Americana from Mount

Also called keylock, paintbrush, ude garami

Pin the wrist to the mat and paint the arm down with a figure-four grip: the first shoulder lock everyone learns and everyone still taps to.

OfficialKnight Jiu-Jitsu — Make Americanas Great Again

BJJ Fanatics — Americana Lock From Mount by Andre Galvao
Lachlan Giles — Absolute MMA — Americana from Mount
Brandon Mccaghren — Basic Self Defense - Americana

Connected in the web

chainArmbar from Mount counterAmericana Defense

In these systems

GB1 · THE FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM Gracie Barra Carlos Gracie Jr.'s school, taught the same way in every Gracie Barra room in the world: sixteen weeks, two classes a week, each class a self-defense strand and a sport strand, the situations rotating so a term covers the whole ground game once. This is GB1, the fundamentals term, whole: every numbered lesson, in the school's own words and order.

Train it with Randori

Framework: Ribeiro & Howell, Jiu-Jitsu University · the shipped learn-graph