The Turtle position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is nowhere as greatly explored as other positions are. That is to say: there are a number of possibilities when your opponent turtles up, both for positional advantage and for submissions… But the matter of the fact is that you probably haven’t spent a lot of time experimenting with it.
How do you usually grip your training partners when they turtle? You probably get a seatbelt grip or something similar…
But that’s a suboptimal solution.
Opponent turtled up? No problem, there’re heaps of solutions…
With one of them being the Spinning Armbar!
Here is how to execute the Spinning Armbar from Turtle.
Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida demonstrates:
