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Braziliian Gracie Mag just posted this yesterday
Armbars are my thing, but I never go foot on the hip. I prefer to throw my hips up into high guard right away and attack from there. This is almost always a follow up to an arm drag where I can't get to the back.
And even though armbars were my thing from white belt, I couldn't develop the armbar from guard until I really got good at the arm drag during my time as a purple belt.
I feel like the overhook armbar has a shorter 'access path' and affords more control (and so easier to pull off at higher levels).
Why no belts in robot jiu jitsu?
I don't think the traditional arm bar is important to know, other than to have seen for purposes of defending. It's just not as effective a way of doing the move as the Roger way. I'm not a big fan or retaining things just for pedagogical purposes, my experience has been that generally you get just as much benefit from using other moves that actually work on good guys but that incorporate the same sorts of motions without the negative effect of ingraining a suboptimal way of doing a move. 'Good jiu jitsu' is not an aesthetic judgement (or shouldn't be), it's a measure of what works. By that metric, the Roger way is 'good jiu jitsu' and the trad way is less so.
very rarely from the guard, but i'd say more than 50% of my finishes are armbars from the mount.
sweep, pass, get the mount, threaten the collar choke, armbar. it just never gets old.
not really. i've done it a couple of times, but mostly i do the classic armbar.Do you stay mounted when you armbar?
not really. i've done it a couple of times, but mostly i do the classic armbar.
i do it exactly like the video below. if you do everything williams says you need to do, it's very difficult for them to stop you, and very unlikely that you'll lose position. if you get the mount and lose position doing this exact armbar, then you fucked up.
"if do right, no can defense"
i destroy people with that elbow walk. even if you're not going to armbar them, when you get the mount, you need to crossface with one arm and walk their elbow up with the other. it takes very little energy from the top, and it's infuriating for the bottom man. i'm pretty much the smallest guy in my gym, and i've done this to everyone, from girls to heavyweight guys.That detail of walking the elbow up... the first tiem I saw that was years ago in a Braulia Estima arm-triangle instructional, and yet I almost never see anyone do it, until I saw Gregor Gillespie do it in the UFC a few weeks ago against Gonzalez.
i destroy people with that elbow walk. even if you're not going to armbar them, when you get the mount, you need to crossface with one arm and walk their elbow up with the other. it takes very little energy from the top, and it's infuriating for the bottom man. i'm pretty much the smallest guy in my gym, and i've done this to everyone, from girls to heavyweight guys.
it doesn't look like much, but it's extremely difficult to stop it. guys will often try to scoot backwards while pressing their elbow back to their ribcage, but you just start over again, slowly walking with your fingers and pulling their elbow higher and higher. by the 3rd time you do it to them, they're exhausted and can't defend it anymore. then you have all sorts of fun stuff: armbars, americanas, arm triangles, giftwrap backtakes, wristlocks.. you name it. they're mounted, with their arm isolated, and their energy sapped. they are completely and utterly fucked.
if i ever meet shawn williams, i owe him a beer.
not really. i've done it a couple of times, but mostly i do the classic armbar.
i do it exactly like the video below. if you do everything williams says you need to do, it's very difficult for them to stop you, and very unlikely that you'll lose position. if you get the mount and lose position doing this exact armbar, then you fucked up.
"if do right, no can defense"