A Sneaky Submission I Learned from Sambo (Video)

By: David Avellan on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Back in the day, we had one of the great sambo masters come to my academy, the Freestyle Fighting Academy.

It was more by accident that we managed to get him to teach an amazing leg lock seminar. Lot of weird and funny behind the scenes stories as well, LOL!

This sambo master was a UFC veteran of the old school - Oleg Taktarov!

He showed this leg lock from the bottom half guard which is super sneaky and easily done after going for a sweep, check it out

Technique Description: Back in the day, we had one of the great sambo masters come to my academy, the Freestyle Fighting Academy. It was more by accident that we managed to get him to teach an amazing leg lock seminar. Lot of weird and funny behind the scenes stories as well, LOL! This sambo master was a UFC veteran of the old school - Oleg Taktarov! He showed this leg lock from the bottom half guard which is super sneaky and easily done after going for a sweep, check it out

Comments

eagles51493

I was never a big fan of this one, never really worked well for me.

David Avellan

Most people who have trouble with this do not have the proper placement of the knee (which should be just above the knee, and of their feet (should be as low as possible on their leg).

Tinker around with it until you find your sweet spot.