If you've been stumped about how to set up an armbar from the guard, or feeling like you should be able to hit this basic submission more often, this technique may be able to jumpstart your jiu-jitsu excitement over the fundamentals once again.

Often times in jiu-jitsu, you learn something that is fundamental, disregard it as something you won't ever use in real-time, and then, a few years later, you find yourself using the move with some regularity. This has definitely been the case for me with the armbar from the guard; with few exceptions, I'd only use it on white belts for the longest time. The lapel grip allowed me to start using it once again on people at my level (brown or black, by then), and then I started getting excited about using the technique from other positions, and found other ways to hit it. I hope your experience is similar.