Kaze Uta Budo Kai Forum Archive

There has been entirely too little activity on this forum lately, and I need reading material while I'm rocking a newborn. Soooo....

We've been going over Kyle's lovely shime waza series in morning class for a couple of weeks now, and we're gradually moving into a light grappling exercise where we move slow and look for opportunities to choke, trading back and forth, taking through it. We're discovering some nice things, but I can't help but notice that the three "two handed" chokes (nami juji jime, kata juji jime and gyaku juji jime) just don't seem to pop up as much as the others.

What's your experience with those? Do you find them, and if so, where? Thanks in advance for the help!

It's a rare thing for for me to get two hands inside anyone's judo gi. Okuri-eri-jime is my highest percentage choke, with sode-guruma-jime coming in a close second.

I think it's very useful to look at the two-handed chokes though. I was talking on Facebook with one of Will Gable's students, who happens to have some Judo & classical Ju-Jitsu background. He visited a BJJ school somewhere in the Mid-Del area and ended up with the two-handed cross chokes frequently on those players.

This leads me to wonder if chokes are sort of a dojo type thing -- what you get, what you don't get. I'd be interested in hearing about what chokes people frequent myself.