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Use Less Strength and Make Your BJJ Collar Chokes Tighter

Whether you’re using collar chokes, lapel chokes or any sort of choke that uses the gi in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

The focus is the same. Create pressure on the carotids using the fabric either directly against the neck or to support the hands.

In this BJJ technique video you’ll see Adam and I sharing a drink of bourbon. But beyond that we dive into a few tips when using a Baseball Choke.

You can watch a more in depth Baseball Choke video here:
https://youtu.be/zoVcUtK-uh4

This question comes from Titus who is struggling hitting the choke asked for some tips.

In this video I give specific tips on how to improve the Baseball choke
but also how to make any Brazilian Jiujitsu collar choke tighter by focusing more on the wrist.

I’ve found that this is one of the most important details.

I used to struggle with collar chokes because I was using the wrong part of my body. The arms. When I began to focus on the wrists and the push with them.

It dramatically improved.

So if you’re struggling to finish your collar chokes in BJJ practice or competitions and want to make them tighter. Give the tips in this video a try!

I hope it helps.
-Chewy

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  4. Hy chew. How do you find that tatami estilo gi? My estilo 6 is in the way.. but later on i noticed there is a tatami tank gi which is almost the double of the weight made from 950gsm.. but even estilo one is 10% heavyer then my old one so went from 500 to 550 gsm.. had in mind to get the heavyest so i make my training much harder so when i get lose just in 500 gsm one or less i got a edge.. any thoughts on that in general? -.- Me and my rocket sience?

    • all of my white Estilio gis have shrunk horribly despite being cool washed and hung dry only. I may have to give my A3 gis away to an A2 or possibly even an A1… my black ones haven't shrunk at all though. shrug

    • I just got the estilio 6, it seems pretty good, but it's also my first Gi that isn't one of the heavily used sweaty ones from the gym so just the fact it doesn't smell like laundry detergent and salt is a nice change.

      It is pretty heavy, I got a collar choked a lot the other night and being still new and stiff it managed to rub under my chin raw, but other than that I like it.

  9. leverage is the true mvp…i was doing armbar on a partner and all i did was fall over on my butt and he said it hurt him i felt bad but i didnt even really do any torquing of his arm..!

  20. Thank you for the great advice on all of your videos. I officially start my first jiu jitsu training on Monday.
    I'm excited, I'm nervous, I'm a little intimidated and I'm not sure what to expect… thank you again for such great YouTube videos.

  24. Hey chewy! , love your videos …. I have a question…so I started BJJ about 2 weeks ago at Renzo Gracie academy in NY, every time I roll I always get submitted and always end up getting discouraged my my performance. I also forget how to apply the techniques or instructors give us, thy seem so very easy wen we are practicing but when we actually roll I have no idea where to even start and I forget what we practice, please give me advise on what I can do because when I roll with a stronger bigger guy he destroys me and when I don’t I usually do good, but that’s only cause I’m bigger than my opponent , thanks chewy !!!

    • Like Bjj help said, things will start making sense and you will see/feel your opportunities the more you train and roll. I found doing positional/situational sparring helped with learning techniques (after drilling them) so you could work on executing them from a specific position and not get thrown into a position you havent practiced techniques for.

    • I don’t mean to sound discouraging, but I wrestled all through jr and Sr high, didn’t grapple for years and started bjj about a year ago.
      I felt and continue to feel the same way.

      Totally agree with the others.

      Keep showing up. Keep getting submitted.
      Be humble and ask Lots of questions.

  26. Awesome! I was trying to get the baseball choke in this past week and for some reason I couldn't finish but this video definitely helped me out a lot along with other collar chokes I've been struggling with. Thanks!!!!

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  29. Thanks for the tip on the collar choke. I do find this a challenge to pull off in sparring, but that detail of the wrist movement rather than the arm movement is gold. Thank you.

  39. Awesome bumping into you in Columbus today. Keep up the good work brother. Btw my non-martial artist gf saw me watching one of your videos and remarked “I like this guy” so cheers man you’re a likable dude

  49. I’m glad there was two cups, would have been weird with one cup?haha…
    Thanks for sharing this. I’ve really been beating my wrists up trying to force x chokes, I now see I was missing that one little detail! I started using a brabo grip for a baseball bat choke, I saw it on one of your older videos, really like the control it gives you pinning a stronger , mobile person down and the choke really locks in tight! Thanks for sharing that too!

  50. I officially start my journey into Jiu Jitsu monday july 16th 2018 @ 6pm @ 10th planet springfield (OR)
    I'm excited I'm intimidated and I'm not really sure what to expect but I'm going and that's the first step.

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