Arm triangle choke
Head and arm chokehold
アーム・トライアングル・チョーク
- Type
- Chokes and strangles, Holds and pins
- Martial arts
- Judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Meaning
- The Kodokan officially considers this an osaekomi-waza Kata-gatame
- Classified as
- chokehold
- Listed in
- Shime-waza (judo techniques), Chokeholds (Brazilian jiu-jitsu)
Arm triangle choke, side choke, or head and arm choke are generic terms describing blood chokeholds in which the opponent is strangled in between their own shoulder and the practitioner's arm. This is as opposed to the regular triangle choke, which denotes a chokehold using the legs, albeit with a similar mechanism of strangulation against the opponent's own shoulder. An arm triangle choke where the practitioner is on the side of the opponent and presses a forearm into the opposite side of the neck of the opponent is known as a side choke, such as from the kata-gatame hold. The time it takes for the opponent to be rendered unconscious does vary depending on the configuration of the grip and position, although the standard arm triangle is one of the fastest at 7.2 seconds.
Other Judo chokes and strangles
- Chokehold
- Gyaku Jūji-jime
- Kata juji jime
- Nami juji jime
- Rear naked choke
- Triangle choke
- Do-jime
- Ude hishigi sankaku gatame
- North–south choke
- Guillotine choke
- Koshi-jime
- Sode guruma jime
- Gogoplata
- Kata ha jime
- Kata te jime
- Jigoku-jime
- Okuri eri jime
- Hasami jime
- Ura juji jime
- Ryo te jime
- Tsukkomi jime
- Tawara-Jime
Japanese terms for chokes and strangles
| Term | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 裸絞め | hadakajime | rear naked choke; sleeper hold |
| 絞め技 | shimewaza | shime-waza (judo stranglehold) |
| フロントチョーク | furontochooku | front choke |
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Facts from Wikidata Q4792474 (CC0); text quoted from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.