He looks like a very nice guy, not like a lot of other fighters that are egoistic and narcistic fucks, i respect it when people who have succes just stay normal, nice and down to earth
Krav has the best escape in my opinion. If you try to grab the choking arm with the opposite hand, as is shown here, you better pray that arm is dry as a bone. You’ll slip right off if it’s sweaty. Nick, if you haven’t, you should do a video on the Krav way to break the rear naked choke.
That's crazy I tried the flip method in a street fight it works as long as you get that space in your neck as Elias stated in the video. The drop definitely works after the flip to do whatever you have to do to descalate or further engage the situation
Μπράβο Νίκο μόλις μας απέδειξες ότι σε αληθινές καταστάσεις είναι λίγες οι τεχνικές που είναι αποτελεσματικες και ειδικά αν είμαστε άτυχοι και πέσουμε σε κακούς ανθρώπους που γνωρίζουν πολεμικές τέχνες.
Great video thank you guys.I noticed how Nick turned his head on the inside(where Elias hands was ) and Elias on the outside(where Nick's elbow is) instead is there a difference?
Another option is to just tilt forward I think and when the other guy is off balanced or off his legs than grab his head with one arm and flip him over not land to your knees first like he does at 7:53. What do you guys think?
Props for willing to be choked to show wat does and doesn't work. Question though. When you're pulling his elbow and you get free could you punch him in the solar plexus? It looks wide open. Or could you push him away after you get out? Thanks man
Very nice, but just a question: If instead put the arm around him, atack strike the face/eyes with fingers will be possible/effective? Thanks. Top Technique :-) (minute 2:40)
What about if they bring you down to hip and headlock you, or even use your long hair? I have long hair and i am a little scared to fight knowing what disadvantage it is.
Elias pulled with his left arm your right and turned hips to the side and it worked.. but can you save yourself from choke if he would pull your right arm with his left (so he would grab you on your foararm)? because in most cases you dont really know in which arm you got into (at nights, when u not paying attention etc.?)
the thing is that 99% of the people who choke you are not trained so they what they think is right so its not a big of a threat if you stay calm and focus
Hi! Nick look at the video again and see that you did not go at the same direction as Elias when you tried to break free from the choke. Elias direction seems to be more effective. Thanks for a worldclass video!
What to do if your opponent locks on to you with a choke AND their legs around you lowback and stomach? How would you create that distance with the hips? Great video!
perhaps you should do the same technique or put them on their back so you can roll to their feet and add pressure to the lock. it becomes ground bjj at this point and some bjj training will put you in great hands
Interesting. I did itf taekwondo in high school and we were taught to get whichever hand is easiest and grab the thumb and torque their hand off. This is a totally different technique. My only issue is that he still has his arm around your neck...well I guess there' s no magic move. This is an interesting alternative though.
sportsmenonline I think techniques for women against a big guy should be taught privately & general stuff openly because bad guys watch these videos too. Then the bad big guy has all the advantages.
yellowpaint....how the hell do you know that bad guys watch these? hahaha im not saying they never do but really man? most assholes that will attack women are not enlightened enough to make it through 2 mins of a vid like this. you sound like an untrained fellow who sniffs yellowpaint hahaa. and to sportsmenon....i train in bjj and i get choked out by women all the time. mind you im not a big dude. the way i view it is that the more skill you acquire as a grappler the more weight you can mitigate. there are in fact some people that are so damn big that certain techniques that are high percentage become low percentage. fortunately for us there are only a few men walking around at 300 plus pounds
Guys chill. Watching videos won't make you a God in fighting You have to practice it a lot. And in street fight most of the training and technique gets lost cause people get in survival mode and overhyped. Yes most of us overhype even if statistically the fight is fair and there are no weapons or multiple attackers
Yes, I think the reality of a choke is that it's almost always accompanied by a movement to take you off balance, off your feet or onto the floor, and more so in the event of a women being attacked by a perp who wants to take her to a secondary crime scene. I'd say, the reality is that you've only got a few options as smaller and weaker and off-balance and that's to either trying to fight your way partially around and attach legs to the attacker's and/or to drop bodyweight as fast as possible and hope to exploit the movement as the attacker struggles with the drop. Chaos is good, as the video states.
I still think it's easier and more instinctive to turn to/with the wrist not to the elbow, also the two in one rocks... But interesting to see some other ideas
If your attacker is a psycho drugged up he’s going to be crazy strong even if he’s not trained good stuff thanks 👍 I see some good add on moves that could apply very easily .
