Your opponent sneaking his hand deep on your lapel is always a bad situation.
Once he has this grip on you from his closed guard he can use it to break your posture forward, which kills your ability to pass the guard and is very tiring to fight against…
…or he can use it to attack you with cross-collar chokes (which have ended a LOT of matches)…
…or he uses your frantic reactions the threat of the grip to set up any number of armlocks, sweeps and other attacks.
Basically it’s an emergency and you need to do something to nullify his advantage right away!
In this this YouTube video I show you four of my favorite techiques to beat the cross-collar grip. I can vouch for the effectiveness of each one of these, because I’ve not only used them, but I’ve also had them used against me!
Check it out below…
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