Ezekiel Choke

The Ezekiel choke uses the attacker’s sleeve and forearm to apply choking pressure, often from inside the opponent’s guard or mount. Its signature feature is that the attacker’s own sleeve wraps around the opponent’s neck, creating tight constriction without complex grips.

This choke can be executed from various positions, but it is especially dominant from mount, where the attacker controls posture while threading the sleeve around the neck, leaving the opponent with few escape options.

High-level grapplers often chain it with mount attacks or transitions to armlocks if the choke fails, making it both a submission and positional control tool.