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Roll-through armbar escape
Also known as Rolling Armbar Escape — the canonical term used on this site.
Descriptive — the attacker rolls through to finish
Roll-through armbar escape is the descriptive name for defending the rolling armbar, a turtle-position attack finished by the attacker rolling through rather than by sitting back into extension.
Etymology. “Roll-through” names the finishing motion. It distinguishes the attack from armbars that isolate a limb and then extend statically — here the attacker’s own rotation supplies the force, which is why the timing feels compressed from underneath.
Mechanics. The arm has to be fed back through the defender’s own plane for the roll to catch it, so short posts and elbows kept in deny the material. Once the arm is captured, pulling the elbow back through the attacker’s knee line breaks the lever, and a sit-out converts the freed arm straight into a wrestling-up base.
Cross-reference. “Turtle armbar defence” is the positional name. Full escape coverage on Rolling Armbar Escape.