Figure-Four Grip, Threat to Threat: Submit or Take the Back vs Free and Hide Your Back
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Tell the roomStay close, isolate the arm, and keep threatening until you submit or take the back. Get free of the threat and hide your back.
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TOP PLAYER (FIGURE-FOUR GRIP)
POSITION
Your partner is on their side and you start with a figure-four grip on their arm.
OBJECTIVE
Stay close, isolate the arm, and keep threatening until you submit or take the back.
CONSTRAINTS
Keep your hips as close to your partner's shoulder as you can. Try to separate that arm from everything it can touch: their body, their other arm, their legs. You don't have to stay with the Kimura grip, but you have to go from threat to threat to threat with no lag time in between: turn a twisting lock into a straight lock, or turn either one into a strangle. As long as there's a threat, the game goes on. If at any time you lose it all, you lose. Tap and release the moment anything loads an elbow, shoulder, knee, or the neck; ease into every finish so your partner has time to tap, and reset on a tap.
WIN CONDITION
You submit your partner, or you take their back.
BOTTOM PLAYER
POSITION
On your side, with your partner holding a figure-four grip on your arm.
OBJECTIVE
Get free of the threat and hide your back.
CONSTRAINTS
Tap early. If your partner runs out of threats, you win.
WIN CONDITION
You get free of every threat and hide your back.
Coach Greg Souders, Standard Jiu-Jitsu, All Levels Class at Standard Jiu-Jitsu (free class video on the Standard Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel).
Problem
Your partner is on their side and you start with a figure-four grip on their arm.
Setup
Your partner is on their side and you start with a figure-four grip on their arm. On your side, with your partner holding a figure-four grip on your arm.
Score
You submit your partner, or you take their back. You get free of every threat and hide your back.
Rules
- Keep your hips as close to your partner's shoulder as you can.
- Try to separate that arm from everything it can touch: their body, their other arm, their legs.
- You don't have to stay with the Kimura grip, but you have to go from threat to threat to threat with no lag time in between: turn a twisting lock into a straight lock, or turn either one into a strangle.
- As long as there's a threat, the game goes on.
- If at any time you lose it all, you lose.
- Tap and release the moment anything loads an elbow, shoulder, knee, or the neck; ease into every finish so your partner has time to tap, and reset on a tap.
- Tap early.
- If your partner runs out of threats, you win.
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Figure-Four Grip, Threat to Threat: Submit or Take the Back vs Free and Hide Your Back
Developing
TOP PLAYER (FIGURE-FOUR GRIP)
Position
Your partner is on their side and you start with a figure-four grip on their arm.
Win condition
You submit your partner, or you take their back.
Constraints
Keep your hips as close to your partner's shoulder as you can. Try to separate that arm from everything it can touch: their body, their other arm, their legs. You don't have to stay with the Kimura grip, but you have to go from threat to threat to threat with no lag time in between: turn a twisting lock into a straight lock, or turn either one into a strangle. As long as there's a threat, the game goes on. If at any time you lose it all, you lose. Tap and release the moment anything loads an elbow, shoulder, knee, or the neck; ease into every finish so your partner has time to tap, and reset on a tap.
BOTTOM PLAYER
Position
On your side, with your partner holding a figure-four grip on your arm.
Win condition
You get free of every threat and hide your back.
Constraints
Tap early. If your partner runs out of threats, you win.
Elevated safety. Confirm tap-and-release before the first rep. Stop at the tap. Do not run this if the room is not already serious about it.