Armbar and Americana Setup From Side Control
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Last Tuesday marked my official return to the mat. My foot had healed up enough for me to roll.
Gerald taught two classes last week. I haven’t taken a class from him in a while because he usually taught the no gi classes at U.C.T.C, which I passed up because of time constraints. It was good to learn from him again. He falls into the category of very big, strong guys that have great technique.
Incidentally, Tuesday also marked the first time I’ve grappled no-gi in about a year. Pathetic, I know…and I could tell.
If I may…the gi vs. no-gi argument is largely pointless, I think. I’ve trained gi because I enjoy the huge variety of submissions it opens up, and it really teaches you choke defense. Plus, learning to move with the gi makes it that much easier to move when you take it off. But no-gi offers its advantages, too. If you train no-gi and can execute moves without handholds, when you are offered gi grips it can potentially give you an advantage.
I always just assumed that the no-gi would come naturally. That’s partially true. I held my own. But without the gi I was having a hard time in guard. I hadn’t realized that guard is not necessarily a great place to be when you don’t have good grips. I survived, but I was definitely not used to having such a limited arsenal.
Our training consisted of a technique for setting up and maintaining side control, and using this technique as a setup for a choke, an armbar and an americana. A video toward the end shows a variation that is close to what we learned.
The side control setup deals with trapping both of your opponent’s arms. The far arm is trapped as you wrap around it with your lower arm (the arm closest to your opponent’s feet) and place your own hand on your ear. Isolate their inner arm by trapping the shoulder with your upper knee and then trapping their arm between your arm and your side.
From there, you can crossface and apply what Dave calls the scoot choke. It’s a choke we use with the gi. For no-gi, you start by crossface underhooking their neck, then sliding your elbow over their head while maintaining a grip behind the shoulder, then bringing your forearm across the throat and forcing the chin up while you put your elbow to the mat. It’s a scoot choke because you keep scooting your elbow north until it cuts off the blood. I found this harder to do without the gi, but got it to work in practice.
The americana setup is actually really effective. You have their far arm trapped, and if they reach around your arm and head to try and apply pressure to your head, you let go of the underhook with your upper arm, force the wrist to the ground and apply the kimura. They are completely setting themselves up by putting their arm in the position for you to secure it and apply the keylock.
The armbar setup was new to me. It’s similar to other setups when you target the far arm from side control, but maybe a little more brutal. While keeping the far arm secure, you begin to rotate to north/south, which if you do it right and keep pressure on them, will cross their arms into a “barbed wire” position. Very uncomfortable…especially when a 300 lb black belt is doing it to you.
Here’s a video from Lotus Jiu-jitsu Brooklyn on YouTube that shows a similar setup…(…)
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