Anyone been in this position before?

[Robbie Carter]

So I'm a pretty big half guard/lockdown player and the other night when I was reguarding I ended up trapping my partner's arm inside my half guard; it was an interesting position to me and I felt it out for about a minute or so looking for someway to take advantage; later that night and last night I've found that I am able to recreate and get back to that position pretty successfully. The only issue is that I haven't been able to find a way to really take advantage of it. I'm able to keep the arm trapped fairly easily, but I just can't think of how to really take advantage of it other than using it to roll them over their trapped shoulder (however, this rolls you into a really awkward and bad position on top as they can basically take deep half guard as you sweep them.)

So I guess, I'm trying to turn this over here to see if anyone has been in this position before or can think of any attacks from here. I hope my description makes enough sense (To recap it's half guard with their top/inside arm trapped inside of your guard, essentially pinned to their hip) if not I can try to get some pictures to show it better.

Thanks!

[Chris Herzog]

How is the arm being trapped?

[TaylorWolf]

I feel like most people would attempt a Triangle choke as soon as the arm is trapped?

This is assuming you can shrimp/burst out the inside non-trapping leg. If you can throw it up during/after the sweep for a mounted triangle... even better.

If that leg is stuck in half guard personally I would just go back to my usual lockdown sweeps as they work so well

[Robbie Carter]

How is the arm being trapped?

It's trapped with my outside/top leg pinning it down and squeezing against his trapped leg. So if his right leg is in my half guard, his right arm is trapped against it.

[Chris Herzog]

How did you trap the arm there?

[Robbie Carter]

Well, the first time it was a complete accident; after that I was fishing for it so I would wait until they would try to pass and would reach down to try to press my guard down their knee and then re-guard over top of it. It's a similar motion to going for an inverted triangle

[Chris Herzog]

Just keep in it real, Im a huge 1/2 guard player, Im just not seeing this happening to anyone thats skilled. Most top half passes especially lockdown passes take place with the arms in a upper body pummeling battle, no where near the hips, let alone between the legs.

[Robbie Carter]

Just keep in it real, Im a huge 1/2 guard player, Im just not seeing this happening to anyone thats skilled. Most top half passes especially lockdown passes take place with the arms in a upper body pummeling battle, no where near the hips, let alone between the legs.

Chris, that's totally fine and also what I was looking for. I hit this by accident on a blue belt and then put myself in the position against lower ranked white belts. If this isn't something legit to invest time in I'd rather bail after a couple days than a couple weeks or worse months. So I really appreciate the honesty man!

Sorry to waste everyone's time but if someone does come up with something or know of something I'd love to know.

[MikeW]

Play with it, have fun. I would go for an arm triangle on the opposite side, basically an apollo. I am having a hard time figuring out how you are keeping that arm trapped though. lol.

[John Hickman]

Make a video for us to see.