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The diagram illustrates why it is not as easy to avoid an armbar as some people think. This is an example of three different techniques and the end being an armbar.

Options
In Option 1 (shown in the photos below), you could throw your opponent, then do the mount, and if your opponent managed to roll you over to the bottom, you could do the turnover to armbar. You could do the throw, and if that misses, try the turnover.
Practice Both Sides
One thing we hope Winning on the Ground: Training and Techniques for Judo and MMA Fighters teaches you is that you should always learn every technique on both sides. So you don’t have just those possibilities because you should be able to do them to the right side as well as to the left. And you don’t have to always do the three options together. You could throw and jump into the armbar — that’s another possible option. That is, performing each move individually (throw, mount, turnover) gives you three more options. Or you could do combinations of any two of them. That is why we said there were many more than five possibilities. In fact, because you can do the same move in a sequence more than once, there is an infinite number. (For example, you can throw, go to the mount, roll over, try the armbar and then roll back on top in the mount.) To illustrate further, an interviewer once asked Ronda Rousey, “You’ve won eight matches in a row in the first round using an armbar, including the world title. What are you going to do if one day you can’t get that armbar in the first round?” She shrugged and answered, “I guess I’d probably try it again in the second round.” There are two points here: 1. When you train, your mat techniques should be connected. 2. If you do train the connections between techniques, you can vary those paths so that no matter which way your opponent turns, it all ends up with you winning.Related Martial Arts Books, E-Books,
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