Next on my roster for brabo choke analysis is Baret Yoshida.

Let’s get straight to the footage. What he shows is similar to the multitude of videos I’ve already posted, but he does a few things differently that I like.

Brabo Choke from Principles of the Art of Submission by Baret Yoshida

(If you have the book that goes with this DVD, check out how he does technique 34 in it. It should be the same as the video above, but he does a different one, more like Christian’s from reverse scarf hold…

Continuing the brabo choke theme, I’d like to go over another aspect of this technique.

In the Shinya Aoki footage I analyzed previously, we saw how he sat out and ran himself “under side control” to apply the choke, but he ultimately finished it from the top.

Sprawling to finish it is fine. It’s the most common way it’s taught, and in some cases, like when you’re stuck in half guard, the best way to do it. But what I want to focus on is switching your base and running towards them to…

Like Bjoern, it was Shinya Aoki that inspired me to work on the brabo choke again. His instructional has my favorite material on the move, and I don’t even speak Japanese. He has very clean technique so it’s easy to follow, and language isn’t a factor in the competition footage.

One of the matches shown on this DVD contains a wealth of information on the brabo, but you’ve got to watch it closely. It’s easy to overlook since it’s a short match, lasting little over a minute.

I was going to include this…

First off, watch this 44 minute brabo choke tutorial by Bjoern of Grappling.de. This is what got me in the mood to go over this move.

The brabo choke (or whatever you want to call it) is a technique I’ve been practicing on and off for a while now. Recently, with my focus on no-gi chokes, I’ve once again devoted myself to analyzing and developing it.

Since the beginning of my training, I’ve had a habit of collecting grappling information online and cataloging it. This article and its brabo choke tutorials, photos and…

As I said in my first batch of notes, what made this Marcelo seminar special was that he was given a chance to teach aspects of his game that aren’t already covered on his instructionals or previous seminars.

I’ve seen Marcelo criticized for teaching the same seminars wherever he goes, so that if you’ve been to one, you’ve seen them all. I don’t think this is his fault. Most people want to learn his signature moves and that’s what they pay him to teach, so he’s stuck showing nothing but armdrags,…

I got back yesterday from a two day Marcelo Garcia seminar down at American Top Team in Hollywood, FL. It was a great experience, learned a ton of great techniques and had a lot of fun.

The theme for the whole seminar was giving Marcelo a chance to teach the material he uses in his everyday training but rarely gets to teach since most people only want him to do seminars on his signature moves. Marcelo said he was grateful to get to take a break from teaching the standard armdrags,…