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When an opponent is attempting to obtain Side Control you can look to win the underhook and escape the position.

Position: Your opponent is on your right, coming into side control.

Technique: With your left arm, gain an underhook on the opponent’s incoming right arm. Fish that underhook either over the near shoulder, locking the arm in and gaining control, or over to the far shoulder in the hope of creating more space.

Come up onto your right elbow, keeping the underhook with your shoulder and head tight into the opponent’s shoulder and chest. You’re trying to eliminate the chance of losing the underhook.

Solo Drills: From your back get up on your right elbow and hip as if you’re chasing the underhook and getting up. Get back on your back and do the same on the other side. Drill this movement for 20 reps each side, or for a specific time period.

Partner Drills: Have your partner come down onto you as if to establish side control. Before he gets there, fish for the underhook and escape. Go back to your back and repeat for a certain number of reps or time. If you’re coming all the way up to your knees feel free to lay back down with your head on the other side so that your opponent is attacking your other side.

Tips: This is best as an early escape. You can still pull it off when you’re really flattened and stuck, but it’s so much easier to get out well before that ever happens.

If you want this to be your number one escape you should always be looking for the underhook.

You have to be willing to give up the lost guard if you’re going to be aiming for the early underhook escape. That means knowing being willing to let go. Keep in mind that stacking passes do a lot to eliminate this escape. Free your legs as soon as they get caught as your opponent passes.

Your second goal is to get to your side after the pass. You can always engage in the underhook fight after he’s gained side control as long as you can create the space needed. That’s greatly helped by turning onto your side early.

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Omoplata from Guard
Omoplata Entry: Hands on the mat
Omoplata Entry: Forearms posted
Omoplata Rolling Escape Counter
Omoplata Posture Escape Counter

Omoplata from Guard
You have your opponent in your closed guard. You’ve gained an over-hook on the opponent’s left arm. Pop your left knee out by pushing the opponent’s right shoulder as you bring your leg forward. You isolate his left arm around your right leg, ensuring that it’s bent back over the knee, as you open the guard. Do this by bringing the knee up near the arm-pit.

From here you will want to turn your body 180 degrees, wrapping the leg around the arm so that the back of the opponent’s hand is on your torso.

Block the opponent’s ability to roll forward by sitting up and blocking the hips with an arm over the belt line.

Lean forward to apply pressure to the shoulder joint.

Partner drills:
- Partner in your guard, grabs a leg, removes the other arm. Omoplata! Reverse back to guard. Partner grabs the other leg, removes the arm. Omoplata on the other side!
- To add in a, and more of an open guard feel have your partner roll out once you come to sitting. Get back to his knees crawl towards you with an arm hanging out there as if to say, “Please, please omoplata me”. Omoplata. Roll. Come back. Repeat until the rolling partner vomits. Being on top in this drill is the perfect opportunity to feel the timing of the rolling counter, and to work on rolling over both shoulders instead of the top of your head.

Solo drills:
- The omoplata rocking chair: Sit up slightly, rock back as you turn the corner (like an omoplata motion). Go the other way.
- Do forward rolls over each shoulder until you throw-up.

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Omoplata from guard entry with opponent’s hands on the mat

Your opponent is broken down in your guard and both of his hands are on the mat right next to you hips.

With your right hand get an overhook grip on his left elbow. Your hand should be on the elbow while your elbow is down on his hand, blocking him from taking out the arm. You don’t want a deep overhook. It’s more of a cupping grip that’s over the arm instead of under. If the hook is deep there’s no room for your leg.

With you left hand push on the opponent’s right shoulder as you bring your left knee through. This takes his right arm out of your guard and releases your leg to come around into the omoplata.

Lift yourself up slightly using his left arm and swing into the omoplata.

Omoplata entry from low postured opponent
Your opponent has his forearm resting on your chest and his posture is down over you.

Take your hands, palm down and slide them under the opponent’s arms. You should be able to bring your palms together with his forearms on top of yours.

Bring your opponent forward with your legs as you swim your hands out to bring his hands to the mat.

Scroll up, follow the previous entry.

Partner Drills:
- For a change in pace, start in closed guard and have your partner pick one of these postures. React appropriately, swing back around, and have him pick another. Do this for 5 minutes, then switch. This will help you compute an entry quicker based on what you see and feel from your opponent.

Omoplata rolling defence counter into omoplata
A common defence to the omoplata is for the opponent to roll forward before you have the opportunity to block his hips.

You’ve tuned into the omoplata on the opponent’s left arm. As he rolls ensure you grab his elbow with your left hand to secure the arm.

Holding on to the elbow, rise slightly onto your left leg as you make room to get your right leg back under the opponent’s arm. Roll forward over your right shoulder to re-establish the omoplata.

Partner Drills:
- Just keep rolling until you both throw up, or hit the wall.

Omoplata posture defence counter into omoplata
Another common defence to the omoplata is to posture up as the opponent turns. This often ends up with you on your back next to your opponent whose arm is still stuck in your leg.

Secure the arm by pulling back with your left hand grip as you push forward slightly with your leg. Make sure that thing is really stuck in there.

Reach over with your free hand; in this case we’ll say it’s your right. Grab his right leg on the pants or under the ankle/shin.

