Buggy choke has turned quite a few eyebrows since videos of it first surfaced a few years ago.

Now the Buggy choke was on display in the finals of last weekend’s 2020 Combat Jiujitsu World Championships.

The Ruotolo brothers are two 17 year old brown belts under Andre Galvao and they have been training since they were just four years old. The twins, Kade and Tye have been beating adult black belts in competitions ever since they were blue belts. This happened again this weekend when Kade Ruotolo beat Laird Anderson, Danny Collazo and Jordan Holy at the start of the tournament. In the CJJW finals, he faced 10th planet black belt and All-American wrestler PJ Barch.

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Kade Ruotolo was able to place the rare Buggy choke on Barch and forced the tap, winning the prestigious championship:

Buggy choke for the #CJJW2020 Lightweight title! 🤯

Congrats Kade Ruotolo 🏆 pic.twitter.com/4Qm0q5bCKC

— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) November 30, 2020

How to do the Buggy Choke

Tony Pacenski who is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Rodrigo Medeiros (BJJ Revolution Team). He runs his academy Soulfight and the excellent website BJJonline.net . He was amazed by this choke and tells the story:

“A choke you never saw before will be the next big thing, and best of all it was developed by a white belt. Spread the word. The choke is called the Buggy Choke; there are 3 variations. It was developed by a white belt named Austin Hart from Ralph Gracie’s Team in Northern CA. He came out to Florida to do Rose Gracie’s event; however, it was cancelled due to the Hurricane. Rose called me to take care of him. He is a nice guy and caught a couple blue belts with his buggy choke and one brown belt visiting from LA. The choke may not be for everyone, but it is very tricky.”

Here is the buggy choke: