Problems with my lockdown

[Luis Candelas, BCG]

I haven't been here in a while so I'm sorry if someone already asked something similar.

Here's problem #1:
I get the lockdown with my legs but can't get double underhooks. my opponent has the over under control and puts alot of shoulder pressure on my face. I know that i shouldn't be flat on my back but it sometimes happens and i can't do the jaws of life and i can't shove my hand in there to get the double underhooks. What should I do?

Here's problem #2:
in competition, i was submitted with an americana and i had a good lockdown in. I usually don't get hit with that in practice but he got me good (after trying 5 different times) and i want to make my lockdown americana-proof.

here's problem #3:
are there any tips out there when doing lockdown with the gi? It's not as easy when guys are grabbing my gi like crazy.

[Jason Morgan]

something new to me that I've been working lately with success is threatening a straight arm on the arm that is cross facing me. I grab that elbow with both hands, roll to my opposite shoulder and go for a straight arm. Sometimes I actually get the straight arm, but when I don't it opens up a lot of possibilities when they sprawl out and defend. This works even better in the gi when they are gripping your collar and turning their elbow up high for the cross face.

[Brent Smith]

#1 Stomp, Super Stomp, or New Stomp.

[Jason Morgan]

#1 Stomp, Super Stomp, or New Stomp.

yup, always a winner

[Isaac Atley]

theres an mts episode i think 53 or something. eddie is in england. (birmingham maybe) and hes talking about the new electric chair from half. watching that should help.

id suggest working on keeping your arms t-rexed until you go for something. for example, you get up on your side, bottum arm can hook under the opponents leg and the top arm stays t-rexed until you want to go for either electric chair or dog fight, (threaten with dog fight and then go into electric chair works too)

trex like that will stop u from getting americana'd as much.

for lockdown in gi, others might have more advice but id just say, practice more lockdown in gi. get those reps in.

and i find shrimping helps to turn me on my side when ive got a guy trying to squish me with over under, slow and steady just focus on moving to your side. from there you can heismann to get the underhooks going. i prefer deep half kind of game hooking that bottum arm under his leg but if not then keep that heismann there until you commit to the perfect double unders.

[Luis Candelas, BCG]

Jason, it's not so much the cross face (in front of my face), they put their arm around my head and put the pressure on my face with their shoulder.

[Luis Candelas, BCG]

Brent, I'm gonna check that out. Thanks

[Luis Candelas, BCG]

Isaac, thanks for the tips. I need to work on my T-rex arms.

[BIBIANO]

I haven't been here in a while so I'm sorry if someone already asked something similar.

Here's problem #1:
I get the lockdown with my legs but can't get double underhooks. my opponent has the over under control and puts alot of shoulder pressure on my face. I know that i shouldn't be flat on my back but it sometimes happens and i can't do the jaws of life and i can't shove my hand in there to get the double underhooks. What should I do?


For me, it just took a certain amount of handfighting reps to win this battle. Lately, when I get the lockdown (and even before I get it, I check the far side arm so my opponent can't get head and arm control. Ive been doing the same thing in quarter guard and the new side control escape (one of the more recent MTS's). Now that my control on that far bicep is strong, I've been having more success with my side control escapes/vise versa. I think another thing I do is to move my opponents balance around a little bit by bringing my lockdown closer or further from my body and a little side to side so my opponent has to base out with his arms (then I have small windows to jam in an underhook). It is a lot like your ability to pull your legs in and break your opponents posture in full guard. If my opponent tries to hide his far side arm so I can't control the bicep, I will threaten with a kimura, but I am a bigger guy so this might just be a size move. Usually after I threaten the kimura I get a little bit of space so I can try again for an underhook.

When I watch Eddie roll, he seems to concede head and arm control and then transition to rubber guard, I guess this is the ultimate goal, to have a really good super stomp to butterfly to cocoon, and/or a good rubber guard b/c then the hand fighting becomes a mute point.


Here's problem #2:
in competition, i was submitted with an americana and i had a good lockdown in. I usually don't get hit with that in practice but he got me good (after trying 5 different times) and i want to make my lockdown americana-proof.
I've encountered this problem. Curtis from HQ has a nasty kimura when he is in somebody's lock down. I am always pummeling for double underhooks, but when I'm scared of an attack on my arm, I bring my arms back to T-rex, and even gable my hands if i'm really scared. For example, he goes for a kimura on my left arm when I have him in the lockdown, I bridge my hips for a second, then use that space to bring my right hand under his hips and get a gable grip so I can recapture my arm


here's problem#3:
are there any tips out there when doing lockdown with the gi? It's not as easy when guys are grabbing my gi like crazy. I haven't trained in the gi in a while, but do you think there is a bow-arrow type choke you can threaten with when the guy go's twister pass? Let me know, I don't plan on training in the gi enough to ever find out.

I hope this helps, I love the lockdown, it is the one technique in my game that has worked at every belt

[Luis Candelas, BCG]

Viviano, amazing info. Thanks for the help.
For problem #2: what do you do when he's totally in control of your left arm? When i was submitted, he was switching from straight arm bar to americana. i kept rotating my arm but he eventually got me. I'm ok at not being kimuraed but the americana is my weakness when someone is bigger or stronger then me.
for problem #3, just learned the bow and arrow from the back but i can't imagine it from lockdown. I'll ask the guys at my academy, maybe they can see it