Newer Female Wrestlers, Learn The Arm Bar For Submission Advancement
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September 25, 2022,
It is a move that instills fear in your opponent.
It is also one that instills fear in the audience as they watch in potential horror.
Will the arm be broken?
In an Arm Bar?
Sometimes it can and has. With good training, mostly not.
We know, as a video producer, sometimes we leave it out of the match as a potential submission hold because, depending upon the skill level of the girls involved, it’s too dangerous.
Having said that, using the arm bar in female grappling is a necessity if you want to compete at a higher level.
In competitive female submission wrestling, the arm bar works in conjunction with a body scissors or triangle choke very effectively.
Often an Arm Bar is called an Arm Lock.
An arm lock in grappling is a single or double joint lock that hyperextends, hyperflexes or hyperrotates the elbow joint or shoulder joint.
An arm lock that hyper-extends the arm is known as an arm bar, and it includes the traditional arm bar, pressing their elbow into your thigh, and the triangle arm bar, like a triangle choke, but you press their elbow into your thigh.
An arm lock that hyper-rotates the arm is known as an arm coil, and includes the Americana, Kimura, and Omaplata.
Generally, arm coils hurt more than arm bars, as they attack several joints at the bone and muscle.
Obtaining an arm lock requires effective use of full-body leverage in order to initiate and secure a lock on the targeted arm, while preventing the opponent from escaping the lock. Therefore, performing an arm lock is less problematic on the ground, from positions such as the mount, side control, or guard.
This video demonstrates a slow methodical process to obtaining an arm bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gM4GWht6E
For you, the best place to learn the arm bar hold is most likely at a Dojo through a Jiu-Jitsu instructor.
We can learn more at the bookstore as well. This appears to be a well-illustrated and explained book on Arm Bars and Jiu-Jitsu.
The Juji Gatame Encyclopedia: Comprehensive Applications of the Cross-Body Armlock for all Grappling Styles Paperback – May 1, 2019
By Steve Scott
“Juji Gatame remains the most consistently used joint lock in many grappling sports including judo, sambo, jujitsu, submission grappling, BJJ, and MMA.
Athletes and coaches around the world use and respect this game-ending armlock.
Juji gatame was not widely popular until the 1960s, when the sambo grapplers of the former Soviet Union began their innovations with Japanese armlocks and groundfighting. With great success, they took their opponents to the mat, submitting them with never-before-seen applications of juji gatame techniques.
This comprehensive manual organizes juji gatame into four primary applications
- Spinning juji gatame
- Back roll juji gatame
- Head roll juji gatame
- Hip roll juji gatame
Steve Scott carefully breaks down the basics, analyzes the structure, and offers hundreds of variations so you can successfully win with juji gatame, even under stress.
- A logical and systematic teaching method—for easy learning
- A functional perspective showing hundreds of variations—your options
- Juji gatame unbiased—inviting all grappling styles
- Thousands of photographs—in action.”
Sounds comprehensive.
We now turn our attention to a visiting writer who will explain the power of the Arm Bar even further.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Techniques Revealed – Two of the Most Devastating
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, also known as BJJ for short, employs some of the most effective techniques in the martial arts world to overwhelm and disable an opponent. A set of techniques known as “joint locks” seem to be particular favorites of expert BJJ practitioners. A lot of martial art styles and disciplines like Aikido, Hapkido, and Judo all employ various joint lock techniques, but none of them have taken the art form to a new level like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has. Joint locks employed with enough leverage by a BJJ master can fully disable an opponent, sometimes permanently, by destroying major joints like knees and elbows or easily breaking large bones. This article will explain two of the most fundamental of the BJJ joint locks: the Juji-Gatame and the Kimura.
The Juji-Gatame, Also Known as the “Armbar”
One of the most widely utilized techniques in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition is called the “juji-gatame”, also known in English more commonly as simply the “armbar.” This is one of the most versatile and effective joint locks there is – many a Mixed Martial Arts match has been unexpectedly ended in an instant with a sudden armbar. This is one of the many reasons BJJ has come to be known as the dominant style on the ground in Mixed Martial Arts competitions.
An armbar is a joint lock attack applied to the opponent’s elbow to hyperextend it. It is extremely effective, especially against opponents who are not trained in BJJ themselves. An armbar is usually applied by grabbing the wrist or forearm of one of your opponent’s arms and securing their arm between both of your thighs as you place your legs perpendicular to your opponent’s body over his chest. In this way your hips become a fulcrum and your opponent’s arm is like a lever that you are bending at the elbow (in the wrong direction) against that fulcrum. Well-applied armbars are extremely painful. If you have good control over his wrist, you can continue to hyperextend your opponent’s elbow until he either submits, the elbow dislocates, or his arm breaks. For obvious reasons an armbar move is most often attempted on the ground, but skilled and daring fighters can actually initiate an armbar while standing and take their opponent down to the ground by throwing both legs across their body.
The Kimura
The kimura move was named after a Judo master named Masahiko Kimura who performed it in order to defeat one of the most famous godfathers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Helio Gracie. Like the armbar, you grab your opponent’s wrist, but this time with the hand on the same side. The kimura is designed to attack your opponents shoulder instead of his elbow. Your opposite second arm is then quickly slipped into place on the backside of your opponent’s arm, again securing the opponent’s wrist in order to form a type of “figure four”. With your opponent’s arm in such a precarious position and you in complete control of it, you can continue to crank his arm at an angle away from his body, putting tremendous stress on the shoulder joint. Once you learn the armbar and the kimura, you will already have a significant arsenal under your belt.
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