Rear Naked Choke

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Attacking Player:

• Position: One of your partner's legs is held with your hands and arms between your legs.
• Objective: Stay connected to the single leg and single leg situation. Move your partner around. Move the single leg to different parts of your body, and attempt to take your partner down to their hips or hands.
• Constraints: N/A
• Win Condition: Taking partner down to their hips or hands.

Defending Player:

• Position: Your partner has a single leg grip, and you are balanced on one foot.
• Objective: Stay balanced and remove your leg from the situation by any means.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Leg is removed from the single leg situation.

Attacking Player:

• Position: Behind your partner with one arm around their neck. The choking arm can be positioned any way that you would like. Your legs should be wrapped around your partner's torso.
• Objective: Maintain control for as long as possible.
• Constraints: No using your second hand to assist in maintaining the choke and no finishing the submission.
• Win Condition: None.

Defending Player:

• Position: Seated with your parther behind you with one arm around your neck and their legs wrapped around your torso.
• Objective: Focus on breaking the connections your partner has made to you with their arms, legs, and chest.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Freeing yourself from their choke by turning to face or hiding your back.

Reset if the defending player wins.

Attacking Player:

• Position: Behind your partner with one arm around their neck with the hand grabbing your opposite bicep. The hand of your other arm should be behind their head either on your opposite shoulder or the back of their head. Your legs should not be wrapped around your partner and their hips should not be covered.
• Objective: Maintain control for as long as possible.
• Constraints: Do not cover their hips with your feet (no hooks). Do not choke your partner or finish the submission.
• Win Condition: None.

Defending Player:

• Position: Seated with your parther behind you with one arm around your neck with the hand grabbing their our opposite bicep. The hand of their other arm should be behind your head either on their opposite shoulder or the back of your head.Their legs should not be wrapped around your torso or covering your hips.
• Objective: Focus on breaking the connections your partner has made to you with their arms, legs, and chest.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Freeing yourself from their choke by turning to face or hiding your back.

Reset if the defending player wins.

This game should only be played enough for each player to play both positions.

Attacking Player:

• Position: Behind your partner with one arm around their neck with the hand grabbing your opposite bicep. The hand of your other arm should be behind their head either on your opposite shoulder or the back of their head. Your legs should be wrapped around your partner's torso.
• Objective: Transition from the rear naked choke to any other submission without losing control of your partner.
• Constraints: Finish with any submission except the choke that you begin with.
• Win Condition: Make your opponent tap by successfully applying a submission.

Defending Player:

• Position: Seated with your parther behind you with one arm around your neck with the hand grabbing their our opposite bicep. The hand of their other arm should be behind your head either on their opposite shoulder or the back of your head.
• Objective: Focus on breaking the connections your partner has made to you with their arms, legs, and chest.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Freeing yourself from by turning to face, hiding your back, or standing.

Reset if either player wins.

Top Player:

• Position: On your knees in front of your training partner with your partner's feet inside your knees.
• Objective: Break your partner's connections to your body and pin them to their back.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Pinning bottom player to their back.

Bottom Player:

• Position: Seated on your butt with our feet between your partner's knees.
• Objective: Work to connect to your partner using your hands and feet. Attempt to make your partner post, and when they do keep their hand(s) on the mat for as long as possible.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: None