Ep. 154: Submission Series: The Omoplata, feat. Stephan Kesting
BJJ Mental Models
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Omaplata
Omoplata is a very, very low commitment submission from the guard. If you want to enter into an arm bar, generally you have to secure elbow control. But i find that in guard there's a lot of situations where if i just turn my hips around, suddenly i'm in the oma plata. You're not likely to be able to do it against someone with good arm awareness. The most common problem people have when doing the omoplata is that they get turned around and their opponent is either turdled up or he's on his knees. And so the question often becomes, how do you get past that? This is one of the areas where the o
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