Over on the Straight Blast Gym forum, Mike Sweeney was asking Leo Kirby about the “Marceloplata”, the way Marcelo Garcia finishes the omoplata. Leo shot footage of how it was taught to him. Since I’ve got several requests for this, I’m putting it up in the journal.
From guard, it’s a strong way to counter when they grab your bottom leg to stop you from spinning out for the normal omoplata.
From the mount, it’s just awesomeness.
From guard
From mount
Marcelo teaches this in much greater detail on his third set.
Better yet, Marcelo is doing an entire day of omoplatas at his seminar in Hollywood, FL on March 4th. Find out more here.
Very Nice… Thank You. It doesn’t really look like too much alteration would be neccessary to shift the technique to No Gi, is that so?
None at all.
I’ve only seen it done no gi actually. The one thing I find is that with the gi the submission I show from mount is easier because it is harder for them to get that arm back after I post the leg. But I have submitted people from mount no gi with it.