page_title: Pankration
section_title: Single arm bar (elbow lock)
hierarchical_section_title: Pankration / Techniques / Locking techniques / Arm locks / Single arm bar (elbow lock)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pankratiasten im Kampf, Bronze 2 Jhdt. v. Chr., Staatliche Antikensammlungen. English: Pankratiasts fighting. Greek bronze, 2nd century BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich.
context_page_description: Pankration was a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and was an empty-hand submission sport with scarcely any rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques, but also others, such as kicking and holds, locks and chokes on the ground.
  The term comes from the Greek παγκράτιον, literally meaning "all of power" from πᾶν "all" and κράτος "strength, might, power".
context_section_description: In this technique, the position of the bodies is very similar to the one described just above. The athlete executing the technique is standing over his opponent's back, while the latter is down on his right knee. The left leg of the athlete is straddling the left thigh of the opponent—the left knee of the opponent is not on the floor—and is trapping the left foot of the opponent by stepping on it. The athlete uses his left hand to push down on the side/back of the head of the opponent while with his right hand he pulls the opponent's right arm back, against his midsection. This creates an arm bar on the right arm with the pressure now being mostly on the elbow. The fallen opponent cannot relieve it, because his head is being shoved the opposite way by the left hand of the athlete executing the technique.
caption: Pankratiasts fighting. Greek bronze, 2nd century BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich.
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