Learn the triangle choke from closed guard. The instructor breaks down the push-pull hand pattern to collapse posture, swinging your leg over the neck while keeping the opponent's elbow inside, then locking and squeezing. A 1-2-1-2 drill helps you practice the motion and avoid common mistakes like the leg catching on the shoulder.
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What's up guys, welcome back to another lesson in the Master Long Grappling and Ground Fight System. In today's lesson, we're going to be talking about how to secure the triangle from the guard. So it's fairly complex in the respect that it's more advanced than an armbar or the kimura, for instance, from the guard. But as long as you have a good base level of flexibility and good control over your opponent, you shouldn't have too many problems in trying to secure it. So if that's something you like, we'll get started on showing it. So initially, just while you're practicing, you want to work from a closed guard. You can be open, but at least when you're closed, you have a little bit more control over your opponent. So from here, your main, your main sort of focus should initially be getting a push-pull pattern going on. So with this, whenever I push one hand to my hip, I pull the other one to my shoulder. So I'll be here, and you know, we might be struggling and fighting, I'm trying to control his posture. Once I get the hands, I push-pull. That's what I'm looking for, just to get these away because it allows me to collapse his posture. If we're here and I'm just trying to put his head down so I can get a leg over, there's nothing I can do. He just keeps his arms stuck out like a post. He locks the elbow and I can't pull anything to get anything to work. So what we do, just for the practice— for practice's sake, start here, push-pull. Now from here, that allows you to obviously collapse his posture because now from here I keep this arm on and I pull. This brings the head down. I continue to force this arm inside and my leg shoots out and over. So from the other side, that's push-pull this hand. So I keep focused on here because if this moves, I can monitor it. So I'm here, pull, this leg comes out and over. So that is your first drill. We go 1, 2, 1, then this hand, 2, like so. Just remember, it's no good to just push and then try and bring the leg because his elbow will still be in the way. You must push-pull, pull him down, and keep his elbow inside. You don't want that in the way. So this hand will go right in for the switch. So here, once more on the opposite push pull, there's the collapse. As I pull his head, I keep forcing that inside and I turn. So this goes here and across. Now what I don't want is for this leg to get caught on his shoulder because now there's no way I can meet it with my other leg. What I want is a position across his neck that allows me to be able to grab it if I need to, and it's easy for me to lock over my triangle. So I'm pushing, pulling. From here I pull, keep forcing that hand away, I turn. Now this goes across the neck, I pull down, shift my hips out. That allows me to secure the triangle. So it's here, right in the back of the knee joint. This foot points downwards. From here, and then I just take the head and pull it. Like so. If I'm too loose in here, just pulling doesn't really do much, and he could actually get up and get out. So I make sure it's right inside the knee, and I pull, and there's my choke. So push and pull, this one collapse, shift. So my hips shift as I bring the leg, I catch, and I switch. Now from here As you see, he's inside, the hand is here. I can armbar this, which is horrible also, but the actual triangle choke, I just want to be here. His head is here against my thigh, and I pull in like so. It's a pretty horrible one once you get it. So remember, push pull, push pull. I go bang, hand on the head. Leg over, catch, shift, squeeze. Like so. Thank you. So as you can see, a little bit more complex than, say, for instance, the armbar or the kimura. Has a little bit more to think about, a little bit more control needed, but it's very effective if you can get it. So just make sure, get that push-pull. 1, 2, 1, 2. 2, just get that. Then obviously you can keep that while you control the head and swing the leg over. That will allow you to get into place and maintain good control over him and obviously keep his posture broken, because anytime he gets good posture back, you have to start again, which obviously you don't want to have to keep doing. So try that one out, guys. See you next lesson.
