The 6 Vulnerabilities Flashcards
What attacks can we employ using the vulnerability of ‘elbow across the centre line’?
If we get our opponent’s elbow across the centre line we can:
- achieve the side scissor position and work our way to his back and achieve rear mount
- achieve the side scissor position and use a pendulum sweep to take mount position
What attacks can we employ when we use our opponent’s vulnerability inside the TOP LOCK position?
The top lock gives us a far greater control over our opponent than the standard closed guard. This is because we have our closed guard locked around the top of the lever of his spine, around his shoulders and behind their head. (Like a closed guard with their head and one shoulder/arm inside)
What are the 6 vulnerabilities we can exploit in closed guard?
1- elbow across centre line 2- top lock 3 - trap triangle 4 - hands on the floor 5- standing 6- hips on the mat
What advantages do we have when we achieve the Trap Triangle? And what is one example of how to achieve it?
When we get a trap triangle we can employ the following attacks more effectively: Triangle Arm bar Kimura Omoplata Ude gatame
We can use ‘inside wrist position’ to control one arm of the opponent, allowing us to use our legs to pommel into a tram triangle
Inside wrist position: in closed guard
Knee pull to get opponent’s head toward yours, use one arm to overhook/wrap around back of the head to control head
Use your second hand to get a ‘c-grip’ and a thumb block inside the opponents wrist and stiff arm his wrist out to the side.
You will have an unweighted bottom leg and a weighted top leg
Pommel your unweighted bottom leg inside the opponents arm (that you’re gripping)
Lock trap triangle
What advantages do we have my getting our opponents HANDS ON THE FLOOR? And how do we do so?
If we can get our opponent’s hands on the floor, we can achieve ‘the clamp’ position.
The great advantage of ‘the clamp’ position is, arm isolation.
We can do this by, getting inside position with our hand inside his biceps, as we knee pull and get his hands outside his body and to the floor
We can then slide our hips out slightly to the side, where one knee goes in front of a shoulder and the other goes behind the other shoulder, isolating our partners hands from being able to lock (and be difficult to finish arm attacks etc)
Why is the vulnerability of an opponent standing up in our closed guard a unique one? And what do we do when it happens?
It’s unique because the opponent chooses to initiate the vulnerability, the other vulnerable positions are initiated by us.
Standing up usually occurs in 2 steps, we can take advantage of this by focusing on the vulnerable 2nd step.
The 2nd step an opponent takes will initiate a big head movement from one side to the other, we can exploit this movement with a knee pull, that pulls them back down towards us, off balancing them.
Another trick we can employ, is just after the Opp takes his first step up in our closed guard, we employ a downward force with our feet toward the ground, this will
Make the already harder 2nd step up for him, a lot harder with the extra weight, making him more vulnerable to a knee pull on the 2nd step when he achieves it
What are the advantages of exploiting the vulnerability of ‘hips on the mat’ (breaking the opponent down to a hip in closed guard)
If you can put an opponent on his hips on closed guard, subs and sweeps become a lot easier, as he doesn’t have the stability of being on his knees any more.
Think ‘hip bump’ sweep, if they’re already on a hip they will go over easier, they can only hand post out, and if they do, you capitalise on the triangle opportunity
