Hey, you can do that last move from the mount, too, and with even more leverage!
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Head and Arm Choke / Neck Crank from Mount (a/k/a shoulder choke, arm triangle):
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Setups:
1) From the mount, get head control: swim your arms inside his and get one (here, the left) around his head. Lean your weight onto his neck, turning his head to his left. Get him to put his left arm near or across his face.
2) Another opportunity is when you are sitting up in his guard and he posts his hand (here, let’s say his left hand) on your chest, or when you have him in cross side and he pushes up with his hand to escape.
Now shove his left arm across his face with your right hand and slide your face down the back of his left arm. Pin his left arm under his jaw with your left chest/shoulder, holding him around the back of his neck with your left arm.
Now bring your right arm up by his left ear and grab your right biceps.
Bend your right arm and place the palm of your right hand on his forehead. This is basically the same grip as a rear naked choke.
Bring your elbows toward each other, squeeze, and push your head forward and down to tighten the choke. Your left biceps cuts off his right carotid while his own left shoulder against his throat cuts off his left carotid.
If the choke isn’t working well, turn your left palm up to bring pressure from the ridge of your forearm against his neck for a painful neck crank. You can also tighten it by stepping your left leg over to his right side, so you no longer have the mount, and leaning your weight onto his head / neck.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Light Posting
Hey, loyal readers!
Sorry about the light posting recently...
I've been wrapping up my clerkship: Drafting opinions, training my replacement, etc.
And this coming Saturday I'm off to the Yucatan Peninsula for a few weeks.
Alas, all four of you will have to find something else to do with thirty seconds of your week, 'cause I don't plan to blog while I'm gone.
Just beer, beach, books, and Mayan ruins.
I'll post pics.
Tu heel k'iin!
Sorry about the light posting recently...
I've been wrapping up my clerkship: Drafting opinions, training my replacement, etc.
And this coming Saturday I'm off to the Yucatan Peninsula for a few weeks.
Alas, all four of you will have to find something else to do with thirty seconds of your week, 'cause I don't plan to blog while I'm gone.
Just beer, beach, books, and Mayan ruins.
I'll post pics.
Tu heel k'iin!
BJJ Move #63: Head and Arm Choke from Guard
Guys in your guard often let you get one of their arms across their body with an arm drag. You can use it to take his back or sweep him, as in the last move, or...
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Head and Arm Choke from Guard:
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Your opponent is inside your closed guard leaning against your throat with his right forearm.
With your legs clasped around his body, press him backwards a bit and use your left hand to push his right arm to your right.
Now relax your legs to let him lean forward again and collapse his right arm across his centerline between his body and yours.
Your right arm goes under his right arm and around his neck (past his left ear from the front of his body).
Press your head against the outside of his right shoulder, preventing him from bringing his right arm back out.
Now grab your left biceps with your right hand, place your left palm against your opponent’s forehead, and squeeze your elbows together, press your head into his arm, and push him backward again with your legs for a tight choke.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Head and Arm Choke from Guard:
-submission
Your opponent is inside your closed guard leaning against your throat with his right forearm.
With your legs clasped around his body, press him backwards a bit and use your left hand to push his right arm to your right.
Now relax your legs to let him lean forward again and collapse his right arm across his centerline between his body and yours.
Your right arm goes under his right arm and around his neck (past his left ear from the front of his body).
Press your head against the outside of his right shoulder, preventing him from bringing his right arm back out.
Now grab your left biceps with your right hand, place your left palm against your opponent’s forehead, and squeeze your elbows together, press your head into his arm, and push him backward again with your legs for a tight choke.
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Monday, August 29, 2005
BJJ Move #62: Arm Drag to Back Mount from Closed Guard
A general tip from a guy who taught me, leading into what the arm drag from guard is about:
A big, strong guy with good posture and strong shoulders can often be caught in an armlock or triangle, but it has to be from open guard where he extends his arm and you swivel your hips and drive them upwards, catching him unaware—you can’t lever him over with your hips from the closed guard.
If he is stiff and defensive and will pull anything out that you try, go for the arm drag from the guard (open or half guard or sitting guard). The move is so simple and you will always at least sweep him if not take his back. The arm drag capitalizes on his weakness: lack of mobility.
Don't play a closed guard with him, he'll just sit in it, you need feet in the hips, you need a solid half-guard or sitting guard. He's all about forward pressure and just laying on you. You need to make that space to allow yourself to work.
What follows is an arm drags from closed guard.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Arm Drag to Back Mount from Guard:
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Arm Drag Reversal to Back Mount from Closed Guard:
Opportunities / set-ups:
1) First, get the no-gi arm control: When trying to control your opponent’s right arm while he’s in your guard, and he isn’t wearing a gi, hold his right wrist with your left hand against your chest, trap his right arm by the elbow with your right hand, and hip up to his elbow, reducing the space for him to bend his arm and pull it away. Your butt will leave the ground.
Now, drop your hips suddenly and to the left, pulling his arms to the mat and slightly to the right, sliding your locked feet to the right so they’re over his left hip.
2) Your opponent is in your guard and is leaning on your throat with his right forearm.
Grab his right wrist / gi sleeve with your right hand, and his right elbow with your left hand.
Push your opponent back with your hips, and push his arm to your right.
Switch your right hand to grab underneath his right upper arm, securing his shoulder to your chest.
Once you’ve done the arm drag, immediately hug your chest against his right shoulder, grabbing around his back with your left hand to his left lat, trapping both of his arms across to your right, and free your right hand (if he’s holding it, you can’t pivot around him).
With your left hand/arm over his right shoulder grabbing his back or the back of his left armpit, start scooting around clockwise towards his back until you have the back mount.
"Thwart" move:
As above, but he’s holding onto your right wrist so you can’t slide around to get his back. Uncross your feet and swing your left leg to the side, rolling him over his right side and taking the cross side on his right.
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A big, strong guy with good posture and strong shoulders can often be caught in an armlock or triangle, but it has to be from open guard where he extends his arm and you swivel your hips and drive them upwards, catching him unaware—you can’t lever him over with your hips from the closed guard.
If he is stiff and defensive and will pull anything out that you try, go for the arm drag from the guard (open or half guard or sitting guard). The move is so simple and you will always at least sweep him if not take his back. The arm drag capitalizes on his weakness: lack of mobility.
Don't play a closed guard with him, he'll just sit in it, you need feet in the hips, you need a solid half-guard or sitting guard. He's all about forward pressure and just laying on you. You need to make that space to allow yourself to work.
What follows is an arm drags from closed guard.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Arm Drag to Back Mount from Guard:
-reversal
Arm Drag Reversal to Back Mount from Closed Guard:
Opportunities / set-ups:
1) First, get the no-gi arm control: When trying to control your opponent’s right arm while he’s in your guard, and he isn’t wearing a gi, hold his right wrist with your left hand against your chest, trap his right arm by the elbow with your right hand, and hip up to his elbow, reducing the space for him to bend his arm and pull it away. Your butt will leave the ground.
Now, drop your hips suddenly and to the left, pulling his arms to the mat and slightly to the right, sliding your locked feet to the right so they’re over his left hip.
2) Your opponent is in your guard and is leaning on your throat with his right forearm.
Grab his right wrist / gi sleeve with your right hand, and his right elbow with your left hand.
Push your opponent back with your hips, and push his arm to your right.
Switch your right hand to grab underneath his right upper arm, securing his shoulder to your chest.
Once you’ve done the arm drag, immediately hug your chest against his right shoulder, grabbing around his back with your left hand to his left lat, trapping both of his arms across to your right, and free your right hand (if he’s holding it, you can’t pivot around him).
With your left hand/arm over his right shoulder grabbing his back or the back of his left armpit, start scooting around clockwise towards his back until you have the back mount.
"Thwart" move:
As above, but he’s holding onto your right wrist so you can’t slide around to get his back. Uncross your feet and swing your left leg to the side, rolling him over his right side and taking the cross side on his right.
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Friday, August 26, 2005
Oil, Betting, and Bull
Read below the link for my bloggy rant on oil, news media, and bullshit in general.
Okay, you're in for it now.
So.
