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  • Helicopter Armbar & Helicopter Triangle

    Helicopter Armbar & Helicopter Triangle

    Breakdown of the Helicopter Armbar & a bonus Helicopter Triangle.

    Ryron and Rener Gracie breakdown the helicopter armbar to celebrate the first? application of this technique in a televised MMA fight.

    How to do the helicopter armbar

    A lot needs to happen to get a helicopter armbar. First up your opponent needs to be standing over you with their feet close to your hips and you controlling at least one wrist and a lapel or preferably two wrists. From here with feet on hips either pull them forward or scoot under their hips and lift with your feet. It’s critical for this that you are under their hips or you feet will just push them away. Lift like you are doing a front sweep but instead of bringing them over your head spin them 90 degrees. Then drop them buy removing your foot from their far hip. As they fall take that free leg over their head knee bent ready to pull them in to your hips as you apply the armbar.

    Once you’ve done the helicopter armbar in rolling eventually your training partners will learn to suck their elbows in and escape. This is where the helicopter triangle comes in useful.

    How to do the helicopter triangle

    From guard with a standing opponent and control of at least both arms. Open your guard and get both feet on their hips. Then shift your hips under theirs and use your feet to lift them off the ground. From this position you should be able to easily hold their weight. Keeping your left foot on their hip, extend your right arm so that their weight is equally between your left foot and right arm (this takes a lot of practice). Now you can remove your right foot from the hip. Shoot it up over their shoulder and lock up the triangle as you allow them to drop to their feet.

    To avoid being picked up and slammed (you are now triangling a standing opponent), turn 90 degrees to your right and secure their left leg, reaching through and grape vining back around the leg. This prevents them picking you up while you squeeze and finish the triangle.

  • Omoplata Application & Escapes

    Omoplata Application & Escapes

    Breakdown of Omoplata in UFC

    Rener Gracie and UFC star Bryan Ortega breakdown the second successful omoplata in UFC history. Heavyweight Adam Wieczorek defeats Arjan Bhullar with omoplata from guard.

    The boys not only cover how to apply the omoplata, but also what to do to escape the omoplata should you get caught in a similar situation. To escape the key is, do not go belly down. In the beginning the key to escaping is to allow your arm to go limp and twist it free. When you resist with a stiff arm it only makes things worse. If you can’t get your arm free immediately go for the cross body jump escape. If that fails, then roll forwards to escape.

    When you’re the one applying the Omoplata, keep their arm bent back towards their body. If they get is partially straight, don’t let them get it to the ground where they can escape. Slide your top knee in towards their head, bending their elbow, and preventing the escape.

    The video finishes with an excellent omoplata circuit drill.

  • No Gi Ezekiel Choke Breakdown

    No Gi Ezekiel Choke Breakdown

    Yes it is possible to do a Ezekiel Choke no gi. Rener, Ryron & Vince Vaughn Celebrate the UFC’s first Ezekiel Choke with a Gracie Breakdown.

    After Aleksei Oleinik epic Ezekiel Choke from UNDER mount, the boys celebrate with an Ezekiel Choke breakdown. Teaching you how to do it with and without the use of a sleeve. From mount, from inside the guard, and from bottom position. The Ezekiel Choke is one of the only chokes effective from inside the guard.

    There is an excellent explanation of why Aleksei chose to allow himself to be mounted to help sink the choke in place. It’s not practical to Ezekiel choke someone from under side control. Allowing them to move to mount brings your spines parallel which opens up the neck so you can get your fist in.

    The boys also discuss and demonstrate two escapes if someone has an Ezekiel Choke locked in on you while you are in mount. If you’re on the bottom then good luck.