Triangle from Collar Sleeve Guard

Triangle from Collar Sleeve Guard is a finishing attack built around a handful of repeatable controls. Bottom player is in collar and sleeve guard with one hand on a same-side collar and the other on the opposite-side sleeve, controlling the opponent's posture. Another common starting shape: bottom player is in collar-sleeve guard with the opponent posturing or pressuring forward. It is worth attempting once comfortable with: Pulling to collar-and-sleeve guard and comfortable with: Triangle setup from collar-and-sleeve. The ideas that hold it together are the same setup feeds two finishes depending on the opponent's reaction, collar and sleeve grips dictate which attacks become available, and posture break first, leg second.

The triangle chain is a sequence of small controls, not one athletic burst. Use the collar grip to break the opponent's posture down and forward. Pull the sleeve across to feed the arm into the danger zone. Throw the leg over the shoulder and adjust between triangle and omoplata based on which arm is in. Pull the collar and sleeve to load the opponent forward off-balanced. Shoot the same-side leg up and over the opponent's far shoulder. Lock the triangle by pulling the shin into the back of the neck and finishing the angle. Maintain posture, frames and grip connection appropriate to the position. Use small weight shifts and angle changes rather than brute strength to drive the action. Bottom player has used the grips to thread a leg over the shoulder for either a triangle finish or an omoplata, depending on which arm the opponent extends.

Later in the triangle, connection between grips and hips drives the technique, timing the action with the opponent's reaction makes it efficient, and bicep step disrupts posting hand tend to decide whether the position stays on track. Watch for these mistakes: Losing one of the two grips during the leg throw. Committing to one finish before reading which arm the opponent has given. Throwing the leg over without breaking posture, the opponent simply postures and stacks. Letting the opponent break the primary grip or flatten the hips before the action is complete. The high-percentage version of triangle from collar sleeve guard is the one you can still chain when the first squeeze is defended.