It might be impertinent of me to answer, but I'll try to answer and hope that someone better has something better to say. If it's simplistic blue belt thinking, just ignore me and wait for someone with real skill to come along.
One of my coaches is a brown belt who just kills you if you let him get a forearm across your throat. If you let him post an arm back and get an arm across your throat, you're probably going to get hip bumped at best. He's really good at it.
You can't simply push him down once he has posted. And if you really commit to it, you're probably going to wind up giving up an underhook and getting your arm torn off by a reverse kimura or straight armlock.
I'm trying to emulate that and I'm finding that there are some awesome combinations there, particularly in relationship with the arm drag.
You sit up rapidly and try to post, let's say, your left arm back and your right arm across their throat. Or maybe you're sitting up just to grab something and break posture.
If they stop you up early and commit an arm and power to pushing you down, depending on the angle, kimuras can open up, arm drags can open up etc.
If you get the arm drag halfway and their posture starts to break but they're fighting you with their back and their arm, armbars can open up.
If they resist the arm drag by pulling back, you can take advantage of their own power by switching up for a hip bump. Their momentum is already going back.
If they posture down hard to resist the hip bump and are hiding their arm to avoid that arm drag you just showed them, you can sometimes threaten the swim move. I assume you could go to
rubber guard if they are overdefending to that degree (but I'm not a big RG player yet).
They also may give up an underhook in the exchange that you can use to break posture or take a horrible inverse kimura.
I guess, in general, my observation is that the deeper you go into these combinations, the sloppier and overdefended the counters get. Does that make sense?
Can I do that to a blue belt that is bigger than me? Not so much. Not reliably. But I'm practicing those skills against little fish so that I can use them against big fish.
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