(instrumental rock music) – So very often I want his hands on the ground so I break his balance forwards and bring him over the legs. Underneath his hand, I move my hip out with my palm pressing on his wrist. At an angle out and sit
up, grab my own wrist. I will collapse my own elbow, and then use the inside of my thigh to once, and then twice. Okay, I can connect onto my own ankle, onto his hip, whatever. But I want to be looking at his head as we go into the Kimura. I want to be looking at him. It's very common for beginners to stay flat on their back. And then they end up using their arms, but he's got a lot of flexibility. So, I want you on the inside hip, looking at him.
Okay? You want to pull this into your chest. That's fine then you
can turn this one unit and makes it really tight. Okay. The basic, and then we can get into some more advanced variations. So, I'm here. I personally don't like to
use the thumb for this Kimura. There are ones where you use the thumb, but we go into more detail
about that in a sec, but I like to not use the
thumb and press with my palm.
Once you get into pressing with the palm, it's used for all kinds of things, including in guard passing
Kimura's arm locks. Okay with that. One more time. Okay, fix posture, hip out,
sit up, collapse that arm. One, don't settle there. Two, be on that inside
hip, and look at his head as you kick in from the left. Okay. All right, guys, one two break. (group claps) Okay, so now, let's go from the Kimura, from the guard, into a hip lock because this is something
where you can really feel the Jiu in Jiu-Jitsu, the blending, like yielding to his resistance. So, boom, I bring him down. Everyone looked pretty
good with the Kimura. I break his balance.
Once my shoulder touches, then he postures up. Now his goal is to slip
his elbow past my elbow. And that's his goal. And actually, in Jiu Jitsu, giving your knee past their knee, and guard passing, and giving
your elbow past their elbow, is really what its all about.
Okay. So, if he wants to slip that
elbow up and he postures up. And if I just let go then I've lost. But, if I like come and go
with it, as he postures up, I come up from my hand
and let my toes go flat, then I tip him over. That I just took advantage of his energy. And we're able to come into a
really nice dominant position. So that's the game we're gonna play. We're gonna play the Kimura hip bump game. Now he will not pull up until
my shoulder touches the ground and then he pulls up. My hand goes back. Let's check this out. So I'm here. I come up for the Kimura. I break his balance. My shoulder touches them. He pulls up. Okay and then he'll come up on my hand. Now the elbow (coughs) the elbow is where a lot
of people will go to. But if you're fighting somebody
much larger than you are, the elbow's not gonna cut it. You have to go to your hands. So you have to, you have to get into this, you have to get into this.
So I cup my shoulder, he pulls up guiding in to coming to
that palm on the ground, getting palm pressure. And then I tip him over. And then we can go back to a Kimura. So, we will continue to do
the Kimura from the guard and then we're just gonna link that then so I'm here again to just not pull up he goes with it until my shoulder
touches, then he comes up. Then I go to my pull. Then I just roll him over, and from here we have a
lot of different options. Okay. All right. One, two, three. (group claps) There are so many techniques in Jiu Jitsu. Technique to fold your Gi, technique to taping your fingers, technique for every kind of situation and sometimes the simple
techniques get overlooked. But I really believe in the impulse. I don't do mind variations. I'll show you some different
ways that people do this sweep. Sometimes people will, does tricky variations where you can, I will actually punch and
he catches his balance, but my hips are already
engaged so then I can just, I can just breakfall.
Okay. I have even fallen for that one. Or you can come up, and you really like
thrust your hips forward and take him over. I tend to do more of a tipping variation where I like to come up like this and then, so I'm really high as opposed to being more out, and then taking him over. You can vary your angle but
still get a really good, a really good hip bump. That's okay. Hip bump is powerful and simple and I'd like to, I'd like
to just show you a couple. So, a couple variations where people, when people get really
good posture in the guard and you can't break them down so you resisting, you
pulling them down like that, that's perfect. That's when you can go
to hip bumb quite easily. I've wrestled a number of
guys that were really tall, you know six-eight. And what are you gonna to
do? You know what I mean? What are you gonna do? You've gotta go to them.
If you need to move your
hip back, that's okay. Fine. Need then to move your hip back. It's always okay to move your hip. Up. You wanna swipe that elbow. So we can't resolve, and then we come up. Okay. We're just gonna have
our partner's posture. Posture tucked. We can't pull them. We can't pull them forward. They're resisting back. Exactly, so I have to come
him, and take him over. And you'll find this very very useful. Let's give them one, two, three. (group claps) – Here's a couple of ideas
for some more advanced people. You know this, this is great
if you can get up here.
