Favourite ways of Shoulder Locking?

Have to say that Eddie Bravo's episode of MTS with Rhonda Rousey changed my Jiu Jitsu game forever… I'd never really bothered with Arm Bars (Triangle is my bread & butter from guard) until I saw that episode. Then Eddie gave me the most simple concept in the world that no instructor had mentioned to me until that point:

Get the elbow to the belly button and lock the shoulder.

I've gone from landing not a single arm bar in 18 months (the last one, ironically, was in an MMA match - which is why I'm so sure of the date) to landing maybe 3/4 a session. That said, now that the guys are starting to switch on, it is starting to get hard (a good sign, I'm sure you will agree!).

I was wondering what the 10th planet guys do to lock the shoulder against more advanced competition. I know Nathan Orchard has the Dead Orchard, which is awesome. So I guess it doesn't need to be specifically for the old school arm bar, but just generally: how do you lock up that shoulder?

Probably should have set the thread title to: Favourite ways of locking up the shoulder.

Sorry guys!!

My favorite is from a 2 on 1 grip. Its been something I've been working on for years in perpetration of my degenerating hip. I know at some point I would loose even more mobility and wanted to develop a personal game that gave me options when that happened.

I use it to go to triangles, tosses to spider web, swim moves, and duda/arm crushes. I even have variant paths when guys try to shut down the process of locking the shoulder.

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Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

My favorite is from a 2 on 1 grip. Its been something I've been working on for years in perpetration of my degenerating hip. I know at some point I would loose even more mobility and wanted to develop a personal game that gave me options when that happened.

I use it to go to triangles, tosses to spider web, swim moves, and duda/arm crushes. I even have variant paths when guys try to shut down the process of locking the shoulder.

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Get some of this video'd Zog i wanna see it! Unless you already have it on video somewhere?

Nothing yet, but I'll put something out ;)

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Originally Posted by Liam Granger

Get some of this video'd Zog i wanna see it! Unless you already have it on video somewhere?

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Agreed, please do! :)

A lot of our warm ups end with you having double under hooks in the closed guard when they go to bring their arms inside is a great time to lock the shoulder if you can time it right and your squeeze is on point http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MdABALCb3k8

I hit it to end this match