Why does the omoplata always start so easy and end with the guy escaping?
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John Danaher answers that on the mat at BJJ Fanatics, with Bernardo Faria, Placido Santos and
Reese LaFever. His position: the omoplata is the submission that is easiest to enter and hardest
to finish, and the blame sits with the way it has been taught. He asks here the same question he
asked about heel hooks twenty years ago, when everybody told him they were structurally weak. Is
the move broken, or are we the ones using it wrong?
The correction he shows on Reese LaFever is mechanical. Most people fight for head height, trying
to get their head above their opponent’s head. Danaher shows that this means almost nothing while
you sit on your buttocks with your feet in front of you, because your hips are still under his
shoulders. The real battle is hips over shoulders. He walks through the inside foot movement that
takes your feet from in front of you to behind you, the hurdler’s stretch that puts base under
you, and the elbow control that kills the posture-up before it starts.
From there the omoplata becomes a riding position. You start controlling one side of the body and
you drive to control both, following his defensive turns until you reach one of five finishing
positions where his movement shuts down. Bernardo boils it down to three rules: control both sides
of the body, keep the foot behind you, keep the hips above the shoulders.
Danaher also makes the case for putting time into the move. It uses your legs against your
opponent’s arms, the reps are cheap because you land in it every open mat, and it pays as a sweep
and as a submission at the same time.
KEY CONCEPTS IN THIS VIDEO:
– The omoplata is the easiest submission to enter and the hardest one to finish
– Head over head means almost nothing: the real battle is hips over shoulders
– Getting your feet from in front of you to behind you, off the buttocks onto knee and shin
– Elbow control that kills the posture-up before it starts
– Riding time: follow his defensive turns until you reach a position where he stops moving
– Five finishing positions, and the outside hip to inside hip bottleneck
🕒 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro on the mat: John Danaher, Placido Santos and Reese LaFever
0:24 Bernardo’s omoplata was a sweep more than a finish
0:51 Easiest submission to enter, hardest one to finish
1:12 Is the move weak, or is our use of it weak
1:24 The heel hook parallel from twenty years ago
2:13 How traditional teaching sold the omoplata short
3:08 Riding time, the real skill of the position
4:01 On the mat with Reese: where the classic omoplata leaks
4:43 Why head over head means almost nothing
5:27 Off the buttocks, onto the knees and shins
6:07 Feet in front of you to feet behind you
7:12 The real battle: hips higher than his shoulders
8:39 The omoplata as a riding position
9:23 Bernardo recaps the three rules
9:52 The outside hip to inside hip bottleneck
12:45 Follow him long enough to break him
13:47 Legs against arms, and why the move is worth the reps
15:22 Master The Move: Omoplata at BJJFanatics.com
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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora – MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.
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