In Sunday's NYT Magazine, Peter Maas had an interesting, if economically very silly piece about "Peak Oil."
Basically it advanced Matthew Simmons's idea that the Saudis aren't being honest about how much oil they have and can produce (believable) and that oil is soon going to cost about three times what it does now (not so believable).
Silly, I (and many others smarter than me) say, because we can switch to alternatives, increase fuel efficiency and conservation, etc. Besides, the futures market isn't stupid, and it's not pricing 2010 oil anywhere near there.
Steven Levitt, the economist of the economist-and-writer team who wrote "Freakonomics," has a great post on his blog about the recent John Tierney column.
Tierney, emerging as quite the badass of the op-ed page, bet the Simmons $10k that oil would be under $200/barrel in 2010, adjusted for inflation.
Now, set aside that a big part of inflation is energy prices, and just realize that Simmons is saying we're going to be spending more than three times what we currently do on a barrel of oil instead of firing up some uranium reactors. No way. I mean, if Americans don't believe in evolution, how can we be afraid of mutation?
Mutation (artists's conception)Simmons reveals (and Levitt points out) his ignorance of economics when he basically says that oil should cost more because it's so useful. In his e-mail to Levitt, he compares its utility to that of a rickshaw driver.
I took a microeconomics class with a "Marxian" economist who taught us standard micro but had ideas like this.
Marx was a very smart man. Ptolemy was even smarter, but the Sun does not go around the Earth.
Predicting what something will cost by evaluating how much it ought to cost, is, to give a little Yiddish lesson, narishkeit, bubbemeise, mishugas-- that is, foolishness, old wives' tales, craziness . . . bullshit.
Newspapers tend to be very good at reporting the basic facts of a story.
But as soon as they try to evaluate or report the details or any sort of theoretical underpinning-- legal, geopolitical, economic, medical, statistical-- they're out of their depth.
If you've ever been involved in something reported in a newspaper, you know what I mean. Even the best reporters can't get accurate details on a deadline. And aside from a very few reporters (Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court, for example), they don't know enough and/or feel it isn't their job to cut through the crap they're fed.
That's the praisweworthy role of BS-detecting columnists like Tierney and bloggers like Levitt. A calling to which I hope to contribute not at all.
Please, people.
This site is full of it.
BJJ Move #61: Arm Elevator Sweep from Guard
A sweep when your opponent stands up onto onto one foot while in your guard. This happens a lot when you attempt an armlock.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Arm Elevator and Sweep (to mount) with Armlock Opportunity (a/k/a arm-inside sweep):
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Use this move when your opponent lifts up one leg in the guard. If your opponent gets up on his left foot, you slide your right arm underneath his raised left leg.
At the same time, pull on his leg to bring your head to his left foot, pivoting counterclockwise on your lower back.
Using your free left hand, grab the gi sleeve / wrist of his right arm.
In one motion, pulling his right arm and raising his leg, bring your opponent on a 45-degree angle toward your left side (not right across your body, and not right past your head, but the angle halfway between).
The important step with this sweep is to use your left leg for momentum. As your bring your opponent on a 45-degree angle toward your left side, swing your left leg underneath him from left to right.
Use your right leg to kick in the direction of his head underneath his left armpit.
As your opponent is reversed onto his back, climb into the mount by rolling back and over your left shoulder.
Or, instead of climbing into mount, pull his right elbow up to about your waistline, put your left leg across his face and apply an armlock.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Arm Elevator and Sweep (to mount) with Armlock Opportunity (a/k/a arm-inside sweep):
-reversal
Use this move when your opponent lifts up one leg in the guard. If your opponent gets up on his left foot, you slide your right arm underneath his raised left leg.
At the same time, pull on his leg to bring your head to his left foot, pivoting counterclockwise on your lower back.
Using your free left hand, grab the gi sleeve / wrist of his right arm.
In one motion, pulling his right arm and raising his leg, bring your opponent on a 45-degree angle toward your left side (not right across your body, and not right past your head, but the angle halfway between).
The important step with this sweep is to use your left leg for momentum. As your bring your opponent on a 45-degree angle toward your left side, swing your left leg underneath him from left to right.
Use your right leg to kick in the direction of his head underneath his left armpit.
As your opponent is reversed onto his back, climb into the mount by rolling back and over your left shoulder.
Or, instead of climbing into mount, pull his right elbow up to about your waistline, put your left leg across his face and apply an armlock.
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
BJJ Move #60: Neck Crank from Guard
Here's a nice neck crank that's easy to apply and keeps you in a very secure position throughout.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Guillotine Fake to Neck Crank or Reversal to Mount, “Crucifix” Neck Crank (from mount):
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You can do this move when your opponent has his head against your chest or is somewhat low in the guard. Another opportunity is when your opponent is escaping from a guillotine (your right arm is choking him) by driving his right forearm against your throat—clear his arm to your right.
Now wrap your right arm across the back of his neck (as if you were attempting a guillotine choke) and put your right hand under his left armpit, from the front. Try to drive your right arm under his armpit to the crook of your elbow—deeper is better.
Moving your hips to the left make give you more room to drive your arm deeper. Take your left arm and put it across his back.
Clasp your right hand (which is underneath his left arm right now) palm down, to your left hand, palm up.
Pull your hands towards you, lifting up with your left hand, lowering your right arm toward your hips to crank your opponent's neck and/or shoulder.
Slide your forearms up his arm towards his elbow for more pressure on the shoulder and superior leverage; lock your feet and grab closer to his armpit to focus pressure on the neck crank.
If your opponent begins to roll over to release the pressure on his neck, you can use your right foot and bridge to the left side to reverse him (you will pull him over by his underhooked left arm).
You will end up in the mount, but do not release the hold yet. You still have a neck crank submission right here. Just apply the pressure by arching your back and pulling up and towards your body.
Instead of finishing from the mount, you can go to cross side and hook his free arm from under the front of his armpit with your right leg—sit through and crank your right fist towards the ceiling to finish. Be careful, it’s hard for him to tap from this position.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Guillotine Fake to Neck Crank or Reversal to Mount, “Crucifix” Neck Crank (from mount):
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You can do this move when your opponent has his head against your chest or is somewhat low in the guard. Another opportunity is when your opponent is escaping from a guillotine (your right arm is choking him) by driving his right forearm against your throat—clear his arm to your right.
Now wrap your right arm across the back of his neck (as if you were attempting a guillotine choke) and put your right hand under his left armpit, from the front. Try to drive your right arm under his armpit to the crook of your elbow—deeper is better.
Moving your hips to the left make give you more room to drive your arm deeper. Take your left arm and put it across his back.
Clasp your right hand (which is underneath his left arm right now) palm down, to your left hand, palm up.
Pull your hands towards you, lifting up with your left hand, lowering your right arm toward your hips to crank your opponent's neck and/or shoulder.
Slide your forearms up his arm towards his elbow for more pressure on the shoulder and superior leverage; lock your feet and grab closer to his armpit to focus pressure on the neck crank.
If your opponent begins to roll over to release the pressure on his neck, you can use your right foot and bridge to the left side to reverse him (you will pull him over by his underhooked left arm).
You will end up in the mount, but do not release the hold yet. You still have a neck crank submission right here. Just apply the pressure by arching your back and pulling up and towards your body.
Instead of finishing from the mount, you can go to cross side and hook his free arm from under the front of his armpit with your right leg—sit through and crank your right fist towards the ceiling to finish. Be careful, it’s hard for him to tap from this position.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Can Somebody Take Away This Guy's PhD?
Bring in the logic probe...
So someone does a study comparing the eye movements of a few Chinese and Americans when they look at photos. Turns out that Americans look more at the subject of the photo than the Chinese, who pay more attention to the background.
Richard Nisbett, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor whose graduate student ran the study, says that:
Well, okay.
But what's it all mean, Dr. Nesbitt?
So, uh, people look at this picture...
...and Americans look at the tiger more, Chinese look at the trees more, and it tells Nisbett all that?
I have some equally plausible theories:
1) Chinese look at all parts of the picture to avoid causing them a loss of face or dishonoring the photographer's judgment feng shui judgment. Oh! Or to avoid challenging the authority of the tiger.
