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The Collar Tie

Control the head and the rest of the body has to follow it.

The Collar Tie

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En esta lección

  • Set a collar tie that breaks posture rather than just holding a head
  • Defend a collar tie without a strength contest
  • Use the tie to open strikes and entries

Clave del entrenador — Pull down and forward, never straight back. Posture is what you are attacking.

Why the head

The head sits on top of the spine, and the spine drives the hips. Break someone's posture at the head and their hips lose the ability to generate anything — they cannot punch hard, they cannot shoot, and they cannot easily move away.

The collar tie is the cheapest way to get that control. One hand, on the back of the neck, doing one thing: pulling down and forward.

DemostraciónA collar tie showing the hand cupped on the back of the neck with the elbow heavy and pointed down
FigThe elbow does the work — heavy and pointed at the floor

The mechanics

  1. Hand cups the back of the neck, fingers together, not laced.
  2. The elbow is heavy and points down, resting on their collarbone or chest. This is where the control lives; a tie with a raised elbow is just a hand on a neck.
  3. Pull down and forward, not backward. You are trying to make them carry their own weight on their toes.
  4. Your own posture stays upright. If you bend to reach their neck, they have the better position.
  5. Your other hand controls something — a wrist, a bicep, an underhook. A single collar tie with a free opposite hand invites a punch straight down the middle.

What it opens

  • Knees. Pull down, drive the knee up. The classic pairing, and the reason the tie exists in every grappling sport that allows striking.
  • The snap-down. A sharp downward pull that puts their hands on the mat and their head in front of yours.
  • Off-balancing. Circular pulls that turn them, opening the back or the far side of the body.
  • Punches. A broken posture makes it very hard to see a hook coming.

Defending it

Do not fight the hand — fight the elbow and the posture.

  1. Post on the bicep of the tying arm and turn your head into it.
  2. Circle toward the tying side. Their arm cannot follow you round.
  3. Regain posture first, break the grip second. People do this in the wrong order and lose both.

A collar tie you are holding with your arm is a strength contest you will lose eventually. A collar tie held with a heavy elbow and your own posture costs almost nothing.

DemostraciónDefending a collar tie by posting on the bicep and circling toward the tying arm
FigPost on the bicep and circle toward the tying arm

Drill it

Two rounds of collar tie exchanges with no strikes: get the tie, break their posture, they defend and reverse. Two rounds where the person with the tie may knee lightly to the body. Two rounds where the defender's only job is to circle out — count how many seconds they can be held.

Underhooks