Sometimes they freeze
you out by putting like, by pushing into your hips
real hard, and you can't, that's when you can go
out and change the angle. Instead of going up you
go out that way, yes. Just another thing to think about. Number two, very often, like sometimes, I'll go and don't budge him,
but then I'll hang out here, and I attack for the guillotine,
and if your posture's up, then I go back, and if that doesn't work, then I attack from the guillotine
again, and he postures up. So you can play that corner,
you can play that corner. You don't have to flip the whole body. You can just play that top corner. And in the similar way
to us getting the Kimura, and him posturing up, its similar if you can get the guillotine.
We're not gonna really go
into the guillotine right now. But if when he postures up, that's another perfect
opportunity to do the guillotine. Now, let's continue with that Kimura, and we'll finish that Kimura on top. So, I am here. He postures up. I go to the hand, toes are flat. No smashed toes here. Toes are flat. I'm taking
him over, hold him. I like to hug my elbow
right above his elbow. Here, I'm gonna snap that on the wrist, connect to my own wrist, and I back step. I square my hips, and I'm gonna switch
my hips one more time. Knee underneath that
armpit. Now I have space. Before, I'm trying to
rotate and extend the elbow.
I can't get enough extension
so I roll back with my body, and then go into the
Kimura from here. Okay. So, you don't have to switch your hips, you could also hold him back, and extend into it, but you have to have a really connection with your chest to his
chest in order to do that. We'll be doing some things from here, from this side control
Kimura. Lets turn a little. Side control Kimura. Okay. You don't have to have your palm on it. You can have your own wrist on it. That's totally cool. Switch, hold, and if
you need more stability, you can step over the head.
And then extend. All good. Okay so we'll link that all. We go for the Kimura,
we break his balance, he pops straight up, I go
to my hand, I take him over, I connect my hands in the
Kimura, and then I back step. Back step is really useful in Jiu-Jitsu. Allows you You move faster with me.
Keep moving forwards. All right. So now it's switch my hips. One more time. Extend, give the submission. You can even throw this over. And if he's really
strong and continues up, then you have the triangle plus. Let's try that. One, two, three. (group claps). Kimura is, I feel its almost like a jab, you attack it all the
time, no way out to it. And is there more than you think. There is much more than you think. Okay so the room structure side control, and go into the ude garami. Ude garami is 'arm entanglement'. So the Americana, the
straight arm lock, that arm. Just get everyone on the same page then we'll do some crazy good stuff.
So here we are. In our Kimura position. Now, couple notes. If you find it difficult
to reach your own wrist, you're probably going under
the shoulder too much. Yes, this is nice to be able
to get under that little gap. But then you have to work your
elbow out toward this elbow and you will be to assemble your Kimura. And this is going to be
much tighter as well. Number two. Try to get
your elbow on the ground as quickly as you can. That's really gonna help. So, if you start under the shoulder, work your elbow out, drop
that other elbow down, now we have a nice Kimura.
He doesn't like this. The bent leads into the straight, so he straightens his arm,
and I'm gonna float with it. My form is very close to his elbow so I can press up and down,
rolling this wrist up. This wrist goes down, and
we get the straight arm. If I'm down here at the shoulder, and he straightens his arm, that's a totally different thing. So, we're here. He straightens. My arm's already in position, but I need to move my elbow up a touch. That's totally fine. Okay. And this is another reason why
I prefer not to use the thumb because as he extends, it's easy for that to
slip out of my fingers. It's much better if I can allow him. Jiu Jitsu's all about variable friction. I let it slip and then
I put on the breaks. So this is a very important transition. Let's just do this particular transition and focus on it. In the Kimura, he strings his arm, I'm gonna let is slip until I don't, and then I roll this wrist
up and that wrist down, and I get the straight arm lock.
Okay, one last time. We're here. Drop the elbow down. He straightens it out. Now, for the advanced people. When really strong and
sweaty people do this, very often that will slip out. So I want you to add 20% to it. What I mean is, I'm gonna shift this up as he straightens it out. I'm gonna add 20% to an
angle he's not expecting. So even if he doesn't release
you, you go really fast. Boom. You head up there and you have it.
