Collar chokes in Middletown

Mersh and I went to MDSC on Tuesday night and had a good time.  I was guest teaching at Chris’s dojo for gi night.  I covered a handful of my favorite collar chokes.

I started w/ warm-up drilling closed grd to scissor sweep and cross collar (palm up/palm down) from mount.  Once we had a bit of sweat going we moved to side position escape to re-guard but on the way picked up another cross collar choke…finishing w/ a spin under the guy like doing an armbar and then kicking his base out when he bulls into you.  (a cool little finishing trick I picked up at a Keith Owen seminar a few months ago).

After cross collar chokes I moved to baseball bat and spinning chokes both starting from kneeride.  And then on to attacking a guy who turtles up on you.  I really like the options from going after a turtled up opponent.  Breaking him down w/ a wrestlers twist and then grabbing the collar for clock choke or rolling into a rear sliding choke/bow & arrow.  All good.  Lastly, I transition on the turtle to sprawl position where the guys learned the rolling collar choke and the rolling T choke.

Mersh and I finished the night w/ a bit of light sparring.  I’m glad Chris invited us down as it is always great to see them and train w/ good BJJ players.  I’m signing off now and getting ready to head out to Lake George for a long 4th of July weekend.  I hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday.  Jeff

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