Rear Naked Choke from Taking the Back

Rear Naked Choke from Taking the Back is a finishing attack built around a handful of repeatable controls. Top player has a caveman necktie on a turtled opponent and the bottom player initiates a sit-out, threatening to spin out and stand up. Another common starting shape: the attacker has back control with the choke arm in but the opponent has inserted both hands and fingers inside the strangle to defend. The ideas that hold it together are convert failing front-headlock attacks into back exposure, the seatbelt is the fallback when hooks are slow to arrive, and coordinated slap and punch creates the depth.

The rear naked choke chain is a sequence of small controls, not one athletic burst. Release the outside arm from the necktie as the opponent commits to the sit-out. Pivot off the inside knee to follow the spinning hips and secure a tight-waist grip. Swing the free arm over the top to lock a seatbelt as the opponent rotates underneath. Drive a strong cross-face on the arm switch so the elbow lines up for the rear-naked choke. Adjust hips back, fight both hooks in, and finish the strangle. Disconnect the locked hands. Slap or punch the back of the opponent's far shoulder to create momentum. At the same time, punch the choking arm deeper and further through. Top player ends up chest-to-back with a seatbelt and is fighting hooks in for a rear-naked choke finish from back control.

Later in the rear naked choke, reset depth rather than fighting the defended position, trapped arm position is the hub for choke, armlock, and triangle, and the opponent's reaction selects the finish tend to decide whether the position stays on track. Watch for these mistakes: Holding the necktie too long and getting rolled past the back. Switching the arm without a cross-face so the choking arm is loose. Trying to muscle the existing position instead of repositioning. Dropping the chest connection while disconnecting the hands. The high-percentage version of rear naked choke from taking the back is the one you can still chain when the first squeeze is defended.