Triangle

The Triangle shelf opens from an address nobody expects: the turtle. Pistiner (Alliance San Diego) sets the triangle on a turtled partner — turning the defensive shell this archive keeps its own red shelf for into the choke's front door. "Have you ever seen this triangle from turtle?" is his whole pitch, and his instruction is to save it and hit it on your training partners.

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Pistiner opened this shelf tonight with his own triangle from turtle; this one he posts as a spotlight — a "super technical sequence" by Melissa Vignoli, a young grappler whose polish at her age is the whole point of his caption. The record doesn't break the sequence down move by move, so the entry logs it under her name and its billing: technique beyond her years, filed on the Triangle shelf at your label.

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The caption says it in transliterated Arabic: "Triangle Choke," spelled phonetically for a local audience. Dragon Team is an MMA academy in Najaf, Iraq, and the reel is their triangle — the name travels by sound, the technique itself needs no translation. The shelf's third entry takes the choke about as far from San Diego, where the first two live, as this archive reaches.

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The triangle crosses the border: Babenko, a judo coach who breaks down competitive technique, puts the leg choke on trial under judo's rules — where the same lock answers to sankaku-jime. Filed under its own question, the way this archive keeps its quiz posts: the shelf's first entry to ask whether the triangle even belongs in the other sport.

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From the De La Riva guard: Ryu's caption calls it simply a "De La Riva submission" — the triangle is your filing — and its coaching note runs the whole entry: "the lighter you make your opponent, the easier the control." Unweight the man first; then the legs close around whatever is left.

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