Originally Posted by
Brent Smith
I've just started going back to the Hindu Control. Keep losing control of my meathook from New Jersey so I've been going to Hindu to save my butt.
Nice. That exact problem is what led me to hindu. I played a lot of meathook. It used to be my main game in rubber guard. It's solid, but against high level guys that are hip to the game, two problems kept coming up. One was very aggressive wrestler/mma types could often drive through it, cause me to bail and they would secure the pass. Two, even if I had good control and started to force the triangle, it's easy for the opponent to bail by turning and pulling their head out, forcing you to go omoplata. I don't like going omoplata, it's low percentage for me and I want to finish them in my guard.
Both those problems led to gunshow or "germinator" and hindu control. Both of these positions use your arm to lock the opponents head in place and not allow them to turn out when you get close to a sub and also provides better control to keep them from pressure passing through.
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