Gracie Insider November 2007 - Belly Down Armlock

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Ryron and Rener Gracie, head instructors of the world famous Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance, California, teach how to armlock someone when they try to bench press you off. For more instructional videos and other Gracie Family news, sign up for the free "Gracie Insider" at www.gracieacademy.com.

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[Jeffrey4286]

noone understands how amazing and effective jiujitsu is until they try it, i can see how ppl think it's not effective but you HAVE TO experience it to understand.

[stevenjonis]

hahaha :"you know why? we got the gracie dryfit t-shirts on" "especially when you wear the dry fit" nice commercial and nice technique ;)

[130kali]

Yo this happen to me yesterday. This due was trying to muscle me out the mount and turned and gave me his arm lol. I was like wow did he just do that. lol

[57worldwide]

@1lostinspace I can't be sorry because I moved on. It was a life changing experience, in that I had to start growing mentally. I'm bigger now, not taller but heavier. Shit like that doesn't happen to me now, I think because I'm bigger and can recognise situations before they develop. I get angry pretty easily, that's the only thing wrong when I feel threatened. I get mad.

I couldn't watch someone I'm with get punched on the ground, that was the irony in the situation. I learnt from the mistake.

[1lostinspace]

@57worldwide

I am sorry to hear that happen to you. I am not proud to say that I have been in a lot of street fights and private security and lucky to be a live. I have been involved in the MMA sport teaching and training for 17 years now. When I was at the Gracie academy Rener and the others were little kids. BBJ is a great sport and can be used in a street fight but biting and getting jumped makes a lot of the techniques obsolete.

[57worldwide]

@1lostinspace Yeah, it sucks because just before it happened I was talking about jumping in if one of my mates was getting jumped. I'm lucky that one guy who was with me did something, a Brazilian exchange student. That's in the past now and I learnt from it. Extremely valuable lessons: don't get too drunk; don't hang around with people who are too cowardly to try to stop something happening to their friends. I still go out and get drunk, even by myself. I'm bigger now. Used to be 6' and >154lb.

[1lostinspace]

@57worldwide

that sucks

[57worldwide]

@1lostinspace I got fucked up when I was 18. I didn't do any kind of training (and I still don't) and was way too drunk. A guy stopped and got out of their car and fucked me up. At the time, I thought I would never be mentally the same, but it was mostly in my head. Now I'm mentally beyond where I was at 18, in a way I'm lucky it happened when I was that age.

The shitty thing about it was that I wasn't by myself, and one of the guys with me just stood there and didn't do shit.

[1lostinspace]

@57worldwide

I do stay home and avoid situations. What I would do is extend my right leg basing out, yeah I give up an elbow escape but still maintain top position worse case we are back up where my Muay thai and wrestling would take care of business. Not sure if you train or fight but this is not a move you want to be doing on the street. The last thing you want to do in a street fight is end up on the ground and even worse on your back. Have you ever been in a street fight on the ground?

[57worldwide]

@1lostinspace I wasn't getting defensive at all. Maybe you could just stay home, avoiding every possibility where you might end up in a fight. That might work.

It's not 'what you should do', it's 'technique of the month'. Do you have a video with what you would do in this situation? I would definitely like to see any other techniques.

[1lostinspace]

@57worldwide

I am not talking about an accomplished grappler. Just bad timing wrong angle or just a very strong guy that can pick you up and slam you on your head before you secure the leg to prevent it from happening. I am not sure why your getting so defensive. It's just not the move I would use that's all.

[57worldwide]

@1lostinspace Right. Don't bother watching the video again.

Remember, this is not 'what to do against an accomplished grappler'.