Here’s a recap of the four Cantor flavors of armbar (attacking their right arm, on your left side):

1 – REGULAR
This is the normal armbar. There are several steps, which when followed often result in success.
First pull them forward with your knees and break their base. grab the back of their head with your left hand and reach across the top of their right arm with your right arm and grab behind their elbow on the bottom of their tricep. next, do a small bump and land on your right hip. post your left leg on their right hip to block them from pulling back their right arm. Reach up more with your left warm, pulling them down more, and grab behind their left armpit. Kick your right leg up so your calf is across their back as you move your right ear towards their knee and push their face away with your left hand. Next move your left leg across the back of their neck to secure the armbar. This next part is counter intuitive, but important. Next, instead of straightening the legs, keep both legs bent tight driving your heels down. move your hips up to get the tap.
2 – THEY LEAN BACK
if the lean back as you are going for the armbar, reach underneath theor left knee with your right hand and hit the Flower Sweep by turning your hips perpendicular to their chest and kicking the right leg over them, sweeping them. For there, take the mount or finish the armbar.
3 – THEY LEAN INTO YOU
if they lean into you, then switch arms so you are trapping their right arm with your left arm. Turn your face into the ground to your right and roll over to the belly down armbar.
4 – THEY STACK YOU
You have the armbar position, but you are getting stacked. you’re going to spin under them in a flash way, like a break dancer, and finish. release your left leg from behind the head and move it so your shin is in front of their face. swim your right arm under and in front of them so that it is thumbdown and in front of their right leg. duck your head under them, in front of their legs and you spin under them on your shoulders. They will end up face down and you will still have the arm. Finish.

Thank you Mr. Cantor, for these insights into Armbar Land. You will be missed on the mat.

Try to hit the sweep by lifting with the hook (left leg with these grips) as you try to put your ear on the matt and kick your other leg under your hooking leg, turning your hips sideways.

They post with the leg to stop the sweep:
trap the leg with your arm, grab your lapel to trap.
push on their hip with your top leg.
keep your inside hook, point your knee up, and keep it tight on them so your shin blocks them from leaning in.

if they lean in:
grab their lapel with your free hand.
sit up and push with your hook shin to get the sweep over their trapped leg.

if they turn away and try to stand:
stand up with them as you gable grip behind their knee.
pull them backwards, then drive forward to get the sweep and proceed to pass.

if they post out to the side with their arms:
try to take the back
small bump and pass the trapped leg over your head while you grip the inside of this knee at the gi with your free hand. keep this grip.
take your top foot off of their hip and set a hook (this hook is like a butterfly hook but they have their back partially turned.)
now grab their belt with your free hand and pull your other leg under them to set a second hook.
now pull them toward you (you’re behind them with two butterfly hooks) and take the back.

With your top hand, try to get a deep lapel grip. do this but sliding your thumb under the lapel, pointing your knuckles up and sliding your hand as far up the lapel as you can to get a deep grip. try to flick the guys chin up with a turning motion of your wrist. If you get a bad grip, don’t be too discouraged, you can still finish, it will just take more patience.

Next get a decent, but not too high grip with the other hand, the bottom hand.

Lean over to your side and you pull your tom-grip arms, elbow hard to your hip as you drop your head and get ear to ear.

Finish by giving a had hug as you squeeze, turning your choking grip arm, pulling your elbow closer to your hip, and extending your other arm at the elbow to tighten the lapel.

I think it’s easier to finish this choke by also pulling your bottom hand up into your opponents neck as you pull back with that arm. You donlt have to wait for the lapel to do all the work. Hug the neck with this hand hard by trying to touch your fingertips to the back of their neck.

IF you can’t get the grip, attach with a backward eziekel choke:

S grip your hands.

post your top-arm-side foot on their hip hip

spin your arms as you push with your foot. (You’re spinning to a positions similar to the Bow-and-Arrow position)

Get the Eziekel, gripping inside your back hands sleeve

Rotate your back hand around to the near side of their neck.

Choke, by pushing this had forward into the side of their neck. (Make sure your far hand wrist bone is perpendiculal to thier neck to get the pincher-like pressure here which is the finish)

This is an open guard pass to use when your opponents has their feet on your hips and a same side collar sleeve grip set.

Start standing. Your opponent is on the on the ground, feet on your hips, gripping your right arm, with their left,  and your collar, with their right.

1. Grab their lapel with you right (trapped) arm.

2. Stuff their foot on your free side between your legs and prepare to smash their knees down.  -grab their foot above their toes -step back with your leg on that side as you push the foot down between your legs. -When their foot’s between your legs, clam them together so it doesn’t pop out.

3. Smash their legs down. grab the top of their knee with your free hand as you drop your right knee down, stapling their left leg. Keeping your lapel grip with your right hand, move yoru elbow so that it is up on top of their knees, pinning their knees down to the side. Next, slide your left knee up behind their knees. Once you’re heavy, on top of their knees, reach around and grab the back of their jacket with your free have.

4. Free your trapped right leg by kicking it back as you keep your other knee, your left knee, up behind their knees.

5. Pretzel time. (This details is awkward, but important and protects you from ending up in half guard or back in guard.) while keeping your left knee behind their knees, rotate your left foot and ankle over and across both their feet so that you ar stapling them down.

6. Finish the Pretzel. Now move your right knee (this was the trapped leg) up and over their legs. Placing your right knee down between their knees and your left knee.

7. Unstaple and roll them back to side control. Keep your lapel grip. kick your feet around. sag heavy on their chest as you roll them back towards you with the lapel grip and establish side control. (the lapel grip stops them from turtling away from you.)