Almost every day while drinking my morning coffee, I whip out my tablet and watch a couple jiu-jitsu videos. Today I ran across Stephen Kesting teaching three variations of the omoplata. One of those variations was the monoplata.
Now Professor Madama has been teaching us the monoplata for years. You'd think I'd have it down pat, and yet I don't. It is one of those techniques that my head understands -- hell, I could teach it! -- but it alludes me when live training. I don't feel it and by the time I see it it's too late and I've lost the timing to apply the technique. Sometimes I even lose position.
This is my fault, not the techniques. As far as I'm concerned, the monoplata has to be in your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tool kit.
In this video, Stephen Kesting calls it the "Marceloplata" after Marcelo Garcia. Whatever. It's the monoplata, and he teaches it in very much the same way that Professor Madama does.
In order to make this real for me, I think I need to drill it out and drill it out and drill it out. Does anyone want to drill this with me until we are bored stupid?
