Peruvian Necktie

There are numerous front headlock chokes and one of the most innovative is the Peruvian necktie. This choke is as nasty as it sounds. It provides optimal control over your opponent and comes on quickly. This submission also inspired many other types of necktie chokes that are just as tight. Here is our breakdown of … Read more

There are numerous front headlock chokes and one of the most innovative is the Peruvian necktie. This choke is as nasty as it sounds.

It provides optimal control over your opponent and comes on quickly. This submission also inspired many other types of necktie chokes that are just as tight.

Here is our breakdown of the Peruvian necktie. We’ll go over how it was developed and its mechanics. We’ll also detail how to do the Peruvian along with other variations and give important details and tips to do it.

When was the Peruvian necktie developed?

The Peruvian necktie was developed by UFC vet Tony De Souza. Tony had a wrestling background and was an expert at gaining head control over his opponent.

He and André Pederneiras, former head coach of Nova União, were training together one day and came up with the technique. Instead of going for traditional guillotines or reverse triangles, De Souza would do something different.

What Tony would do is raise up, step next to his opponent’s head and sit back. Locking in a vicious choke that his opponent’s never saw coming.

The choke got the name the Tony De Souza choke or the Peruvian necktie as it is universally known. Since Tony is Peruvian and the choke grip looks like a necktie, that’s how they came up with the name.

De Souza’s choke caught on quickly and has been used frequently in BJJ and MMA. This choke inspired a new type of choke category known as neckties that are frequently being innovated.

The mechanics of the peruvian necktie

The mechanics of a peruvian necktie start with head and arm control on your opponent from top position. When you stand, crouch, and straighten your arms, this creates a vice around your opponent’s neck.

As you sit back, this closes the space between your arms and locks on this tight blood choke.

Peruvian necktie setup

The original Peruvian necktie starts from head control on your opponent with them in the turtle position. You have a head control with their arm in and your hands attached.

Where this front headlock choke differs from the others is your grip doesn’t need to be tight or specific. Just connect your hands and control your opponent’s head and arm.

Next you’re going to walk your leg up and attach it to the back of your opponent’s neck. This leg allows you to get force on your choke by extending it and driving your weight down into your wrist.

For the next step, you’re going to sit back at an angle on your hip. This gives you the space you need to hook your leg on your opponent’s back to keep them in place.

Once you have both of your legs in place, sit towards your other hip. Then drive your top leg down on your opponent’s neck to create force and finish the choke.

Gerbi choke(Peruvian necktie with Gi)

The Gerbi choke is a Peruvian necktie in the Gi. You do the same motions as the necktie, but use your own lapel to choke your opponent.

Instead of grabbing your grips, you turn to the side of your opponent when they’re in turtle. This is to give you space to pull out your lapel.

After you take your lapel, bring it between your opponent’s neck and far shoulder, passing it to your other hand. Pull the tail of your lapel tight as you push your opponent’s head down and step over for the finish.

Gerbi choke variation

The common defense against the Gerbi choke is that your opponent blocks you from passing your lapel. They bring their hand up and close the space between their far shoulder and neck.

If they do this it’s no problem, because there’s space under their armpit open. Turn to the centerline to give you space to pass your lapel under your opponent’s armpit.

You then bring your lapel up in between the other side of your opponent’s neck. From there, post your free hand on your opponent’s hip and step over their head.

Gerbi choke variation #2

The other common escape your opponent might try is to roll when you bring your leg up. If they’re able to get your top leg off of their head, you lose the choke.

So to stop this all you need to do is roll with your opponent. When they roll, go with them and you end up on top to finish your choke.

(This video includes the last 3 techniques.)

Japanese necktie

One of the first variations that the Peruvian necktie inspired was the Japanese necktie. It starts the same as you would begin a darce choke, but with a little necktie thrown in.

Start by sliding your arm under your opponent’s arm and bring it out on the other side of their neck. Once your hands comes through, you’re going to clasp your hands together and put your forearm on your opponent’s neck.

