If you were expecting this entry to be a big Omoplata round up post, don’t fret it is still incoming. I just need to get some more stuff on film. Instead this class began transitioning to an armbar known as the Maslov turn over in Sambo. We will be linking this back to our Omoplata material in the near future. In the interest of getting you study materials quickly, most of the content of this post will be external videos.
Warm up - Harai Goshi to Osoto Gari.
Harai Goshi or Podkvhat is a reading hip throw, meaning one leg is elevated during the throw. As a warm up, we looked at using it as an entry to Osoto Gari or Zadnia which turns our reaping leg into a rear trip instead. Here is a beautiful example of this combination.
The Maslov turn over.
This form of the armbar is more common in Sambo than in jiu jitsu because speed is much more of a factor in sambo due to limited ground time. That said, there is no reason it can’t be applied in both contexts. Here is a video from Ivan Vasylchuk breaking down the technique.
Below, we see a beautiful transition from defense to offense, and specifically to the above armbar. Blue attacks with what is actually a very strong drop kouchi gari, but red turns away at the last second to avoid being scored on, using this momentum he continues the rotation and attacks the armbar immediately. Just brilliant sambo.
The armbar against turtle.
Last we looked at the most common form of the armbar we see in Sambo which begins from attacking a turtled opponent. You can see how it is essentially the same technique as the Maslov, but it begins with half the rotation already completed and the arm less likely to be extended.
You might be saying to yourself “that’s a lot of sambo for a jiu jitsu class” and you would be right, but, grappling is grappling. Some contexts might draw out some behaviours more than others, but there are very few things which exist exclusively in a single arena. Catch you next time.
