Marcelo Garcia: Why Arm Drags?

[Jack LaBarge]

[Brent Smith]

ttt

[Spínola]

I love arm drags, they work amazing the first time i try them on somebody. But then i have a really hard time using them successfully a second time.

[Brent Smith]

I love arm drags, they work amazing the first time i try them on somebody. But then i have a really hard time using them successfully a second time.

I dont tend to look for them but ill hit them on transition. Really effective move

[Brandon Mccaghren]

ttt for Cade Nelson to chime in. he has lots of good info on the arm drag when i was at HQ.

i love the arm drag from open/butterfly guard. one of my fav techniques.

[Josh Passini]

As Brandon said I love arm drags from open and butterfly guard. Goes perfectly with my wrestling and twister game.

[Thomas Reuther]

just started looking for them from butterfly recently, hit one on a wrestler tonight, loving it

[10th Planet Riverside, Ca]

Funny how we wrestlers have been doing arm drags forever but it took
the great Marcelo Garcia doing them to make BJJ people realize their worth.
In the Mendes brothers seminar this past Sat. they showed an innovative
way of doing an arm drag. They said everybody knows the conventional
arm drag so they showed another version of it from the bottom part of
the guard.

[AJ Camacho]

Stuebner (10th Planet Springfield) showed some of us a sick sliding arm drag to single leg up at 10th Planet St. Louis. That technique has really revitalized my arm drag technique. Ironically, I've been catching it on wrestlers who are way better than me. My utter lack of wrestling swagger sort of drops their defenses and they'll sometimes over extend their arms in an attempt to grip fight, opening them up for the arm drag. Even if I blow the technique (which is a lot) it'll usually create an arm drag scramble where I can sometimes get their back. Arm drags are also one of the few techniques that translates from starting on the knees to full stand up.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Jean Jacques showed me a variation of the arm drag that is absolutely killer. He doesn't have the fingers to make the grip on the back of the tricep, so he drives his wrist into the bend of the opponent's elbow. Unbelievable control.