Armbar

John Danaher on why the classic two-on-one armbar fails against good people and how the top lock fixes it: elbow inside your hip, head over the elbow, then a small pivot. A definitive lesson.

Ffion Davies' flower sweep from closed guard, the pendulum that chains straight into the armbar.

Helena Crevar's collar-and-sleeve armbar: isolating the sleeve-side arm and climbing to the lock without losing the collar.

Nicholas Meregali's S-mount armbar, with the gi grips and the hip-led fall that keep the arm trapped.

Andre Galvao uses the armbar threat from S-mount to trap the opponent in a mounted triangle.

Roger Gracie teaching closed guard for FloGrappling: collar grip, posture break and the attacks he actually used at black belt.

Nicky Ryan's twenty-minute no-gi mount class at B-Team covering how to hold mount and the main attacks that follow from it.

Danaher's perfect armbar: the top lock, head position and the small pivot that finishes when the classic two-on-one stalls.

Giancarlo Bodoni's simple closed guard armbar: leg straight up then heavy heel high on the armpit, lock the shoulder, thumb to the sky and finish with the hips. Includes a grip break.

Davies' twisted armbar from closed guard, a finish when they hide the arm from the classic juji.

Jared Welman fixes the closed guard armbar: control posture first, isolate the arm with a two-on-one, back-stop the elbow with your arm and pin the far shoulder with your foot.

Chewjitsu's fundamental armbar from closed guard for beginners, broken into the grips, the angle and the finish.

A sneaky armbar from side control Chewjitsu uses when they reach to frame the hip.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's twenty knee-on-belly submissions: chokes, armlocks and a few leglocks off the reactions.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's knee-on-belly attacks: chokes and armlocks off the most common reactions.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's arm lock sequence from S-mount, chaining the armbar against the common defences.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's north-south submission options: choke, kimura and armbar.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu runs through a large set of submissions available from side control and how they connect, a good overview for beginners building an attack chain.

Rob Biernacki and Stephan Kesting build the tightest possible armbar from mount by breaking posture, wedging the arm off the body and taking out slack before the finish.

Romulo Barral, one of the great spider guard players, teaches his armlock from spider guard at Alliance. Spoken in Portuguese but easy to follow visually.

Craig Jones's choi bar from Z half guard: pull the shoulder down with a crossface, bring the knee shield leg over the head and pummel the foot in for the armbar without releasing the bottom hook.

Gordon Ryan on the mount attacks every blue belt should have, linking the head-and-arm and the armbar off the opponent's reactions.

Lachlan Giles on attacking from knee on belly: the armbar, kimura and chokes that appear when they turn.

Lachlan Giles on the armbar from mount: isolating the arm, controlling the head and the fall-back without losing the elbow.

A step-by-step S-mount armbar for beginners, from the knee slide to the finish.

Three attacks from S-mount that link together so a defended armbar becomes a triangle or a back take.

Five basic submissions from side control for white belts - americana, kimura, arm triangle, armbar and a choke - shown step by step.

Roger Gracie's closed-guard arm-lock finishing details: the angle, the pinch and why the elbow has to stay inside.

Judo coach Steve Scott's team on holding kesa gatame with shoulder pressure that stops the bridge, then stepping over the head into juji gatame.

Roger Gracie teaching the armbar from mount, including the S-mount step that isolates the arm.

Uses the sit-up sweep as a starting point and shows the armbar, triangle and omoplata that appear when the opponent posts or pushes you back down. A tidy first attack chain.

Safe side-control-to-mount with an armbar finish, keeping the far arm trapped so they cannot elbow-escape.

Beginner armbar from closed guard with the details most white belts miss: set the elbow to your centre line first, pivot like a top rather than hip escape, and do not cross the feet early.

Five attacks from underhook DLR in gi and no-gi: a triangle and flash armbar against a standing opponent, a sweep to mount when they kneel, and the X-guard transition to a leg drag. Chaptered.

Four knee-on-belly submissions worth knowing, including the far-side armbar.

Three simple knee-on-belly submissions: baseball bat choke, armbar and kimura.