Effective Arm Chokes For BJJ

The Guillotine is one of the most popular attacks in BJJ and is also one of the first chokes you learn but will always stay effective through your career. Marcello Garcia is known for the Guillotine and uses to beat some of the world’s best.  An ideal position to use the guillotine is from the closed guard. If he’s keeping good posture you can sit up in to him and his natural reaction is to drive you back down and this is the ideal time to wrap your arm around his neck and go for the guillotine attack. It’s important to cup your palm over his chin and pull his head deep in to your arm pit this helps to secure the head and also make a tight choke. 
The Arm Triangle is an effective move in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and can be done from the top position like the mount or from the closed guard although it’s harder to finish from the closed guard than it is from the top.  This choke works is by using one of your arms to cut off the blood from one side of the neck and also by using one of his own arms to cut off the other side of his necks blood supply.  This is a very effective technique but a lot of people tend to struggle with it. The reason for this is that they use their entire squeeze straight away on the choke but the key to an effective choke is to squeeze at a constant pressure. 
The Leg Triangle is one of the most effective attacks in BJJ and can be done in a BJJ GI or in No-Gi. It can be a devastating move when done correctly. It involves wrapping one of your legs around your opponent’s neck and then locking your foot underneath your other knee. Once you have the position locked you the pull down on your opponent’s neck and this applies the choke. 
Collar chokes are awesome chokes that can be done from various positions in BJJ but they require the use of the BJJ GI collar to apply the choke. There are also variations of collar chokes that use one grip of the collar and one grip not on the collar but on another part of the BJJ GI. 
The Rear Naked Choke is one of the most popular and effective attacks to use in BJJ GI Jiu Jitsu and also in NO-GI and MMA. The reason that the RNC is so effective is that it is done when you have control of your opponent from his back and it’s this that makes it harder from him to defend his self. This choke is done by putting your arm under your opponents chin and then putting the hand of that arm in the elbow crease of your other arm and then squeezing from there. 
The Peruvian neck tie is a similar attack to the guillotine but instead of being in front of your opponent you’re to the side of him and you place your leg over his head. This applies more pressure to the choke and it also stops him from being able to roll out of the technique. This choke is popular in BJJ but probably even more popular in Mixed Martial Arts.