Cross Lapel Rear Choke

The Grappling Academy emphasizes that the styloid head of your radius bone (the bone on the thumb side of your wrist) should be touching tight against the neck right where you'd feel a pulse—not nearly touching, but actually touching.

According to The Grappling Academy, one grip allows you to hold the opponent down if they try to get posture, but you need two grips to actually apply the choke effectively.

The Grappling Academy stresses that there's normally only one hand doing the actual choking—typically your right hand—while your left hand's job is just to staunch your elbow towards their abs and prevent the roll. Don't just try to squeeze; understand which hand is holding and which hand is choking.

The Grappling Academy advises to continue holding your cross choke when your opponent attempts a counter-choke, which creates a wonderful opportunity to maintain control rather than panic.

Cross lapel rear chokes are back control strangles where the attacker reaches across the opponent's neck to grip the far-side lapel, then feeds the collar across the throat to create a cross-collar compression. From back mount or back hooks, the attacker's forearm presses against one carotid while the crossed lapel compresses the other side.

Cross lapel chokes from behind derive from the jūji-jime (十字絞め, cross strangle) family in Kodokan Judo, where crossing the hands on the collar was codified as a foundational shime-waza technique. In traditional judo, these were typically applied from osaekomi (pinning) positions.

IBJJF: разрешён — Legal at all belt levels, gi and no-gi — chokes are the safest submission cat…; IJF: разрешён — Legal (shime-waza) — strangulation techniques are one of three permitted subm…; ADCC: ограничен — N/A (no-gi competition only — technique requires gi); Unified MMA: ограничен — N/A (technique requires gi — not applicable in MMA); FIAS Sport Sambo: запрещён — All chokes prohibited in Sport Sambo; FIAS Combat Sambo: разрешён — Legal

Оценка опасности 8/10. Cross-lapel grip from back creates strong bilateral compression using gi material

Стандартная цепочка подготовки: Achieve Controlling Position → Isolate the Neck → Set the Grip → Apply Pressure.

Стандартные контрприёмы: Tuck Chin — protect the neck by lowering the chin to prevent the choke from sinking / Two-on-One Grip Fight — use both hands to strip the choking grip before it locks / Turn Into — rotate toward the choking arm to relieve carotid pressure / Posture Up — straighten the spine and create distance to break the choking angle.

Распространённые варианты: Standard grip variation (primary hand configuration for maximum choking pressure); Gi variation (uses the lapel or collar as an anchor for additional fric…); No-gi variation (adapted grip and positioning for submission grappling wit…); Transition finish (applied during a positional change to catch the opponent …).

Cross lapel rear chokes are a standard finishing technique from back control in gi BJJ competition.

Основные ошибки, на которые стоит обратить внимание: Not establishing back control before attacking the collar — hooks and chest-to-back contact must be secure before the… / Gripping the collar too shallow — the hand must reach deep, past the centre of the neck, for the forearm to compress … / Not hiding the grip entry — the opponent will hand-fight; use distractions (shifting hooks, threatening the RNC) to c… / Pulling the collar grips outward — like all cross chokes, the elbows must pull back toward the attacker's chest.

Cross Lapel Rear Choke также известен как Jūji Eri Ushiro-jime, Okuri-eri-jime variant, Rear Cross Collar Choke.