One of the more interesting moves this week has been some armdrags from the closed guard to set up rear collar chokes.
Armdrags have long been on my list of features to add to my guard game. And typically, I've done a less than ideal job of it. Tuesday, Rodrigo had us do a two on one grip drag to the outside and then back to the inside on the reaction as a way of getting control of the arm and access to the back.
The hip escape here was very much in the mold of the technical lift. If you are dragging the guy to your right, then you want to plant your right elbow on the mat and your left foot. Bridge up a bit and escape your hips to the left, lifting your right leg up sideways and coming up on that knee.
If the guy's base is tight, use your knee to widen it a bit. It's a great wedge.
This is really the basic move. If you can do all of this, you've got the back, whether you swing the left leg over or pull and swing the guy around to you.
The choke options are an inside choke and an outside choke. With the inside choke, you reach and grab the near collar with your inside hand and reach around the guy's neck with your outside hand. Feed the collar to the outside hand and roll back.
This choke I like a lot. I can see how a person would not expect the second hand to come around the back.
To do the outside choke, you reach around the neck with the outside hand and grab the collar. In this variation, you feed the collar to your inside hand and go behind the arm and neck with the outside arm. With this choke, you can roll forward or backward because you've got the leverage of the arm and neck with the off hand.
