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...besides not getting it locked up in the first place? All I can think of is to try and peel off the hands
I like to get my knee in there. So if my right arm is in the kimura grip, my right knee would wedge in there to try and strip the grip.
It's one of the hardest grips to break definitely. Especially if they're keeping that torque/internal rotation on your shoulder. I mean the grip is fucking hard to break even without that. But with that rotation, a good kimura grip is damn near impossible to strip if they know what they're doing.
There's also a way to flip it and get a kimura grip on them by sort of getting your elbow down. It's really hard for me to type, but it's one of the reasons Vagner Rocha calls it the 50/50 of the arms, because the kimura actually is kind of a 50/50 arm position in theory. In practice the person with the grip is super ahead of the game, but you can flip the position to get them in the kimura grip if you're a kimura wizard.
There's a video with Keenan narrating a roll with Marcelo where he talks about Marcelo using his knee on the elbow to break the kimura grip. I use this a lot and it's extremely effective.