Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Cassio Cardoso Choke?

courtesy of the good people of Abhaya ...

Encircled Collar Choke

I'd read an interview with Cassio Cardoso at On the Mat that was really fascinating. He seems like a real, old school jiu jitsu guy who was one of the people who was always supposed to fight Rickson in a jiu jitsu match but never did.

Here's a link to the interview ...

I went to Jiu Jitsu Gear Forum looking for stories about him. One of the stories--and there were an unfortunate few--talked about a certain choke that Cardoso did. In the story, Cardoso didn't just lift the choking elbow, he pulled and rolled, really sinking it in deep. I also think Cardoso wasn't working from the closed guard, which would have made the roll a bit more difficult.