Americana Defense from Closed Guard
Prevents the Americana by maintaining a straight arm and using a cross-waist frame with a hard bridge to extract the elbow. Adapts to leg hooks by standing the leg to restore bridging ability.
4 steps
· save to drill into each- 1Keep the trapped arm completely straight.0:13
- 2Establish a cross-waist frame and execute a hard bridge.0:19
- 3Extract the trapped elbow and transition to knee-elbow escape.0:23
- 4If the opponent hooks your leg, stand that leg up.0:29
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