Sunday Nov 2nd

Armbars:

•shin-in armbar: from kneeling and facing each other, wiper-motion with your legs the one that comes under will go to the armpit. If you're holding their right arm, your right leg wipes under and roll onto your back and press your right shin into their armpit as you pull on the arm. Make sure your back is nice and curled and you elevate your hips, the mechanics will take care of the rest as you roll and turn them over. Try to go from facing 12:00 to 6:00 in order to put yourself into a good armbar position.

You can grip arm+lapel, arm+neck, armpit+underhook their knee etc. the details aren't as important. If you don't get the rotation from your larger body movements, then you'll end up pulling them on top of you and then you will be screwed.


•shin-in armbar from standing: press your shin into their waist, right at the belt-line and pull against them. Again for the rt arm attack, begin to squat on your posted leg and press with your right leg. The push-pull action will help you turn properly from 12:00 to 6:00 as before^and as your leg flexes-fully/butt hits the mat, clear your left leg over their head. Your right shin will end up in their armpit and all will be well from there.

•flying armbar: Similar to the first one, you're getting your shin into the armpit. But this time you're jumping into it. Be sure to get the push-pull/rotation, you don't want to land North/North with them, rather turned perpendicular. With the right shin in, your right shoulder should head towards their right foot. Think of what a forward roll would be for your opponent and that is how you want to follow them.

•flying with cross-body legs: this one is a little more rad for the guy jumping. The ground drill we've done is to start from sitting with legs straight out and roll-over onto your shoulders and back to a sitting position. So from standing, I like to attack their left arm. My left leg swings up along their waist, as I contact I'll roll my leg so my toe points away from them, at this point you've gotta be fully committed and swing your leg up and over their face and keep your head tucked. If you just commit to the sucker and stay smooth, it works out fine. If you can do the ground version of this, then your body only needs a few tries with jumping. The rest is psychology and higher-order thinking getting in the way of things again.

follow-ups:

•with shin@waist, your opp. frees the arm you're attacking, drop your leg down and inside hook the leg as you duck under and reach beyond them for a cross-body+inside trip. I'll post a more detailed description of this later, I'm sick of typing this shit already.

•with focus-mitts: knee to the body then either 1. standing shin@waist or 2. jumping shin-in armbar. If you can pull of the second one, then you are freaking Hollywood itself!! :-)