Gi Beginner
Mikey Musumeci's collar-sleeve fundamentals: grips, foot placement, and the triangle/omoplata reactions that make it a first open guard.
Submissions
Omoplata
A shoulder lock using the legs, entered from guard when the opponent's arm goes across or under your leg. Often finishes as a sweep instead.
Also called omoplata shoulder lock, ashi sankaku garami, omoplata sweep.
Where it shows up
- Closed Guard · Closed Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Half Guard · Knee Shield (Z-Guard) · Submissions
- De La Riva Guard · De La Riva Bottom · Submissions
- Spider Guard · Spider Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Lasso Guard · Lasso Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Collar Sleeve Guard · Collar Sleeve Bottom · Submissions
- Lapel Guards · Lapel Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Open Guard · Supine Open Guard · Submissions
Related techniques
Resources
11 resources
YouTube videos
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Jason Scully rattles through 37 omoplata entries in four minutes, including the spider guard and lasso-side setups. Good for ideas, not detailed instruction.
Gi Intermediate
Jon Thomas's answer to strong stallers from collar-sleeve: back up and pull the collar to force movement, then take the omoplata, triangle or loop choke depending on how they react, with follow-ups when they stand.
Gi Intermediate
Jon Thomas on high-level spider secrets and the triangle/omoplata attacks that follow the grips.
Gi Intermediate
Lachlan Giles' high-percentage omoplata from collar-sleeve when they hide the elbow from the triangle.
Gi Intermediate
Cobrinha's short clip on the omoplata from spider guard: collapse one arm, swing the leg over the shoulder and sit up.
Lasso Guard Fundamentals for BJJ: Grip Control, Posture Breaks, Sweeps & Submissions
Energia Martial Arts YouTube
A fundamentals overview of the lasso guard: grip control, breaking posture, then the basic sweeps and submissions that follow. A good first stop before the specialist videos.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
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.
What Makes Collar Sleeve the Most Fundamental Open Guard (& How to Start Using it)
Shawn A BJJ YouTube
Why collar-sleeve is the hub of gi open guard: the grips and foot placement, the triangle and omoplata that fall out of it (with Meregali competition footage), the basic sweeps and how to pull straight into it. Chaptered.
Gi Intermediate
Roger Gracie attacking from the arm-wrap in closed guard, the omoplata/kimura family when they hide the collar.
Gi Intermediate
Back takes from DLR against opponents who weave a hand through the legs, plus the triangle and omoplata that appear when they break your grips. Narrated over class footage.