Invisible Collar

Invisible Collar on the Digitsu Graph

Invisible Collar in 3D on the Digitsu Graph

Invisible collar

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Open in the Digitsu Graph
Position Gi only

The invisible collar is a no-gi neck control inside Eddie Bravo's rubber guard, reached from chill dog: your foot and shin slide across the front of the opponent's neck where a collar grip would sit, doing a lapel's posture-and-strangle work with no fabric. It is the doorway to the gogoplata and locoplata — once the shin owns the neck line, the choking structures assemble around it.

Quick Reference

Key principles

  • · The shin replaces the gi: pressure across the front of the neck controls posture and threatens the strangle exactly as a deep collar grip would — hence the name.
  • · It comes from chill dog for a reason: the trapped arm means no hand is free to peel the shin off the neck.
  • · The foot must cross the neck's front line, not the shoulder — on the shoulder it is decoration; on the throat line it is a choke in waiting.
  • · Your hands frame the structure — one holding the shin or foot in place, the other clearing their remaining defenses.
  • · Gogoplata and locoplata are its outputs: the choke finishes by tightening the structure that is already built.

Execution

  1. 1 From chill dog with their near arm pinned, bring your foot toward their chin line.
  2. 2 Slide the shin and instep across the front of their neck, seating it where a collar grip would live.
  3. 3 Support it with your hand on your own foot or shin so it cannot be peeled.
  4. 4 Break their posture down onto the shin — the strangle pressure begins as their own weight settles.
  5. 5 Finish as gogoplata or locoplata by locking the remaining structure and drawing their head down.

Common mistakes

  • × Placing the foot on the chest or shoulder and calling it control, when the neck line is what makes the position exist.
  • × Entering before the near arm is trapped, letting their free hand simply strip the foot.
  • × Pushing the foot across aggressively without hand support, letting them turn their chin and slip the line.

Attacks & transitions

Offense available from Invisible Collar.

Gogoplata submission