount, we can still almost always recover to HQ pressure to kill their open guard and re-pass from there. The idea is to chain pass attempts without allowing them to close their guard or finish a sweep on you, if we can do that then we can just keep passing.
The Negative is a key position to chain with in your passing flow, it helps open up a lot of options and break stagnant situations.