Okay. So one last time, the basic is here. He straightens. Allow it to happen. Roll the wrist up and down. For more advanced, go ahead and
add just a little bit to it. Kimura into straight arm. One, two, three. (group claps). Sometimes arm length differences make this a tough technique on some people. I happen to have long arms
so I use it on all the time. But you know, the length of
your limbs does play a role. But there's always a
technique for you to use. Remember that. Okay, so. If, just one thing keep in mind, if your elbow's here
underneath the shoulder, and he straightens it out, it's cool to make a big army move. Like an army crawl with that elbow, and then we're in good position. So that's just like adjusting your hip. Its cool to adjust your elbows. He straightens it out,
but I'm on his tricep with that bottom wrist.
I'm not under the elbow. Just shift that elbow to the
outside and then we got it. Okay. So the next thing is
we have to do an arm switch. This is what I call the Kimura Flow. Start with Kimura, we go
to straight arm lock. Bomp. He doesn't like that.
He rolls it up. Okay. Here I'm gonna pull this to my chin, and I rock back a little bit. So my arm can come underneath, and then I slap this down. And don't drop the elbow on the face here. We're just dropping it next to his ear. Okay, getting the back
of his hand on the mat like a paintbrush.
And then we draw the elbow down, elevate. So, if you try doing this
at a really high angle, where his humorous is
inline with his shoulders, he's got a huge range of flexibility. And he, a lot of guys use
this as an escape route. So, you want to pull that
sucker down as far as you can, and then the range of motion
is really really small. This is often called
the paintbrush technique cause that's the brush, this is a canvas. Okay and we want to leave
that back of the hand in touch with the mat. So, then we're gonna reverse. He straightens it out. And if I need to do a little
army crawl with my elbow, totally cool. Then he rolls it down.
I'm gonna have to do the switch again. Come underneath, I pull
this to much chin. Okay. I want this pinned with my body as my arm transitions underneath. Come into the Kimura. Okay, straightens. Oh we have it right there, he rolls it up. Bring it to your chin, arm goes under. Slap that down, we got Americana. He straightens. That's totally cool.
Oh, that's like the 20% but the other way right. So he straightens it out. No that's totally cool. He rolls it down one more time. Keep it here. And if you want you can of course do like a one arm variation as well. Okay so that's the Kimura Flow. Start with the Kimura, straighten it out. Americana, go back. Have to do an arm switch at the end but you guys got this. One, two, three. (group claps). I attack this far side arm quite a bit from a variety of positions. But I like to teach it
from basic side control. Okay, so we have our Kimura Flow, and this is a solid basic, a solid basic.
You gotta know how to
go through and control, maintain control, with the
movements that he's doing. So you wanna match him. Now, I'm gonna break the rules. I will use my thumb this time. Okay, I'm gonna use my thumb,
and wrap around his wrist, and just hold it here. Okay. Now most people, they will
go through the same sequence where he'll straighten, okay, and he feels me not putting
a straight arm block on, so that he rolls up, but I
keep a bend in the wrist. And then we go into what's
known as 'Nikyo' in Aikido or a really nasty wrist lock in BJJ. So, this is dependent on
you not forcing the issue. My elbow is a block, so if
he wants to roll this up, because this is safety, you know. That's safety compared to where he was. So, I'm gonna use my
thumb, he straightens, and I'm just gonna hold
on really really loosely because I want him to do
the work of bringing this up in positioning the hand.
Okay. So, as he rolls this up
to the Americana position, he's not feeling anything
until the very end. So the thumb is up, the pinky is down, and then I rotate it back into him. Okay, I don't need to connect my hands or do any of that stuff. Here we are. He straightens, ah nothing, he continues to roll it up and I just, if anything I'll push up,
and then I roll this in.
No one ever expects this. Everyone expects the
traditional sequence, right. So, when he zips it up there, I just have to hold on
loosely, and then go back. Okay. So let's try that. Let's try that. It should be if everyone
turns a thumb down, puts the thumb over on
top, and roll that in. Thumb down, this other thumb goes on top, and we roll it in to you. That's the feeling. All right. One, two, three. (group claps). (background noise ) – Yes, pinky down. – Thank you. – So I think this is a
good time to take a break.
And Kimura is incredibly
valuable to submission. You can use it, you can hit it from all, you can hit it from the bottom,
you can hit it from the top. You can hit it when they have your back. There's a number of positions. The more aware you are
of your Kimura options, the more possibilities you'll
have to come out victorious. So yeah, and if you didn't get
one or two of the techniques, it's totally okay. I want you to pull more of
the principles of relaxation, spirals spiraling in,
and variable friction. When people resist you,
don't totally let them go. Don't try to control everything. Let them go and then you put on (mumbles). All right guys lets have a
ten minute break.
Thank you..
