South/North counter to North/South

[stan myaskovskiy]

Hey all, I hit the mats in Chicago recently and had some awesome rolls. One of the techniques that worked really well for me was the South/North counter to the North/South choke I learned from Eric "Red" Schafer at a seminar we had up in Marquette, MI (yooper hotbox). He taught it to us in April and we have been using it since with solid success. As long as your opponent has less than a 3 second head start on his choke, you will always win the race to the finish. Essentially you are choking them as they are choking you. It is definitely always best to avoid the position completely of course with good defense, but if they lock on their choke, it is a solid place to finish them and worst case a solid escape that has worked for us with really high success. There is actually also a counter to the counter already developed by Schafer as well

I had an opportunity to share it with some of the 10p Chicago team after their practice and became curious how many of the other 10th planet schools weren't using this technique yet. Since we only learned it in April it seems like it may be fresh. I haven't been able to find a video of it online anywhere. If anyone is interested in it, I can post a video within the next few days detailing the choke. If your school is already using the choke, and its out there named by something else within the system, please share the knowledge so I don't waste anyone's time. osss

[Cora Sek]

I'm interested. BUT please get a purple belt or above to do the tech video before you get in trouble.

[stan myaskovskiy]

I'm interested. BUT please get a purple belt or above to do the tech video before you get in trouble.

Thats primarily why i googled it for 30 min to hopefully share.. I figured if I posted anything myself I would get greeted in a rather negative fashion based on rank.
Thanks for the advice, its no problem. just letting everyone know as far as i know the closest 10p purple belt to us is 5 hours away so it may be a while in that case before I can post anything at all. ;p even a purple belt period is impossible to find in our area.

[Cora Sek]

Or you can just make it out just for me... if its a funky mess up tech, the only person that it will mess up is me..LOL

[stan myaskovskiy]

its so easy to do honestly that you can't even screw it up if you tried. ;p there is no flexibility needed, no special setup. Not funky at all. It's extremely straight forward you wont be able to believe you never even tried it before.

[BrySnave]

I'm interested. Can you explain it, just so we can get an idea of what your talking about.

[stan myaskovskiy]

Simplest way to explain it is that very similar to an "Ezekiel/Fist Choke from Mount" but its from the North/South bottom position. Btw allow me to clarify again for the record.. This is NOT MY TECHNIQUE. I didnt make it up. This was shown to us by UFC veteran Eric "Red" Schafer at his seminar.

[MikeW]

I want to see it.

[MikeW]

Do you connect you hand to wrist when reaching over the head?

[stan myaskovskiy]

headed to clare. maybe i can ask adlai to film it