Not sure what you're going for...
Not sure what you're going for with this thread.
Most submission holds are on the ground. The submission fighters don't do standing arm bars and such. The only standing submission hold that I can think of is the guillotine and a mantis player wouldn't place himself into a position to let a submission fighter do that hold since it requires the aggressor to shoot too high with their head down, and I don't know of any mantis shooting techniques.
Mantis hooks and any standard standing chin na would be pretty ineffective against a sidemount armbar, toe hook, figure four leg lock, knee bar, rear mount choke, triangle choke, ankle lock, nose grinder, hip crank, etc. Those are all in the submission fighters bag of tricks.
All I can say is to use mantis effectively in the standing position and don't get taken to the ground. Other than that, learn to submission wrestle Pancrase style. BJJ, Sambo, Judo etc. aren't quite as effective as Pancrase style submission wrestling which is based on western freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. They are too formal and rigid where Pancrase is more free flowing and inclusive of effective techniques. Read Ken Shamrock's "Inside the Lions Den" as a primer in Pancrase methodology.
Don't get me wrong, I love 7* Mantis, but I'm also a realist. And, being a realist, I don't underestimate the value of learning ground fighting.
Mantis grappling methodology
Nope, I'm not joking. Cross-training with grapplers, and as a free style wrestler in my school days, I've notice that our 12 character principles translate well to the ground. So, here's my theory:
Being a principle based style coupled with PM's history of absorbing other styles forms and techniques, PM is a great grappling system. Of course, development in that direction has been slight. The ground fighting PM form, which I seen, does put more enphasis on striking while hugging to the floor, but could be translated more closely to more grappling focus.
Anyway, more later.