12/7/2023 0 Comments Another name for anaconda choke![]() These are best thought of as Traps rather than things you will do accidentally. That said, there are many attacks that utilise the element of surprise to catch your opponent. A good few of our arsenal of submissions require you to commit to them, and if unsuccessful, could leave you in a worse position than when you started. It is in your best interest to develop good positional control before leaping on submission attempts that may not be successful. The idea here is that you should aim to control your opponent and gain a good position before attacking a submission attempt. There’s an old saying that goes “Position Before Submission”. The Triangle Family sound like the world’s most dangerous dance troupe, but here’s some examples of some of the Triangle Family in BJJ It’s in the triangle family of BJJ chokes where we catch the opponent’s head and arm in the strangle, using our limb and his limb to squeeze the neck. A perfect example to illustrate this is last week we covered the Guillotine Choke, which is a pure choke. A strangle compresses the arteries, a choke restricts the airway. ![]() ![]() We have covered this before, but there is a difference between choking and strangling. For ease of writing, today we’re going to use the term Brabo, although it does seem like BJJ people use the term Darce a bit more. It doesn’t seem to be too appropriate to quote Romeo and Juliet quote when we’re talking about a strangle, even in BJJ, but I’m sure you get the point. Shakespeare put it best when he wrote ” A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. First of all, why the two names? Well, the Brabo is technically the Brazilian BJJ name for the choke and comes from the variation of the choke that uses the lapel of the Gi, but the NoGi version that we’re dealing with here was popularised by an American grappler named Joe D’Arce in the 2000s. In this BJJ Fundamentals class, we covered the very effective Darce Choke or Brabo Choke.
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