I thought I had invented a new submission last week when I
was training with Jadon. We were rolling, doing newaza randori, and I was doing
well in that he hadn’t been able to submit or pin me yet. In fact he was
playing guard and was having trouble trying to sweep me, which is a victory as
far as my battles with Jadon are concerned.
Anyway Jadon used a deep half guard sweep that he told
me he hasn’t used in a while; according to Jadon I can see the
standard ones coming a mile away now, and whilst the sweep worked, Jadon was
obviously a little complacent and didn't expect the triangle to be able to
close with his leg still in! From here I squeezed as hard as I could but with
his leg in it was putting extra pressure on my crown jewels. Although I've
already fathered two Children and don’t plan on fathering anymore, I still
wanted to retain the ability to piss standing up, so much to my annoyance I had
to let go before I got the tap, which BTW would have been the first time I have
tapped Jadon arggghhh. I guess if I had got the tap I could have claimed it as
a new submission especially as I've not been able to find many examples of a “leg
in Triangle” even amongst BJJers. However it appears I am not alone as someone posted
these pictures on Facebook the other day.
So have you ever caught someone in a “leg in Triangle”?
Do you have a funky name for this submission or can I
perhaps claim it for myself?
It happens, but it's never going to be the kind of thing you can reliable seek to end matches with. I've never seen it in competition, adrenaline and stakes relegate it to a gym move. Plenty of people have either done it or had it done to them, you just say "huh, that was rare" and move on.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, I couldn't even tell you how I set it up
ReplyDeleteive done it a few times from 50/50 guard. also done arm triangle with leg in (kata gatame) in training once!
ReplyDeleteA Leg in Arm Triangle? Sounds very uncomfortable
DeleteHow on earth do you get into position to pull that off!?
ReplyDeleteIt happened when Uke did a half guard sweep on me. if you think about being on top of someone with one of your legs trapped between their legs.Now imagine they try a san gaku jime from that position, they couldn't right because your leg would get in the way, well if your untrapped leg was posted up near their head it would simply be trapped in the triangle. It's not easy to explain but try and picture it in your head. It's fresh in my head because I caught someone else in this yesterday.
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