Jasmine Rocha: Lock the Legs, Free the Hands (ADCC 2026)

From the back, a body triangle lets your legs do the holding, so both hands are free to attack. Jasmine Rocha finished her ADCC 2026 final and her first match this way. The body-triangle details are from her father and coach Vagner Rocha's class.

Flow outline

  1. Behind the opponent: one hook

    • ADCC 2026 final, overtime: Jasmine comes out from underneath Ana Rodrigues and gets behind her with one hook in.
    • One hook isn't control yet. With hooks, the arms have to hold the upper body or the opponent slides off.

  2. Lock the body triangle

    • The legs lock around the waist and do the holding.
    • Vagner: "I wanna have my feet and my toes up." And lock it high: "Bring your triangle up. Bring it up. Then lock it." Locked low, the opponent crosses over your foot and bridges on it.

  3. Hands free: trap an arm

    • Vagner: "this makes my attack so much more potent because I have both my arms free... I don't have to worry about tracking his upper body." With hooks, he has to.
    • In the final, one of Ana's arms ends up trapped and Jasmine's free arm comes across the face toward the neck.

  4. Rear-naked choke

    • The choke lands on the jaw, not under it, and she keeps squeezing.
    • Up 3-0 with about five minutes of overtime left, she finishes instead of riding out the lead. Jasmine: "I didn't stop."

  5. Opponent turns to the knees

    • First round vs Kanae Ikeda: with the body triangle locked, the opponent turns to the knees.
    • The triangle stays on, so the hips stay trapped.

  6. Flatten them, squeeze the ribs

    • Vagner: when they turn sideways, "this is the time to turn them": face down, cross-face, and squeeze the ribs. "The more you squeeze in the middle... the easier you'll find your attacks to happen."
    • Jasmine flattens Ikeda out and finishes with the rear-naked choke.

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