Triangle City - My theory on Triangle.

[Isaiah Mendoza]

awesome ideas. I'm glad you figured out that pattern to show everyone. I'm sure there must be other patterns that exist for similar submissions. The 90 degree rule was another cool theory that helped my game. Other than that this vid was great help and expanded my understanding of triangles.

[Slick Rick]

awesome ideas. I'm glad you figured out that pattern to show everyone. I'm sure there must be other patterns that exist for similar submissions. The 90 degree rule was another cool theory that helped my game. Other than that this vid was great help and expanded my understanding of triangles.

Thank you Zaya. When you get that first triangle with this in mind things will click. I've seen it happen. Guys are throwing up triangles on me like no other. That's what I wanted to happen though. The more they attempt the better they become, and the better we all become. No use holding it back ya know.

I liken it to Super Mario Bros., if you remember that game. Are you gonna be the person that stays on the steps at level 3 and wows your buddies by how many free lives you get jumping on the turtles? Or are you gonna advance to that next level and face King Koopa. I'm don't know about you but I think we should be evolving- saving the princess is the goal.

This could be a little too old school for you but you get the picture.
thanks again for your valuable feedback!
Rick

[Slick Rick]

Wow, iPhone word guessing sucks! Sorry for all the typos in the previous post.

[bobby rivers]

I kinda have a whole head and arm theory alltogether.

[Mike Broe]

Thanks for this! ive been getting triangles lately solely on working rubber guard...which I guess follows your theories.

As long as the opponent pulls his arm out basically voluntarily or by force, you are setup for any easy triangle to finish up.

[Slick Rick]

I kinda have a whole head and arm theory alltogether.

Awesome Bobby! Post it up so we can critique and test. R&D at 10th Pl is world wide it appears.

[Slick Rick]

Thanks for this! ive been getting triangles lately solely on working rubber guard...which I guess follows your theories.

As long as the opponent pulls his arm out basically voluntarily or by force, you are setup for any easy triangle to finish up.

Thanks Mike.. All true. they escape the arm, then quickly shoot the triangle, or even the arm bar. What's cool too is to go for the armbar, connect the armbar quickly, then snap right back to the triangle. They'll be blocking the arm bar when your already sinking the triangle. It catches em off guard.

But yeah man, the triangles we learn from day one are from the back, then you go to the next triangle, to the next. Gets hard to memorize all of em when the new ones come in. But knowing this concept, you will look at every new triangle technique taught to you, and say okay how does this fit the pattern? Cool, check, I get it. Lesson learned.

Thanks again!
Rick

[Justin W.]

I wasn't going to post this because I felt I had too much criticism for you already and I didn't want you to take it as I'm trying to put you down but seeing as you're being great about constructive criticism, I have one last thing - the finish. I noticed you put on all of your triangles but didn't finish to get the tap for most of them. I realize that a lot of people do that but I find it very important for 2 reasons. The first being from watching an Anderson Silva video and someone didn't finish the move and he said "if you don't finish always, one time, you might not finish in a fight". The second reason is because in this particular situation, a lot of people can't finish triangles from the back or side mount because it's not strong enough to just pinch your thighs together like from guard. They don't understand the importance of the little moves that make the squeeze a lot stronger. You must first try to get perpendicular to your opponent, then leg curl the leg that goes over the shoulder (get that ankle to touch your butt), then the leg under the armpit needs to push out and then down like a squat, then you finally pinch your thighs together. If that still doesn't choke them out, then you can pull down on their head or get that arm that's trapped across but I'm 150lbs and I never need to pull the arm across or pull on the head. Even if you know how to do this already, I feel it's important to really get people to understand it every time you teach a triangle. If you haven't tried this, try it, it's incredibly strong and tight and you never get tired because you're using stronger muscles by curling and squating instead of just pinching your thighs. Looking forward to your progress and ideas. Thanks again for the awesome video.

[Slick Rick]

JusLove,
This is great! Yes, the finish!! Definitely great criticism indeed. This, "then leg curl the leg that goes over the shoulder (get that ankle to touch your butt), then the leg under the armpit needs to push out and then down like a squat, then you finally pinch your thighs together. If that still doesn't choke them out, then you can pull down on their head", is very visual. I'll use this for sure. Very cool.
Rick

[Will Thaxton]

great video, more please!