Ep. 154: Submission Series: The Omoplata, feat. Stephan Kesting
BJJ Mental Models
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The Importance of Knowing the Predictable Responses to Submissions
The power of both the cimura and the oma plata, they're effectively doing the same thing. You're establishing an internal rotation where you're taking the person's arm and you're twisting it behind their back. The reason why i don't see a lot of like an arm bar trap to the same extent that you see a kimera trap is because it is much more natural for the arm to flex in and out of the bicept. It just opens up this avenue of continually worsening options for your opponent if you can just keep the trap going.
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