Usually from here, people will go for the darce and grab their biceps. But when you do this, your opponent can defend by straightening their neck.

So for the Japanese necktie, you’ll keep your hands clasped together and step over your opponent’s top leg. Pulling it toward you to establish control over their body and the space.

Now you’re going to close your elbows, fall to your shoulder, and hip in to finish the Japanese necktie.

Australian necktie

To go along with the Peruvian and Japanese necktie, you also have the Australian necktie. It starts from you doing a knee cut to pass your opponent’s half guard.

The first part of the set up is the same as the Japanese variation. You slide your hand under your opponent’s arm and clasp your hands together around their neck.

What your opponent might do to defend the Japanese necktie or darce is to fall to their back, taking it away. To do the Australian necktie, you follow your opponent as they turn and throw your leg behind their neck.

Keep your head based on the mat for balance and change your grip to you holding your shin. You’re then going to roll through and reattach your hands under your leg.

To finish the choke, bring your leg down and squeeze.

The Zamboni necktie

The Zamboni necktie is another Gi variation of the Peruvian necktie with just a little difference. With this necktie, you only need one hand inside your opponent’s collar.

Take an inside collar grip on your opponent and pull them down to the mat on all fours. From there, grab their belt with your other hand and come up to your feet in a crouching position.

Step your leg over your opponent’s neck, sit back, and drive your leg down onto their neck.

Key details and tips for doing the Peruvian necktie

The Peruvian necktie is a really slick and tight choke, but many make drastic errors to mess it up. Here are important details and tips for doing the Peruvian necktie.

Head control: This submission always starts with gaining head control over your opponent. There is no submission without proper head control.
Grips: Either clasp your hands together or grab onto your rest to lock in your Peruvian.
Crouch over opponent: Once you lock in your grip, stand over your opponent and crouch over them,
Step next to opponent’s head: Another important detail to remember is when you step up and crouch is to step next to your opponent’s head. Your other foot steps behind your opponent’s arm.
Straighten arms: Once you crouch over your opponent, straighten your arms before sitting back.
Chest on back: To go along with straightening your arms, you need to attach your chest to your opponent’s back. This will hold them in place before you fall back.
Sit back: Be sure to sit straight back and at an angle on the grip side your grips are on. If you fall on your side, there won’t be any pressure on the choke.
Leg on back of neck: The back of your thigh needs to connect to the back of your opponent’s head when you sit back. This keeps them from posturing up by trapping their head in place.
Hook opponent’s leg or back: As you fall back, hook your outside leg on your opponent’s back or leg to keep them in place.

Peruvian Necktie: BJJ Submission Explained

When a submission with a name as nasty sounding as the Peruvian Necktie, you know it’s a good one. It was created in the late 90s and since then grapplers have been revolutionizing it. The Peruvian Necktie is one submission you need to add to your arsenal if you like getting front headlocks. It provides […]

When a submission with a name as nasty sounding as the Peruvian Necktie, you know it’s a good one. It was created in the late 90s and since then grapplers have been revolutionizing it.

The Peruvian Necktie is one submission you need to add to your arsenal if you like getting front headlocks. It provides solid control and once you lock it in, the roll is just about over.

Below we’re going to tell you everything about the Peruvian Necktie. Everything from who created it, how it works, and how to do the submission, and its variations.

When was the Peruvian Necktie invented?

The Peruvian Necktie was developed during the late 90s, early 2000s by UFC veteran Tony De Souza. Tony was working with former head of Nova Uniao, André Pederneiras at Nova Uniao HQ practicing techniques.

De Souza was a great wrestler and at competitions would routinely grab headlocks on opponents and finish with chokes. There was one he and Pederneiras were working on that Tony would routinely go for. It was a type of choke, where Tony would get head and arm control that was extremely powerful.

After practicing the movement, they perfected it and Pederneiras named it the Peruvian Necktie. It got this name, because Tony is Peruvian and your hands around the opponent look like a necktie. So… Peruvian Necktie.

