r/bjj • u/bjjtaro ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt • 1d ago

Technique Arm Triangle from Bottom

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u/nnedd7526 1d ago

I see this submission questioned here regularly, and from my perspective this is a bread and butter technique that should be taught as part of a fundamental curriculum.

In this forum I see people ask about it and question the legitimacy of it every so often, so it's nice to see it posted in one of these competition vids.

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u/Happy_Laugh_Guy 1d ago

You can do any strangle from any position that you can put pressure on their arteries.

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u/S4LTCityStrangler 1d ago

I do it from half Guard

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u/Creepiepie 22h ago

Seems easy to kip a rotation and get out of it, but im happy to be corrected.

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u/Fantastic_Football15 22h ago

Couldnt the top arm triangle as well?

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u/nnedd7526 20h ago

I have actually been caught in this once. I told myself I was fine, but the dude just had a squeeze that was unreal. Normally you can use the features that make guard what it is to defend it (hips control, framing, etc.). But like, sometimes, motherfuckers are just strong and have that squeeze. It was long ago, and I'm not sure I'd be caught in it now, but I think I was like a purple belt maybe at the time, so I knew a good deal of grappling.

But as with most things, submissions from inside someone's guard are problematic and hard to finish.

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u/ralphyb0b 13h ago

Helena Crevar just hit one a few months back in competition. 

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u/UniquesOnly 1d ago

One of my favorites from guard.  

Enthusiastic white belts will go forearm to throat, which elicits a fake gurgle, which makes them double down, which makes it easy to pop their elbow across and lock this in.  Figure 4 the arms and extend the legs.

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u/JamesMacKINNON 1d ago

Yup! 

Super simple sweep there too! 

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u/monoman67 1d ago

This. Choke, sweep, back take. Eventually they realize a forearm on your throat is a terrible idea.

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u/ADP_God 19h ago

I haven't been practising my fake gurgle. Yet another level to this game...

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u/Happy_Laugh_Guy 1d ago

You don't *need* to extend the legs but that is definitely one way to finish and I pedantically agree with your overall take.

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u/Sent1nel101 1d ago

Good job. You can also scissor sweep to the top for more pressure.

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u/IronFang13 1d ago

That was cool.

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u/Mountain-eagle-xray 1d ago

Thats just the buggy-less buggy choke bruh

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u/mike3491 1d ago

Except not at all? It’s a head-and-arm choke or an arm triangle variation, how is it a buggy choke in any way?

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u/Tmbrwn 18h ago

If my nan had wheels she'd be a bike

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u/throwtheballaway123 1d ago

I hit this on one blue belt at my gym all the time. For some reason he reaches across his body to the other side of my head all the time trying to open my guard. Falls right into this.