2) Americans focus on the tiger because we instantly see everything as a threat. There's plenty of time to cut down the trees after we kill that cat.
3) Chinese already live in harmony on the same continent as tigers, so, they're like, "No big deal. Tiger. What's the interesting thing in this picture?"
4) Americans are still daydreaming about the beginning of Europe's ascendancy, when the prototypical Western society defeated oriental despotism at Marathon. The tiger just happens to be where we stare into space.
Can somebody take away this guy's PhD?
So someone does a study comparing the eye movements of a few Chinese and Americans when they look at photos. Turns out that Americans look more at the subject of the photo than the Chinese, who pay more attention to the background.
Richard Nisbett, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor whose graduate student ran the study, says that:
Americans are looking at the focal object more quickly and spend more time looking at it. The Chinese have more saccades [jerky eye movements]. They move their eyes more, especially back and forth between the object and the [background] field.
Well, okay.
But what's it all mean, Dr. Nesbitt?
Nisbett says that any explanation for the cultural differences is, at this point, speculation. However, he and his colleagues suggest that the differences may be rooted in social practices that stretch back thousands of years.
"Westerners are taught to pay attention to objects that are important to them, to have goals that they can follow," he said. "East Asians are more likely to pay attention to the social field. ..."
Nisbett traces the origins of the variation to at least 2,500 years ago. At that time collaborative, large-scale agriculture was the primary driver of the East Asian economy. For most workers, economic survival required paying attention to the person in charge as well as co-workers in the fields. Context was important.
By contrast, ancient Greek society—the prototypical Western society—was characterized by individualistic activities, such as hunting, fishing, and small-scale farming.
The difference, Nisbett said, still holds today. East Asian societies tend to be more socially complex than Western societies. Understanding context, therefore, has more value in East Asia than in the West.
So, uh, people look at this picture...
...and Americans look at the tiger more, Chinese look at the trees more, and it tells Nisbett all that?
I have some equally plausible theories:
1) Chinese look at all parts of the picture to avoid causing them a loss of face or dishonoring the photographer's judgment feng shui judgment. Oh! Or to avoid challenging the authority of the tiger.
2) Americans focus on the tiger because we instantly see everything as a threat. There's plenty of time to cut down the trees after we kill that cat.
3) Chinese already live in harmony on the same continent as tigers, so, they're like, "No big deal. Tiger. What's the interesting thing in this picture?"
4) Americans are still daydreaming about the beginning of Europe's ascendancy, when the prototypical Western society defeated oriental despotism at Marathon. The tiger just happens to be where we stare into space.
Can somebody take away this guy's PhD?
Give 'Im Hell, Dowd!
Give 'im hell, Dowd!
"My Private Idaho" takes Dubya to task. Read it.
When we add planets #10 and #11, we can include the President's ranch as #12.
Hey! Mr. Commander-in-Chief! We're in the middle of a war! It's not going well! Look alive!
"My Private Idaho" takes Dubya to task. Read it.
When we add planets #10 and #11, we can include the President's ranch as #12.
Hey! Mr. Commander-in-Chief! We're in the middle of a war! It's not going well! Look alive!
BJJ Move #59: Omo Plata
The omo plata is almost like a kimura you start from guard, then use your legs to finish instead of your hands. It's pretty powerful, and even if you can't always finish from the end, it's also a great control position.
It's a little complicated to describe, but actually not that hard to do. You may want to search Google for a picture.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Omo Plata / Chickenwing Shoulderlock Using Leg / Hiza Gatame (from guard):
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Opportunities / setups:
1) From the guard, if your opponent ever puts an arm down (say, right arm) on the ground above your (here, left) shoulder, trap it by your neck/head with both hands.
2) He puts his hands on the ground near your hips.
3) He’s passing your guard and overhooks your leg (say, left leg).
4) You put your guard up high on his shoulders, until your right leg is over his left shoulder (known as the “crooked” or “climbing” guard), then force his right arm backwards (towards opponent’s back).
5) “Overhook” setup: Your opponent is in your guard and you have an overhook control with your left arm on his right arm.
Change your grip from overhook on your opponent’s right arm to hooking underneath your left leg, behind the knee (your left arm is still over opponent’s right arm but now hooks your left leg instead); your left hand can clasp your opponent’s right shoulder. Continue…
6) “Lockdown” setup: Your opponent is in your guard, and his right hand is on the ground to your left side or is near your left hip (it's not up high or on your chest).
Uncross your feet and bring your left leg, bent, up by the back of his right arm and put your left hand and forearm inside the crook of your knee from the outside, gripping your opponent's right upper arm / shoulder with your left hand.
Now clasp your right hand to your left hand, locking his right shoulder down.
At this point he may try to push your right knee down to pass, but it will be difficult for him to do it before you get the omo plata. The reason he can’t mess with your other leg is that you are trapping his shoulder tight to your body. The “lockdown” puts your opponent in a lot of danger, and without your leg inside can be used to control him from sitting guard, closed guard, or half guard. In fact you can squeeze your right leg tight against his body so it's like one side of a vee, allowing you to switch to an armlock (on his left arm if he tries to push his left arm through to get his head out), a reverse armlock (on his trapped right arm) or a triangle choke.
Your right forearm pressing against his neck is keeping his head away. Unclasp your hands.
Now, the rest of the move:
Push his head further away with your right hand, and bring your left foot underneath his jaw (you may want to use your right hand to pull on your left ankle to help put your put underneath his jaw).
Push against your opponent's left hip with your right foot to pivot you clockwise on your butt / lower back and into the position for omo plata—you sitting up, flush against his right side with your left side against him.
At the same time, put your left heel across your opponent’s back, trying to touch your heel to his opposite shoulder, trying to touch your own right knee.
Now use your left hand to hold his right elbow. Continue pivoting until you’re almost parallel to your opponent. If he resists this turn, drive your right leg out straight to bring his head down, then continue turning.
Now slide your right leg out from underneath him and come up sitting beside him facing toward his head. Your left leg now lies across the back of his right shoulder to press his elbow down into your lap.
Bend his arm into your lap for a chicken-wing shoulderlock as you hip all the way out to his side. His right hand will be palm-up at your belt buckle, arm entangled in your bent left leg.
Figure four your right knee over your left shin to keep his arm trapped.
Keep him from rolling forward with your left hand on his belt, lower back, or by hooking his near (here, right) leg. You want to keep turning until your body is alongside his, with your head facing the same way as his feet, and vice versa.
Now stand up onto your knees, leaning forward towards his head (to the left a little) to apply the pressure.
Tip: Guys with strong arms / shoulders won’t be easy to lock—grab his upper arm to your chest tight, clamping it there with your elbows; this makes the lock much faster and tighter.
Tip: You want his shoulders on the mat so you can apply the lock and so he can’t roll you back onto your back, so when you first sit up, straighten your legs to push his shoulders down.
Tip: Some opponents, however, are too strong to be pushed down by straightening your legs. There are two good ways to bring his shoulders down. First, you can scoot your butt back toward his feet. Second, you can pivot on your hips clockwise, which will take him down to his left where he’ll have no base.
Tip: It can be difficult to finish from here even once he’s down—-you may want to finish with an armlock (if he rolls over), wristlock, toehold, etc.
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It's a little complicated to describe, but actually not that hard to do. You may want to search Google for a picture.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Omo Plata / Chickenwing Shoulderlock Using Leg / Hiza Gatame (from guard):
-submission
Opportunities / setups:
1) From the guard, if your opponent ever puts an arm down (say, right arm) on the ground above your (here, left) shoulder, trap it by your neck/head with both hands.
2) He puts his hands on the ground near your hips.
3) He’s passing your guard and overhooks your leg (say, left leg).
4) You put your guard up high on his shoulders, until your right leg is over his left shoulder (known as the “crooked” or “climbing” guard), then force his right arm backwards (towards opponent’s back).
5) “Overhook” setup: Your opponent is in your guard and you have an overhook control with your left arm on his right arm.
