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I've seen it taught a few ways to get the lock -just shooting the hips up (which I don't like) and using the foot on their hip to shoot your hip way up (which I like).
Are you using foot on their hip to push them away instead of just pushing yourself up?
Mostly to stretch them out and break their posture. Like any sub, it is not so much an attack as an option that comes from breaking down your opponent positionally. That is why against good opponents it comes as they are defending a series of other threats, not a single attack.
So in the first instance I am attacking the posture and grips to get an angle, and in the second I have a shot at the triangle if this is successful.
You will see some guys working from a ‘loose triangle’ as a position in itself, but with few exceptions they have very long and skinny limbs, are very flexible, and the strategy stops working efficiently against higher belts ... see early Ryan Hall for example.