The second of Ed's great books concentrates on guard work and it is this that we have been focusing on. In particular we have been doing some flowing attacks. A good example of the flowing attack from guard - or attacking with options - is the one that probably most students learn first which is the good Closed Guard Armbar to Triangle to Omoplata option. This is a great basic option string for throwing up a few subs in a row and depending on how good your control is and how good your opponent's ability to block said subs is, you could essentially go round in circles with this one.
This string of attacks however wasn't the one that we were studying. Joe Moreira demonstrates some pretty damn cool flowing attacks in this book, all with thorough descriptions and loads of photos from a couple of different angles.
I'm not going to type out full descriptions of these moves as I don't need to. I have the book I'm just typing this up as a reference for what I've been studying. If anyone's interested in seeing these techniques then they can either buy the book or , if they know and live near me, borrow it off of me.
First up was a string starting from guard (closed or open, doesn't matter). Your first attack is:
Triangle from Guard. From there, if the guy blocks it using a bracing a you can either;
a/ Get a wrist lock on him, or
b/ Go for the Arm Bar.
If he manages to turn to the other side of you legs to escape this you can then hip escape out and push him over for the Omoplata.
From here if he blocks the you have the option to lean over and pull back his other arm to your shoulder for a really tight Straight Arm Bar. If not and he rolls out you then have the one leg over, one leg at his side Arm Bar.
If he then twists out of this you have his arm over your hip and bring your other (near) leg over his extended arm then wedge it into his side and sit up for a feckin tight Arm Lock! (A personal favourite).
From there if he looks to be escaping you can either:
a/ Sweep him over to side control using the hook, or ;
b/ Use his belt to help usher him into rolling over for another side-on standard Arm Bar. If he then attempts to defend that by pushing your head side leg away you can bring your chest side leg under his head and the other crosses over his face for Yet Another Arm Bar!!
And then if he manages to push your face leg away and attempts to sit up you can get right back to the Triangle. Absolute genius. We totally loved this flowing attack string and spent a lot of time drilling it.
The next set started from a spider guard attempt at a Triangle, where the opponent postures right up trying get out of it. You then push his extended to the outside of your body so it's trapped under your arm pit and use your hands to pull you knee in for a Straight Arm Bar (a fucking tight one too).
If he then uses the logical escape route of turning his arm and reach back around your leg you can hit a great Kimura. This is a total beaut of a Kimura too as there is an amazing range of motion available to finish it without you needing to struggle at all.
If however he manages to block this by quickly grabbing his inside pant leg you can twist your upper body over, using the strength of your legs to force him to forward roll, bringing you up in a lovely position for a Shoulder Lock (very monoplata-esque).
If he twists his arm sideways to stop the lock you can bring your other leg over his head for a side-on Arm Bar but you will be raising your legs a bit higher than usual as the guy's thumb will be pointing toward his legs so you will need to finish the sub by pushing his arm up toward his head. Another particularly tight one.
And if he twists his arm out of that then the cross over leg Arm Bar from the above string is right there.
These two stringed attacks are frickin awesome and with enough drilling you can find yourself jumping into the string from any point along the chain. Nice stuff. That's why I felt compelled to put this down in a log. I've still got Ian's class from last week to type up yet so I think I'm gonna be lagging behind a bit this week.
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