The key to this whole technique series is to “turn the corner” with shrimping and pendulum action to get to a perpendicular and inverted hip angle. The force-post triangle setup is a  integral key element to this multi-attack, but you have to be completely sideways, and inverted enough, that when the opponent does post their arm, it lands between our legs thus leaving us with an immediate triangle opportunity. Even experienced and technically knowledgeable Jiu Jitsu opponents are likely to give the triangle in this situation because of the immediate armlock submission threat in the high guard – the bottom grappler can bridge their hips into a bent-arm Americana type lock on the trapped arm and can obviously attack the Juji Gatame (Armbar) if they complete the sweep. So, operating on instincts and responding to those threats, posting the arm seems to be a correct response.

In the next drill we’ll address if the arm posts around the outside instead of inside your legs, blocking your pendulum action. Our preference of course would be to finish the sweep or go directly to the triangle, so we should try to invert and swing to a perpendicular angle as aggressively as possible in this situation.