Coming up through the ranks, one of the things that gave me the most satisfaction was hitting the armbar from the bottom of closed guard.
It didn’t happen that much though.
Whenever I would grab the wrist and tricep, my opponents would go into hyper defense mode. It wasn’t until I learned the power of the sleeve drag that I started hitting them more consistently.
And you know why?
It’s because once you get that arm across the centerline and lock down on the upper body, it creates a unfair advantage. One that is, in fact, rife with offensive potential.
Not only is it the perfect setup for the armbar, but naturally flows into the pendulum and much more.
In fact, once I started getting that position more often, I even pulled a choke so sinister that I once put someone to sleep with it, by mistake, during a demonstration from my memory banks.
It was a natural fit in the sequence.
And that’s not all either, but I’ll speak no more on it.
Why?
Because you can easily learn the entire sequence in under 30 minutes here: