I actually have a harder time with guys who are thin, with no shoulders to speak of. Without shoulders and/or a neck, I end up in a situation where I have a hard time taking away enough space to cause the choke to happen.
Fat guys are easier to triangle because the fat helps add pressure against their carotid arteries. Against fat guys I often don't even have to fully lock the triangle to get the tap because it's already tight as soon as I grab my shin.
The OP sounds like the skinny type. Sometimes it's really hard to triangle (or do any type of head-and-arm choke on) a skinny guy with a pencil neck because there's always space for him to wiggle and relieve the pressure. The choke has to be super tight to create any pressure on his neck. It sounds like his training partners are trying, but it takes too long so they give up and just switch to the armbar.
Your ankles are obviously indestructible because they are pre-injured. Go and get your knees properly fucked up, and no heel hook will stop you!I know, that is why I said "seemingly". I've been rolling and stuck in bad toe hold positions and never realized. One of the instructors stopped a roll because he thought my training partner was going to snap my leg, but I barely felt a thing. Straight ankles are the same.
To be fair, my ankles are really beat up from soccer so I may have fucked them up to the point that a toe hold doesn't do anything at all. If I can conquer heel hooks, I'll be unstoppable!
Never seen that before.
I'm seemingly immune to toeholds.
I have come across that. It's cool when people in your class are trying to crank it on and you can't feel it and they stop before they break something. I say this because I take a TMA once a week and there are a couple of guys who probably consider themselves Bruce Lee only white with a rat tail haircut and 18 stone.
It's fun to watch these guys get scared that this won't work and come to the conclusion that I'm an alien or some bullshit, and sometimes to piss them off further I'll tap to people who aren't locking it in properly just to freak them out a little.
i thought the triangle was a choke (blood restriction) not a strangle, so surely anyone can still breath
:icon_conf ... I guess you win.Wait, wait. Hang on. Kyle Maynard.
You should challenge Palhares to make sure
I actually have a harder time with guys who are thin, with no shoulders to speak of. Without shoulders and/or a neck, I end up in a situation where I have a hard time taking away enough space to cause the choke to happen.
I know, that is why I said "seemingly". I've been rolling and stuck in bad toe hold positions and never realized. One of the instructors stopped a roll because he thought my training partner was going to snap my leg, but I barely felt a thing. Straight ankles are the same.
To be fair, my ankles are really beat up from soccer so I may have fucked them up to the point that a toe hold doesn't do anything at all. If I can conquer heel hooks, I'll be unstoppable!
The OP sounds like the skinny type. Sometimes it's really hard to triangle (or do any type of head-and-arm choke on) a skinny guy with a pencil neck because there's always space for him to wiggle and relieve the pressure. The choke has to be super tight to create any pressure on his neck. It sounds like his training partners are trying, but it takes too long so they give up and just switch to the armbar.
HH will most likely shred your knee not your ankle, but good luck conditioning your cruciate ligaments. jk