Americana: Opponent’s arm is in between their body and your neck
- Get leg out/hip to ground that is closest to opponent’s feet
- Drive forward to pressure/trap opponent’s arm
- flair up your arm/elbow that is under opponent’s arm
- Bring the arm of behind the head and find the wrist and pin it to the ground
- Establish americana
- Shift to other hip and bring up one leg and bring down other leg
- Finish americana
One Handed Americana:
- Follow first for steps of Americana
- if you are not able to find the wrist, use your lower arm to grab the meat of opponent’s hand/pinky
- Finish Americana one handed creating leverage with just one hand
Wrist Lock:
- Get leg out/hip to ground that is closest to opponent’s feet
- Drive forward to pressure/trap opponent’s arm
- flair up your arm/elbow that is under opponent’s arm
- Bring the arm of behind the head and find the wrist and pin it to the ground
- Establish americana
- Get opponent’s elbow pointing up and make sure their wrist is back on the mat (almost L shaped)
- Put your bicep on opponent’s elbow and put pressure