Armbar

• Get the elbow inside the line of your hips (required for entry)
• Elbow and shoulder relationship
  • "I wont even try unless I can get their elbow away from their body"
  • Once the elbow is above the line of the shoulder, it's easy to bring it across the centerline
  • walking the elbow away
    • never lead with your finders, lead with your thumb (to go around, not into, their strength)
    • plant hand, move head
      • think about it in terms of moving head, not driving shoulder or opening elbow
• "Never sit down to the floor taking our weight off our opponent until we have the crossface leg over the opponents face"
• Critical position: "Cross Chest position"
• To prevent hitchhiker escape, control hand to elbow to connect their elbow to your hip^652cd3
• Half hand grip - half of hand on wrist and half on their hand
  • One hand pulling, one hand pushing: one elbow goes down, one goes up

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