Chokes

Ermuhan posts this as a challenge: name that choke. From top control he wraps the neck, settles his weight, and waits for the tap — his commenters call it a baseball “necktie” variant. Study the control before the squeeze.

A simple canto choke set from closed guard: build the collar grip from your back and finish without opening the guard or giving up position. Guard is an attacking position, not just a safe one.

Billed on screen as the fastest choke in jiu jitsu: from bottom guard, a deep collar grip, the arm wraps behind the head, and the attacker rolls forward to finish — the gola rodada. A commenter calls it a loop choke; the two are close cousins, both built on that collar grip and roll.

Amr Ghoneim posts this one as a quiz — "What's this submission called?" — and shows it twice from top position. It's the baseball choke adapted to no-gi: with no collar to grip, one hand goes behind the neck and the forearm takes the collar's place across the throat; rotate and settle onto your side, and body weight closes the choke. A cousin of the "Baseball Necktie" at the top of this card.

Paulo Miyao opens with the receipt — an Ezekiel landed at the Rome International Open 2024 — then breaks it down with Patrick of BJJ Lab: from closed guard, pass the arm over the shoulder, grip your own sleeve, and bring the forearm across the neck. A choke that finishes from inside someone's guard, where you're supposed to be the one in danger; his on-screen warning says it plainly — the Ezekiel is worse than you imagine.

Juarez Malta Jr teaches the gi baseball choke in three named parts: the grip setup from side control, the pressure, and the rotation to north-south that closes the strangle. It pairs with Amr Ghoneim's no-gi entry further up this card — same choke, two grip worlds: his runs on bare hands, this one runs on the lapels.

Leonardo Brocca, whose channel is a map for white belts, finishes from the heaviest seat in the house: "100 kilos," the Brazilian name for full-pressure side control. The catch: his caption names the position, not the choke — so this entry files the reel for what it demonstrably is, a choke finished from 100kg, beside Malta's baseball choke on this same card. If the choke's name surfaces, the title updates; the lesson stands either way — cook them under the weight first, finish second.

Amr Ghoneim — two-time JJIF No-Gi world champion, appearing on this card for the third time — posts a choke and asks the room: "What's this choke called?" No readable answer exists yet, so the entry keeps his question as its title: the filing is honest, the name is pending, and the choke is there to be studied frame by frame. If you can name it, the title updates — that is the game he posted it as.

Ragnar BJJ — Daniel Holý, the creator behind this site's very first entry — posts a finish from live MMA: Jeremiah catches a ninja choke in the final round the moment his opponent shoots a single leg. The takedown attempt becomes the trap: the shot drops the head into range, the front choke closes, and the finish does the rest. A submission that lives on the opponent's offence — counter in spirit, choke in the finish, so it files here.

An exotic for the archive: the scorpion choke, a strangle finished with the legs from a folded, scorpion-like posture — the kind of submission most grapplers will watch a hundred times before they ever feel it once. It sits on this card beside the fundamentals (baseball, Ezekiel, canto) as the reminder that the choke family has a strange tail: worth knowing it exists, and worth recognizing before it is on you.

The Ezekiel without its favorite fabric. The classic Ezekiel feeds on gi sleeves — Miyao's closed-guard version lives at Chokes #5 — but Viniciusmachinejj runs it from mount with no gi at all: the mount's control supplies the pressure the sleeves usually provide. The pair belongs together on this card — same strangle, two wardrobes, and proof the mechanic survives losing the grips it was named for.

Leo Lara — Brazilian and World champion — introduces the jiboia, the boa constrictor choke: named for the snake because of how it wraps and squeezes, and by his account it catches people completely by surprise, with almost no way out once it is set. He closes by asking what other name you have heard for the finish, so the entry keeps his name for it and leaves the alias slot open.

Sebastian Serpa's second entry on the site is a con: from closed guard, an innocent overhook on the arm — which could mean almost anything — hides the real move, a collar grip finished with the knuckles driven into the neck: the punch choke. By the time the grip reads as a choke, it already is one. Competition-tested, per the World Pro champion himself, and offered as one to add for your next competition.

A Facebook entry for this shelf, and a pure one: Omar Junior, teaching in the luta livre tradition — Brazil's no-gi submission wrestling — sits behind his partner, secures the rear naked choke, walks through the mechanics and pulls him back onto the mat to finish. No gi, no collar, no setup story: the choke itself, taught plainly — and the most direct rear naked choke lesson on the shelf.

Filed under his own line: Rener Gracie's caption names no choke — it just testifies. "So effective it feels like I'm cheating" is the entire caption, and from a Gracie University instructor whose family built its name on the choke, the claim carries weight. The specific choke stays unnamed in this entry until the record names it; the reel itself is left to make the case.

Filed descriptively: the caption is hashtags only — self-defense, wrestling, judo, grappling, MMA — and names no choke. What the record does say is worth having: this is a wrestler's choke, from the founder of the Yildirim Wrestling System, a German vice champion and Bundesliga wrestler teaching across the grappling arts. The entry sits on this shelf on your filing and takes a proper title if the choke is ever named.

Andress's answer to the guard puller: don't play their game — jump over it. The flying triangle launches past the pull and closes the choke in the air, "the best way to finish" per his caption. This reel arrived under an Armbar label and was refiled here on your ruling: a technique's own identity governs its shelf, and a triangle is a choke wherever it starts.

"Master the paper cutter choke — the basics that work." Pistiner posts Alexander BJJ's paper cutter: the forearm blade driven across the throat, fed by the collar grip, usually arriving as the pass settles into side control. A breadcutter's close relative — no wind-up, no leap, just pressure in the right order.

"Simple sneaky Canto choke from bottom guard." Nich Reyes — a Toronto black belt — feeds the lapel choke named for Flavio Canto from underneath: the sneaky part is that the grip builds quietly inside the guard before the lapel ever comes around the neck.

"A choke you don't want to get caught in — simple, effective, and always good to have in your game. Would you tap?" Gracie Barra Ventura County (Simi Valley · Oxnard · Camarillo) posts the choke without naming it, so the entry is filed under the caption's own line until a name surfaces.

"Which one is your favourite?" El Gato — three-time European champion, seven-time Toronto champion, an ultra-heavy pressure player — puts the three head-and-arm chokes side by side: D'Arce, anaconda and ninja choke. One reel, three cousins; pick your branch of the family.

"Gi version of the one-arm rear naked choke." Daniel Holý (black belt, Jungle BJJ) grips his own collar to finish the RNC with a single hand — the collar does the second hand's work, and the free hand stays on control duty. A back-position choke that needs only one arm to close.

"Pitfalls of the Bow & Arrow Choke — how to avoid them, and what to do next." Zuka (Toronto; BJJ Fanatics best-seller on reverse De La Riva and half/quarter guard) teaches the choke by its failure points: where the bow and arrow leaks, how to seal it, and the follow-up when the seal still breaks.