How does the Peruvian Necktie work?

This choke works similar to an arm in guillotine with a few subtle differences. One of the biggest is the movement to do the choke.

You can have similar grips, but with a Peruvian you straighten and extend your arms to lock it in. With a guillotine, you just take a grip on their neck, fall back and bring your arms.

It’s called a necktie because when you lock it in, your arms extend and it looks similar to a necktie. This motion of extending and straightening your arms closes the space between them and the opponent’s neck,

After you do this, you sit back at a slight angle towards your grip to lock in the pressure.

How to do the Peruvian Necktie?

The set up for the Peruvian Necktie primarily begins from head control. You can get to this position by dragging the opponent down to the ground or sprawling on their takedown attempt.

For your grip you can either go with a Gable grip, hand on wrist, or a 5 finger grip. One arm is under the opponent’s neck with the other coming from under their armpit. The arm that goes under their armpit goes on top of your choke hand.

After getting your grips, you have to stand up and crouch over the opponent to set up the choke. It is very important to have your chest pressing against their torso in this position. It holds them in place before you drop back for the choke.

Before falling back sit up a little and straighten your arms to close space around their neck. Sit straight back at a slight angle towards your grip.

You have two different options where you can put the leg near your grips. It can either go over the opponent’s back or hook behind their leg.

Either option works and the choke will be tight and come on quick.

Peruvian Necktie variation No-Gi

If you like watching old fights, UFC vet CB Dolloway did this variation of a Peruvian Necktie years ago. This variation is done from the side of the opponent in turtle position rather than from a front headlock.

You start by shooting your inside arm under the opponent’s armpit with your hand coming out by their neck. Much similar to how you would set up a darce choke.

Clasp your hands together with a palm on palm grip, then sit up and step over their head. Then just hook your leg around the opponent’s leg or over their back and you have your Peruvian variation.

Gerbi Choke(Judo Peruvian Necktie)

In Judo, a type of Gi choke was invented that is exactly like a Peruvian Necktie. But it involves you pulling out your lapel.

During a Judo competition it is very common for a competitor to fall to turtle position to defend a throw. Since the time to stay on the ground in Judo is limited, they usually just wait until they’re stood up. Many judokas don’t work submission defense, so they leave themselves wide open to be submitted.

This is how the Gerbi choke was developed. When the opponent does this, you immediately drop your chest on their back and pull out your lapel.

Pass the lapel under the opponent’s neck to your other hand that loops under the far armpit. When you pass the lapel, pull it to remove the slack to make the choke as tight as possible.

The steps to finish are very similar to a normal Peruvian, but this Gi grips. You stand up over the opponent and sit back at a slight angle towards your lapel grip. It is also very important to sit close to the opponent’s head to avoid giving them space.

Have your leg heavy on the opponent’s head to keep them from moving. Your other hand grabs the opponent’s belt and you turn your elbow in to make the grip tight. At the same time you do this, you turn at an angle and bring your leg over their back.

It is a ridiculously tight choke and puts many judokas to sleep.

Peruvian Necktie Gi Variation #2

The second Peruvian variation with the Gi doesn’t involve you taking out your lapel. You start out on the side of your opponent with them in turtle. Make sure to have your chest pressed on their back with your weight down to keep them in place.

Take your hand that’s closest to their neck and grab a semi deep grip on the opponent’s far collar. With your other hand, you can either be holding their hips or their belt like with a clock choke.

The good thing about this technique is the collar grip is all you need, You won’t need to grip your hands together for this one.

With your collar grip set, you stand up and step over the opponent just like a normal Peruvian. But the difference being you’re going to forward roll instead of falling back.

Do a forward roll to tighten the choke up. To keep them from being able to defend, you can take your free hand and hook under the opponent’s arm.

Japanese Necktie

A very similar choke that is related to the Peruvian Necktie is the Japanese Necktie. This choke was developed from top half guard or top side control.