Great video because I was in a situation like this the other day. However, I do wonder if it is better to use the opposite hand to pull down or pull sideways as you turn? Anyway, what happened to me the other day like two days ago is I was in a club and this weird guy came up behind me when I was sitting looking opposite from where he came and started lightly shoving me saying I have to move out of his way or something. I told him look at all the space to the left and moved my shoulders slightly to show him go ahead and walk by (he had plenty of space so I dont even know why I did that probably to try to diffuse him) and he juist kept trying to get me to get up or leave or something. I dont know probably just start shit with me. Anyway, after like 5 seconds I jsut had it. I got up and shoved him back to create space and get him away from touching me. As I did this a bouncer grabbed my neck from behind and for a second I tried getting out and I actually have had training in both bjj and judo as well as some wrestling. However, I still was not able to escape and just put my hands up saying fine and he escorted me but some other bouncer came by so I stopped trying to get out quickly anyway as there was two of them. But I know for a second I tried to get out and failed. But basically it was weird because I have got out of standing chokes easily before and even tried using them in a freestyle wrestling class on a younger guy or teenage kid training at the time and couldnt get one to work due to how much movement there seems to be on the feet. yet this knucklehead bouncer was able to get me so well. I felt kinda down and good I came upon this video. It makes no sense how he was able to hold it since what I did was turn my body to try getting him on side or in front of me while trying to put his hand down. But I did it from the same side hand as his choke came from unlike in this video above. I wonder if that was the difference. I also do not think he used a rear naked choke but an artery or forearm choke. I also think me being a bit drunk maybe has somnething to do with it and not training for a while. I dont know but I know that grip was fuking hard and for a second I pulled down but he repositioned it back with like pure gorilla strength.
Basically my previous tactic would be to use same side hand as his chokinig arm to pull down on the wedge and turn hoping to grab his side with my other arm. It did not work on that bouncer though.
Better carry a knife or two so you can pull it out and stab, if you can. You can articulate it, because your life at that moment is literally in danger. The knife of course you have to be fast to get the person off of you. I'm a proponent of two knife carry, one on each side. Where you place them is your choice. Just be able to articulate why you stabbed or cut the other person.
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It's so great to see an instructor who's willing to learn from others. It shows that they care more about their work than being right all the time.
From all the "escapes" I've seen so far this one looks most realistic.
Nice, very informative. I would like to see more of Elias!
He looks like a very nice guy, not like a lot of other fighters that are egoistic and narcistic fucks, i respect it when people who have succes just stay normal, nice and down to earth
Wow. This is really good, simpler and more likely to work than other rear naked choke moves I've been taught.
Thank you for debunking those techniques and showing that detail with the hips!
Thanks for watching!
It's all in the hips.
I love how you actually test the validity of different escape techniques on a world class pro.
Thanks for watching!
Elias Theodorou is the young brother of roman reigns
The absolute best video I've seen on trying to escape a rear naked choke. Brilliant !
Krav has the best escape in my opinion. If you try to grab the choking arm with the opposite hand, as is shown here, you better pray that arm is dry as a bone. You’ll slip right off if it’s sweaty.
Nick, if you haven’t, you should do a video on the Krav way to break the rear naked choke.
everyone wants to know the products that Elias uses for his hair
Rip a legend of the mma world 😔
Good video, very realistic... Hey Nick I liked the Fight Analysis you use to do. Are you going to bring that back?
To many restrictions on them! not sure
These kind of videos are amazing
Thanks for watching
That's crazy I tried the flip method in a street fight it works as long as you get that space in your neck as Elias stated in the video. The drop definitely works after the flip to do whatever you have to do to descalate or further engage the situation
Awesome video. I didnt know I had those options in a choke. I usually hip toss but this is faster and with gives me options.
it takes more a lot of strength and practice to escape from a professional fighter I guess. great video
Great breakdown. Many thanks to both.
What Elias says @ 06:21 is the golden. In BKf Kenpo, they stress that you are always fighting another fighter. Good video!!!!!!!!
Great content as always Nick ! Keep it up
Very realistic
Cela remet en cause beaucoup de méthodes de self défense non réaliste merci pour cette belle démonstration johan (60 old france)
Μπράβο Νίκο μόλις μας απέδειξες ότι σε αληθινές καταστάσεις είναι λίγες οι τεχνικές που είναι αποτελεσματικες και ειδικά αν είμαστε άτυχοι και πέσουμε σε κακούς ανθρώπους που γνωρίζουν πολεμικές τέχνες.
Thank you! I will be in Greece next week, for a seminar.
Awesome stuff again Nick, thank you for sharing!
Rip😢🎉what a great guy and teacher
Great video thank you guys.I noticed how Nick turned his head on the inside(where Elias hands was ) and Elias on the outside(where Nick's elbow is) instead is there a difference?
