Quick Answer: The bicep slicer is a compression lock that folds the opponent’s arm so the elbow crease presses against your forearm, shin, or wrist — crushing the bicep muscle until they tap. In no-gi, the most reliable setup is as a counter when an opponent bends and clasps their hands to defend an armbar….
Quick Answer: The gogoplata is a choke applied from closed guard using your shin blade across the opponent’s throat. It requires hip flexibility to enter through the rubber guard sequence — Mission Control to New York to gogoplata — but when correctly positioned, it creates a trachea compression that’s nearly impossible to muscle through. Ryan…
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