The key to back lapel chokes is to remove slack from the gi by straightening your choking arm. Often times people reach across to gather the gi which allows your opponent to control your wrist, instead pass the lapel across the neck with the off hand feeding the choke.

Excellent finishing details when setting up the triangle from the spider guard.

Sean Apperson shows a variation of a nogi style bow in arrow choke off a defended arm triangle attempt. **Use your body weight and fall back into the chair to finish this technique. Make sure your arms are loose and you squeeze your thighs.

Triangle from the back is also a great option when hand fighting. The challenge to this move and why we rate it level 5 difficulty is due to the movement required to tighten the choke. We recommend drilling the hip movement aspect of this technique over and over to become proficient.

The RNC is the most powerful choke from the back position and we focus 80% of our attack on locking it in. Trapping the arms is a great distraction and if accomplished greatly reduces your opponents ability to defend.

Triangle from the back is also a great option when hand fighting. The challenge to this move and why we rate it level 5 difficulty is due to the movement required to tighten the choke. We recommend drilling the hip movement aspect of this technique over and over to become proficient.

Woolf explains how to utilize the powerful full laso guard and the slick transition to the triangle choke.**Grip position is very important, notice how Woolf sets his grips and positions his hands.

Fedor uses his seated guard sweep to attack a triangle choke off his opponent posting his far arm to stop the initial attack. **Very smooth attack as most people will try and defend by posting the far arm

The first objective in defending the dangerous triangle choke is to posture up and create distance from your opponent while weakening his leg squeeze.

Sean Apperson shows a nice blend between a traditional wrestling breakdown and a jiu jitsu arm triangle submission. **Learn to blend your grappling arts for a synergistic effect.

Adam Benshea uses a failed triangle attempt to set up leg lock positions. **After a failed attack is a perfect time for a quick leg entry counter.

In this video Sean uses a common back attack to get the wrestling wizzar response. The wizzar defense of your opponent creates the space needed to fall back and attack the triangle choke. **Its always effective to chain sweeps and submissions.

Triangle choke is common when your opponent panics and pulls their arm out of the armlock leaving them in a mouse trap.

Sean Apperson showing how a far lapel control can be used to lift and drop your training partner into a triangle choke. This technique works well when your partner stays low trying to defend the axe sweep.