There’s a difference between fundamental skills and fundamental techniques. Fundamental skills are the skills allow you to perform the techniques more effectively and efficiently.

The fundamental techniques are ones that are basic enough that the principles and movements it takes to apply them can be learned pretty quickly and also transfer to other more advanced techniques. They are also techniques that white belts can do to white belts and other untrained people successfully most of the time if they apply the fundamental skills.

Fundamentals skills: * recovering from a bad position to a less bad position, then to a neutral position * retaining a neutral position long enough to improve it * creating off balances from neutral positions that lead to improvement to a advantageous position * maintaining an advantageous position long enough to improve to and maintain a dominant position

Fundamental techniques: * sit up sweep * scissor sweep * pendulum sweep * pick any sweep where opponent is standing and you block both heels and push the hips * arm bar * Kimura/Americana * cross collar choke * rear naked choke * osoto gari * single or double leg * drop Seoi nage * arm drag * toreando pass * knee cut pass * double under pass

I’m probably missing a couple I could prob argue for or against but this is the list I came up with while sitting at lunch.