Harpoon Sweep to Omoplata

Santino Achille is a brown belt under Pedro Sauer and son of Sonny Achille, a Pedro Sauer black belt. Santino is an instructor at Steel City Martial Arts and is shown here demonstrating the harpoon sweep.

The harpoon sweep is an excellent counter for an opponent standing to pass your guard that leaves you with the option to take side control or transition to the omoplata.

Check out a step by step explanation of the technique here:

http://lockflow.com/article_view.php?id=4060

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• city
• jiu
• jitsu
• santino
• achille
• lockflow
• grappling
• submission
• mma
• bjj
• omoplata
• sweep

[carlsongracieteam]

@getthetapjj alright, but in case you were wondering, just type in "dlr loop from spider guard" into google, it shows robson moura 7x world champ, and braulio estima one of the top ranked black belts today, calling it that in their instructionals, theirs probably 50 pages saying it. I'm super surprised you've actually never heard the term, who are you affiliated with?

[getthetapjj]

@carlsongracieteam I study Master De la Riva's guard system extensively and formerly trained under De la Riva black belts Tony Passos and Jeff Rockwell and never once heard of this term you mention. I have not heard any "advanced person" use it to describe it, nor is it anywhere on the Internet that I have found. So you can worry about what it should be called and I'll just take care of sweeping and submitting people from there

[carlsongracieteam]

@getthetapjj well it's called that because de le riva made the loop lol, just like he made the de le riva hook around the leg and the de le riva guard, and since de le riva is from carlson gracie team we honor him and his genius inventions. every advanced person calls it the dlr loop, look anywhere they've probably even mentioned it on bjj weekly.

[getthetapjj]

@carlsongracieteam Thanks, I was actually responding to another post where maruj666 mentioned an armbar set-up, and saying that I didn't see what he meant. I am interested to hear the leg positioning called a DLR loop, is that what you call it at team Carlson Gracie? I was never really sure. I have heard it called a "leg lasso" by Cobrinha, and I learned a lot of sweeps from it from his DVDs. I have also heard the term "overwrap".

[carlsongracieteam]

@getthetapjj first time I've ever heard of a leg lasso, it's called a dlr (de le riva) loop from the spider guard, and there's no possible armbar here, but their is an omoplata, high risk move, and the easy bicep slicer which is traditionally associated wth this sweep.

[adrock3]

@maruj666 no armbar, you are seeing it incorrectly

[getthetapjj]

@maruj666 What? Where exactly is the armbar here? He is using a leg-lasso on the guy's arm, which leads right to the omoplata when you invert and roll through, if you don't sweep. If you're referring to the open guard before the actual set-up, his opponent would'nt be leaving his arms exposed in a real situation. He's not resisting so technique can be demonstrated

[maruj666]

ummm....why omoplata? your set up perfect for an armbar....why waste the time?

[mrdavidpatrickcase]

@Quiston awesome stuff.kinda reminds me of this a basic tornado guard once u invert but i know these two are completely different. very smooth!

[Quiston]

@mrdavidpatrickcase yup