Cross Collar Choke

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ROGER GRACIE Shows How To Do the Perfect Cross Choke From MountRoger Gracie, Cross Collar Choke: Jiu-Jitsu Magazine, Issue #27.Everything You Need to Know About the Cross Collar Choke | Jiu Jitsu Fundamentals #bjjLearn The Perfect Cross Collar Choke From Closed Guard by Henry Akins

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Key principles

• Get the first grip deep — four fingers inside the collar, thumb outside, knuckles behind their neck.
• The second hand goes over or under the first to take the opposite collar; it has to reach past the midline of their neck for the cross to have leverage.
• Finish by pulling the elbows down toward your own ribs while turning the wrists inward (like revving a throttle), not by pulling straight up.
• Break their posture as you finish; a choke on a postured opponent is a choke they can lift out of.

Common mistakes

• Taking a shallow first grip on the lapel.

  Why it failsThere is no slack to remove and no blade against the neck; you pull hard and nothing happens.

  FixFeed the hand deep behind the neck before switching hands, and clear their defending hand first.

From this position

• Americana from Mountsubmission→
• Arm Triangle Chokesubmission→