So Many Triangles

Triangles with the legs, with the arms… triangles from mount, from guard… triangles everywhere!

The basic concept behind the triangle choke is to shut off one carotid with one of your own limbs, and shut the other carotid off with one of your partner’s arms.

As an example, let’s look at the arm triangle from cross body.  The goal here is to push one arm across the side your partner’s neck (as in the photo) and get your own arm on the other side of the neck.  The shape of your own arm will make a triangle (once you get deep in the position) and from there, you can press in with your arm and head, reducing the size of the triangle and ideally forcing your partner to tap.

As mentioned previously, there are lots of ways to triangle.  We went over three different ways today – the standard triangle from the guard, the arm triangle (as described above) from cross body and the leg triangle from mount.  Check out this video of Stephen Kesting’s for a more info on five varieties of triangles and check out my recent grapple entries on the system blog here and here for more thoughts on the different angles which a single submission can be accomplished from.