Arm Bar Theory

**Method2Madness** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 2:40pm

i recently heard a theory that one can get a strait armbar from all most anywhere. Has anyone else heard about this theory?

**MEGALEF** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 2:57pm

I was thinking of a really cool answer to that, but then the colours started changing. I saw myself as an old man eating soup, laying dead on a bed and finally as a giant fetus floating in space.

Are you asking if it is possible to get to a certain point from any other point in the world?

**Method2Madness** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:01pm

im asking if anyone has heard of this theory. My freind told it to me. He said there was a theory that said one could get an arm bar from any position. Of course one would have to be pretty damn good to pull somthing like that off. I am just asking if anyone else has heard about it.

**lawdog** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:11pm

Originally Posted by Method2Madness

im asking if anyone has heard of this theory. My freind told it to me. He said there was a theory that said one could get an arm bar from any position. Of course one would have to be pretty damn good to pull somthing like that off. I am just asking if anyone else has heard about it.

I still don't know exactly what you're talking about.

But look at it this way. The shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the body. Extend your arm out and any direction in which you can move your arm, you could theoretically get an arm bar. The biggest problem with some of the unorthodox angles is a minor little problem called immobilization.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:15pm

Originally Posted by Method2Madness

i recently heard a theory that one can get a strait armbar from all most anywhere. Has anyone else heard about this theory?

As long as the arm is straight, locked in your grip, and the opponets upperbody is under control, and other little minor points such as body positioning and the phase of the moon, yes, you can armbar anyone from any position, except people with no arms.

**lawdog** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:19pm

Originally Posted by BatRonin

except people with no arms.

:laughing4

**Kengou** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:19pm

Can you armbar someone from on top of a closed guard? I don't think so unless you're hella fast or their guard is hella weak. And they are extending their arm at you already. And his arm is already broekn. And he's dead.

**DARKSON** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:28pm

just about

**Jekyll** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:37pm

Originally Posted by Method2Madness

i recently heard a theory that one can get a strait armbar from all most anywhere. Has anyone else heard about this theory?

I think it might be true if the other guy is really, really clueless.

**lawdog** · Posted On: 9/21/2005 3:40pm

Originally Posted by Kengou

Can you armbar someone from on top of a closed guard? I don't think so unless you're hella fast or their guard is hella weak. And they are extending their arm at you already. And his arm is already broekn. And he's dead.

That's my point about immobilization.

Sure, theoretically it can be done, but it's going to be pretty damn hard to control him from inside his gaurd.