Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi instructional covering back retention and hand-fighting tactics.
- Features plenty of drill-based information, making it easy to practice.
- The instructional follows a very precise and well-thought-out organizational pattern.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9.5 out of 10.
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You go for a roll and you get to the back. Nothing new, you’re there all the time lately. Of course, you then want to strangle your training partner using the RNC or any available variation, but you end up struggling so much that you lose back control. Sounds familiar?
Of course it does, everyone has gone through it. What you need is the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD to help you make sense of what your goals and focus should be when hunting for strangles, rather than the mindless back-and-forth arm tangling you’re doing now.
The Ultimate Choke Hold
Strangling people from the back is the quintessential depiction of BJJ and grappling for combat sports. This iconic move is something most people tend to take for granted as if it is something they’ll achieve for sure once they get on the back.
The truth, of course, is much more different than that, as staying on someone’s back is often a lot more difficult than getting the position in the first place. Back takes aside, even if you manage to stay in back control, you are as far removed from choking someone out as you were the moment you slapped and bumped to start the round.
Sneaking in a solid rear naked choke against high-level opponents is not something you get easily, but managing to make it one of your best submissions speaks volumes about the quality of your Jiu-Jitsu game. The Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD offers a very organized way of approaching the key aspects of back retention and hand fighting that are holding your Rear Naked Chokes back.
Lifelong Grappling Expert Haleem Syed
Judo is a very hard grappling martial art to master. However, for those who have dedicated a long time to become expert Judokas truly, BJJ comes intuitively and they fly through the ranks, and most of their competition.
High-level athletes such as Ffion Davies and Travis Stevens have proven how seemingly easy it is to compete at the highest levels of BJJ with a solid Judo background. In fact, the BJJ world has more of these Judokas than you think, with a great example being Haleem Syed, a Judo black belt and BJJ brown belt who has found a way to mere the two grappling arts into a style of efficiency and power.
Syed received his black belt in Judo from Jummy Pedro, who is also a BJJ black belt, so he has been exposed to a blend of both throughout most of his grappling journey. Now focusing on No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu, Haleem actively trains and teaches at Synthesis Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rochester, NY.
The US national champion and IBJJG world masters champion has plenty of grappling experience and knowledge to share, and already has a series of DVDs out. One of them is the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD which we’ll focus on today.
Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD Review
With the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle Your Best Move DVD you get what I consider to be the best resource to date on back retention and hand fighting. While actual strangle mechanics do not feature a lot, everything is there to manage to choke everyone out after you give the drills inside it a try. This instructional has seven volumes and lasts for just over 4 hours.
Part 1 – Essential Positioning & Tactics
This is one crazy organized instructional that makes me wonder why and how Haleem Syed is still a brown belt. This DVD freely rivels Danaher’s back attacks in terms of organization, material presentation, and focus on what is actually crucial for success.
The very first volume of the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD is a long one in terms of content, with over two dozen chapters ranging more than an hour in total running time. Haleem covers every aspect of his system, from picking a reliable training and drilling partner to mastering the key motions involved with high-level back control that leads to strangles.
Some of the movement patterns involved include reverse shrimping, chair sits, and diagonal control, all of which are organized in specific groups of chapters. In each group, Syed covers the key aspects that allow you to stay on the back and eventually finish.
A few escape options also feature, but mostly to provide you with ideas about what opponents are looking to do, rather than escaping yourself. This packed first volume concludes with an intro to the stem covering the actual strangle, by way of applying 5 foundational principles that guarantee the outcome you’re after.
Part 2 – Hand Fighting (Seated)
I’d argue that hand fighting skills are the second most crucial skill you need to have from the back, in addition to staying on the back, of course. The Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle Your Best Move DVD focuses on two scenarios where hand fighting makes all the difference, the first of which is seated situations.
In this second volume, Haleem goes over the most common exchanges you’ll encounter as you try to sneak in your choking arm. He uses the same vocabulary as Danaher, dubbing the opponent’s hands primary and secondary defensive hand. He does, however, offer a different approach to Danaher’s.
