So, a couple of weeks ago I tried using the bread cutter choke on my opponent and had zero luck with it. I could have sworn my elbow was on the ground on one side of the neck while my wrist was on the ground on the other side. And it very well could have been the case, because the choke is apparently not finished with the forearm.
We revisited this choke the other day in class and I had the opportunity to clean things up a bit and to make it actually effective.
From standard side control, I want take my leg-side arm and trap my opponent’s near-side elbow. But in doing this, I need to shift my body so I’m placing pressure on him still, but with my body, not by my arm blocking his hip.
My choking arm is gonna come down so that my elbow is on the mat, close to his neck. At this point, I’m not grabbing the lapel. I want to make sure the elbow is down so that he cannot block it and hence block my choke. Once my elbow is to the mat, I want to slip my hand across the neck and grab the collar. Again, the choke isn’t going come from this action. It’s going to come from what follows.
Trapping the elbow should now have opponent so that he cannot roll away from us. But we need to keep good pressure on him as we’re finishing the choke so that he cannot roll into us. This is going to come as we drive our head to the mat and keep our body tight on him.
Now the choke should be easy to finish as we rotate our elbow toward his head. This will very quickly tighten up the slack in the choke.
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