By request, we’ve spent some time recently working on movements in this video:
I like elements of it, and have issues with some others. I still don’t believe in the sweep at 4:45. I think it requires too much cooperation from the top player. If he sat back or posted with his right arm, it wouldn’t work. I didn’t like it in Lachlan’s video and I still don’t. I am open to the idea that I’m missing something important here, but my experience is that the Hughes arm bar of GSP is the more likely outcome.
I forgot how poor GSP’s grip was, but I still don’t like it. We played with variations based on the hip bump advice in the next video, but that still didn’t resolve it for me:
If you can explain to me how to turn the kimura grip into a reliable sweep from a position where the top player is passing the guard, I’m interested. I’m not knocking the half butterfly sweep though. I’ve hit this one a lot:
Back to the shoulder. Here’s a useful explanation of Tarikoplata vs the Baratoplata:
There will probably be another post following this to investigate more of the entries to ‘platas.
This looks pretty agreeable to me: