🔥 FFTT: Catch A Darce For The Half Guard Pass

Welcome back to Tap Nap & Snap - the newsletter that believes the Darce choke isn’t just for the long-armed grapplers among us; with a nice hip drop and angle adjustment, you T-rex types can hit it too! 🦖 

Let's go! 🔥

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Pass or Darce? Porque No Los Dos? 🤷

This week in Freak For The Technique, we check out how you can bait your opponent into sitting up to catch an awesome Darce from the top half guard. 🔥 

With this catch, it often becomes a lot easier to unthread the legs and secure the pass as your opponent starts worrying about their neck.

Better yet, you can often finish this choke without even needing to pass, and if they are as strong as an ox and refuse to tap, rolling through on the top shoulder allows you to crunch in and apply much more compression to really work for the finish. 😮‍💨

Hit play on the video above to head over and check it out! ⬆️

P.S. - How’d you go with last week’s technique? Let us know below👇

Did You Hit The Last One!?

Last fortnight in FFTT, we showed how you can hit em’ with the half-guard claw. Did you get a chance to take it for a spin?