Showing posts with label BJJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BJJ. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Kimura (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), chicken wing/double wristlock (wrestling), or reverse keylock are terms used to specify a medial keylock known in judo as gyaku ude-garami (reverse arm entanglement) or simply as ude-garami. The application is similar to the americana, except that it is reversed. It needs some space behind the opponent to be effective, and can be applied from the side control or guard (or half guard or even full-mount). Contrary to the americana, the opponent's wrist is grabbed with the hand on the same side, and the opposite arm is put behind the opponent's arm, again grabbing the attacker's wrist and forming a figure-four. By controlling the opponent's body and cranking the arm away from the attacker, pressure is put on the shoulder joint, and depending on the angle, also the elbow joint (in some variations the opponent's arm is brought behind their back, resulting in a finishing position resembling that of the hammerlock). The kimura was named after the judoka Masahiko Kimura, who used it to defeat one of the founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hélio Gracie. (from wikipedia)



An inspired and beautifully executed kimura from guard/triangle position by Joe Lauzon


Sakuraba applies a phenomenal standing kimura to take down Renzo Gracie



Here Fedor Emelianenko shows some finer points of applying the keylock.

Monday, July 18, 2011

David v Goliath fights


Emanuel Yarbrough Vs Daiju Takase.



Emelianenko Fedor vs Hong Man Choi


Ricco Rodriguez vs Marcelo Garcia (BJJ)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011



I've been a Joe Lauzon fan since The Ultimate Fighter: Penn vs Pulver and it just so happens he's fighting an English guy, Curt Warburton, this weekend at UFC on Versus 4, after a disappointing loss to Australia's own George Sotiropoulous.  I believe the fights will even be screened on Facebook.  Who'd have ever thought that MMA would push so far into the mainstream?

Probably everybody.

Anyways, can't wait to see this guy fight again, hopefully he'll tear it up and put on a BJJ clinic, just like his fight with poor old Gabe Ruediger.