Blue belt · Submission · Core
Triangle choke
A choke made with your legs: their neck and one arm are trapped in a figure-four of your legs. You need one of their arms in and the other out.
Closed guard Submission
Step by step
- Get one of their arms in and one out: push one wrist to their hip, pull the other to your chest.
- Shoot your leg (on the side of the arm that's out) high across the back of their neck.
- Grab your shin and angle your body out toward that leg's side.
- Lock it: the back of your knee over your other ankle.
- Pull their head down, squeeze your knees, lift your hips.
Details that make it work
- The angle finishes it. A square-on triangle rarely finishes.
- Pull the trapped arm across their own body to tighten it.
Common mistakes
- Both arms in or both out. You need one in, one out.
- Not cutting the angle.
Drill it
10 triangle entries each side, then 5 slow finishes.
If it fails, or what comes next
- Armbar from closed guard Submission · Closed guard
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How to defend it
Triangle defense: How to stop the triangle from inside their guard: posture, both arms in or out, deny the angle, then stack and clear the leg. Use it whenever their legs start…
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