Finishing arm triangles

**Fighting Cephalopod** · Posted On: 7/07/2006 11:41am

I do my arm triangles mostly like this, but the putting the knee on top of the hip to block the leg-grab escape is a great detail I wasn't aware of.

**Dirty Rooster** · Posted On: 7/07/2006 4:08pm

Thanks for this !! ...
I couldn't figure out how to do it right myself,
even after accidentally getting it to work once ...
Gonna try these things on Wednesday.

**Don Gwinn** · Posted On: 7/07/2006 5:00pm

I hadn't seen mmalibrary before--thanks.

**GoldenJonas** · Posted On: 7/13/2006 1:58pm

Originally Posted by Don Gwinn

I hadn't seen mmalibrary before--thanks.

Me neither, just registered, great link Aeso! thanks.

**Aesopian** · Posted On: 7/13/2006 2:04pm

I actually got the admin of MMALibrary to make it so registration is only needed to reply or post, not view the techniques (like it used to be).

**chaosexmachina** · Posted On: 7/14/2006 1:02am

Thanks, this actually helped. Hope I remember when it's time to try it out.

**Jaguar Wong** · Posted On: 7/23/2006 11:41am

Originally Posted by Yrkoon9

Arm triangles in all thier variations seems to be a specialty at my school. Consequently I am finding myself getting better at apply and defending against them.

Yeah, I had heard that Cobra Kai wrecks shop with arm triangles. In fact after the Grapplers Quest in March, we were spending a disproportionately large amount of time on defense against the d'arce from the front headlock and arm triangles from the top positions. I figured it was because you guys were so dangerous with them.

**koshokid** · Posted On: 8/25/2006 11:15am

This is the same way we'll do the arm triangle but if we find that doesn't work, we'll keep the bottom arm on the ground and slide that hand up torwards the opposite elbow. It's hard to get the hand all the way up to the opposite elbow just by doing this, so we'll put the hand of the "free arm" flat on the ground, straighten the arm, then lift your opponent so your "bottom hand" reaches the elbow, then put your elbow to the ground (so both of your elbows are on the ground), the "free hand" on your ear and your head to the ground while you squeese to finish the choke (of course the whole time keeping your knee in your opponent's ribs for control).

The counter to this is to push your hands together to try and sqeese space inbetween the other guy's arm and your neck. If someone starts to muscle out of the triangle this way, we'll move to an armbar and work from there.

I hope that made sense.

**PoleFighter** · Posted On: 8/25/2006 1:13pm

I finish armtriangles by simply putting upwards pressure on the neck using my arm underneath. I accmplish this by simply leaning forward and then raisining my shoulders. Instant tap. It turns into more of a neck crank though.

**Tenebrous** · Posted On: 9/01/2006 1:37am

Since this thread was posted I have used this variation a couple of times, and tonight I finished it with the standard arm configuration and the knee-on-hip. Very cool post.