Originally Posted by SamuraiGuy

This is a gorgeous move that I use on almost a daily basis.

I tend to start with the ude garami with my legs, and then if they pull out I switch to the straight armbar. If they turn their arm down to avoid either (putting their arm in a "kimura" position) I trap the leg, then bring my leg over their head and reverse triangle their body, then you can straight armlock the other arm, kimura the other arm for north south, switch from the kimura to an armbar, or simply hit them.

Recently a guy at BJJ got smart and thought he would just wrap his arms around my torso so I couldnt put his arm between my legs. So I pinned him, but in the painful way that they like to teach you at judo. So after a bunch of straining on his part, he let go, at which point I promptly submitted him with the ude garami with the legs.


As for the head control and the possibility of them taking their back, you can defeat this three ways. Learn how to pin them properly, with good control it wont often come up. You can also forget wrapping the head, and take a far side underhook, this effectively kills their taking the back escape, but in my experience lessons your chance of getting a submission. The last way, and most sneaky way, is before you set up kesa-gatame, take their gi out from under their belt and feed it under what is going to be the far side arm. Transition to kesa-gatame wrap his head like normal, but now you can hold his gi with the hand your wrapping his head up with. The gi acts as an underhook. Best of both worlds.

Long post but I really really like this, I could actually go on but I'll stop here.