Change your grip from overhook on your opponent’s right arm to hooking underneath your left leg, behind the knee (your left arm is still over opponent’s right arm but now hooks your left leg instead); your left hand can clasp your opponent’s right shoulder. Continue…
6) “Lockdown” setup: Your opponent is in your guard, and his right hand is on the ground to your left side or is near your left hip (it's not up high or on your chest).
Uncross your feet and bring your left leg, bent, up by the back of his right arm and put your left hand and forearm inside the crook of your knee from the outside, gripping your opponent's right upper arm / shoulder with your left hand.
Now clasp your right hand to your left hand, locking his right shoulder down.
At this point he may try to push your right knee down to pass, but it will be difficult for him to do it before you get the omo plata. The reason he can’t mess with your other leg is that you are trapping his shoulder tight to your body. The “lockdown” puts your opponent in a lot of danger, and without your leg inside can be used to control him from sitting guard, closed guard, or half guard. In fact you can squeeze your right leg tight against his body so it's like one side of a vee, allowing you to switch to an armlock (on his left arm if he tries to push his left arm through to get his head out), a reverse armlock (on his trapped right arm) or a triangle choke.
Your right forearm pressing against his neck is keeping his head away. Unclasp your hands.
Now, the rest of the move:
Push his head further away with your right hand, and bring your left foot underneath his jaw (you may want to use your right hand to pull on your left ankle to help put your put underneath his jaw).
Push against your opponent's left hip with your right foot to pivot you clockwise on your butt / lower back and into the position for omo plata—you sitting up, flush against his right side with your left side against him.
At the same time, put your left heel across your opponent’s back, trying to touch your heel to his opposite shoulder, trying to touch your own right knee.
Now use your left hand to hold his right elbow. Continue pivoting until you’re almost parallel to your opponent. If he resists this turn, drive your right leg out straight to bring his head down, then continue turning.
Now slide your right leg out from underneath him and come up sitting beside him facing toward his head. Your left leg now lies across the back of his right shoulder to press his elbow down into your lap.
Bend his arm into your lap for a chicken-wing shoulderlock as you hip all the way out to his side. His right hand will be palm-up at your belt buckle, arm entangled in your bent left leg.
Figure four your right knee over your left shin to keep his arm trapped.
Keep him from rolling forward with your left hand on his belt, lower back, or by hooking his near (here, right) leg. You want to keep turning until your body is alongside his, with your head facing the same way as his feet, and vice versa.
Now stand up onto your knees, leaning forward towards his head (to the left a little) to apply the pressure.
Tip: Guys with strong arms / shoulders won’t be easy to lock—grab his upper arm to your chest tight, clamping it there with your elbows; this makes the lock much faster and tighter.
Tip: You want his shoulders on the mat so you can apply the lock and so he can’t roll you back onto your back, so when you first sit up, straighten your legs to push his shoulders down.
Tip: Some opponents, however, are too strong to be pushed down by straightening your legs. There are two good ways to bring his shoulders down. First, you can scoot your butt back toward his feet. Second, you can pivot on your hips clockwise, which will take him down to his left where he’ll have no base.
Tip: It can be difficult to finish from here even once he’s down—-you may want to finish with an armlock (if he rolls over), wristlock, toehold, etc.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
BJJ Move #58: Reverse Armlock from Guard
Here's a nice guard submission. With a "reverse" armlock, your hands hyperextend your opponent's elbow by pulling toward you while you brace his wrist against your collarbone and immobilize his shoulder from either side with your legs-- as opposed to a regular armlock, where your hips hyperextend his elbow by pushing away from you, your hands hold his wrist to your chest, and your legs immobilize his shoulder by wrapping around his head and torso and pulling them back.
This tends to be a little quicker and have a little less control than a regular armlock.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Reverse Armlock (from guard) (a/k/a pressing armlock, ude gatame):
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This is a very fast submission. You have your opponent in your guard, and he grabs your head with his left arm to keep your bodies close together. He may also clasp his left hand with his right hand.
Grab your own left shoulder with your right hand, trapping his left arm against your body.
Put your right foot against his left hip, and hip out to the right (your butt moves out to the right, and you turn onto your left hip).
Bring your left knee up against his chest and your right knee over his back near his left shoulder, squeezing your knees together to immobilize his left arm.
Keep your head leaning to your right shoulder to keep his arm trapped against your right trapezius, and slide back until his wrist is against your collarbone.
Keep your back slouched so there’s room to lock.
Grab around his elbow with your left hand to turn it so it faces away from your body, and fold your right forearm over his elbow, pressing the arm into your body for a reverse armlock.
Alternative setup: Your opponent puts an arm down (say, left arm) on the ground above your (right) shoulder—trap it by your neck/head.
Slide your hips out to that side (your right) and wrap your left arm around his right elbow, trapping his right wrist between your neck and left shoulder.
Clamp your knees around his left shoulder and squeeze together.
Fold your right arm over your left, both over his elbow joint and squeeze toward your chest, hyperextending his elbow joint.
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This tends to be a little quicker and have a little less control than a regular armlock.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Reverse Armlock (from guard) (a/k/a pressing armlock, ude gatame):
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This is a very fast submission. You have your opponent in your guard, and he grabs your head with his left arm to keep your bodies close together. He may also clasp his left hand with his right hand.
Grab your own left shoulder with your right hand, trapping his left arm against your body.
Put your right foot against his left hip, and hip out to the right (your butt moves out to the right, and you turn onto your left hip).
Bring your left knee up against his chest and your right knee over his back near his left shoulder, squeezing your knees together to immobilize his left arm.
Keep your head leaning to your right shoulder to keep his arm trapped against your right trapezius, and slide back until his wrist is against your collarbone.
Keep your back slouched so there’s room to lock.
Grab around his elbow with your left hand to turn it so it faces away from your body, and fold your right forearm over his elbow, pressing the arm into your body for a reverse armlock.
Alternative setup: Your opponent puts an arm down (say, left arm) on the ground above your (right) shoulder—trap it by your neck/head.
Slide your hips out to that side (your right) and wrap your left arm around his right elbow, trapping his right wrist between your neck and left shoulder.
Clamp your knees around his left shoulder and squeeze together.
Fold your right arm over your left, both over his elbow joint and squeeze toward your chest, hyperextending his elbow joint.
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Monday, August 22, 2005
BJJ Move #57: Some Armlock "Thwart" Moves
You've almost got that armlock-- and the guy's defending!
Here's a bunch of techniques for when your initial armlock attempt is "thwarted" by your opponent defending.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Some Armlock "Thwart" Moves:
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These moves all start from you attempting an armlock on your opponent's right arm.
Basic Go-To Move:
First, make sure your right forearm is hooked in against his wrist, not the crook of his elbow. That gives you a lot more leverage and is more uncomfortable for him.
Now move his right arm into your right armpit and try to get your right forearm deep in near his hand.
Base out near his head with your left hand.
To attack in a direction where your opponent’s grip is weak, don’t lean straight back here; instead, lean towards his head and then swing back to being perpendicular to his body once your left shoulder is near/on the ground. This should break his grip and let you finish the armlock.
Variation:
As above, but instead, switch your left arm into his elbow-crook (move fast, your base is gone now) and put your right forearm against his right forearm to lever it towards his head as you sit that way (as above, but here your right arm is helping release his grip) towards his head, then swing back to make your body perpendicular to his and apply the armlock.
“Cow Hand” Wristlock:
When your opponent’s right elbow is bent, put your left hand underneath your right wrist and grab his right hand across the knuckles, t-stack your hands (right hand over top of left wrist) and lever his right hand down toward his forearm for a “cow hand” (downward) wristlock.
“Cow hand” wristlock #2:
Sit up and brace his right elbow against your stomach/chest.
Grab his right hand at the knuckles (for maximum leverage) with both hands, and press his palm towards his wrist for a “cow hand” (downward) wristlock.
Strip his fingers apart with your hands.
Foot Push:
Use your right foot (the one across his chest) to push his left arm away by pushing on the crook of his left elbow. This will start pulling his right shoulder straight out of the socket and he ought to let go. Then finish the armlock.+
Biceps Slicer:
Place your right forearm in the pit of his right elbow and slide your right foot over his right forearm so your right lower leg rests across it.
