Meathook
Position
The meathook is a rubber guard grip from Eddie Bravo's mission control family: your arm hooks over and across the back of the opponent's bent-down head to grip your own shin on the far side, hanging their posture on your arm like a hook. The book's canonical use is the meathook-to-triangle — the grip clears their defensive structure just long enough to shoot the triangle behind it.
Quick Reference
Key principles
- · The grip is arm-over-head-to-your-own-shin: their head is trapped under your arm while the shin grip closes the circuit — posture cannot rebuild inside it.
- · It solves the hand problem: opponents who fight the mission control grip find their head hooked instead, and every answer they make exposes the neck line.
- · It is a transit grip — the triangle (and the omoplata behind it) is the destination, and the hook exists to open that door.
- · Your leg and arm share the posture work, so either alone can hold while the other attacks.
- · The elbow of the hooking arm stays tight; a loose hook is an invitation for them to posture through the gap.
Execution
- 1 From mission control with posture broken, release your cross grip and swing that arm over the back of their head.
- 2 Reach past the head and grip your own shin on the far side, hanging their posture on the hook.
- 3 Keep the high leg heavy so the hook and leg share the load.
- 4 As they fight the hook, slide the high leg past their trapped posture and shoot the triangle.
- 5 If they pull out of the triangle lane, the omoplata series opens on the hooked side.
Common mistakes
- × Hooking the head without reaching the shin, which is just a collar tie they can posture out of.
- × Holding the meathook as a static position instead of shooting the triangle it was built to deliver.
- × Letting the hooking elbow flare, giving their head the exit lane.
Attacks & transitions
Offense available from Meathook.
