Alias · Front Headlock
Cross-grip choke
Also known as Baseball Bat Choke — the canonical term used on this site.
Descriptive — cross-grip baseball-bat choke
Cross-grip choke is the descriptive name for the baseball-bat choke — flagging the cross-grip configuration in which the attacker’s two hands meet in a cross-grip on the bottom player’s neck to close the strangulation.
Etymology. “Cross-grip” specifies the grip configuration; “choke” attaches the submission category. The descriptive form appears in coaching contexts that prefer geometric labels to the metaphorical “baseball bat” name (which evokes the visual resemblance of the grip to holding a bat).
Mechanics. The cross-grip closes the strangle by driving the two grip surfaces into the neck from opposite sides — bilateral compression follows from the closed-grip pressure.
Cross-reference. “Baseball choke” is the metaphorical name. Full mechanical coverage on Baseball Bat Choke.