I should have written this one down right after class. The details are quite fuzzy right now as I’m trying to recall the steps leading up to the choke.
I am guessing that the setup for this choke is gonna come from when we have our opponent in side control and he executes a bridge into us in an effort to escape.
Our head-side arm is gonna come from the back side and shoot in under the neck. The key gonna be in driving the hand as far in as it can go. So it literally must shoot as opposed to trying to gradually slide in.
Once our hand has come out the other side, we’re gonna grab it with our other hand and help pull it through a little further as we then take our elbow and bring it up and wrap it over our opponent’s shoulder/back.
Think of the movement as similar to what we do for a palm to palm version of the rear naked choke, where our the pressure comes from wrapping our elbow behind the back. Well, in that same way, our elbow is what’s gonna really tighten up this choke.
Thursday during our noon class, I had the opportunity to try this choke on my partner. But I didn’t finish it. Apparently, I had a really good neck crank on him as my arm slipped above his chin. I couldn’t feel that and I certainly couldn’t see what was going on since our two bodies cover up everything. So I’ve gotta get better at feeling whether the choke is fully set. I don’t want to rough up my training partner.
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