Eduardo Telles armbar/omoplata flow

Eduardo Telles has some of the smoothest jiujitsu out there. Just take a look at this smooth takedown to armbar to omoplata flow.

Notice how he achieves smoothness by basing his hands on the mat to float over the guy.

Here are the details of the takedown and armbar from Knee on Belly:

The Omoplata is used as a counter to the Hitchhiker escape to the original armbar:

 

Here’s the Omoplata counter:

He also adds a counter to the omoplata roll escape:

 

But wait, there’s more!

Here he gives an alternative finish for the armbar that is harder to escape than the omoplata: