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Setting up the arm triangle?

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Does anyone have any good videos on setting up the arm triangle?

When I can lock it on someone I can usually get a finish but setting it up is tough. But it would be a great tool to add to my arsenal.
 
MilesP4P said:
Does anyone have any good videos on setting up the arm triangle?

When I can lock it on someone I can usually get a finish but setting it up is tough. But it would be a great tool to add to my arsenal.
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Again, refrain to Ryan halls armtriangles dvd, it’s gold.
 
BJJ_Rage said:
Again, refrain to Ryan halls armtriangles dvd, it’s gold.
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this and his back attack dvds kept me from quitting bjj

Here's a good setup by Ryan's first black belt Seph Smith. Catching someone as they try to escape back control is the #1 I get these.

 
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MilesP4P said:
Does anyone have any good videos on setting up the arm triangle?

When I can lock it on someone I can usually get a finish but setting it up is tough. But it would be a great tool to add to my arsenal.
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definitely get that Ryan Hall arm triangles set if you can

I'll try and get you a few free resources. Braulio Estima probably has the best arm triangles of any modern grappler ever. Watch his matches and I would subscribe for a month of his website just to watch all of his arm triangles in sparring. A search for arm triangle turns up 252 of them in his sparring sessions. https://tinyurl.com/y8d88juy And he finishes them basically the same as Ryan Hall and co.

Braulio is great to study because there aren't a ton of grapplers that consistently get the classic kata gatame/side choke style arm triangle when they are not strikes involved. In pure grappling (either points or sub-only) most high level grapplers don't expose themselves in that way for that sub.

Most of the exposure I see for it in pure grappling comes from leg drag passing or being on someone's back and they start getting their back to the mat, and then finally from full mount (Gordon Ryan v Craig Jones at ADCC is a recent example.)

From top side control or top neon belly I just don't see many bottom player's exposing their elbows in that way and not a lot of top players good enough at kata gatame to expose it forcefully.





 
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I'm only 170 pounds, but after watching the above video and TrumpetDan's Roger Gracie cross choke videos a couple years back, I turned into a complete bully from mount.
 
I don't have a video but I can kind of describe how I do it. It's one of my better submissions.

I'll get a lower mount with my feet in prayer position, one arm under their head, the other posted out as far as I can reach. From there, I'll grab their wrist with the extended arm. If they are too good for that, I'll rise up in mount and try to baseball bat grip their wrist and pin it too the floor, then let go with the inside hand and put my arm all the way under their neck.

Either way, the goal is to set up the Americana with my arm under their head. If I can get an Americana, I'll try.

If I can't, for example, if they grab my arm that's under their head to keep me from finishing the Americana, I'll lift their elbow and pin their arm to their head with my head. From there, I'm basically in the arm triangle position, so all I have to do is jump my feet to side mount and sprawl out, and I have it.
 
mataleaos said:
definitely get that Ryan Hall arm triangles set if you can

I'll try and get you a few free resources. Braulio Estima probably has the best arm triangles of any modern grappler ever. Watch his matches and I would subscribe for a month of his website just to watch all of his arm triangles in sparring. A search for arm triangle turns up 252 of them in his sparring sessions. https://tinyurl.com/y8d88juy And he finishes them basically the same as Ryan Hall and co.

Braulio is great to study because there aren't a ton of grapplers that consistently get the classic kata gatame/side choke style arm triangle when they are not strikes involved. In pure grappling (either points or sub-only) most high level grapplers don't expose themselves in that way for that sub.

Most of the exposure I see for it in pure grappling comes from leg drag passing or being on someone's back and they start getting their back to the mat, and then finally from full mount (Gordon Ryan v Craig Jones at ADCC is a recent example.)

From top side control or top neon belly I just don't see many bottom player's exposing their elbows in that way and not a lot of top players good enough at kata gatame to expose it forcefully.





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WOW thank you so much man for your contributions to the thread man!! Really appreciate it brother.
 
Cappy Goodtime said:
I'm only 170 pounds, but after watching the above video and TrumpetDan's Roger Gracie cross choke videos a couple years back, I turned into a complete bully from mount.
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SOunds like ive got some studying to do! thanks man!
 
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