I'm starting off with last class which was Monday (incidentally have class today heh). Monday we went over doing an arm crank. See, thing with those is they are hard to finish. I've done them before now but never seem to be able to quite get it while rolling. Was determined to do this one for a while, and this class made me realize that I must have given up cause I hadn't been doing it lately at all for months. Hahaha.
However, Jay mentioned something very important while learning this particular one. That although it’s a technique that’s hard to finish, going for the setup also sets you up for a lot of other things as well. If nothing else, you can at least attempt to do it so you can get to another submission and by doing so you keep practicing it until you can sink it. Sounds logical enough, in theory. I suppose I could try it out sometime.
Arm Crank
This particular Arm Crank we did while having guard and your opponent has their hands on your biceps, trying to control your arms. From this position you:
- Raise your arms up over your head as if you were stretching
- Bring your left hand over to grab their hand on your right side, pushing it up onto your shoulder and clamping down with your head/chin.
- Raise your head a bit upwards.
- This needs to be really tight!!
- Then with your right hand grab their arm at their elbow and clasp your hands together.
- You want to be pushing down and to the left on their elbow, but at the same time pushing up and right with your chin at their wrist/hand.
- At this point, they should start feeling pressure and pain. If not, you’re not doing it right!! Ha. Well. Just saying
- You turn to the left, bringing your face all the way down to the mat.
- You want to apply the same pressure on the arm as you have been doing, but also twist it a bit.
That’s it for now, boys and girls! Have about 3 more posts to come later, one of which being tonight’s class.
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