Crevar's collar-sleeve triangle, using the collar to break posture so the sleeve-side arm stays trapped.
Submissions
Triangle Choke
Trapping the head and one arm inside a figure-four of your legs so the opponent's own shoulder closes the carotid arteries.
Also called triangle, sankaku jime, triangle choke, triângulo.
Where it shows up
- Closed Guard · Closed Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Half Guard · Half Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Half Guard · Knee Shield (Z-Guard) · Submissions
- Butterfly Guard · Butterfly Guard Bottom · Submissions
- De La Riva Guard · De La Riva Bottom · Submissions
- Spider Guard · Spider Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Lasso Guard · Lasso Guard Bottom · Submissions
- Collar Sleeve Guard · Collar Sleeve Bottom · Submissions
- Open Guard · Supine Open Guard · Submissions
Related techniques
Resources
15 resources
YouTube videos
Mikey Musumeci's collar-sleeve fundamentals: grips, foot placement, and the triangle/omoplata reactions that make it a first open guard.
Matheus Gabriel catches a triangle from open guard when the passer forces his hand to the mat, then adjusts against a posturing opponent.
How to Reliably Hit the Triangle Choke from the Overhook Grip in Closed Guard, with Jon Thomas
Stephan Kesting YouTube
Jon Thomas on hitting the triangle from the overhook in closed guard, including the anti-stack motion that keeps your hips on the floor when they drive in. From his Grapplearts closed guard course.
Brazilian Jiu-JItsu - Advanced Basics - Transitioning to Triangle from Closed Guard - Firas Zahabi
Tristar Gym YouTube
Firas Zahabi's drill for the closed guard triangle: pummel the arms inside, collar tie and wrist, hip escape to a clamp guard, then shoot. Framed as a repeatable drill for white belts.
Jon Thomas's answer to strong stallers from collar-sleeve: back up and pull the collar to force movement, then take the omoplata, triangle or loop choke depending on how they react, with follow-ups when they stand.
Jon Thomas on high-level spider secrets and the triangle/omoplata attacks that follow the grips.
Lachlan Giles from collar-sleeve: the triangle when the elbow comes free, and the overhead sweep when they stay tight, pulling with the elbows high and knees to chest rather than pushing away.
Gustavo Gasperin breaks posture with the legs, deflects an arm, wraps it and hip escapes to slide the shin across for a basic triangle setup.
Uses the sit-up sweep as a starting point and shows the armbar, triangle and omoplata that appear when the opponent posts or pushes you back down. A tidy first attack chain.
Finishing the triangle when you have short legs or limited flexibility: foot on the hip, grab the shin, get the angle and pull towards you rather than down.
A sneaky triangle from De La Riva set up by breaking the pant grip and stretching the opponent; useful when they post to stop the sweep.
What Makes Collar Sleeve the Most Fundamental Open Guard (& How to Start Using it)
Shawn A BJJ YouTube
Why collar-sleeve is the hub of gi open guard: the grips and foot placement, the triangle and omoplata that fall out of it (with Meregali competition footage), the basic sweeps and how to pull straight into it. Chaptered.
Five attacks from underhook DLR in gi and no-gi: a triangle and flash armbar against a standing opponent, a sweep to mount when they kneel, and the X-guard transition to a leg drag. Chaptered.
Back takes from DLR against opponents who weave a hand through the legs, plus the triangle and omoplata that appear when they break your grips. Narrated over class footage.