September 2021
Gi strangles from the back
If you take nothing else away from this post, take this: when we’re doing jiu jitsu with gis on, prefer gi strangles to naked strangles. Collars are easier to get under the chin than arms are and using the collar permits you to apply more force from additional muscle groups to get the finish. In the video below, Danaher explains this principle and introduces the submissions that deserve your training attention:
It’s worth going through the entire video at least once, but if you want to revisit a specific part, here are the timestamps:
0:44 – Difference between strangles and chokes
5:26 – Gi Properties
9:30 – Utilizing entire body in Gi Strangles
13:31 – Turning Lapel in Rear Strangles
16:25 – Most High Percentage Gi Strangles (3 Most Important)
17:22 – Sliding Collar Strangle (Rear Strangles)
19:05 – Cross Collar Strangle
21:07 – Ezekial Strangle
24:17 – Review + Closing thoughts
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Back attacks
I’ve been working my way through Danaher’s “Back Attacks Enter the System” instructional. It contains a LOT of great detail, but it is expensive and quite lengthy to consume. I haven’t reviewed the following content yet, but I’m saving the link as a starting point for free resources.
It looks like this schoolofgrappling blog was started to be essentially the same concept as halfguardlife but it stalled out after a couple posts in early 2020. They clearly put more effort into writing content, so props for the attempt. In case they let the domain or hosting lapse, here are the links to Tom Halpin’s Back Attack Series on Youtube:
The series below is 2.0 of the same videos based on feedback from the first:
schoolofgrappling has a couple more posts about the back. If you want to study further, this post analyzing back attacks at ADCC might interest you:
Back escapes
In the sequence below, Lachlan uses a pretty standard back escape. It includes a solution for clearing pesky hooks. That’s a part that I’ve gotten stuck on and will have to practice.
Here’s Saulo explaining his escape:
Below, is a lengthy exploration of back escapes starting with a scoop out of the bottom. It’s nogi, but the positioning is interesting.
I’m going drop another link here at the bottom out of appreciation for a blog started in the same spirit as this one, but with more original commentary: