The clamp

• Transition from closed guard to the clamp
  • To do this you need to get one or both arms to the mat
    • This makes is so your body separates their arms and hands
  • Why the clamp
    • Your foot on the hip controls pushing distance
    • Your leg over their lat controls pulling distance
    • The body position shuts down their ability to use their hands together
    • Opens up ability to use triangles, omoplatas and arm locks
  • How to
    • Put both your hands inside theirs and push their hands to the side as you knee pull
      • If they have lapel grips you can use one of the grip breaks from the previous parts (cross cuff lapel, with other hand weaved under)
    • One arm goes around the head, the other goes to the bicep
    • Shift hips out bringing one knee to clamp behind their should and your other foot to their hip
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• Attacking from the clamp
  • About
    • Since this position prevents your opponent from locking their arms, it makes it harder for them to defend from attacks
    • The other advantage of this position is that you have good distance and angle control
  • Triangle attack
    • Enter the clamp
    • Move top leg to angle comes behind opponents neck and knee hooks over their shoulder
      • Pull with this foot to help you extract your leg
    • Extract the bottom leg and move it to cross ankles with your top leg, entering the trap triangle
      • Try and post the opponents arm away from you so they can not block your leg
      • If opponent does block this move by putting their hand on your knee
        • Grab all four of their knuckles with your same side hand and remove the lock
    • Grab your own shin or the opponents head and turn out to an angle
      • Your other foot can go to the hip to help you turn
      • You can also under hook their leg to help you turn
    • Lock the triangle position (gif does not show a fully locked triangle)
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  • Arm lock (belly up)
    • Enter the clamp
    • Move top leg to angle comes behind opponents neck and knee hooks over their clavicle
    • Extract the bottom leg and move it to cross ankles with your top leg, entering the trap triangle
    • option 1:
      • Grap the opponents elbow with your hand
      • Move your foot to the opponents lat muscle
      • Arch back to finish the arm lock
    • option 2:
      • Move into the figure 4 triangle position
      • Cover opponents wrist with your elbow
      • Arch back to finish the arm lock
    • option 3:
      • Move into the figure 4 triangle position
      • bring opponents hand across chest
      • Arch back and bring hand down to finish the arm lock
    • option 4:
      • Bring leg around the opponent head
      • Arch back and bring hand down to finish the arm lock
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  • Arm lock (belly down)
    • Enter the clamp
    • Grab the opponents elbow
    • Opponent hand should stay under your arm pit
    • Move your ball of your far foot down to the mat and invert your knee to point to the ma
    • Invert your body
    • Bring your free arm’s elbow to the floor
    • Lock your other elbow close to your body
    • Bring your shin to the back of their neck knee into their elbow
    • Hip forward and finish
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  • Kimura
    • Enter the clamp
    • Move top leg to angle comes behind opponents neck and knee hooks over their clavicle
    • Grab the opponents wrist and create the kimura angle in their arm around your thigh
    • bring opponents elbow to your arm pit
      • For added pressure you can bring their hand to the inside of your thigh
    • Note: you can also do this from the trap triangle
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  • Reverse arm lock
    • Enter the clamp
    • Put cross hand on opponent elbow
    • Swim other hand around their arm bringing their wrist to your collar bone locking your elbow to their elbow
      • Re-enforce your elbow with your other hand
    • Move lower knee so it is in front of opponents lower shoulder
    • Put food in opponents far armpit
      • This allows you to better move your head towards your opponent while your hips move away
    • Move hips away and your head and shoulder in
    • Dealing with escapes
      • If your opponent tries to escape by posturing up go into a trap triangle
      • If they try and escape by rolling forward, move into a belly up arm lock
    • GIF shows initial arm lock, a quick escape to trap triangle and the forward roll to the belly up arm lock
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  • Omoplata
    • Enter the clamp position
    • Pommel foot through in front of the opponents head
    • Use your leg to bring the opponents head downward from pressure on their shoulder
      • If they are able to keep their head higher than yours, you will not finish the position
    • Sit up and move hips away from your opponent
      • The further your hips are away from them the more success you will have as it reduces their ability to posture up
    • Reach over your opponents back grabbing their lapel
      • Alternatively you can reach under their arm and grab their wrist
    • Bring your body across their body moving across their shoulder line to finish the submission
      • Do not go directly forward
    • GIF Shows opponent gaining head position back a few times, that is not part of the move
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The trap triangle – inside wrist grip

• The inside wrist grip is where your hand is palm up with your palm to the inside of your opponent’s wrist
  • If your thumb joint is higher than the opponent’s thumb joint, you are winning the griping battle
  • Position is used to keep the opponent’s hand away from making grips making it vulnerable to attacks
  • The only escape from this grip is out and away from the body, which makes their arm more vulnerable
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• Closed guard to trap triangle using the inside wrist grip
  • Break opponent forward with a knee pull
  • Control opponent’s head
  • Shift hips out to side and come up on your shoulder
  • Lock guard to the side of the opponent
  • Obtain inside wrist grip
    • You can often get this grip when the opponent is trying to re-gain posture in the clamp
  • Force hand away, so you can move foot in front of opponent’s bicep
  • Grab your shin that you just passed through
  • You can remove your wrist grip
  • Lock the trapped triangle
    • This is where you have a closed guard around
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• Attacks the triangle from trap triangle
  • Note: This works when opponent is standing or kneeling
  • Obtain trap triangle position
  • Grab your shin
  • If standing get an under hook of opponents leg
  • Move so the knee is putting pressure on opponents head
  • Lock up the figure 4 for the triangle attack
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• Gaining inside wrist control from a two-on-one grip
  • Used when opponent has a lapel and cuff grip in your closed guard
  • Weave free hand under their arm and grab their wrist
  • Pummel Gripped hand to the outside
  • Break grip by pushing hand towards ceiling and out
  • Pull opponent forward with both hands
  • Go to inside wrist grip
  • Continue into trap triangle
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• The details of the move
  • How to get your leg over their arm without being extremely flexible
    • Never be flat on your back and shift to one side
    • Move your head away from them to make more space
    • Face your chest slightly downward
    • If you bring your other leg up the opponent’s back, it can make the bottom leg have more range of motion to get past the opponents arm

Overhead sweep

• Used when the opponent is going to stand
  • You take advantage of the side to side movement of the opponent as they stand, especially on the second step
    • How to
      • Grab double cuff grips
        • It is best if their hands are close to your belt as possible
      • As they take their first step, bring your feet downward to load their hips with weight
      • As they take the second step
        • Bring keeps in front of armpits and pinch waist with your feet
        • Bring their hands up to your shoulder line
      • Break the opponents balance forward
      • Move their hands back near their hips as you roll over your shoulder
        • Do not bring directly over your head for safety
      • End in mount
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