Having a dangerous guard is one of integral skills in bjj. Anytime an opponent doesn’t posture right or their arm gets too high on your body you have the unique opportunity to catch them in a submission.
From the closed guard what you’re looking for is for the opponent’s hand to go across your belt line. Grabbing you higher while in your closed guard can be a huge mistake.
If the arm comes in you should be catching behind the elbow and…
Instead of pulling it to yourself you meet it instead.
From there you get a bite and finish! You push away the face, hip escape. Set feet in this position and you’re good to go:
As for the very finish the trick is to put your thumb right above the elbow put it down, get a gable grip and crunch up so there’s more of a tension created.
Alternatively you can grab like this:
In this position you would pull down while lifting hips up.
If you’re dealing with someone who has more experience and isn’t too eager to grab on too high while in your closed guard you can always use this move.
This armbar is of course applicable from a bunch of different guards. Among them also knee shield and butterfly!
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