Tarikoplata
Tarikoplata — a kimura-grip shoulder lock with the leg brought over the trapped shoulder to reinforce the grip and amplify the finish.
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The tarikoplata is a kimura-grip shoulder lock reinforced by the leg. The attacker holds the figure-four kimura grip — one hand on the opponent’s wrist, the other threaded behind their elbow and gripping the attacker’s own wrist — and the opponent defends the way kimuras are defended: gripping their own body or leg, or stiffening the arm so the wrench stalls. The tarikoplata answers by bringing the attacker’s leg over the trapped shoulder and arm. The shin or calf presses down on the shoulder line, sometimes with the foot hooking to the attacker’s own wrist or hip, so the leg’s weight reinforces the grip and breaks the defensive hold. The finish drives the bent arm into internal rotation, kimura-direction, with the leg’s leverage added to the arms’.
The technique shares real estate with the omoplata family — a leg over the shoulder from guard — while the force runs through a different channel. The omoplata rotates the body against a leg-trapped arm; the tarikoplata transmits force through the kimura grip, with the leg as the amplifier. That difference is why it works where its neighbours stall: it beats the self-grips that stop a kimura, and it beats the postures that shut down an omoplata, because the grip and the leg attack both defences at once.
The tarikoplata is a recent addition to the competition repertoire, and the published instruction on it is recent and limited. The description here follows the consensus of that material.
Elevated RiskTarikoplata is an elevated risk technique. The tarikoplata applies a kimura-type internal-rotation load to the shoulder — posterior capsule and posterior rotator cuff — with the leg's weight amplifying the grip's leverage. Force arrives through a large lever with very little visible movement before the structural limit: the arm can be near its end range while the position still looks static from outside. Tap early — once the grip and the leg are both set, the margin is small. Serious injury can occur fast — leg-amplified kimura leverage reaches the limit with little visible movement.
If you are new to this technique: read this section before anything else. Understanding the danger is part of understanding the technique.
The person applying the technique is responsible for releasing immediately.