At a certain point, one of my teammates made a significant change in her game.
She stopped going for armbars in closed guard.
Why?
It’s because she kept running into hyper flexible women in tournaments. She would get the arm across, establish good angle and then shoot the hips up, but yet still it would be a fight.
So she started asking herself if there was something else she could do when she got that arm across.
And midway through blue belt she came up with an answer.
Instead of going for the arm, she started reaching around the neck and grabbing the far side collar. And she built a whole system of offense around that one little grip. In fact, it’s what she used to dominate match after match on her way to winning Worlds at blue belt.
It was same exact grip every time.
And all her competition saw it coming but they couldn’t stop it.
Once she got that grip, it was over. She either took the back and dominated or choked them out right then and there. The choke is a thing of beauty too. It’s one of the strongest and sneakiest loop chokes I know.
And I added it to my arsenal, of course.
But some changes were made.
I change the grip and made the whole system of offense more versatile. Even slapped on a catchy name for the hell of it too. But within that system are many basic principles for developing effective offense for closed guard.
And it can all be learned here:
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