Haleem organizes his information in two stages, addressing how to deal with the most common grips before he moves on to four sets of drills to help you practice these concepts using different grip-breaking combinations.
Part 3 – Hand Fighting (Supine)
the third portion of the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD stays with the subject of hand fighting but moves on to the much more common supine position, which includes lying on your side as you control the position.
Once again, several drills feature in this portion, helping you understand the point of Haleem’s principles and approach much better than by trying to copy multi-step processes. He covers 7 different scenarios that often arise, offering multiple drill-based solutions to each.
Part 4 – Staying on the Back – Bottom Hip
What I mentioned as the most important aspect of back control – the ability to retain the back, is what Haleem focuses on until the very end of the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD.
The first aspect he looks into is hip positioning, more precisely, the bottom hip, once again sticking to drills and different scenarios to help make his point. This volume contains six different scenarios that cover how your hip determines how successful your bottom hook is, how to keep it in, and how to get it back when your opponent tries to get out.
Part 5 – Staying on the Back – Shoulder Line
Moving up the body next, in something that initially seemed odd, as he had more hip aspects to cover, Syed explores shoulder control next. He focuses on several aspects that I haven’t seen in other instructionals, mostly focusing on how the opponent positions their arms when trying to beat back control.
Some upper body control points you’ll see demonstrated in this volume of the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD include arm triangle solutions, stopping the arm over escape, dealing with shoulders to the floor, and utilizing cross-body control to introduce a different dimension to your strangles from the back.
Part 6 – Staying on the Back – Both Hips
The penultimate volume of the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle Your Best Move DVD gets back to the hips, this time looking at the role of both hips in retaining back control. The focus here is on using the chair-sit motion explained in the opening part of the DVD to ensure you easily follow your opponent’s movement.
Haleem also talks a lot about the live pocket, which once again comes to grip fighting, and how to prevent people from turning into the turtle position, as well as dragging them back if they do.
Part 7 –Staying on the Back – Top Hip
The top hip is the final aspect that Haleem covers, paying a lot of attention to an aspect of back attacks most other coaches ignore. Once again, he defines the live pocket and then uses diagonal control, which is how 10th PLanet Jiu-Jitsu folks have been hunting for the back since forever.
The top hip is often the very last thing that might guide you back into back control, and Syed covers how to stop key motions such as shrimping and turtling very early and very late, using this underestimated method of back control.
The very final chapter in the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD is an overview of the different ack retention methods outlined in this DVD along with directions on how to follow the instructions he provides.
How the RNC Improves Your Entire BJJ Game
The main thing people fear in grappling and combat sports is submissions. So, if you’re threatening with them, you’ll find that doing anything else in Jiu-Jitsu is fairly easy and straightforward.
When focusing on rear naked chokes (or strangles, if you prefer that term), the threat of one is sometimes a lot more useful than finishing the choke itself. For example, once you start looking for the choke in a meaningful and truly threatening way, people forget about back escapes and only try to keep their necks safe.
This power of keeping the focus of your opponent focused in a specific area, means you can move on to improve positioning, set up other submissions, or just cruise to the end of a match on the points you secured getting to the back.
From another perspective, placing an arm around someone’s back from the back without hooks is going to allow you to get their back properly as if you’re doing it against an untrained person.
Such diversity available only by using one arm is rarely an option in high-level BJJ, so mastering it is going to massively improve your entire game very fast. The Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD is a top resource to consider.
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Strangle Time!
If you want better strangles from the back, you’re going to have to stay on that back first. Next, you’ll need to understand where most of the opponent’s resistance comes from and how to beat it – a.k.a. hand fighting. All of these aspects feature in great detail in the Haleem Syed Rear Naked Strangle DVD, offering a clear and precise blueprint for becoming a Gordon Ryan-level back attack expert.
