The Kimura would be known as the Reverse Ude Garami, or the Double Wrist Lock in Catch Wrestling circles.
There are a lot of different names and sources to what we now know as the Kimura Lock. The most famous of them is the story of Masahiko Kimura, who the technique is now named after.
It is a very effective and powerful lock that can be placed from almost any position, top or bottom.
Here is a Kimura lock that you have probably never seen before. The Kimura usually requires a two on one grip, where you use the power of both arms to pleace the lock.
In this video, Luta Livre black belt Jarbem Pacheco shows a really cool way of submitting with a Kimura using just one hand. This variation is quite unusual in BJJ, but no so much in Luta Livre (which came from Catch Wrestling)
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