Pressing down on his right forearm with your right leg closes his elbow joint around your right forearm; the sharp edges of the radius and ulna in your forearm dig into his biceps and forearm near the joint, causing pain. Your forearm in there also acts as a fulcrum higher than his elbow joint, prying his forearm and upper arm away from each other, i.e., separating his elbow. The pain will make him want to stop using his left arm to pull his hand toward him, and he’ll release it, or even try to push it back straight.
Pull his right arm back as you slide your right foot off it, but watch out that he doesn’t slap you in the face as he lets go.
To use this as a submission instead of a release, base out with your left hand and triangle your left knee over your right instep, tightening down onto his right elbow joint to separate it.
Leg Jerk:
Jerk the knee of your left leg up and down on his face so he wants to let go and give you the armlock.+
Triangle Choke:
If your opponent grabs his own (right) arm when you sit back for the armlock, you can easily put him in a triangle choke.
When he grabs his own wrist to prevent the armlock, take your right leg and slide it between his arms from the bottom.
Take your right hand and put it behind his head to help raise it. He will cooperate in coming off the ground because he’s defending against the armlock.
As he comes off the ground, slide your right leg around his head/neck, and shift your hips to the right. Then fold your left leg over your right ankle, and apply the triangle choke.+
Switch to s-mount, armlock on other arm:
Opponent clasps his hands and hips out to his left to try to extract his elbow and touch it to the ground.
Post your left hand behind you and remove your left leg from your opponent’s face.
Keeping your weight centered on your opponent's upper torso, slide your hip across your opponent’s chest. You will come into a sort of s-mount with your bent right knee off the ground above your opponent’s left ear, with your right inner thigh propping his left arm up. Your right foot is flat on the ground just past his head.
Now continue coming up, rising onto the ball of your right foot and touching your right knee to the ground by his left ear. Control his left arm.
Now sit back, put your right leg over his face and armlock the left arm from his left.
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Here's a bunch of techniques for when your initial armlock attempt is "thwarted" by your opponent defending.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Some Armlock "Thwart" Moves:
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These moves all start from you attempting an armlock on your opponent's right arm.
Basic Go-To Move:
First, make sure your right forearm is hooked in against his wrist, not the crook of his elbow. That gives you a lot more leverage and is more uncomfortable for him.
Now move his right arm into your right armpit and try to get your right forearm deep in near his hand.
Base out near his head with your left hand.
To attack in a direction where your opponent’s grip is weak, don’t lean straight back here; instead, lean towards his head and then swing back to being perpendicular to his body once your left shoulder is near/on the ground. This should break his grip and let you finish the armlock.
Variation:
As above, but instead, switch your left arm into his elbow-crook (move fast, your base is gone now) and put your right forearm against his right forearm to lever it towards his head as you sit that way (as above, but here your right arm is helping release his grip) towards his head, then swing back to make your body perpendicular to his and apply the armlock.
“Cow Hand” Wristlock:
When your opponent’s right elbow is bent, put your left hand underneath your right wrist and grab his right hand across the knuckles, t-stack your hands (right hand over top of left wrist) and lever his right hand down toward his forearm for a “cow hand” (downward) wristlock.
“Cow hand” wristlock #2:
Sit up and brace his right elbow against your stomach/chest.
Grab his right hand at the knuckles (for maximum leverage) with both hands, and press his palm towards his wrist for a “cow hand” (downward) wristlock.
Strip his fingers apart with your hands.
Foot Push:
Use your right foot (the one across his chest) to push his left arm away by pushing on the crook of his left elbow. This will start pulling his right shoulder straight out of the socket and he ought to let go. Then finish the armlock.+
Biceps Slicer:
Place your right forearm in the pit of his right elbow and slide your right foot over his right forearm so your right lower leg rests across it.
Pressing down on his right forearm with your right leg closes his elbow joint around your right forearm; the sharp edges of the radius and ulna in your forearm dig into his biceps and forearm near the joint, causing pain. Your forearm in there also acts as a fulcrum higher than his elbow joint, prying his forearm and upper arm away from each other, i.e., separating his elbow. The pain will make him want to stop using his left arm to pull his hand toward him, and he’ll release it, or even try to push it back straight.
Pull his right arm back as you slide your right foot off it, but watch out that he doesn’t slap you in the face as he lets go.
To use this as a submission instead of a release, base out with your left hand and triangle your left knee over your right instep, tightening down onto his right elbow joint to separate it.
Leg Jerk:
Jerk the knee of your left leg up and down on his face so he wants to let go and give you the armlock.+
Triangle Choke:
If your opponent grabs his own (right) arm when you sit back for the armlock, you can easily put him in a triangle choke.
When he grabs his own wrist to prevent the armlock, take your right leg and slide it between his arms from the bottom.
Take your right hand and put it behind his head to help raise it. He will cooperate in coming off the ground because he’s defending against the armlock.
As he comes off the ground, slide your right leg around his head/neck, and shift your hips to the right. Then fold your left leg over your right ankle, and apply the triangle choke.+
Switch to s-mount, armlock on other arm:
Opponent clasps his hands and hips out to his left to try to extract his elbow and touch it to the ground.
Post your left hand behind you and remove your left leg from your opponent’s face.
Keeping your weight centered on your opponent's upper torso, slide your hip across your opponent’s chest. You will come into a sort of s-mount with your bent right knee off the ground above your opponent’s left ear, with your right inner thigh propping his left arm up. Your right foot is flat on the ground just past his head.
Now continue coming up, rising onto the ball of your right foot and touching your right knee to the ground by his left ear. Control his left arm.
Now sit back, put your right leg over his face and armlock the left arm from his left.
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Friday, August 19, 2005
Bluefin Occupation Update
Me, again, Consul Bluefin (from this post) shoutin' at ya.
Now, I know everyone hasn't gotten on board with the "with us or against us" speech I made back in June.
Insurgent killings of fish continue, and land creatures still struggle to achieve freedom and equality.
The Atlantic Province has dispatched military observers to many hot spots across the waterless realm, but do not be alarmed; they are serving in a purely advisory capacity.
Lieutenant General Swishy
General Swishy's command brought this New York Times piece to our attention today.
It seems David G. Burney, executive director of the United States Tuna Foundation, expends his efforts inciting the murder and consumption of my kind.
I'd hate to see the platform of the Anti-Tuna Foundation.
In any case, the Times' esteemed Melanie Warner points out that we Tuna are, you know, full of the deadly metal mercury.
And it's bad for you! Viz.:
Did you just read that?! Irritability! Tremors!
If you've been eating fish and have felt irritable, I can promise blind, deaf, amnesiac shaking is probably next. The wages of sin is tremors.
If you're of an ill-conceived viviparous body plan, eating mercury can accumulate in the tissues of your offspring during their unnatural gestation. And then, when it emerges from the artificial sea of your distended abdomen-- bad news, people.
The article does not discuss the effects of mercury on the Times' oviparous readers, but let me tell you: it's not pretty.
Mr. Burney says he is "convinced that getting mercury toxicity from tuna is impossible. While his wife was pregnant, he said, she consumed a can of albacore tuna almost every day."
Another tunacidal maniac "says his three boys, 9-year-old triplets, eat several cans of albacore a week.
He probably means his 9-year-old three-headed son.
Humans, what lies beneath these noble scales is no Chicken of the Sea. It is instead bitter death on a bed of roasted garlic couscous.
Now, I know everyone hasn't gotten on board with the "with us or against us" speech I made back in June.
Insurgent killings of fish continue, and land creatures still struggle to achieve freedom and equality.
The Atlantic Province has dispatched military observers to many hot spots across the waterless realm, but do not be alarmed; they are serving in a purely advisory capacity.
Lieutenant General SwishyGeneral Swishy's command brought this New York Times piece to our attention today.
It seems David G. Burney, executive director of the United States Tuna Foundation, expends his efforts inciting the murder and consumption of my kind.
I'd hate to see the platform of the Anti-Tuna Foundation.
In any case, the Times' esteemed Melanie Warner points out that we Tuna are, you know, full of the deadly metal mercury.
