Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Eli Knight chains a straight armbar, cigar-cutter, reverse triangle and kimura from closed guard.
Submissions
Kimura
A figure-four grip on the wrist and elbow that rotates the shoulder. Works as a submission, a sweep and a control system from almost every position.
Also called double wristlock, ude garami, reverse figure four, chave kimura.
Where it shows up
- Closed Guard · Closed Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Half Guard · Half Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Half Guard · Knee Shield (Z-Guard) · Submissions
- Half Guard · Lockdown · Submissions
- Half Guard · Half Guard Top · Submissions
- Butterfly Guard · Butterfly Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Side Control · Side Control Top · Submissions
- Knee on Belly · Knee on Belly Top · Submissions
- North-South · North-South Top · Submissions
Related techniques
Shorts
No-gi Intermediate
Georges St-Pierre and Michael Tremblay break down GSP's kimura from bottom half guard, attacking when the top player tries to pin the framing arm with the knee.
No-gi Intermediate
Craig Jones breaks down how Islam Makhachev attacks from top half guard: crossface pressure to bait the push, arm triangle, and the switch to the kimura when they rotate the arm out.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Three simple knee-on-belly submissions: baseball bat choke, armbar and kimura.
YouTube videos
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Chewjitsu's closed-guard kimura for white belts, the grip and hip details that actually finish it.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Chewy on combining the kimura from side control with the north-south choke as they turn.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Chewjitsu's kimura from side control, the grip and hip switch that raise the finish rate.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Knight Jiu-Jitsu's twenty knee-on-belly submissions: chokes, armlocks and a few leglocks off the reactions.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Knight Jiu-Jitsu's north-south submission options: choke, kimura and armbar.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Knight Jiu-Jitsu runs through a large set of submissions available from side control and how they connect, a good overview for beginners building an attack chain.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Full kimura trap seminar. Includes baiting the reaching arm from the knee shield and feeding into the arm crunch and kimura grip, then the sweeps and back takes that follow.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Tom Davey attacks the kimura from Z guard using the crossface and wrist control, kicking the leg through to snatch the grip, with the hip bump sweep as the backup when they tuck the arm.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Lachlan Giles on attacking from knee on belly: the armbar, kimura and chokes that appear when they turn.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Lachlan Giles on finishing from side control by reading what the bottom player does with their near arm, and chaining the shoulder locks and arm triangle off each reaction.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Josh Saunders presents a connected side control attack system where each defence to one submission feeds the next.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Five basic submissions from side control for white belts - americana, kimura, arm triangle, armbar and a choke - shown step by step.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
A sneaky kimura wrist lock from three-quarter mount when they turn to turtle.
Gi Intermediate
Roger Gracie attacking from the arm-wrap in closed guard, the omoplata/kimura family when they hide the collar.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
How the hip bump and kimura feed each other depending on the opponent's posture and hip height, with detail on generating speed for the sit-up and trapping the post.