Dead Orchard
Submission · Closed Guard
An armbar from a triangle that traps both shoulders: the elbow is hyperextended while neither arm can help. It comes from rubber guard when they keep both arms inside your legs to avoid the normal triangle. Keep the rubber guard tight so they cannot posture, pull across or trap the elbow on the side opposite your rubber guard, then swing the free leg over and lock a triangle on the opposite side from a normal one, both shoulders inside, only as far as your flexibility allows. With the head held down by the legs, isolate one arm thumb up and finish with a short armbar, lifting the hips slowly into the elbow. If they free one arm, it becomes a normal triangle; if they posture up before the lock, go to the omoplata. Never force your own hip or knee.
How to do it
- From the rubber guard, notice that they keep both arms inside your legs to avoid the triangle.
- Keep the rubber guard tight so they cannot posture, and pull the elbow on the side opposite your rubber guard across, or trap it with your other leg.
- Swing the free leg over and lock a triangle on the opposite side from a normal one, both shoulders inside, only as far as your flexibility allows.
- Keep the head down with the legs and isolate one arm, thumb up.
- Finish with a short armbar: lift the hips into the elbow slowly and stop at the tap.
Key details
- Both shoulders inside a triangle: the strongest structure you can lock on the upper body.
- It closes the gap on the side of your shin-holding hand, where people escape the rubber guard.
- Locked in, they cannot posture, back out or stack you.
- From here: the armbar, or an Americana with their elbow pinned on your belly as you bridge to the side; squeezing the triangle itself with both arms inside gives pressure but rarely a tap.
- To bring the far arm inside, put your foot on their hip with the knee tight to their body and angle away (ab out); or bait it — open the legs slightly so they straighten the arm to slither out, then figure-four the legs.
- If they push in toward the other side, turn your hips and go belly down to finish the armbar.
Common mistakes
- Letting them posture before the lock. — The arms come out and the position is gone. — Keep the rubber guard tight until the triangle is locked.
- Forcing your hip into the rubber guard. — You hurt your own knee. — Only as far as your flexibility allows.
- Lifting the hips fast. — The elbow breaks before they can tap. — Lift slowly and stop at the tap.
How to drill it
Rubber guard to dead orchard, 6 slow reps each side, stop before pressure.
Safety
An armbar from a locked position: apply slowly, release at the tap. Do not force your own hip or knee into the rubber guard.
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