Adults: Arm Trapping from the Back
Warm-up
Hip to the Mat
Player A
Starts on top, next to the bottom player, with open hands. Trying to pull the bottom player to a hip.
Player B
Bottom player is in turtle, attempting to stay up and not fall to a hip. Cannot get up or leave.
Win Condition(s)
If top player gets bottom player to a hip, switch top and bottom.
One Hook In
Player A
Starts on top, next to the bottom player, with open hands. Trying to pull the bottom player to a hip. Once bottom player’s hip touches the mat, top player is unlocked to get a hook one.
Player B
Bottom player is in turtle, attempting to stay up and not fall to a hip. Once fallen to a hip, trying to deny the hook. Cannot get up or leave.
Win Condition(s)
If top player gets bottom player to a hip, switch top and bottom.
Controlling the Back
Player A
Attacking player starts on the back with any arm/leg configuration. Remember, control rotation. No submissions. Attempting to stay on the back as long as possible.
Player B
Defending player is attempting to escape and turn to face attacking player. Even though you know attacking player can’t submit, still treat it as if they can submit.
Win Condition(s)
If defending player is able to face attacking player, they have successfully escaped and you switch attacking/defending.
Main Class
Hand Fighting on the Back - Same Side
When we get on the back and we attain control, we then need to attack the neck. Our main obstacle to attacking the neck is the hands. The most effective way to deal with the hands is to trap them with our legs. We can trap hands with same-side or cross-side grips.
What I choose depends on the side on which I fall. We can’t always determine every variable, and which side we fall on is one that we can highly suggest, but we can’t fully determine.
If we land choking arm near the ground, we’re going to use a same-side grip to trap the arm.
ACROSS THE BOARD: Always gripping the edge of the hand. If we grip the fingers, they can wrist-roll out. If we grab the forearm, they can punch out.
Remember your ABCs: ALWAYS BE CHOKING. The entire time you are trying to trap an arm, you should also be attempting to attack the neck. This places them in a dilemma where they must choose to get their arm trapped, but defend their neck, or defend their arm, but get choked for it.
We’re going to roll and push with our palm on the back of their hand, while simulataneously throwing our leg over the arm.
You may be tempted to tuck your arm behind the back, but do not do that. Remember, to control the back, we must stop rotation. If I tuck his arm, I’m losing control of his shoulder. Instead, we clamp both our foot back to his hip, and we pinch our knee onto his shoulder.
From here, we can extract our hand and begin attacking the neck. This puts us in a mathematical advantage where it’s two arms to one. We should be able to win.
Hand Fighting on the Back - Cross-side
If we fall choking arm to the top side, then we attack and trap the arm using a cross-side grip, meaning our bottom arm is going to be the arm mainly assisting in the trap.
We control two on one, on the top arm, so we grab with our bottom arm. We grab the top of the hand and put a bend in the wrist to make him flare his elbow.
While doing this, we are still remembering our ABCs.
We trap his arm with our bottom arm and continue to attack with our top arm.