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Watch: How Gabi Garcia Defends a Triangle

Watch: How Gabi Garcia Defends a Triangle

There are many ways to counter a triangle choke. There is the early escape, the middle escape and the late ‘Hail Mary’ escape.

Saulo Ribeiro explains about how to escape from your opponent’s triangle submission that you need good posture and by cutting at an angle, you can apply pressure on our opponent in a way to force open the legs.

Watch how Gabi Garcia defends a triangle attempt by Mackenzie Dern at the 2014 No Gi Worlds.

Fast forward to 30 secs to watch the traingle and the escape: