The Cross Choke Move in SAMBO Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Stephen Koepfer at New York Combat SAMBO in New York city, and today I'm going to be demonstrating beginning SAMBO. In this clip, I'm going to show you a basic cross choke from guard. We get to the position where my opponent is my guard. I keep a closed guard and what I want to work to do is to get a deep grip behind his collar, behind his neck in his collar. Okay, palm up reaching in. You can even while you're grabbing open his jacket to get a deep grip. From here you're going to reach under, grab his lapel from the other side. Elbow's out, pull him down. That's a choke. Once again, from your close guard. You reach in, grab, reach in, grab, down, and a across. That's the basic x choke. "