Hold firm with your left hand. Push with your right leg. Pull across your chest with your right hand and turn into your left hip. Your goal is to pull him over you and onto his back with the arm still secured.

You’ll be facing down the legs of the opponent. Swing your left leg back and to the right, coming over your opponent’s head and chest until you’re in mount with his arm still stuck to your leg.

Holding the arm, crabwalk straight over to your left off the side of his body. This will turn the opponent into the omoplata.

See the omoplata from mount as a reference (31-8-11).

Partner Drills:
- Omoplata, partner postures to defend, counter into omoplata, allow the partner to posture, counter into omoplata, etc.

Tips:
- Work on your rocking movement. It’s all in the hips.
- You want to end up as close to side-by-side with your opponent as possible. You’re not turning 90 degrees. You’re turning 180.
- Make sure you get both your legs out of the way. Get them both pointing away from your opponent as you sit up. You’ll need to be on the near butt-cheek to do this, not the far butt-cheek. That means you want to be turning your butt away from them, which is the polite thing to do anyway.

Good luck to Warren, John, Nick and Serina from Submission Takapuna who are competing in the Trials tomorrow at the Tamaki Recreation Centre. Entry is $10 for spectators.

We wish all the Will/Machado students in NZ who are competing all the best as well!

All pics can be found on Industry of Combat’s Facebook Fanpage.

BJJ

With the Will/Machado nationals coming up this weekend Warren focused the class on rolling, working on what we know rather than learning something new. I spent the class trying to reinforce the things I want to remember for the comp, tweaking little things and enjoying rolling.

MMA

Mark led us in a sparing class, keeping it really light and not wanting to have any injuries for Saturday. We were trying to think about using different combinations rather than getting sucked into a jab, cross, hook, single kick sort of mind set. We focused on varying our strategies, and not worrying about getting hit so much, or whether we were “winning”.

Best of luck to everyone competing this weekend!

Cam D

BJJ

Warren took the class and we focused on omoplata and then on working it in combination with arm bar from guard and triangle. It was a really great class, starting with the fundamental movements and then moving through the layers of the technique until you had something quite complex, without it being to much information.

MMA

In MMA Mark really pushed us with a striking work out. Working on combinations of jabs, straights, hooks, and elbows and then moving though them again, linking them with a double leg takedown. Personally I felt the cardio burn hard. Finishing off with sparring it was another great evening at submission martial arts.

Cam D

BJJ

We continued to work on learning to roll lightly instead of fighting. It’s been great to have repeated classes lately with this focus. Trying to relax and think instead of powering over, to let your opponent get stuff and then apply your own technique. I feel like I am getting better but have a ways to go. I find it hard to make sure my technique is effective rather than moving with power through a defence or positional control. It’s such a partner oriented thing too. If your partner speeds up, it’s really hard not to respond in kind. I think that my new goal is to not worry what my opponent is doing if they go fast, they go fast and I will just let them for that roll, letting it happen rather than getting sucked into trying to stop them. Ego is a tricky thing and it sneaks up on you from all directions. Checking your ego at the door is an eternal process it seems.

It was good to run through the blue belt syllabus in one go and I surprised myself with how much I remembered. I could feel that I spent time in some parts remembering, rather then executing technique perfectly, so more reps for me I guess.

Well done to everyone who was awarded new stripes. It’s always awesome recognising how far everyone has come and how well the guys ahead of you are doing.

MMA

Continuing to work with the Thai Clinch has been really interesting, seeing how effective it is as a control reinforced John Will’s discussion of leverage. It can feel like you aren’t doing that much but when you’re on the receiving end you feel like you can’t go any where.

Sparing was fun and we were all conscious of sparring and not fighting in the same way as we worked on rolling not fighting in BJJ. Again the challenge is keep your technique good while being relaxed and flowing.

It was a great class and I walked out of with a lot to reflect on and having had a lot of fun.

Cam D

Videos of Simo’s and Brayden’s fights from the weekend just gone.

What an Awesome night! Simo Postings WON his fight via Unanimous Decision! He dominated his opponent on the Ground and gave the crowd some well executed double leg takedowns which he is becoming famous for!! This takes Simos Amateur record up to 4 wins and No loses! Well Done Simo the Team are super Proud!

Brayden Goldring had his work cut out for him facing off with a Champion Black Belt Judo fighter Gareth Carter who has had 1 Amateur MMA fight. At one stage we thought Brayden had an Arm bar from Guard sunk when Gareth picked him up and dropped him. The fight went the full three rounds when it was announced a Draw! Unfortunately Brayden couldn’t quite get the upper edge over Gareth in the 4th Round and Gareth won via Majority Decision! Huge War for Brayden! The crowd was cheering this was one of the most technical fights of the night! Well Done Brayden we can’t wait for the next one!

NZMMA.tv have full results
Videos should be up soon.

Huge congrats to the Team Submission who competed in todays ABJJNZ Competition!

Gold

Nick Ovens

Scott Sherer

Bevan Brooking

Silver

Serina Cole

Mike Fong

Bronze

Dane Crosby

One again all the people that competed today all proved what Submission is made of and represented us really well!