And it's bad for you! Viz.:
Symptoms of mercury toxicity include kidney troubles, irritability, tremors, changes in vision or hearing, and memory problems.
Did you just read that?! Irritability! Tremors!
If you've been eating fish and have felt irritable, I can promise blind, deaf, amnesiac shaking is probably next. The wages of sin is tremors.
If you're of an ill-conceived viviparous body plan, eating mercury can accumulate in the tissues of your offspring during their unnatural gestation. And then, when it emerges from the artificial sea of your distended abdomen-- bad news, people.
The article does not discuss the effects of mercury on the Times' oviparous readers, but let me tell you: it's not pretty.
Mr. Burney says he is "convinced that getting mercury toxicity from tuna is impossible. While his wife was pregnant, he said, she consumed a can of albacore tuna almost every day."
Another tunacidal maniac "says his three boys, 9-year-old triplets, eat several cans of albacore a week.
He probably means his 9-year-old three-headed son.
Humans, what lies beneath these noble scales is no Chicken of the Sea. It is instead bitter death on a bed of roasted garlic couscous.
BJJ Move #56: Some Papercutter Chokes
These chokes are all variations on a theme-- your opponent is wearing a gi or some other kind of shirt, you are face-to-face on the ground with an advantageous position (usually mount or guard), and you strangle him with the fabric of his collar or lapels.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Some Papercutter Chokes:
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There are three grip variations on the papercutter choke, which is done face-to-face with your opponent (e.g., mounted or guard):
1) Nami Juji Jime: Both your palms face away from you (thumb down and inside his gi) in opposite collars (your right hand grabs his right lapel, your left hand grabs his left lapel, so your hands cross).
2) Kata Juji Jie: One palm faces you, one faces away in opposite collars; otherwise like above. The palm of the hand crossing over the top of the other hand is the one that faces you.
3) Gyaku Juji Jime: Both palms face you (thumb faces up and is outside gi) in opposite collars; this is strongest grip. Finish the same way.
Apply the strangle by bending your arms at the elbows and pulling your arms apart, pushing your hands past each other. This pulls his gi collar tight around his throat.
Tip: First, grab his right lapel, thumb up, with your left hand. Use that to feed the lapel to your right. Then, grab the right lapel above your right hand with your left, and wrap your left arm around the back of his head so you’ve got the choke. This is sneakier, and so, easier, than trying to grab the second lapel with one hand.
Tip: Alternately, loosen his gi collar over his right shoulder so you can attach both hands up there. If he tries to hold you off, go to the standard armlock.
Tip: If applying the papercutter from the mount position, place your forehead on the ground above his head to increase the leverage.
Vale tudo tip: Street clothing is often strong enough to use for collar chokes.
Here's a detailed description of this choke from the mount:
From the mount, pull your opponent’s right collar open with your left hand and reach inside his right collar with your right hand, palm up. Slide your right hand in toward his neck as deep as possible; you would ideally like to touch your knuckles to the ground inside his gi.
Now reach across with your left hand, palm down and thumb inside to his left collar. Lean forward and place your forehead to the ground, giving you a better base. Apply the strangle by drawing your elbows up and back, which pulls your hands across his throat, tightening the collar around his neck.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Some Papercutter Chokes:
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There are three grip variations on the papercutter choke, which is done face-to-face with your opponent (e.g., mounted or guard):
1) Nami Juji Jime: Both your palms face away from you (thumb down and inside his gi) in opposite collars (your right hand grabs his right lapel, your left hand grabs his left lapel, so your hands cross).
2) Kata Juji Jie: One palm faces you, one faces away in opposite collars; otherwise like above. The palm of the hand crossing over the top of the other hand is the one that faces you.
3) Gyaku Juji Jime: Both palms face you (thumb faces up and is outside gi) in opposite collars; this is strongest grip. Finish the same way.
Apply the strangle by bending your arms at the elbows and pulling your arms apart, pushing your hands past each other. This pulls his gi collar tight around his throat.
Tip: First, grab his right lapel, thumb up, with your left hand. Use that to feed the lapel to your right. Then, grab the right lapel above your right hand with your left, and wrap your left arm around the back of his head so you’ve got the choke. This is sneakier, and so, easier, than trying to grab the second lapel with one hand.
Tip: Alternately, loosen his gi collar over his right shoulder so you can attach both hands up there. If he tries to hold you off, go to the standard armlock.
Tip: If applying the papercutter from the mount position, place your forehead on the ground above his head to increase the leverage.
Vale tudo tip: Street clothing is often strong enough to use for collar chokes.
Here's a detailed description of this choke from the mount:
From the mount, pull your opponent’s right collar open with your left hand and reach inside his right collar with your right hand, palm up. Slide your right hand in toward his neck as deep as possible; you would ideally like to touch your knuckles to the ground inside his gi.
Now reach across with your left hand, palm down and thumb inside to his left collar. Lean forward and place your forehead to the ground, giving you a better base. Apply the strangle by drawing your elbows up and back, which pulls your hands across his throat, tightening the collar around his neck.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
BJJ Move #55: Sleeve Choke, Fist Choke
Here are two similar ways to choke someone out from the mount.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Sleeve Choke and Fist Choke:
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Sleeve Choke (gi):
You have the mount position, and you are wearing a gi or other shirt with long sleeves.
Put your right arm around the back of your opponent's head.
With your right hand, palm down, grab the cuff of the sleeve of your left arm.
Sneak your left hand across his throat.
With your left hand, palm up, grab your right sleeve.
Now tighten your grip; pivot your forearms so the bony edges face his neck and throat instead of the soft sides, reducing the space between. Do this by turning your wrists from their current positions—right palm facing down, left palm facing up--to right palm facing up, left palm facing down.
If you can’t sneak your left hand in, use your left fist to do a fist choke (below).
Fist Choke:
First, get head control: put your left arm around your opponent’s head and lean your shoulder onto his neck, turning his head to his left.
Base out to the top-right with your right hand, where your weight should be leaning.
Now hook your head next to his left ear and use it to turn his face to his right.
Do the rest of the move quickly, because you’re now vulnerable to a reversal.
Open your left hand. Make a fist w/your right hand and bring your right forearm in against the front of his throat from a 45-degree angle from the top (halfway angle between his head and shoulder) and feed it in until your fist is against his left carotid artery.
Grab your own right biceps with your left hand.
Squeeze for a choke.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
Sleeve Choke and Fist Choke:
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Sleeve Choke (gi):
You have the mount position, and you are wearing a gi or other shirt with long sleeves.
Put your right arm around the back of your opponent's head.
With your right hand, palm down, grab the cuff of the sleeve of your left arm.
Sneak your left hand across his throat.
With your left hand, palm up, grab your right sleeve.
Now tighten your grip; pivot your forearms so the bony edges face his neck and throat instead of the soft sides, reducing the space between. Do this by turning your wrists from their current positions—right palm facing down, left palm facing up--to right palm facing up, left palm facing down.
If you can’t sneak your left hand in, use your left fist to do a fist choke (below).
Fist Choke:
First, get head control: put your left arm around your opponent’s head and lean your shoulder onto his neck, turning his head to his left.
Base out to the top-right with your right hand, where your weight should be leaning.
Now hook your head next to his left ear and use it to turn his face to his right.
Do the rest of the move quickly, because you’re now vulnerable to a reversal.
Open your left hand. Make a fist w/your right hand and bring your right forearm in against the front of his throat from a 45-degree angle from the top (halfway angle between his head and shoulder) and feed it in until your fist is against his left carotid artery.
Grab your own right biceps with your left hand.
Squeeze for a choke.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Correct Myself Before I Wreck Myself
To anyone who's been reading my blog for news:
Hey. Stop laughing. Really. There's some hard-hitting snark-o-torial content he-- fine.
Anyway.
It sounds like my post on "Able Danger" ID'ing 4 of the hijackers well before 9/11 was based on so much partisan nonsense.
Next time a Congressman tells you a story, check for your wallet and count your fingers and vital organs.
The fact that the AP and the NYT picked it up, too, is no excuse. I'm firing the reporter who brought me that one.
Brokk!!!, destroy him!
