Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Hizagatame - knee armbar

This is one of my favorite armbars - hizagatame - the knee armlock.  It is very versatile, and in this video you see the instructor demonstrate a lot of wildly divergent variations - some of which we call different things.  Here's to the BJJ guys that say judo doesn't have the omoplata...

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