Limp Arm

Sometimes, your arm gets stuck. If your partner has deliberately captured it and is holding on tight… you might be able to solve the problem by using the limp arm.
Contrary to the name, it doesn’t simply mean letting your arm go limp. That’s part of it, but the other parts are changing position (or waiting for your partner to change the position) and then whipping the arm while it is limp.
So, suppose you’re in dogfight and your partner has a strong overhook on your arm. If (as you have so many times before) you tense up and try and use strength to escape, it might work, but the better your partner is the less likely this strategy instead. Try dropping your shoulder, letting your arm go limp, and then whipping the limb out of the trap. That is the limp arm.
This scenario comes up in standing positions and lots of other places. A very similar situation happens when your leg is trapped from a kick catch or a single leg attempt – that’s when instead of doing the limp arm technique, you get to do the limp leg technique (that’s not actually the name, but the techniques are remarkably similar – except you drop the hip instead of the shoulder and whip the leg instead of the arm.)
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