Key Takeaways
- A 2-volume Gi BJJ DVD that breaks down the highly effective lapel-based Assassin choke.
- It contains different ways to finish the choke, from different positions and using different lapels.
- Features combo attacks that connect arm locks and other chokes to the system.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
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Lapel chokes are attractive, effective, and fun, but they can be hard to set up. Unless you can somehow hide your intentions from the opponent and catch them completely off guard once the choke starts to sink in.
One way of doing this is to use a specific configuration of your lapel to set up as many different chokes as you can think of. The Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD delivers exactly that, organized neatly in two volumes. In about an hour, you’ll see everything you’ll ever need to assassinate people using the cloth. As long as you drill it regularly, of course.
Adding Reach to Your Chokes
Can you tell me what the biggest problem of any No-Gi choke is? Think rear naked choke, or Darce, as they’re easy examples. You probably figured it out by now, but I’ll still say it – arms’ length. Since you can’t really do anything about how long your arms are, you have to figure out alternate ways of remedying this.
One thing you can do is switch your angles, trying to pinpoint a position that will allow you to finish chokes even if you have T-rex arms. However, given that your opponents are going to do all they can to defend, this doesn’t really offer a very effective solution.
Enter the Gi. Or, rather, a specific part of it. The lapels, as well as the collars, and even the belt, are all great tools that you have at your disposal to extend the reach of your chokes. In fact, the Gi can completely take over the tasks of one of your arms, leaving you not just with a tighter noose, but also an extra limb to tighten it with.
The Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD explores a choke many people is difficult to set up, on account of the level of Gi manipulation involved. Baret does not agree, obviously, and outlines exactly why in this instructional.
BJJ Elite – Baret Yoshida
There was a period at the start of professional grappling when you couldn’t watch a pro event without seeing Baret Yoshida compete in it. It also means that you could probably predict one of the semi-final or final spots, given Yoshida’s deadly game.
The guard specialist, who is an Egan Inoue black belt has been racking up wins and medals at the highest level of the sport since 2002. The Hawaiian-born managed to win the IBJJF worlds in No-Gi 4 times in a decade, also conquering the Pans in the process and having all medals except the gold on multiple occasions in the ADCC.
Baret started training early, joining Relson Gracie’s academy in 1994 when most people still had no idea what BJJ is. Given his location, he chose to switch academies at purple belt, option for the Inoue academy, then ultra-popular on account of Enson and Egan. He also gave MMA a try, but a 6-6-1 record meant that he opted to stick with BJJ instead.
That said, there’s hardly anyone who knows more about No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu at the highest competitive levels than Baret Yoshida. Particularly dangerous off of his back, he always poses a serious submission threat, something that becomes crystal clear as you go through the Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD.
Detailed Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD Review
Interestingly enough, even though Baret is a true No-Gi specialist, the Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD is a Gi instructional. Over the course of two volumes, Yoshida offers more than an hour of quality material pinpointing one specific aspect of BJJ – Gi chokes.
Part 1 – Assasin Submissions
The first part of the Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD features very little of the choke you’d expect to see init. Worry not, there’s plenty of that in the second part, but I do wonder why Baret did not switch the order of DVDs.
Anyhow, this portion shows the Assassin choke just for reference’s sake, before moving on to explore different ways that other submission holds tie-in with it in a complete submission-hunting game. For example, Baret shows Kimuras, bread cutter choke variations, and lots of crucifix variations of the move, showing how versatile your transitioning can be while holding on to the choke.
Part 2 – Assasin Chokes from Everywhere
The second part is a lot more detailed when it comes to executing the actual Assasin’s choke. The first part of it explores different setups, such as back mount, off of Nelson holds, and top side crucifix. Variations include one-arm choke finishes, choking with the belt, and switching sides.
The Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD then goes further in the rabbit hole of Assasin chokes, covering the likes of baseball chokes and neckties as ways to reinforce the submission power of the Assasin choke. The Ninja choke, of course, features as well, before Yoshinda wraps everything offering a cool Assasin choke flow you can drill.
Introducing Lapels to Your Submission Game
Lapels are a great way to improve your BJJ submission attacks which are not limited only to chokes. You can easily rely on lapels for hunting armlocks as well, particularly bent arm lock variations, and even finishing some leg locks.
Using the lapel has a host of advantages – it provides a great gripping surface that doesn’t slip, you can thread it around more easily than a limb, you can tighten it more since it has no joints, and you have four lapels at your disposal throughout any match.
The one glaring drawback is that you can’t use lapels in No-Gi. If you’re a Gi exclusive grappler, you don’t have this problem, whereas, for everyone else, variations of powerful Gi chokes exist to stand in while rolling in no-GI: guillotines for loop chokes, Darce for Brabo, bow and arrow choke for the rear naked choke, etc.
The Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD offers all of these chokes but through the methodology of just one technique. This reduces the amount of information you need to master lapel chokes and makes it a lot easier to add to your game.
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The Assassins Creed!
Next time you roll, try to choke your partner with the lapel. Forget about the Assassin Choke Baret Yoshida DVD, try to use the lapel any way you can think of. You’ll be surprised at how effective it is! Then, you can turn to the resource by one of the elite competitors in BJJ and use a proven system to tangle everyone in the Assassin choke, as long as at least one of you wears a Gi.
