From: EddieBravo

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Member Since: 5/9/02

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I just posted a step by step instructional of what Mulhern did in this fight.

1. Mission control (pulled his leg up and kept it up there with his left hand)

2. Zombie (forced his opponent’s left hand to the mat by coming up and around the elbow)

3. Cleared the neck (he switched his left forearm to the other side of his opponent’s neck)

4. Chill dog (re hooked his right leg with his left hand and kept pressure on his opponent’s neck)

5. Kung fu move (brought his right foot over in front of his opponent’s face, circled his left elbow above and around his foot and iron palmed his own foot into his opponent’s face)

6. Da (forced his opponent to roll and rolled up with him to get the sweep)

Can you post another instructional that takes you through what Mulhern did exactly? 🙂

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 To fully understand the complexity of the guard game you must first understand that oma platas won’t work if the hand isn’t trapped to the mat. If you don’t get that then you don’t know the guard game very well at all.

So how do you trap your opponents hand to the mat? And keep it there? What’s stopping your opponent from just putting his hand back on your chest and eliminating the oma plata opportunity?

You can’t “zombie” the hand to the mat and keep it there unless you are in mission control. If you try the zombie without being in mission control, he can easily put his hand back on your chest.

That sweep would not have happened if he didn’t FIRST get to mission control, then zombie (in that order), THEN clear the neck. Mulern carefully set that oma plata sweep up with specific steps in a specific order. That is the key to the success of the classic oma plata sweep, rubber guard lesson over, I’m out, thank you 🙂