I'm sure someone will point out that this is a corny whitebelt move but we learned it lastnight and I thought it was awesome. :P

We started in half-guard but Paul said you can sneak into this from almost any guard.
1) If they are driving in to flatten you out make a frame above the near shoulder and against the side of the neck. Get on your hip.
2) Shoot your outside leg up their back and hook your same side hand around it behind your knee and grab their near shoulder. You should have enough pressure on their shoulder to stay in this position for a second.
3) Regrab your hands and make a frame to lift up their chin which lets you bring your bottom leg up.
4) Your bottom leg should be near their chin. Squeeze your knees together enough to keep them broken down.
5) pull the foot on their back past their face and triangle your legs. Pull you hand out from under your top knee and control their wrist.
5a) instead of sittingout in the omoplata direction give them enough space to start posturing and you can push your hips under for the gogoplata.
6) Instead of sitting up into an Omo Plata. switch your hips and slide your shin into their armpit. Do NOT move your hips away. Take the armbar while on your side.

I mostly wrote this down so I won't forget it. I LOVE this move and it is one of the few that I hit that same night in a live roll.

Let me know about your experiences with it or ask me to explain more. I'm looking for any conversation about this series to help cement it in my mind.

I've caught some people with omoplatas in guard. Rubber guard sets up Omoplatas especially well.

I'm working armbar-triangle-omoplata combos.

I'm sure someone will point out that this is a corny whitebelt move but we learned it lastnight and I thought it was awesome. :P

We started in half-guard but Paul said you can sneak into this from almost any guard.
1) If they are driving in to flatten you out make a frame above the near shoulder and against the side of the neck. Get on your hip.
2) Shoot your outside leg up their back and hook your same side hand around it behind your knee and grab their near shoulder. You should have enough pressure on their shoulder to stay in this position for a second.
3) Regrab your hands and make a frame to lift up their chin which lets you bring your bottom leg up.
4) Your bottom leg should be near their chin. Squeeze your knees together enough to keep them broken down.
5) pull the foot on their back past their face and triangle your legs. Pull you hand out from under your top knee and control their wrist.
5a) instead of sittingout in the omoplata direction give them enough space to start posturing and you can push your hips under for the gogoplata.
6) Instead of sitting up into an Omo Plata. switch your hips and slide your shin into their armpit. Do NOT move your hips away. Take the armbar while on your side.

I mostly wrote this down so I won't forget it. I LOVE this move and it is one of the few that I hit that same night in a live roll.

Let me know about your experiences with it or ask me to explain more. I'm looking for any conversation about this series to help cement it in my mind.

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I know. I keep trying to find some pictures but I can't find any that show step 2 correctly. Maybe I have the name wrong?

I know what you mean, but it isn't a move I specifically have in mind, it just happens sometimes while going for the omoplata.

I know what you mean, but it isn't a move I specifically have in mind, it just happens sometimes while going for the omoplata.

Yea, usually a person will extend their arm to get out of the ompoplata and give you the arm bar

You know, I actually use the guard position you listed a lot and this past months Grappling Magazine showed the position and named it....but I can't for the life of me remember what they called it.

Anyway, this arm bar is a good move IMO. Rather than remain on my side I try to continue the hip rotation while pulling the trapped arm to my ear and coming on top of the arm for an inverted or chest down arm bar.

Glaciers break apart, pigs speak in tongues, the moon turns menstrual red, and I agree with Cracky. That's definetely a legit and high percentage part of the omo sequence but it's a fallback move when he stacks up and turns back towards you, not something you go for right off the cuff unless you're a gogo phenom.

Hedge is correct. I like to think of the sequence as a "choose-your-own-adventure" for my opponent, with a submission at the end of every path. This armbar is relatively removed from the initiation of the sequence, but if that's what my opponent wants, it's what he'll end up getting.

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This thingamajigger? http://www.aesopian.com/25/omoplatarmbar-from-rubber-guard/
(http://www.aesopian.com/25/omoplatarmbar-from-rubber-guard/)

http://static.flickr.com/96/246087443_197baf212b.jpg

that's the far arm. i thought we were talking about the near arm.

of course, i could have misread everything.

No, the pic is crap its the near arm.