It appears that Rafa is rolling as a way to use his leading leg during the guard pass as a hook to push Eduardo Ramos’ legs away, setting up a guard pass or a back take. I use quotation marks when describing this technique as a guard pass because Im not 100% sure of whats going on here. To see a very nice Peruvian necktie in action, though, check out Lucio “Lagarto” Rodrigues rolling with Braulio Estima. Its interesting to see Rafa working on the necktie, since he was clearly working on front headlock techniques as a strategy going into ADCC 20. If anyone has any footage of either brother performing this technique please post it in the comments. Ive personally never seen Rafa attempt this technique, although I have a vague memory of seeing Guilherme do it once. The Peruvian national is credited as developing this modified guillotine choke from the front headlock by using his leg to apply downward pressure on the neck. The Peruvian necktie is closely associated with Jiu Jitsu black belt and former UFC fighter Tony DeSouza. As Rader went belly down to try to block the armlock Rafa effortlessly swung around to the back. In that match, Rafa used an omoplata set up from inverted guard to set up the armlock using this transition. This technique can be used to transition to an armbar, an omoplata, a Kimura, tornado guard, or even to the back, as Rafa demonstrated against Rader in 2011. This is why Rafa pauses with the leg over the head before continuing. An important detail is to use the leg to push the head down and away, creating space to push the leg through under the arm. This allows him to pull his leg over his opponents head, then pushing it through to the far hip to set up an armlock. In this drill, Rafa starts in half guard and grips his opponents triceps to his chest. In this drill, Rafael Mendes shows a transition that he unveiled at ADCC against Justin Rader, who has multiple appearances in the Mendes brothers highlight videos. Unfortunately, Rafa had something new developed to use against Rader in 2011. taught our team this technique after the Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu fighters dissected how Justin lost to Rafa in 2009. The front headlock control shown here limits your opponents ability to turn away from the choke. With the inverted guillotine your opponent can roll either way to defend before youre able to bring your body back over theirs. The front headlock give Rafa greater control over his opponent, limiting his options. He wasn’t able to finish but demonstrated how he had been practicing this technique to counter the guard.Ī similar technique performed from this position is the rolling guillotine choke. Rafa continued his momentum once he achieved the front headlock, rolling inverted to bypass Vieira’s guard. From half-guard against Vieira, Mendes brought his hips high, allowing him to get control of Vieira’s head and use the overhook to counter Vieira’s ability to push on his hip. The version shown in the animation above is from a loose half guard. Rafa’s most notable applications of the anaconda came at ADCC 2009, where he used them to counter Cobrinha’s arm-drag single leg takedowns, counter Leo Vieira’s half-guard and submit Justin Rader. Generally agreed to be invented by Milton Vieira of BTT, the anaconda is a form of kata gatame, or arm- triangle choke. Rafael Mendes is one of the few high-level competitors finding success with the anaconda choke. Rafael Mendes Preparation for ADCC Anaconda Choke
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