Crazy flying triangle choke you’ve probably never seen

Rener Gracie, head instructor of the world famous Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance, CA, teaches you the secrets of the flying triangle.

He is joined by Brian Ortega who shows us why they call him T-city.

The Gracie family is a prominent martial arts family from Brazil known for their development of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ). They have been successful in combat sport competitions including mixed martial arts, vale tudo, and submission wrestling events.

As a family, they uphold the Gracie challenge, which promotes their style of modern Jiu Jitsu (BJJ).

Gastão Gracie became a business partner of the American Circus in Belém. In 1916, the Italian Argentine Queirolo Brothers staged circus shows there and presented Mitsuyo Maeda, a Japanese judoka and prize fighter.

In 1917, Carlos Gracie, the eldest son of Gastão Gracie, watched a demonstration by Maeda at the Da Paz Theatre and decided to learn judo. Maeda thus accepted to teach Gastão’s son Carlos.

In 1921, however, following financial hardship and his own father Pedro’s demise, Gastão Gracie returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family.

Maeda’s teachings were then passed on to Carlos’ brothers Oswaldo, Gastão Jr., and George. Hélio, however, was too young and sick at that time to learn the art and due to his medical imposition was prohibited to physically partake in training.

Despite this, Helio became a coxswain for the local rowing team as well as a competitive swimmer. Despite his poor health, Hélio successfully learned the art of Jiu Jitsu through watching his brothers.

Today, Hélio and Carlos are both widely considered by the Jiu Jitsu community and Gracie family as the creators of modern Brazilian jiu-jitsu. [wiki]

BJJ promotes the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant by using proper technique, leverage, and most notably, taking the fight to the ground, and then applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the opponent.

BJJ training can be used for sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition or self-defense.