Inverted Waki Gatame - Aikido for BJJ - Turtle & Rear Body Lock Escape & Counter

Here I go into a movement that I am calling an Inverted Waki Gatame. In normal & reversed Waki Gatame as well as the Judo technique, Ude-higishi waki gatame the armpit is used as the fulcrum for the lock, in this technique the forearm is used as the fulcrum. Why do I consider this Aikido or at the very least Aikido based BJJ? I learned Waki Gatame in Tomiki Aikido in the manner that I perform it from standing. In terms of principle these movements use blending to enter and pull the opponent parallel to their arm even in the case of the inverted figure 4 Waki that I show here, this is characteristic of Aikido. This arm lock also is clearly just an inversion of the original Waki Gatame lock where the armpit is used as fulcrum, here that configuration is inverted into one where the cutting bone or the lower third of the radius is used as the fulcrum. Combat Sports are the ideal way to train for self defense while the difference in ruleset makes many movement viable that are risky in the street the astu
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