Hey. Stop laughing. Really. There's some hard-hitting snark-o-torial content he-- fine.
Anyway.
It sounds like my post on "Able Danger" ID'ing 4 of the hijackers well before 9/11 was based on so much partisan nonsense.
Next time a Congressman tells you a story, check for your wallet and count your fingers and vital organs.
The fact that the AP and the NYT picked it up, too, is no excuse. I'm firing the reporter who brought me that one.
Brokk!!!, destroy him!
BJJ Move #54: BJJ-Style Rear Trip (Tani Otoshi)
This takedown is a simple and no-nonsense way to get you and your opponent to the ground, where you (hopefully) have an advantage.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
BJJ-Style Rear Trip (Tani Otoshi):
-takedown
You execute this move from behind your opponent, clasping your hands together around the front of his waist (a "rear clinch") and pressing your chest and left cheek against his back.
You can get to a rear clinch in a variety of ways, including a duck under (described in a later post) or just rushing in under his hands to grab around his waist.
Now step to his left, pull his hips tight against yours, squat a bit, straighten your right leg behind him and sit down onto your butt, collapsing your left leg.
Your right thigh should hit the ground first. You aren’t tripping him over your leg. Instead, he’s going to come down with you as you sit your weight down and fall toward your right side, and you’ll pivot over your right leg to take the mount.
Comments? Please feel free to point out mistakes, describe tips on the techniques, suggest ways to make the descriptions clearer, etc.
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WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
BJJ-Style Rear Trip (Tani Otoshi):
-takedown
You execute this move from behind your opponent, clasping your hands together around the front of his waist (a "rear clinch") and pressing your chest and left cheek against his back.
You can get to a rear clinch in a variety of ways, including a duck under (described in a later post) or just rushing in under his hands to grab around his waist.
Now step to his left, pull his hips tight against yours, squat a bit, straighten your right leg behind him and sit down onto your butt, collapsing your left leg.
Your right thigh should hit the ground first. You aren’t tripping him over your leg. Instead, he’s going to come down with you as you sit your weight down and fall toward your right side, and you’ll pivot over your right leg to take the mount.
Comments? Please feel free to point out mistakes, describe tips on the techniques, suggest ways to make the descriptions clearer, etc.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Add to my Amazon Wish List: Brokk!!!
Add this bad boy to my Amazon Wish List-- the Brokk 330 Remote Controlled Demolition Robot.
Or, as I'll call him, "Brokk!!!", like the cry of a pterodactyl (in the movies, anyway). And, uh, let's imagine he moves on his own, instead of by RC.
A 5 ton robot with a range of dangerous tools on the end of its menacing neck. Just what my life is missing.
SCENE: Litvak is wearing a cape, boots, and a helmet with a built-in widow's peak, and is accompanied by Brokk!!! (maybe painted in glossy black).
Litvak: So, friend, what do you say we go demolish a bank vault?
Brokk!!!: Brokk!!! Brokk!!!
[Bank guards arrive at the scene]
Bank guards: Freeze!
Litvak: Step aside, officers. Brokk!!! is wary of strangers.
Brokk!!!: BROKK!!!
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Ok, it gets better. Brokk!!! can have various things attached to its neck/arm thingy:
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A hydraulic breaker,
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a concrete crusher,
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a grapple (think fanged maw),
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...plus things like "drilling equipment, cutters, steel shears, etc."
I'm getting all giddy.
This is better than a rockwheel (see bottom of post).
Or, as I'll call him, "Brokk!!!", like the cry of a pterodactyl (in the movies, anyway). And, uh, let's imagine he moves on his own, instead of by RC.
A 5 ton robot with a range of dangerous tools on the end of its menacing neck. Just what my life is missing.
Examples of uses for the Brokk 330 are demolishing bank vaults, cleaning slag in blast furnaces, major building demolitions, cement kiln demolition and waste handling in the nuclear industry.
SCENE: Litvak is wearing a cape, boots, and a helmet with a built-in widow's peak, and is accompanied by Brokk!!! (maybe painted in glossy black).
Litvak: So, friend, what do you say we go demolish a bank vault?
Brokk!!!: Brokk!!! Brokk!!!
[Bank guards arrive at the scene]
Bank guards: Freeze!
Litvak: Step aside, officers. Brokk!!! is wary of strangers.
Brokk!!!: BROKK!!!
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Ok, it gets better. Brokk!!! can have various things attached to its neck/arm thingy:
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.
.
A hydraulic breaker,.
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.
.
.
a concrete crusher,.
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.
.
.
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a grapple (think fanged maw),.
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.
.
...plus things like "drilling equipment, cutters, steel shears, etc."
I'm getting all giddy.
This is better than a rockwheel (see bottom of post).
SHPOSes: This Means War
Yesterday some SHPOSes broke into my apartment building in the middle of the day and robbed all three units.
They pried open the doors with a crowbar (bending the doors and popping off the deadbolts . . . except for our unit, b/c we didn't lock the deadbolt) and turned the rooms upside down.
They emptied our drawers all over the place, they took my fig tree out of its pot (no, f***ers, that's not where I keep my dubloons, a pox on ye), they looked under the mattresses.
They took jewelry (I don't own any, so didn't lose any), power tools (ditto), laptops (not so lucky there...), a PlayStation, and checkbooks (no great loss).
And the lowlifes stole my box of Oreos that I had sitting on the counter.
I know I've criticized SHPOSes here and here, and suggested a rather draconian solution to their conduct here, but, hey, SHPOSes: Back the f*** off.
You think you're the guys from "Heat"? No. You're the guys from "Cops".
Crawl back into your hole (and die).
Seems the burlgar(s?) were modestly competent:
-They took only specified types of booty, leaving gem cases full of CDs, DVD players, DVDs, stereos, digital cameras, desktop computers, passports, liquor;
-They seem to have cased the apartment: people are home 3 or 4 of the weekdays, and they came after the mailman;
-They wore gloves (says the fingerprint guy);
-They broke open file cabinets and apparently just took out jewelry appraisals, then searched that unit for the jewelry. Well, don't that beat all, someone taught a SHPOS to read!
My only losses were the cookies, checks, an old laptop, and a less old laptop. And I think a Brookstone "monocular" I had in a little case.
I figure they have a fence for the electronics and jewelry, have some scam with the checks, and will keep the power tools and monocular for more B&E fun. And they probably ate my Oreos.
Note to the people at Nabisco: They took my Oreos, but left the "Golden Oreos" (non-chocolate Oreos) in my neighbors' apartment. Those things are vile. Oreos without chocolate? May as well make Nestle Quik in "Just Plain Sugar" flavor. Yecch.
Of course I hadn't backed up all the photos, music, software, and everything I've written on a computer since ... I don't even want to think about it. Instead, I want to think about how long I could keep them alive and conscious, bound with wire to chairs in my shower stall while I made the rest of their lives so unpleasant they'd be sighing in relief when I finally sent them to hell.
In the shower stall, because, you know, of course, there'd be an awful mess before I was done.
And my roommate lost a much nicer computer, and had no renter's insurance. I assume he'd want some time with bamboo slivers and rubbing alcohol before I tried my thing with the fire ants, the Barry Manilow CD, and the burlap sack full of angry rats.
The cops from the 76th precinct who responded were friendly and competent, as were the detectives who came by this morning.
They suggested an alarm and new locks.
I want the landlord the put in the moat from "The Beastmaster" (check out this link, too).
One that looks like the surrounding ground but is actually a coated in flammable oil, coated in dirt. Take that, Jun horde.
Oh, and also from "The Beastmaster," I think my landlord should line the corridors with prison cells occupied by wildly flailing spike-covered maniacs.
SHPOSes: This Means War.
They pried open the doors with a crowbar (bending the doors and popping off the deadbolts . . . except for our unit, b/c we didn't lock the deadbolt) and turned the rooms upside down.
They emptied our drawers all over the place, they took my fig tree out of its pot (no, f***ers, that's not where I keep my dubloons, a pox on ye), they looked under the mattresses.
They took jewelry (I don't own any, so didn't lose any), power tools (ditto), laptops (not so lucky there...), a PlayStation, and checkbooks (no great loss).