Chaos well one puts u face to face with your opponent and the other your facing more of the same direction
Another option is to just tilt forward I think and when the other guy is off balanced or off his legs than grab his head with one arm and flip him over not land to your knees first like he does at 7:53. What do you guys think?
The best Rear Naked Choke escape yet.
What do you do if you are a kid and somebody tries to kid nap you how Can you protect your self
Amazing. Thank you
Props for willing to be choked to show wat does and doesn't work. Question though. When you're pulling his elbow and you get free could you punch him in the solar plexus? It looks wide open. Or could you push him away after you get out? Thanks man
Nick excellent observations
Not really have the time.
Nick Drossos you still awesome bro :/
I thought he was going to put a link for this guy Elias Theodorou in the description. I don't see it.
How long it take to revive?? We must revive them or they revive on their own??if they don't revive how long it takes to die??
fantastic! makes sense. thanx for sharing.
More please 😊
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Liked ....good stuff
Thanks EJ!
Great lesson fellas! 😎
What do you do if you are a kid
Very nice, but just a question: If instead put the arm around him, atack strike the face/eyes with fingers will be possible/effective? Thanks. Top Technique :-) (minute 2:40)
great escape easy to remember
Love your channel
Thanks for watching!
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It's very hard to escape a proper choke tbh
Watched this video 5x.
Best !!! Practical esp for women.
What about if they bring you down to hip and headlock you, or even use your long hair? I have long hair and i am a little scared to fight knowing what disadvantage it is.
Elias pulled with his left arm your right and turned hips to the side and it worked.. but can you save yourself from choke if he would pull your right arm with his left (so he would grab you on your foararm)? because in most cases you dont really know in which arm you got into (at nights, when u not paying attention etc.?)
Wow awsome nick
Great vid. I am curious about the danger of long hair. There seemed to be a way to go with flowing locks...
Its bad, you get to control the head and body. In the street it can be very dangerous.
When I turn I immediately Going for the single leg takedown
Ty bro
Tx. This is v useful.
the thing is that 99% of the people who choke you are not trained so they what they think is right so its not a big of a threat if you stay calm and focus
Elias look like roman reigns i thought this was wwe
Superman punch
Hi! Nick look at the video again and see that you did not go at the same direction as Elias when you tried to break free from the choke. Elias direction seems to be more effective. Thanks for a worldclass video!
Thanks for watching
Only works when your opponent is standing still and not resisting.
in an MMA lesson they teach me to choke them by putting the bone near the fat finger pressing against the frond of their neck.. is it wrong?
Wow. That's a new one. Never seen that defense before!
where is the guys youtube link?
Good stuff
@5:29 when he said "shit, yeah" while turning red 😃😁😄
Very informative vid, thanks.
Great advice as always Nick
Thanks for watching
at this step its very hard to escape from mata leao, best option its not let mata leao close defend
Lol, just say rear naked choke
What to do if your opponent locks on to you with a choke AND their legs around you lowback and stomach? How would you create that distance with the hips?
Great video!
perhaps you should do the same technique or put them on their back so you can roll to their feet and add pressure to the lock. it becomes ground bjj at this point and some bjj training will put you in great hands
Interesting. I did itf taekwondo in high school and we were taught to get whichever hand is easiest and grab the thumb and torque their hand off. This is a totally different technique. My only issue is that he still has his arm around your neck...well I guess there' s no magic move. This is an interesting alternative though.
Beautiful, thanks
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I wonder what a woman should do to escape a rear naked choke. I don't think this technique would work for her against a big guy.
sportsmenonline I think techniques for women against a big guy should be taught privately & general stuff openly because bad guys watch these videos too. Then the bad big guy has all the advantages.
yellowpaint....how the hell do you know that bad guys watch these? hahaha im not saying they never do but really man? most assholes that will attack women are not enlightened enough to make it through 2 mins of a vid like this. you sound like an untrained fellow who sniffs yellowpaint hahaa. and to sportsmenon....i train in bjj and i get choked out by women all the time. mind you im not a big dude. the way i view it is that the more skill you acquire as a grappler the more weight you can mitigate. there are in fact some people that are so damn big that certain techniques that are high percentage become low percentage. fortunately for us there are only a few men walking around at 300 plus pounds
Guys chill. Watching videos won't make you a God in fighting
You have to practice it a lot. And in street fight most of the training and technique gets lost cause people get in survival mode and overhyped. Yes most of us overhype even if statistically the fight is fair and there are no weapons or multiple attackers
Yes, I think the reality of a choke is that it's almost always accompanied by a movement to take you off balance, off your feet or onto the floor, and more so in the event of a women being attacked by a perp who wants to take her to a secondary crime scene. I'd say, the reality is that you've only got a few options as smaller and weaker and off-balance and that's to either trying to fight your way partially around and attach legs to the attacker's and/or to drop bodyweight as fast as possible and hope to exploit the movement as the attacker struggles with the drop. Chaos is good, as the video states.
