When the opponent is defending your armbar from mount by gripping his hands together, you can grip his nearside collar, take your leg off his head and put on a sneaky loop choke.

When you enter the Paper Cutter Choke from north south, you can isolate the opponent's arm. You can distract him with the Paper Cutter choke while you set up the shotgun armbar.

When you are in mount, and the opponent pulls his arm in tight, you can use your body weight to push the wrist to the mat to begin separating his arm for an Americana or cutting armbar.

When you are attempting a chest-to-chest armlock on the farside arm from your side control, and the opponent defends by turning his palm down, you can still finish the armlock by putting the head side arm under his arm so that your bicep is against his elbow. Then wrench his wrist and push his ar...

When you are attempting an Americana from side control, and the opponent straightens his arm to defend, you can catch him in an armlock using the same configuration of your arms.

When you are on top of the opponent's half guard, and he tries to sit up with the underhook, you can counter with a cross collar grip to enter the loop choke. By placing your head to the ground you can balance yourself to use your free foot to clear the guard and then secure and underhook before ...

From cross collar and sleeve guard, you can take away his base with your leg, then get up onto your knees to quickly capture the head in your armpit. Then sit down again throwing your leg over his shoulder to stop his defense of spinning out.

Armbar from S-mount with details on how to isolate the arm with a tight leg configuration and how to get a tight finish.

Attack the arm inside the triangle hold by lifting hips to apply pressure on the elbow. You can also isolate the arm by swinging the leg under the armpit over the head to squeeze your thighs for a tight finish.

When you have closed guard, you can pull the opponent's arm forward so that his wrist is close to your head. Then you can trap his wrist between your neck and shoulder and angle to your side. Locate the elbow and wrench it straight for the finish.

When opponent straightens either arm in your mount, you can trap the wrist against your neck and shoulder and wrench the elbow so the arm locks in straight, then push the elbow into your body. You can do the same for the far arm in your side control when he turns into you.

The Ezikiel Choke is a choke that can be applied from any position if you can isolate the opponent's head with your arms. Hug the head, grab inside the hem of your own sleeve, apply the blade of your hand into the neck, and then apply the choke by attempting to straighten out your arms.

When you have knee shield half guard, and you secure kimura grips, you finish the Kimura by removing the knee shield and then rolling all the way to the other side to face his head while applying the shoulder lock.

How to execute the details of finishing the triangle choke from the closed guard. Pay special attention to how your choking leg lands into position before locking up the triangle.

Bend the wrist back or forward at right angle to the forearm. Then trap the elbow and press the wrist into a further bend.

When you get a muscle sweep but the opponent tries to stop your mount by pushing his free arm into you, you can throw your leg around his arm and do an armbar on that free arm.

The rear choke from back control without use of gi grips is called the "Rear Naked Choke" (RNC). The standard RNC uses both of your arms locked together. This video shows details on how to safely lock the arms together to minimize the opponent's defense.

When you have back control with the seat belt, these are common chokes using the gi to secure the choke from behind.

You can enter the triangle while having back control. Lower his body so that his head is on your chest, control his opposite hand with your hand that is under his armpit, and then throw your leg over his shoulder to catch the triangle. This video includes details on how to finish the triangle cho...

When in side control top, you get under the nearside elbow, press the farside hand to opponent's chest, and step over the far shoulder. Then move into an adjustment position before locking in the choke angle.

When you are in the triangle hold from a mounted position, you must pay attention to these details to ensure a choke. Otherwise the triangle hold will not give you a choke.

You can do a belly down armbar from the Williams Guard by hooking the back of his neck and roll your body down and then face the feet.

When you have the Papercutter choke grips, you can trap the opponent's far elbow when he lifts his arm to defend the choke. Then you can move into S Mount and finish the armbar.

When you have the papercutter grips, you can choose to set up the Gold Chain Armbar by lifting him on his side and stepping over his body.