It’s similar to a darce set up, but was made when people started countering the darce by lifting their head. So you just clasp your hands together and bend their head inward.

Keep your elbow in and either hook the opponent’s top or bottom leg to keep them in place. The finishing sequence is similar to a darce or anaconda.

Dive your outside shoulder to the mat, bring your chest on their neck, the cross your legs, and finish.

Tips for the Peruvian Necktie

If you want to be successful at doing the Peruvian Necktie remember all of these tips below.

Head Control: For this submission to work, you have to have proper control of your opponent’s head. Two hands under their chin locked together with your chest on top of their head is the optimal control.
Stand/Crouch: After you establish your grips, the next step is to stand up and crouch over your opponent. This step is very important because this is where you straighten your arms out before falling back.
Sit Straight Back: To get a traditional Peruvian Necktie, you have to sit straight back at a slight angle after locking it in. If you sit off to the side it won’t lock enough pressure around the opponent’s neck to submit them. You’ll just have a bad arm in guillotine.
Sit Towards Your Grips: When you sit back, you have to do it at an angle towards your grip. If you fall to the opposite side, there’s no submission and you’ll probably get stack passed.
Hips Over Their Head: When you step up before falling back make sure your hips are over the opponent’s head.
Chest on Their Torso: To go along with having your hips over the opponent’s head, you must also have your chest on their torso. Doing this holds them in place for you to set your grip before falling back.
No Slack On The Lapel: When you go for the Gi variations of the Peruvian make sure there’s no slack of the lapel. If the lapel you’re holding isn’t tight, then you probably aren’t getting the submission.
Hook The Leg: This tip is specifically for the Japanese Necktie. This submission requires you to hook the opponent’s looks to hold them in place and keep them from defending.

[VIDEO] Coty Shannon Scores an Omo-Peruvian-Necktwister, Retroactively Wins 2012 Potato Award for Greatest Submission

(Fight via The Nemesis Fighting Alliance)

Here at CagePotato, we make mistakes. Often. Perhaps more often than not.

Case in point: Last year, we declared Wolfgang Janssen’s flying reverse triangle to be the greatest submission of 2012 at the 2012 Potato Awards. We comp’d a limosine and hotel room for Janssen so he could be present at the ceremony, we bestowed him with a Golden Potato, the highest known award in MMA. Hell, we even picked up the tab for the high class Vietnamese prostitute that Danga insisted Wolfgang “try out.” Weird guy, that Danga.

Long story short, it appears that we might have made a mistake in bestowing Janssen with the aforementioned award. While there’s no denying how incredible his submission was, the video above, which was recorded in June of 2012 but has only recently gone viral, features an arguably more impressive one. Who are we kidding? It’s one of the most technically improbable submissions we’ve ever seen — some bastard offspring of a Omoplata, Twister, Rear Naked Choke and Peruvian Necktie that simply needs to be seen to be believed.

After a back and forth battle, Coty Shannon is taken down by Brian Borden midway through the second round (around the 4:20 mark). Shannon quickly locks up an omoplata, but rather than use it to set up a traditional sweep, he just sort of grabs Borden around the neck with his forearms and starts cranking. Too busy trying to defend the omoplata, Borden is left hung out to dry and goes limp almost instantly.

(Fight via The Nemesis Fighting Alliance)

Here at CagePotato, we make mistakes. Often. Perhaps more often than not.

While perhaps a more competent referee would have noticed that Borden was out for a good six seconds before this one did, we’re going to assume that in this case, the third man in the cage was too busy trying to understand what the hell he was witnessing, hence his delayed reaction. It’s not a great excuse, but if a veteran UFC official like Steve Mazzagatti still can’t recognize a guillotine choke until one fighter is standing over the other’s lifeless body, we guess everyone is entitled to the occasional screw up.

So congratulations, Coty, your retroactive award for the greatest submission of 2012 is in the mail, along with a complimentary CP t-shirt. Let us know when you receive them!

–J. Jones