A woman cant do anything against a bigger stronger guy except avoid the situation.
GOOD TEACHER.....GOOD LUCK EVERY BODY.
Good video.
Best video on the rear naked I've seen.
Thanks
Great video Nick but how about if the attacker jumps top of you while choking ? I mean he will be both choking you and standing in your shoulders
Thats an entire video on its own. I will make a video on that.
I still think it's easier and more instinctive to turn to/with the wrist not to the elbow, also the two in one rocks... But interesting to see some other ideas
Thanks for watching
😍😍😍I love his hair I could play in it all day it look soft
All I can say is thank you
If your attacker is a psycho drugged up he’s going to be crazy strong even if he’s not trained good stuff thanks 👍 I see some good add on moves that could apply very easily .
This was good thanks
Nice, keep it up!
Elias is great 👍🏽🇨🇾🐺
Thanks palikari
Rest in peace Elias 🙏🏻
Good tutorial, not trolling , but some good advice I think , maybe a hair band 👍🏻
GREAT HAIR THO 👍🏻
This well be good Nick as real as possible
Thanks for watching!
Great video because I was in a situation like this the other day. However, I do wonder if it is better to use the opposite hand to pull down or pull sideways as you turn? Anyway, what happened to me the other day like two days ago is I was in a club and this weird guy came up behind me when I was sitting looking opposite from where he came and started lightly shoving me saying I have to move out of his way or something. I told him look at all the space to the left and moved my shoulders slightly to show him go ahead and walk by (he had plenty of space so I dont even know why I did that probably to try to diffuse him) and he juist kept trying to get me to get up or leave or something. I dont know probably just start shit with me. Anyway, after like 5 seconds I jsut had it. I got up and shoved him back to create space and get him away from touching me. As I did this a bouncer grabbed my neck from behind and for a second I tried getting out and I actually have had training in both bjj and judo as well as some wrestling. However, I still was not able to escape and just put my hands up saying fine and he escorted me but some other bouncer came by so I stopped trying to get out quickly anyway as there was two of them. But I know for a second I tried to get out and failed.
But basically it was weird because I have got out of standing chokes easily before and even tried using them in a freestyle wrestling class on a younger guy or teenage kid training at the time and couldnt get one to work due to how much movement there seems to be on the feet. yet this knucklehead bouncer was able to get me so well. I felt kinda down and good I came upon this video. It makes no sense how he was able to hold it since what I did was turn my body to try getting him on side or in front of me while trying to put his hand down. But I did it from the same side hand as his choke came from unlike in this video above. I wonder if that was the difference. I also do not think he used a rear naked choke but an artery or forearm choke. I also think me being a bit drunk maybe has somnething to do with it and not training for a while. I dont know but I know that grip was fuking hard and for a second I pulled down but he repositioned it back with like pure gorilla strength.
Basically my previous tactic would be to use same side hand as his chokinig arm to pull down on the wedge and turn hoping to grab his side with my other arm. It did not work on that bouncer though.
wonderful tx
Nick your videos are good but I'm not sure if this would work if someone was doing this to actually hurt you if you know what i mean
nice self defense moves bro, but if this is a street fight,i like the effective technique of ND to hit the groin.
For sure its another option!
I have hair envy going on lol
Better carry a knife or two so you can pull it out and stab, if you can. You can articulate it, because your life at that moment is literally in danger.
The knife of course you have to be fast to get the person off of you.
I'm a proponent of two knife carry, one on each side. Where you place them is your choice.
Just be able to articulate why you stabbed or cut the other person.
La praticare I la conbinare con una tenicas ronpe braso
Is that Jesus?
@John Santiago ..No tonto
No thats Pablo
Unless he was coper collored and had white whooly hair I would have to say no.
Yes he is. go and pray to him as you usually did
He a more muscular jesus
in mee country those kind of techniques cant often be used , gun bang gone. what a pity !! we ve been trained for that situation.
Kalo mau langsung sngkat atas satu ysngan kanan biar kena
What if the dude is really buff?🤔
R.I.P Mr. Spartan
The only REAL way out is
A) going unconscious
B) slipping
C) having enough strength to pry the choke arm & create an opening
I was watching the UFC the other day and caught the long haired one doing an impression of a startled deer
Grip of Death
0:54 the two arteries are located on each neck, huh?
Turn to the bicept..