Issue 040

August 2008

With Pete Irving. American Top Team fighter Aurelio caused a huge upset in his non-title bout against Gomi with his extremely tight arm triangle. 

Step 1 Irving (black shirt) is in Tiarks’s (grey shirt) half guard.

Step 2 Tiarks reaches over attempting a kimura.

Step 3a Irving pressures back, pushing Tiarks’s shoulders back to the mat.

Step 3b Close up on the grip: note that Irving is using an ‘s-grip’, and has hooked his chin over Tiarks’s arm.

Step 4 Irving starts to pass the half guard by hooking his instep over Tiarks’s bottom leg.

Step 5 Because he has the head and arm triangle he can pass directly to mount.

Step 6 Irving skips across the mount bringing his left knee to Tiarks’s hip.

Step 7 Irving sprawls his hips maintaining pressure with the knee and squeezes the arm triangle.

Step 8 Irving sprawls his hips as low as possible to the mat and drives his chin in, preventing Tiarks from defending and adding maximum pressure to the choke.