And the lowlifes stole my box of Oreos that I had sitting on the counter.
I know I've criticized SHPOSes here and here, and suggested a rather draconian solution to their conduct here, but, hey, SHPOSes: Back the f*** off.
You think you're the guys from "Heat"? No. You're the guys from "Cops".
Crawl back into your hole (and die).
Seems the burlgar(s?) were modestly competent:
-They took only specified types of booty, leaving gem cases full of CDs, DVD players, DVDs, stereos, digital cameras, desktop computers, passports, liquor;
-They seem to have cased the apartment: people are home 3 or 4 of the weekdays, and they came after the mailman;
-They wore gloves (says the fingerprint guy);
-They broke open file cabinets and apparently just took out jewelry appraisals, then searched that unit for the jewelry. Well, don't that beat all, someone taught a SHPOS to read!
My only losses were the cookies, checks, an old laptop, and a less old laptop. And I think a Brookstone "monocular" I had in a little case.
I figure they have a fence for the electronics and jewelry, have some scam with the checks, and will keep the power tools and monocular for more B&E fun. And they probably ate my Oreos.
Note to the people at Nabisco: They took my Oreos, but left the "Golden Oreos" (non-chocolate Oreos) in my neighbors' apartment. Those things are vile. Oreos without chocolate? May as well make Nestle Quik in "Just Plain Sugar" flavor. Yecch.
Of course I hadn't backed up all the photos, music, software, and everything I've written on a computer since ... I don't even want to think about it. Instead, I want to think about how long I could keep them alive and conscious, bound with wire to chairs in my shower stall while I made the rest of their lives so unpleasant they'd be sighing in relief when I finally sent them to hell.
In the shower stall, because, you know, of course, there'd be an awful mess before I was done.
And my roommate lost a much nicer computer, and had no renter's insurance. I assume he'd want some time with bamboo slivers and rubbing alcohol before I tried my thing with the fire ants, the Barry Manilow CD, and the burlap sack full of angry rats.
The cops from the 76th precinct who responded were friendly and competent, as were the detectives who came by this morning.
They suggested an alarm and new locks.
I want the landlord the put in the moat from "The Beastmaster" (check out this link, too).
One that looks like the surrounding ground but is actually a coated in flammable oil, coated in dirt. Take that, Jun horde.
Oh, and also from "The Beastmaster," I think my landlord should line the corridors with prison cells occupied by wildly flailing spike-covered maniacs.
SHPOSes: This Means War.
BJJ Move #53: S-Mount and submissions
The "S-Mount" is a way to open your opponent up to more strikes and submissions if you already have the mount, especially in a vale tudo ("anything goes") context.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
"S-Mount" and Submissions:
-position
-submissions
From the mount, get “head control:” put your left arm under your opponent’s head (elbow pointing out to your left, forearm behind his neck, shoulder across his face) and use pressure with your shoulder to turn his head to his left (your right). Getting head control is critical to making things happen from the mount. This means your opponent can only effectively move his hips to his right, which makes it hard for him to escape.
Now, place your right hand on the ground under his left elbow wit your forearm pressed up beneath his elbow, and “walk it” (crawl with your fingers) up towards his head in a circular motion, forcing his elbow up toward his head.
Slide your right knee under his left upper arm to keep it in place. Your right foot is folded under your butt, and the top of your right thigh is pressed under his left upper arm by the shoulder.
Now go to an “S-Mount:” First, lean your weight over your right thigh a bit. With both hands, pull up on the back of his head to keep him from bridging. Now turn your hips out to the right (counterclockwise) so your weight is on your left thigh on his chest, your left leg is bent at the knee and your left thigh lies across his chest with your left sole facing forward. Your right knee points up and right foot is planted on the ground outside his left ear (or: your right leg stays more or less where is was).
His left arm should be stuck up between your legs. From here, you can do a neck crank by grabbing behind your opponent’s head with both hands and pulling up and forward (keep your weight on his chest so he can’t sit up, so his neck will hyperextend).
You can also do an armlock: his left arm should be up between your legs and against your body from when you propped it up on your right leg—just slide your right leg over his face and fall back to your right for an armlock.
Vale Tudo Mount to S-Mount
If you have the mount in a vale tudo situation, slide up high near your opponent’s armpits if you’re going to punch or you’ll be bumped off when he bridges his hips.
With your left hand, press his chin to his left or grab behind his neck—-then you can punch him in the face with your right hand.
When he puts an arm (say, his left) across his face to protect against punches, secure a “giftwrap” hold: Use your left hand to grab his left wrist with your thumb facing his elbow, holding his left hand to the ground. Put your right hand beneath his neck from under his left ear and grab his left wrist with your right hand (thumb faces his elbow, use your thumb for this grip). His left arm is now pinned across his head (“giftwrap”).
Now move to an "s-mount" as above, sliding your right leg under his left upper arm to keep it in place; turning your hips counterclockwise so they face across his body; lying your left leg across his chest, bent at the knee, the sole of your left foot pointing out in the direction past his head; balancing your weight on the outside of your left thigh on his chest.
Punch his face again with your left hand, or hook his left arm, which is now sticking up between your legs, and apply an armlock as above.
Comments? Please feel free to point out mistakes, describe tips on the techniques, suggest ways to make the descriptions clearer, etc.
Click here to go to the list of my BJJ move posts.
WARNING! These techniques could result in serious injury or death if practiced incorrectly or even if performed correctly. They should only be practiced with the supervision of an experienced instructor.
"S-Mount" and Submissions:
-position
-submissions
From the mount, get “head control:” put your left arm under your opponent’s head (elbow pointing out to your left, forearm behind his neck, shoulder across his face) and use pressure with your shoulder to turn his head to his left (your right). Getting head control is critical to making things happen from the mount. This means your opponent can only effectively move his hips to his right, which makes it hard for him to escape.
Now, place your right hand on the ground under his left elbow wit your forearm pressed up beneath his elbow, and “walk it” (crawl with your fingers) up towards his head in a circular motion, forcing his elbow up toward his head.
Slide your right knee under his left upper arm to keep it in place. Your right foot is folded under your butt, and the top of your right thigh is pressed under his left upper arm by the shoulder.
Now go to an “S-Mount:” First, lean your weight over your right thigh a bit. With both hands, pull up on the back of his head to keep him from bridging. Now turn your hips out to the right (counterclockwise) so your weight is on your left thigh on his chest, your left leg is bent at the knee and your left thigh lies across his chest with your left sole facing forward. Your right knee points up and right foot is planted on the ground outside his left ear (or: your right leg stays more or less where is was).
His left arm should be stuck up between your legs. From here, you can do a neck crank by grabbing behind your opponent’s head with both hands and pulling up and forward (keep your weight on his chest so he can’t sit up, so his neck will hyperextend).
You can also do an armlock: his left arm should be up between your legs and against your body from when you propped it up on your right leg—just slide your right leg over his face and fall back to your right for an armlock.
Vale Tudo Mount to S-Mount
If you have the mount in a vale tudo situation, slide up high near your opponent’s armpits if you’re going to punch or you’ll be bumped off when he bridges his hips.
With your left hand, press his chin to his left or grab behind his neck—-then you can punch him in the face with your right hand.
When he puts an arm (say, his left) across his face to protect against punches, secure a “giftwrap” hold: Use your left hand to grab his left wrist with your thumb facing his elbow, holding his left hand to the ground. Put your right hand beneath his neck from under his left ear and grab his left wrist with your right hand (thumb faces his elbow, use your thumb for this grip). His left arm is now pinned across his head (“giftwrap”).
Now move to an "s-mount" as above, sliding your right leg under his left upper arm to keep it in place; turning your hips counterclockwise so they face across his body; lying your left leg across his chest, bent at the knee, the sole of your left foot pointing out in the direction past his head; balancing your weight on the outside of your left thigh on his chest.
Punch his face again with your left hand, or hook his left arm, which is now sticking up between your legs, and apply an armlock as above.
Comments? Please feel free to point out mistakes, describe tips on the techniques, suggest ways to make the descriptions clearer, etc.
Click here to go to the list of my BJJ move posts.
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