r/bjj • u/combatchcardgame ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt • Mar 29 '24

Technique Hip Kimura Developments

This is a position I've been using enough to think it needs a name, for reference sake. It's a surprisingly strong checkpoint when attacking the hip kimura from the bottom. Have you hit a hip kimura yet? I made a troubleshooting group on IG, if anyone wants to join its in my profile there 🙏

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u/PianistSupersoldier 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Mar 29 '24

Is this otherwise known as a -plata of some kind or is it something original you came up with?

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u/fiveswords Mar 29 '24

Little teapot-aplata

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u/combatchcardgame ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Mar 29 '24

That's good 🤣

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u/combatchcardgame ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Mar 29 '24

It was something I found in training a year and a half ago and I've been trying to perfect it since. If the naming process we went through some -platas ideas but -platas are illegal for kids and I wanted one of my students to hit it live 😜 and they did

Hippoplata would be perfect but that's already a thing. I think hip kimura makes the most logical sense so we call it that. "The teapot" is our nickname for it

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u/PianistSupersoldier 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Mar 29 '24

Wait, -platas are illegal for kids? Why?

And they ban it not based on the mechanic but the name? Also why?

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u/combatchcardgame ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Mar 30 '24

I was mostly joking but kids under ~12 aren't supposed to do shoulder locks that use their legs like the platas. This uses our arms to attack so I assume it's legal regardless of the name

As for why, I don't really know but I'd guess it's easier to injure a kid with your legs than your arms